About 5 years ago, I started counting calories as an answer to all of the diets I hated trying. I love eating and I love food, so it's hard for me to try a diet that excludes something. A nutritionist I used to work with said, "It's just calories in, calories out." I created this fancy little Excel spreadsheet and became anal about weighing out all of my portions. But I lost about 20 pounds that year and kept it off so I must have been doing something right. It was during this period that I took up drinking diet soda on a pretty frequent basis. It was oh-so easy to track the calories in those things (zero!) and I could still have sodas with lunch or dinner instead of boring old water. My doctor and my dad hated that I drank the stuff. "Even drinking coffee is better than drinking diet soda," my doctor would say. "Coffee at least has some health benefits." My dad's comments were a little more colorful than that, but ...
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