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Title: Weight Loss and Maintenance
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Moderator:ASICS::LESLIE
Created:Tue Jul 10 1990
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:933
Total number of notes:9931

483.0. "Diets without Vegetables" by CSCOAC::FLEMING_A () Thu Jul 20 1989 19:41

    I want to lose about 10 pounds but I don't eat vegetables.
    Anyone have any suggestions for diets that I might like??
    
    Anne

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483.1ANT::ZARLENGAgo-go-go with a smile!Fri Jul 21 1989 03:077
.0>    I want to lose about 10 pounds but I don't eat vegetables.

    	You eat NO vegetables at all?
    
    -mike z

483.2MARVIN::JUBBAli, REO2-GK3, 830-6779Fri Jul 21 1989 07:424
  If you don't eat vegetables, do you eat fruit?

  Ali

483.3Watch the fat content!CAPNET::BARKERFri Jul 21 1989 14:0025
    I don't know about eating **NO** vegetables, but contrary to popular
    belief, eating only vegetables or almost only vegetables is *NOT* the
    way to lose weight!
    
    I went on a vege only diet for months and months.  I didn't really mind
    it because I really like veges and found it very satisfying.  However,
    my weight plateued and I became very frustrated.  I thought, what else
    can I do?  I am on the lowest fat/calorie diet there is!  Then I
    decided to eat other low-fat/ high protein/ high fiber/ high carbohydrate 
    foods like tuna fish, spoon size cereal, and *plain* pasta because I am
    training for a road race and need the energy.  Well, to make a long
    story longer...  I quickly lost another 5 pounds, am eating more, feel
    more energetic, and will do great in the race which is this evening!!!
    
    The moral of the story is..  You can diet with a small amount of
    vegetables, if you watch very carefully what you do eat.  Don't
    concentrate so much on the calorie content, but rather on the fat
    content and the nutrients you will be receiving from the food you eat. 
    Many of the things I ate where technically high in calories (pasta,
    cereal) but they had almost no fat and I could easily burn up the
    calories because they are in carbo / fiber form and give you extra
    energy.
     
    --A 

483.4Try Stillman's for a quick weight lossDPDMAI::POGARdiet junkieFri Jul 21 1989 15:3622
    Anne -
    
    If you can handle the red meat (i.e., cholesterol), try Dr. Stillman's
    diet -- nicknamed "the water diet."  It stresses nearly 100% protein,
    absolutely no vegetable or fruits.  It will give you a quick weight
    loss, also (I believe) the name of the book --- The Doctors' Quick
    Weight Loss Diet.  You can probably find a copy of it in a second-
    hand bookstore.
    
    I went on it back in the late 70's.  It works, and it might be just
    the thing for you since you don't like veggies.
    
    Good luck!
    
    Catherine
    
    p.s.  Dr. Atkins' Diet would work too, but it does allow for some
    carbohydrate in the third and later weeks.
    
    
    Good luck.

483.5Diet!! = DIE+TEMASS::SICALong and winding road...BUT..!Mon Jul 24 1989 23:2914
    	Anne, the Stillman's diet will work, however use extreme care
    if you go this way.  I have been on it in years past, and for me
    after a couple of weeks I felt like xyzzy.   So at that time I began
    rotating diets every two weeks.  The reality is however that when
    I went off my "dieting" I gained all the weight back and then some!
    You should look into changing your eating habbits, rather than getting
    perpettually caught up in the diet/gain/diet/gain syndrome......
    
 	Good luck with what ever you decide,
    						Paul S.
   
    
    	

483.6UpdateCSCOAC::FLEMING_ATue Aug 01 1989 14:5611
    To .1 and .2 
    
    I eat green beans, carrots and love salads. As a rule I don't like
    many cooked vegetables.  I am a fiend for dairy products.......cheeses
    and yogurts.  I love red meat too.
    
    Thanks for your tips.
    
    Anne
    

483.7I'll share!!!CSCOA5::GILKERSON_DWed Aug 02 1989 15:087
    
    Annie,
    
    Just come over to my cubicle--I always have vegetables.
    
    Deena