Rule of Thumb - If it makes your mouth water don't eat it!

HaHa! Don't know yet but am told by many sources that by saying you'll never eat the white stuff again (flour, sugar, white wine, white rice and pasta) is setting you up for disaster. My problem: If I tell my self I can have sweets on Saturday, I may make it I may not but then, historically, I won't eat just one. That's the dilemma. I've sent a difficult goal to not eat sweets until my ski trip in March. We'll see.

Anyway, I've found it easy to substitute rice pasta for regular, I actually prefer short grain brown rice to white and I put that in my salads and soups right before serving. I use stevia as a sweetener in my tea and I'm perfectly happy with that. I don't eat any breads all of them cause me to have cravings.

Basically, any foods that I can eat like potato chips (until the bag is gone and still be hungry) I avoid. This includes cheese and steak (although I did have some last night with my soup) and my mouth did water while heating it up. If my mouth waters when I look at the food or worse the package, or even worse a truck driving by with a picture (such as a hostess truck) I know that is a problem food.

Although I enjoy fruits, vegetables, nuts and fish, I don't crave them and never overeat them!