On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 10:35  PM, Michelle Hale wrote:

> Good luck--it can be overwhelming at first and you may "fall off the
> wagon"
> a few times, but once you figure out how to make the diet work for
> you, it
> is pretty easy to maintain long term (rather the opposite of other
> diets).
> My #1 recommendation to you at this point is spend most of your time
> in the
> meat and produce section of the grocery store, and use fresh herbs for
> seasoning.  You will be cutting out a huge percentage of items
> available at
> the grocery store, but amazingly you may find yourself eating more
> variety.
> A donut may look and taste far different from a wheat thin, but they
> are
> from the same plant!  Also, don't get freaked out by some of the more
> picky
> and analytical posts from this list--I love reading them, but for now,
> keep
> it simple at first and don't overanalyze, especially if you don't have
> any
> major medical issues looming.
>

All good advice! It gets a lot easier to find variety as time goes on.
At first I felt rather deprived, because I was eating lots of the same
food all the time. Now I don't, and I have learned how to get most of
it cheaper too.