Conference rocks::weight_control

.0>    I want to lose about 10 pounds but I don't eat vegetables.

    	You eat NO vegetables at all?
    
    -mike z

  If you don't eat vegetables, do you eat fruit?

  Ali

    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 

    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.

    	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.
   
    
    	

    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
    

    
    Annie,
    
    Just come over to my cubicle--I always have vegetables.
    
    Deena