Treats and Finding the Path of Acceptable Resistance

There seems to be no shortage of information on how the chemicals in "diet" or "sugar free" products are bad for you. Personally, having cleaned up a lot of the rest of my diet to be whole and healthy foods, I swear I can actually feel it when I get a bunch of nutra-sweet in my system, it's almost like it starts to coat my taste buds.

Now that said, I'm not out on a crusade to stop drinking diet soda and making some sugar free treats. I've tried to give it up in the past. Several times I've gone a few months with no soda, but the will power it takes to get there seems to open up all these other holes in my armor and I end up with candy bar in hand not too far into the experiment.

So what I'm trying to find is this path of acceptable resistance. Meaning for me, that there are things I need to change, but there is a hierarchy for them and I need to find out which ones I can push through together while still having over all progress. Right now for me that means eating whole foods and low carb but getting to have sugar free "treats" occasionally and drinking diet sodas. This concession allows me to really attack the carbs and also to have the will power to be out exercising and also working on coding.

So in that vein, I give to you my idea of the week: Jell-o Sugar Free Pudding made with Coconut Milk. This is delicious! I made it with coconut milk because I've found that dairy seems to both interfere with my weight loss and it's a gate way drug for me, I just can't stop eating things like cheese, ice cream and cream once I start. So here is the quick instruction I threw into MyFitnessPal which I'm using to track things lately (and loving by the way, it links with Digifit which I use on my iPhone when I run and has the best food database I've seen yet, and I've worked with quite a few)

Sugar Free Jello Mix


Refrigerate coconut milk till cold.
Shake the can vigorously to blend the coconut milk.
Measure 2 cups of coconut milk into mixing bowl.
Add Jell-o Pudding mix. (cheese cake is my favorite so far)
Whisk or beat with fork for two minutes.
Separate into containers and chill for 2 hours. (Takes a bit longer to set than milk in my experience.)

Makes 4 serving, 165kc per serving or there abouts.