Having those calories to work with I enjoyed rice cakes, toast, extra fruit, the occasional frozen diet treat, etc. I was also given the option of having one egg a week. Keeping a log keeps me accountable to me. When I record my intake, I subtract those calories just the same way you do when you write a check in your checkbook and log money spent. And, just like with a checkbook, I much prefer to go to sleep at night without having dipped into the three hundred-calorie 'reserve' account.
Exercise feels really good.
Water tastes wonderful. Caffeine is irritating to the entire system. The scale is only a means of keeping 'score'. It does not rule me, nor does it frighten me any longer. Weighing only once a month at Dr. Gelman's office as I do, I seldom even think of the scale at all anymore.