[Lost Dog]

I can't find the specific post, but he said that yogurt, cottage cheese, and even milk was okay, provided that it was working. But, it's not typically recommended, as they might not fill you up like more solid protein sources can.

If you diverge from the food choices in the diet too much, you lose the "built in" self-regulating factor. It can still work, but who knows. Like those people who say they went on the Atkins Diet and only ate some bread, here and there. A chip or two. Milk... Suddenly, the Atkins Diet didn't work for them. Only it's not the Atkins Diet, anymore.

The diet works by picking food choices that tend to get you to eat fewer calories, but without forcing you to count calories. You could always follow your dietary plan, but count calories, too. Particularly if you find that it's not working to your satisfaction.

As to organic fruit... In my blind taste tests, it always tied with conventionally grown fruit. Farmer's market fruits (which tend to be fresher) often taste better, though. Especially the tomato, since they are often the ones too ripe to sell to stores.

I'm all for organic, when it's available and cost effective, but I believe the "better taste" of organic* is mostly psychological.

* Not to be confused with free range, pasture grazed, etc. In animals, these terms mean more for flavor than the term "organic." IMO