Unfortunately, I have had to eliminate most of the fun things in my diet. No more fruit, nuts, low carb bread or flours. I have been doing what is called KISS keep it simple sweety. Bascally if you can't grow it or kill don't eat. No sugar sup. I have even cut coffee down to 2 cups a day.
I Think you can fool youself when you eat all the extras and you end up not losing anyway.
I think you can add some of the fun things occasionally but guess what we are carp addicts and we lose control. So sometimes the solution is eliminate