The foods that you can’t eat and expect to lose weight are cheese (100 – 120 plus calories an ounce, 1-2 grams of carbohydrate per ounce) and nuts (100 – 120 plus calories an ounce, and 3-5 grams of carbohydrate an ounce). The foods that you can eat and expect to lose weight are fish (20 – 30 calories an ounce) and shellfish (20 – 30 calories an ounce). The low calorie foods you are shooting yourself in the foot with, are fruit and alcohol, not because of their calorie content, but because fruit and alcohol facilitate fat storage.