HELP!!

Nope, I don't agree with any diet..........!!

Just pick healthy options, Calories in V's calories out

Drink lots of water and exercise

Diets.........It comes off, then on, on, off............No good!!

Sure you'll lose weight with shakes but it will not keep it off because our bodies weren't meant to live like that. Have you checked farmers markets and friends with gardens to get the veggies and fruit you need? And it is Ok to eat frozen veggies.

Instead of going to a less healthful diet how about going to a more frugal diet. For example, start replacing a lot of your meat consumption with beans. Beans bought dry in the bag are incredibly cheap. Cabbage is your friend. There's a lot of healthy food in a single head of cabbage, red or white, and it really is delicious if you DON'T boil it. Carrots are also good, cheap food. Find a farmers market or vegetable stand along the highway. These often have very cheap veggies. If you live in a central city, even a smallish one, there is probably someplace the local restaurants go to get veggies that also sells some retail. Here, its the so-called "State Farmer's Market" which is really just like an industrial park for wholesale food sellers.

If you are really in a financial tizzy, check out your local food pantry's eligibility requirements, if any. Hubby and I volunteer at the local one and it gets lots of veggies in to distribute.

And cruise the web for some helpful info like:
http://www.benchfly.com/blog/poverty-nutrition-a-fugue-in-egg-minor/
http://www.benchfly.com/blog/poverty-nutrition-ii-beans-rice-and-their-infinite-variety/

I have some suggestions on my foodie website: http://heidicookssupper.com. I often do things that make meat come out to less than $1 per serving. Even though we are only two, I buy the large, family-sized packages of meat when they are on sale and freeze meal-sized portions. Just this week, London Broil was two-for-one at the supermarket. I divided it into meal sized portions and put them in the freezer (and I only have the little freezer in the fridge, not a chest freezer). It worked out to 24 servings of beef for $16 or $0.75/serving. Watch for whole chickens on sale. We get four meals for 2 out of a single chicken: two white meat meals, a dark meat meal, and soup.

Please feel free to contact me if you want more help findings ways to continue to eat healthily on the cheap.

Excellent suggestions!!

For the people asking about shakes... I'm merely asking for opinions if you think they would actually work! I don't have any shakes in mind, I was going to make some myself or smoothies. But this too would require a lot of fruit/veg!

I do kinda feel that doing a limited detox diet is a bit stupid because I would end up putting the weight back on very quickly I would guess.

I am going to visit the market tomorrow and try to pick myself up a few bargains, I just need to get rid of my sweet tooth habit and cut down on carbs. I am not a huge fan of a lot of vegetables so I've always leaned towards eating more fruit than veg but I'm going to experiment with some veggies to lower my sugar intake!

I too hate a lot of veggies and leaned heavily on fruit. I'm also on a very frugal budget. What I've started doing to get more veggies in is throwing them in my salad. Snap peas, sweet peppers, celery covering them in oil/vinegar makes me not hate them so much and now I eat them solo sometimes or with hummus... Being frugal does suck I try to buy my meat, veggies and fruit from a local organic store (so expensive but they last longer than the fruits/veggies I buy at the farmers market and they're not covered in pesticides or whatever people are *****ing about these days). Then I buy filler stuff at wal-mart or something - lentils, black beans, chick peas, quinoa, etc ... It's a pain to go to two places but it helps. Sometimes I buy my fruits and veggies when there's a sale at the local grocery store. You do what you can but you'll find a way to make it work, promise.