You eat fat and sugar under stress because they physically make you feel better.

Site: http://www.healthassist.net/food/300kcal/300.shtml

How do you develop a sense for how many calories you are eating? By seeing pictures of food portions and how many calories are in those portions. Eventually you just kind of absorb the numbers and though you may need completely accurate, just having a feel for how much you are eating is good enough. That's why a love sites like this 300 Calorie Food Picture Gallery. You'll see a picture of apples and see that two apples are about 300 calories. This site even estimates the cost for a 300 calorie portion. There are even instruction on how to create your own picture gallery. Very cool!

Look mom, the Midwest Book Review reviewed Your Designer Diet! And even better, they liked it: "Your Designer Diet" is an enthusiastically recommended reading for anyone having to deal with problems of excessive weight. How exciting!

Here's the full review from their site:

Site: http://www.lifeform.com

Life Form is a Windows Software product designed to help users easily track their health. In Life Form there are eight different tabs. Each tab tracks different types of information about your health.

Site: http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2006/09/12/25_diet_food_delivery_services.php

Diet Blog maintains an extensive list of over 35 different food delivery services. Having good quality food delivered is part of Strategy 60. Try Pre-Prepared Meals Instead of Cooking and Strategy 70. Structure Your Meal Plans–Plan Exactly What You’re Going to Eat and Why .

You can build an almost impenetrable Safe Zone around these ideas. You don’t always have to make your own meals. You are minimizing your chances of slipping-up by limiting your portion sizes using pre-packaged meals. That’s how you put yourself in the best position to succeed at controlling your weight.

Learn how to appreciate wine. Wine is one of those truly special foods that will bring you a lifetime of pleasure once you learn just a little more about it.

Humans have been making and loving wine for over 7000 years. We sing about wine. We collect wine. We write about wine. We consider wine an art. For a wine lover there is great anticipation each time a new bottle is uncorked. The first sip is always full of possibilities. We take a sip, allow it to linger on the tongue and then wait for our senses to kick in and tell us about the wine. Will the wine taste sour and bring a grimace to our face? Will the wine make no impression at all? Or will the wine delight us and transport us to another world of pure sensation, pleasure, and taste? That is the delight of wine. That is the promise of Joyful Eating throughout our lives.

Site: http://3fatchicks.com

This is a fun and helpful weight loss community run by three sisters (Suzanne, Jennifer, and Amy). Three Fat Chicks started as personal website helping each other battle their weight problems. Over time it blossomed into a public site featuring: diet reviews, an awesome forum, calculators and other tools, diet tips, fitness articles, recipes, cooking tips, free diet blogs for users, member journals, and plus size resources.

You can tell the website comes from a genuine place. What is truly special about the site is the support forum. It's very active, helpful, and lovingly supportive. Which is exactly what you want in a support forum.

Site: http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/283/index.jsp

Becoming a size zero at any cost. That's the subject of Super Skinny Me, a mesmerizing BBC show where two attractive, normally sized women chase the paparazzi fueled dream of pasting size jeans over their bag of bones body. Over 5 weeks they follow one wacky weight loss scheme after another.

A picture is worth a 1000 words and this TV show is worth a million words showing why starving yourself doesn't work. Your body fights rapid weight loss and your mind and body are the losers. Your Designer Diet drives this point home with the Minnesota Starvation Experiment described in Threat 2. The Power of Starvation Threat, but you can't beat seeing it live on TV with people you instantly relate to and grow to care about.

You'll see attempts to burn calories by swimming in freezing cold water. Lemonade diets where you drink nothing but lemonade. Exercising hours each day. Enduring multiple colonics, confusing poop loss with weight loss. Protein shake diets. Juicing diets. Laxatives. Binging and purging. Smoking and diet Pepsi diets.

Crazy crazy stuff, all to lose weight at any cost. The result? Two very stressed and unhappy women at the verge of mental and social breakdown. It's so sad to see these beautiful women slowly crumble as losing weight becomes the most important thing in their lives.

This is a bonus chapter that's not in the book. You'll only find it on the website. New strategies will be added to this chapter as they are created. Stay tuned.

This chapter describes how to taste wine, chocolate, and coffee. The focus is on tasting these because singly, each can provide a lifetime of Joyful Eating, but together they are an embarrassment of riches. For each food I've tried to go into just the right level of detail so you'll learn something, you'll grow to appreciate the food, yet you won't get bored by endless facts.

Book: Eat This Not That by David Zinczenko

I love this book. It colorfully and lovingly explores a single topic: how to make smarter calorie choices for the foods we all eat at the places we actually eat them. When browsing a menu we typically see chicken and think, that's a safe choice. Not so. The book, using full color pictures of each meal, shows at McDonald's you could select the Premium Grilled Chicken Club at 570 calories or you could eat the Quarter Pounder at 410 calories! That's a 160 calorie difference or a difference of 16 pounds a year. Eat the burger over the chicken and you save while still eating something tasty. Not what I would have expected.  Let's look at a few more.