Post #41549 by kick_the_reverb on Thu, Jul 3, 2003 9:03 AM

Hi
I lost about 40 pounds, but at a very slow rate at the beginning.
BTW - I too kept away from the extremely fatty stuff that was "allowed".
My diet used to include a big salad with lettuce, cucumber, chiken breast + soy sauce, lots of olive oil, tabasco, some salt and tons of garlic.

The drink was the hard part as I hate water (I call it "the clear horror"). So I drink cold coffe (decaff, artificial sweetner, cream), lots of it.

I recently wanted to accelrate the loss, so I started by eating every other day (don't try it, my body has been used to eating once a day for years, so the move wasn't drastic). It sure saved some money, too.
Now that I'm very close to my target weight I eat cottage cheese for a couple of days, then salad, then cottage again, then I can "party" on the weekend.

The drinks are of course, not on the diet, but whenever I go off the diet I just need to not eat too much the next few days.

Ran