Alright, you convinced me.
I'll give up the diet coke. Bring on the "hot fudge"!
What I've done is replaced a lot of the fatty foods such as cheese with soy substitutes. I find that "Veggie Shreds" are great and provide a higher protein to carb ratio. I can eat a cheese Burrito a day and it's actually healthy. I lost some 30 lbs on that diet two years ago and kept off about 20. Now it's just a regular day to day diet.
I was in SEAR school in the Navy. Way back in 1968. We had nothing to eat for a full 7 day week. We were suppose to find food in the California desert and mountains. Sear school had been in this same location for 20 years or so. You can imagine not too many critters were left for consumption.
We ate bugs, ants, cacti, where we could find one. My group of four found a rattler. We killed it and skinned it, then gutted it. It was very dry and a fire watch was on. We couldn't cook it. It was cut in sections of 4. I gobbled down my section. Not bad. Not good either. It smelled like fish and tasted like rubberized chicken, but that didn't matter. After I ate it, it was like someone had given me a shot of energy in my arm. Wow.
You would be surprised how quickly you would eat roaches and ants, when you have absolutely 0 food for energy.
I lost 12 lbs. that week.