On Oct 25, 2010, at 3:48 PM, Elizabeth Beasley wrote:
> 
> Awhile back, Todd Moody on this list had mentioned how he tried the
> Steak Lover's Diet by Melvin Anchell. I was struggling with all my
> food problems, and started developing an eating disorder from all
> foods making me sick, so I tried that. Amazingly it worked, made me
> satisfied, and I lost weight very easily.
> 
> I find that I do the best eating mostly meat and fat, and throw in the
> two foods I have no problem eating, sometimes once a day, and
> sometimes every other day, or even once every three days. These two
> foods are potatoes and white rice.

Thanks for reminding me about Mel Anchell.  I actually own both editions of The Steak Lover's Diet, and I need to look at his magic list of foods again.  

I have an article on my blog containing the Holiday Magazine Diet from 1950 - same diet, more or less.  The allowed vegetables are not as clear as they are in Anchell's books.  The article is about Donaldson, Pennington and the DuPont executives, characters you may remember from Good Calories Bad Calories.

http://astrogirl.com/2009/09/14/the-eat-all-you-want-reducing-diet/

I'm kind of a vintage diet book collector, so if anyone needs to know Anchell's "hotel portion" vegetable list, Dr. Mike Eades protein shake recipe from Thin So Fast (1989) or wants the Atkins Induction rules from 1972, I have that covered.  

-Nicole