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"Look for snacks - 120 calories or less and less than 20 percent ofcalories from fat - that are filling and give you a lot of bang forthe calorie buck," she says.

Lillien began her Hungry Girl e-mail newsletter to keep her friendsinformed of her guilt-free food finds after she lost 30 pounds someseven years ago.

"No deprivation" is her philosophy. "I live by the `80-20 rule' -80 percent of the time I am watching fat and calories and beingreally careful about what I eat, and 20 percent of the time Istray."

Hungry Girl's newsletter has grown to a subscription of 465,000weekday readers. She says her mission is to find the best-tastingguilt-free products and foods in addition to creating the bestguilt-free recipes.

"I'm a bit obsessed with foods that taste great but don't pack onthe pounds," she adds, noting that she rejects a lot of productsshe samples because they don't taste good or lack a goodnutritional profile. Her book, with more than 160 recipes (manymade with packaged foods) was an outgrowth of her newsletter. Inher chatty, friendly style, she passes out diet and other foodtips, guiltless new products, restaurant information and recipes inaddition to answering questions from some of the 2,000 weeklye-mails she receives.

Lillien also writes a weekly column for www.weightwatchers.com andwww.yahoo.com along with a monthly food picks column for Seventeenmagazine and occasional features for People Style Watch. And fromtime to time, you might get a glimpse of her on "Extra."

Later this month, Hungry Girl will debut her Lord of the Ringsonion ring recipe on the back of 6 million packages of GeneralMills Fiber One bran cereals.

"The best thing I ever did was put Fiber One in a blender," shesays jokingly, adding, "You can make anything seem like a friedfood by coating and baking it - shrimp, onions, chicken strips,eggplant parmigiana, jalapeno poppers. You can save so manycalories it is scary. You can eat a huge plate of onion rings for150 calories and hardly any fat at all."