I want to eat right and lose weight but I can’t give up my donuts and pop. I just love donuts and couldn’t survive without my 2 cans of soda each day. Can I just eat less or skip a few meals and still have my donuts and pop?

This is actually an excuse not to make the necessary changes it will take to make a lifestyle change. You can and need to do what it takes to improve your diet. Donuts and pop are non nutritious foods that provide only empty calories. A 1.5 oz donut is about 200 calories and 2 cans of cola are about 250 calories. That’s almost 450 extra empty calories per day that you don’t need.  Skipping nutritious meals means you are depriving your body of needed nutrition while supplying your body with 450 empty calories that just get stored as fat. Instead, why not just eliminate the soda and donuts? Just doing that will add up to one pound a week.  Eventually, your cravings for these junk foods will go away.