I remember being kinda surprised when my NUT told me that chips were off limits forever. She called them a slider food, but not in the traditional ice cream sense. But rather because they crunch up so small in your sleeve and have so many calories and no nutritional value, something we all know.

But I have way too much time on my hands so I decided to do some experiments just to see how small they would crunch up. Keep in mind my big blender died suddenly last night from unnatural causes so I had to use my wife's small pulse blender. I'm betting the big blender would have chomped these chips up even finer.

First victim....11.5 ounce bag of everybody's favorite "macho man" nacho cheese Doritos. 1680 total calories, 84g fat, 192g carbs.

From this...

To this....

That's about 2.5 cups of chips. Not a lot. I doubt I could hold that much volume right now but I could eat it over the course of a day or 2. Certainly before my sleeve I could eat 2.5 cups of food no problem.

I was always a savory kind of gal, didn't really go for sweets but chips are evil, at least for me. Like Supersweetums I don't keep them in the house, then when I'm bored I can't eat them like I used to, I actually go for a bike ride or a walk, not the same thing as salty crunchy chips, but by doing something else I get my mind off of them. Now we can have cake or sweets in the house and they don't tempt me, so I guess you just have to decide if you have enough will power not to eat a lot of your trigger foods.By not having them I don't have to have strong will power.

I love chips! I know that I can't have them in the house at all. If my hubby or boys(18 & 20) want them they have to hide them and keep them out of my sight.

I like PopChips as well (9 wks out - I've had them twice), and I've a few Stacy's Pita Chips w/ hummus.