Where to start-suggestions gratefully accepted! (long)

For goodness sakes - don't give up chocolate - the one food that is absolutely essential to maintaining  life   Just give up chocolate candy.    My chewable calcium tablets are choc, my favorite protein powder is choc, I use choc DaVinci surgar free syrup, and I love Jello's individual servings of 60-calorie puddings (in the dairy case near the yogurt). 

As a lap band patient I don't dump if I eat sweets - but I tell you, nothing saps my energy faster.  I don't really know the word to describe how I fee - so I just say surgar makes me feel "icky"

Good luck