Butter cookies, orange juice, lemonade, Chicken salad (made with mayonnaise), yogurt (no doubt the common high sugar variety), french toast, cottage cheese on crackers - None of these foods are acceptable "diet" food.  Define acceptable.  Are they perfect or ideal physically? No.  But can you still eat these things and lose weight? Yes. As long as you eat in moderation and consume less than you burn off, you can eat some chocolate and mcdonalds or ice cream or fruit juice or any other imperfect food and still lose weight.