you know what?I'm going to go ahead and admit it - I kind of like the diet meals that you find in the supermarket.

In fact, when I'm dieting, I just about have to use pre-portioned meals at work - because if I don't I'll end up at the local lunch counter, ordering something that is way too expensive, and much too fattening.

It's easy to throw one in the microwave, and you know exactly how many calories you're getting, every time.

Millions of people eat those frozen meals, and the companies that make them are piling up a fortune.But I don't stand in front of the freezer case at the grocery store any more, trying to find some diet meals that happens to be on sale.

I still take a pre-portioned, microwave-able meal to work, so I'm not tempted to eat something that isn't on my diet.You know the kind - they're in the freezer case and have pretty pictures of the tiny meals you'll find inside the little cardboard box.I'm sure that you've bought a few of them, yourself.

When I look around the lunchroom at work, I can see that at least half the women, (and many of the men), are eating out of those familiar packages.I don't buy those diet meals any more.