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"A few months ago, I got to the point where not having dessert--ever--was making me more obsessed with sweets. I constantly thought about what I couldn&amp;#x27;t eat, and was having chocolate-croissant dreams. So my bright idea was to have a small Tasti D-Lite frozen yogurt. No toppings. Under a hundred calories. Harmless, I thought. Well, I got a small one day, and then went back later that night for a medium and added a few innocent little carob chips. And before I knew it, I was actually watching the clock while I was out to dinner with a friend one night just to make sure I could get to the fro-yo shop before it closed for the night. I faced the reality: Of course I want to be &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; about food, but I am coming to accept that there are some foods I still cannot eat. (Who knows if I will ever be able to handle them.) Yet I kept on looking for that sweet bite that wouldn&amp;#x27;t set off a binge...&amp;quot;Diet head&amp;quot; got the best of me: I discovered sugar-free Jello--10 calories a cup. My plan was to have one after dinner, maybe two, and then be done. Of course I ate through the entire 6-pack in one sitting, and did the same the next day, and the day after that. Maybe I&amp;#x27;d only consumed 60 calories, but I&amp;#x27;d wake up the following morning with horrible stomach pains. And, what&amp;#x27;s worse, guilt over my lack of self-control. I had to put down the diet snacks--the fat-free/sugar-free/made-with-God-knows-what sweets--and more importantly, I had to put down my &amp;quot;diet head.&amp;quot; Having low-cal desserts somehow gave me the idea that I could eat them with abandon because they wouldn&amp;#x27;t sabotage my waistline. Instead, they triggered the behavior I&amp;#x27;ve been working so hard to change: binge eating. Then a miracle happened. I bought these individual-sized cups of Edy&amp;#x27;s slow-churned ice cream (as in real ice cream; as in delicious). They have a reasonable amount of calories (150 to 210, depending on the flavor) but definitely not so few that I could get away with my &amp;quot;you-can-eat-10-of-these-without-gaining-weight&amp;quot; thinking. I don&amp;#x27;t know how it happened, but I was able to have one. ONE! People, for me, this is huge! For a couple of weeks, I&amp;#x27;d have to go get one every evening that I wanted one, fearing that I&amp;#x27;d eat them all if I kept a stock in my freezer. But since then, I&amp;#x27;ve been able to buy a few while doing my grocery shopping for the week, and in the past month, I have not--not even once--had more than one of these per day, and never before dinner. (That&amp;#x27;s my rule: No sweets during the day, because once I have them, I&amp;#x27;ll just crave them all day.) Do you sometimes find that it&amp;#x27;s so much easier to overeat diety food? I&amp;#x27;ve decided that at the end of the day, I&amp;#x27;d much rather have a meal or a dessert that isn&amp;#x27;t low-cal than compulsively overeat 12 calorie-free things. Call me crazy, but I think developing this more normal relationship with food is going to keep me sane about food and keep my weight stable. What do you think? Can any of you relate? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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