Who goes to their ex's wedding???

Have some dignity and get a life independent of that loser.

Instead of foregoing one specific fattening food, just get rid of (physically, mentally and emotionally) that one toxic person.

Everything is bad for you, WE GET IT!!! Instead of switching to seaweed and bee pollen and foregoing every food out there, just STOP EATING SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No one eats completely right, no one gets EVERY vitamin or mineral or vital piece of nutrition that humans "require" unless you have time to sit in a lab like some kind of science experiement gone awry. I guarantee you just cut down food in general and maybe exercise once in a while you'll do just fine.

Not that hard a concept to grasp and it doesn't require an advanced degree or certification, or some talking head appearing on the talk shows screaming about how unhealthy we all are.

In the past when I tried to lose excess pounds and would declare certain foods good and others bad, it just made me crave the bad foods. I kept losing 10 pounds and gaining back 15 because I would end up binging on those "bad" foods. I decided to go back to doing what I did when I didn't need to lose weight. I ate what I wanted when I wanted to. Now, if I'm really craving potato chips, I'll have a small handful, which so far has satisfied me for several days. But when I denied myself chips, I'd end up scarfing down half a bag. I'd even crave ice cream which makes me sick as I'm lactose intolerant.

It's working, no more bad foods, just old-fashioned moderation and excercise. (Although, I'm still waiting for that magic pill that will do it all for me!)

I lost weight and have maintained it ever since, after reading the book Sugar Blues in 1975. Refined sucrose is the sugar I have found should be avoided, even though it's addictive and still added to a lot of foods. Takes a life-style change to maintain weight loss, but it CAN be done!

Well, I'm 40 now and after five years of gradually cutting my beer consumption by 50%, and easing of the bread with butter, my chiseled face came back along with my flat gut. Of course, treadmill and running were a part, its worked. Guys you can do it but must be disciplined and patient - real patient.

To keep in the spirit of Borrocko's white house kitchen, I am giving up caviar.

This is such simple minded magic -- give up one food and you'll lose significant amounts of weight! I remember when the cry was that just ten minutes of walking a day would cause the pounds to fall away.

I am so sick of MSM medical advice. It's worth nothing. People have careers writing about the latest fad or the most recent study as if it were the final word on the subject. Then a new fad comes along or a new study's findings are announced and they write about that with equally decisive fervor.

For three years I gave up all alcohol, cheese, bread (I was only eating high fiber, no HFCS bread even before that) no crackers (they were baked and high fiber, too, but I was going all out), salt (except for low-sodium salt in small amounts), and red meat. BTW, I'd ALREADY stopped drinking diet sodas years ago, and never touched candy in any form or anything sweet before the three year experiment, never ate more than half my dinner at a restaurant, and so on, so I figured a few more sacrifices wouldn't be too difficult.

I'd lost 18 pounds by the end of the three years, but when I gradually added back in the "special occasion" steak and once a month pizza (two whole slices), the weight started coming back. A back injury that left me largely immobile and at the mercy of my husband's idea of food for about a month did the rest of the damage, and I'm back at my original weight. I don't think I can blame any of it on the inhaled steroids I have to take for asthma, either. There's nothing left for me to do but start over. I'm just mentioning all this because in my experience "giving up one food" won't do it, and even if you give up several, you shouldn't expect expect miracles.