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- From: GC.AVW@forsythe.stanford.edu (RAGIN CAJUN)
- Newsgroups: alt.support.diet
- Subject: Re: Nonfat Eating
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 02:38:17 -0800
- Organization: Stanford University
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- In article <BxL1A7.MDI@wrs.com>,
- jessica@wrs.com (Jessica Hart) writes:
- >
- >Is anyone else out there pursuing a totally nonfat diet? Is it
- >appropriate to post recipes in this group? If so, has anyone got
- >any? Any cookbook recommendations? I can recommend two (but not
- >for vegans, they do use some animal products): "Healthy Eating
- >With No Apologies" and the sequel, "More Healthy EAting" by
- >Marcia Sabate Williams. There's a great seafood gumbo in there. Her
- >husband went on the Pritikin diet and these recipes pretty much
- >follow the Pritikin ideas. I follow them pretty strictly except I add
- >salt, which Pritikin is against but I'm not.
- >
- >When I say totally nonfat, well maybe here I don't have to explain
- >but I'm used to having to explain it elsewhere in my life!, I mean
- >no oil for sauteeing, no nuts, no cheese on the pizza, no olive oil
- >in the spaghetti sauce, no bread or crackers made with shortening. Nada.
- >Nothing. El Zippo.
- >
- >However, I still eat sweets like those Dole frozen fruit bars, they're
- >great! Sometimes I break down and get the nonfat Entenmann's. Sorry if
- >mentioning that brand name causes anyone out there to go off their diet.
- >
- >
- >I guess I'm interested in anyone's thoughts on this sort of diet. I'm
- >doing it partly to lose weight, but I try to think of it as just a much
- >healthier way to eat anyhow. I don't plan to go back to high-fat foods
- >after I lose the weight. anyway, melted cheese is kind of repulsive to
- >me now. Strange how not eating something for awhile makes you lose your
- >taste for it, sometimes.
- >
- >I'm rambling! Stop me! AAAAgh.
- >
-
-
- Well, I am trying to stay on a non-fat diet-but it tain't easy. I
- lost 30 lbs in 10 weeks. I, also, am diabetic, so that means no
- sugar for me either.
-
- Alma
-