Jan. 25: What I Ate. Temptation Averted for One Day.

By Ellen Tarlin

Breakfast: Kashi 7 Whole Grain Puffs with Bob's Red Mill muesli for flavor, with skim milk. It looks like a very full bowl, but those puffs float, so it's really just a lot of milk and floating puffs.

Ellen Tarlin is a former Slate copy chief and writer of the "Clean Plate" blog. Her essays have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Boston Phoenix, Brooklyn Bridge, Bark, and the RISK storytelling podcast. Follow her on Twitter.

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Car banana.

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Pre-lunch snack: Grape-Nuts, skim milk, berries. Yeah, it looks a lot like breakfast.

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Lunch: lentils with brown rice and a little cheese.

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Snack No. 1: a tangerine.

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Snack No. 2: cashews.

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Dinner: a salad.

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Dessert: two chocolates. I think this box of chocolates is going to last me months. So you can see how the quantity of chocolate I saw today is out of proportion to eating in "moderation."

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