This is my experience also. I have been on many diets including vegetarian,
macrobiotic etc. but I still carried my weight or lost it and regained it. I
was sick all the time.
For the last three years I have been on the Paleo way of eating about 900 to
1500 calories and have lost 140 pounds. I am no longer sick. I feel great,
like a new person. I never want to go back to a grain based diet.

> Jana Eagle wrote:
>
 In my
> > experience, trying to be low fat and vegetarian almost creates its own
> > obsession with food, because I think this kind of diet can starve one
> > for nutrients.
> >
> > Jana
>
> No kidding!  I was a vegetarian in some form or other for most of my adult
> life--lacto-ovo, vegan, macrobiotics, raw food--I just couldn't understand
how
> I could eat so healthy and yet have so many health problems.  And I was
hungry
> all the time!  I had the same problem when trying to do typical low-fat
> diets.
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  For 6 long weeks I continued
> on 1200 calories a day with my pathetic little 4 ounces of protein that
was
> allowed and didn't lose a single ounce.
> Marishka
>