Tough question Ada.

For those of us who have MS, transfats are not good. The trick for me is to eat a well balanced meal (I try anyway) and keep the carbs low.

I too have a sweet tooth and cave in on occasion with chocolate being my downfall. I try to avoid the candy/cookie aisle when shopping.

Sometimes sugar free/low fat pudding with some real whipped cream on it is a nice treat. No transfats and low in carbs. It's not that high in calories, but sometimes that's all I need to satisfy the craving and I get the chocolate so I kill two birds with one stone, so to speak. Also, you can put skim milk in the pudding mix to keep the calorie count low.

Dieting is not something that has ever worked well for me. I've made the decision that eating is a lifestyle change. That's what I have done in order to maintain a healthy eating regimen. It doesn't always work but I do the best I can. It's all you can do when you have a chronic illness. What goes in does affect your whole body.

Good luck Ada. I wish you luck! I've been doing this for 7 years now and battling the food dilemma is not an easy one!

I too have watched what I eat for at least 10 years. I lost 75 lb. I told my Dr. it was because they got all of the tumors out of me but he says I worked at it.

What I want to do is to find a snack that will work in with my diet that will help my cravings. I do have chocolate pudding here but I bought some of that Hunt's snack pack with nonfat milk but I donot like the taste of it.

I was thinking about those snack packs that are suppose to only have 100 calories but again when I read what else it has, I back off of it.

I have never been a junk food eater. I think it comes from not having them when I was a kid. There were 10 of us kids so we had regular meals and no junk food.

Thanks for the help though. I do like lowfat whip cream. I eat some of it at times.

Thanks for the help.
Ada

I don't care for those premade puddings either! They taste like cardboard! Ick!

it's just as quick to make your own pudding.

Congrats on the weight loss! It's tough, I know. The first 2 years after I was dx's with MS, I put on a bunch of weight...I ballooned from 130 to 195! I am only5'4", so it was very noticable!

I have taken it all off and intend to keep it off! It was due mostly to all the steroids I did and the new meds I was on, stress, and life in general.

We didn't have junk food around when I was a kid either - large family as well and it just wasn't allowed!

When I want whipped cream, I do the real stuff. No carbs, no traansfats, low in fat, and actually, low in calories if you don't eat the whole bowl!