Molica:

In September, I finally decided to try Atkins' New Diet Revolution. I started September 19. It's been tough so far, but I have lost about 10 pounds. It can be somewhat redundant, because I don't eat red meat or pork. Basically, it's salad or veggies and chicken or turkey at almost every meal. Other than that, it's turkey sausage or bacon with eggs for breakfast, and tuna or chicken salad at other meals. I don't really miss the carbs, but occasionally I'd like something outside the routine. I also discovered that I'm metabolically resistant to aspartame. One positive thing about this is that there are several other ketogenic diets that resemble Atkins' plan. So, during the holidays, I'll have some options.

After reading your most recent post, I understand that I wasn't the only one who gave an overly negative impression of the color diet. I will try not to do that in the future. The color diet may be wonderful for some of the other dieters here, and I don't want to discourage anyone from giving it their all.

Thomas

Hi All,

Just thought I'd barrel on in here with my opinion. I have tried the diet and stuck to it but it did not work. I was really disappointed as Thomas was because I believed so much in Linda. But onwards and upwards. Has anyone tried Oxycise. I have been doing that on and off now for 8 months and its only 15 minutes a day and boy does it work. I have not altered my eating habits at all and am now at a weight that I don't recall being even as a teenager. If anyone is interested take a look at the site
oxycise.com especially the success stories.
Love and twinkles
Michelle

I don't know if anyone still reads this thread...

I have been considering the Color Diet for a few weeks now. I woke up at 12:30 in the morning one night, with the sudden remembrance of a Kirlian photograph taken of me recently which showed nothing but Blue and Green in my aura. Out of the blue I remembered the Color Diet and felt driven out of my bed to my computer to learn more. It had been nearly 10 years since I read Star Signs! I am planning to begin the diet tomorrow... I thought that Valentines would be appropriate to commence a "red" start, and especially since Mars will enter Saggitarius on the 14th, so I hope that will only boost my cause!

I have taken a lot of ideas away from the site, and formulated some of my own. I won't do the red sunglasses thing until I need sunglasses (too inappropiate at my office or at school), but I have purchased lovely red (flannel!) sheets for my bed. I have also planned a near immediate (the 15th, next payday) purchase of a pair of red sweat to wear at home at all times... (I look dreadful in most shades of red, so this way I can ultra-charge while I'm home!) Also, I have concocted some red bath salts which will turn the bath water red and are scented with Dragon's Blood, another red martian scent.

I don't know if adding astrological associations will have any effect at all, but given that I'm a Cancer/Capricorn, I know know that I have a natural dearth of Fire in my chart. As well as I can, I am promoting fire and red in my Color Diet, and hope that they will help feed the wonderful results that Linda gives us to expect!

Also, I have a Purple Plate which I have already begun wearing on my Root Chakra. The Root Chakra has a great deal to do with grounding and balancing, and also (in some systems) corresponds to red in the aura. I am going with the expectation that I am experience blockage in that chakra in the first place, which is part of what has caused all this blue-green!

I've thought a lot about the foods involved, and I guess I'm most worried about them. I can work out things with red beans and red potatoes and red curry and lentils... I'm already vegetarian, so this part isn't dreadful. Tomato soups... but does anyone get stuck eating too much tomato? I was also thinking about taking red-leaf lettuce and eating only the red tips... would this include too much green? (Imagine a salad with red tips of lettuce, sprinkle of dried cranberries and feta cheese... and maybe some Rasberry Vinagrette?) Also, in terms of evil refined flours, what about white rice? It's more refined than brown rice (and thus a simple sugar), but brown rice is brown. Which is better? I usually only eat brown rice. (Told you I was a veggie!)

I understand that the plan didn't work perfectly for Thomas and Theresa, but I'm not discouraged. Weight loss would be WONDERFUL and I desperately need to loose weight, but I don't want to go into this expecting quick results. I want my aura balanced and my energy renewed. If I come out of this next 45-63 days with new energy and improved self-esteem, I will be satisfied.

I have also begun a very mild exercise program, and I don't feel that I will be undermining or affecting the color diet by followoing both. Exercise is also a red, Martian sort of energy to nurture.

If any of you ex-Color Diet followers are out there, please do respond with suggestions or opinions on the additions/changes I have added for myself. I won't "Go Red" until tomorrow, but I will share my experiences with everyone online - if anyone is interested!

hi marsalie and anyone else who's out there reading this.
i, too, am going to start the color diet soon and i really think that it will work for me. here's why...
i actually do eat mainly the foods that are in the red-yellow spectrum. i'm not much of a sweet-tooth person; i have a salt-tooth, if that's something that really exists. i was happy to see, in the other rainbow diet discussions, that some of my favorite snack foods (pringles, etc.) are "ok".
but everything else about my life is blue-green--from the colors i wear (mainly, blue, purple, or brown), to the music i listen to (mostly bluegrass, which is a lot of strings). i really think that charging myself with some red-gold energy will do the trick, or at the very least, give me more energy.
does anyone know what kind of effects flourescent lighting (like in the office that i work for) does to your aura? i feel that i've gained more weight when i'm around that kind of lighting; and when i was thinnest, i was doing a lot of theater and was thus under the theater lighting a lot. just wondering if that might have an effect.
i've also had an aura picture done in the past and it was mostly blue-green. maybe in a few months i will have another one done to see how i've changed.
i'm going to order the light bulbs off of this site and will be able to start once i have those. i think that the music that i'm going to listen to is "rusted root".
love,
shannon

Hi Masalie,

I agree that you should stay away from refined foods and flours etc and suger as much as possible. they are energy suckers and empty calories...

I would stay away definitely from artificial sweereners (try fructose, it is easy to obtain, to replace sugar...) also.

In regards to white rice, you should try and get "parboiled" rice (uncle Ben brand and Bali brands of rice both do this i think...) The rice is white but before they remove the nutricious outer part of the grain the rice undergoes a heat process by which the nutrients go to the centre of the grain and so when the outer layer is removed the nutrients are not removed with it apparently! It is pretty good!

Good luck! If you eat well and you are vegetarian anyway and avoid processed foods and sugar and avoid hydrogenated fats (margarine... though you can get margarine which has non-hydrogented fat, you just need to look...) you should defiitely be able to lose weight. I know i did...

This is to Leslie, (09.04.2000)if you are still here...

Vegan is when you are vegetarian (ie no flesh eaten) and also do not eat any animal by-products as in cheese, milk, eggs, butter etc... The way these products are taken from animals in our culture is very exploitative...

White flour, as well as being bleached has all of its nutrients removed! (no kidding, you should read up on this...) but as well as providing NO nutrition it actually taxes your body cause your body has to use energy to use it up and where is this energy to come from if all you are giving your body is white (ie nutritionless )products? It can produce among other things, vitamin deficiencies for the reason that vitamins are used up in the process of processing it once it has been ingested by you... Same goes for white rice and all grains that have had parts of themselves removed...

I could go on about the stupidity and greed of the food processors but many others have done this and if you do some research you will find lots of info...

to everyone,
Fuchsia

Hello to Sistersunshine5 and Marsalie. I wish you both the best of brittish with the diet. At the very least you'll notice a balance and heads of good red energy. It's been a while since I last posted but I'm really pleased that you are giving this a go.

Even though I quit half way through I still prefer to be wearing reds and yellows and surround myself with a lot of sunshine colours now. I'm painting my kitchen soon yellow which is such a turn around from my extremely favourite green. The rest of the house is in a very muted shade of green and done well before I did the colour diet. I thought that was very interesting.

You will have read from Molica that staying away from the refined colours is a very good boost and while junk food can be coloured yellow and orange I don't think it would be a very good idea to include it in your diet. I'm sure it would fluoress (can't spell that) very blue green.

I'll be very interested to hear how you have progressed and what things have happened to you besides weight loss.

Love and light to all, Heidi.

Hi Marsalie,Fuchsia,Jade,Sistersunshine & Heidi & others,

I think U guys would be finding me new in this thread but I've posted my experience on the color diet on 30th April'01 & got a reply from Fuchsia & Jade.
But I've been quite in touch with rainbow diet threads, so u guys seem to be quite familiar to me.

Anyways lemme tell u that I'm regularly following it since a month or so & i have lost about 4-5 inches around my waistline & i still have around a month's time more to go.So i'm expecting amazing results.
I'm on red-yellow fruit diet & lots of curds.

I'll keep u all posted on further news on this from my side.

Hi Rainbow Dieters

If anyone is planning to do the Red Colour Diet there is a wonderful date for it next year.

The 9th of April is on a Tuesday - number, month and day are all ruled by Mars, the red planet! It is also a waning Moon, which is good for starting weight-loss programmes.

The Moon is in Pisces, the sign of mysteries and secrets (and rules photography, for all those who want Kirlian proof that your aura really *is* too blue-green).

It is also a lucky day in Chinese astrology.

Bumping this thread for someone who asked about Linda Goodman's color diet. I have no experience with it but knew others had discussed it.

NOTE: QUITE A FEW MORE THREADS ON THIS CAN BE FOUND BY CLICKING "ADVANCED" IN THE SEARCH ENGINE BOX AT TOP RIGHT, THEN BY TYPING "COLOR DIET" (WITHOUT THE QUOTES) IN THE KEYWORD SEARCH TERMS, CLICKING THE "IN SUBJECT" BUTTON, AND SWITCHING THE "DATE RANGE" TO "NEWER THAN 10 YEARS."

Maria

Maria, sweetheart, why are you using all caps?

Someone sent me an email asking about the color diet, and I referred her to the website and said I would bump a few threads so she could see what others had said about it. Then, since there were actually a boatload of threads about it, I just wanted to call her attention to my note about how to search for it. The advanced function of the search engine can be a bit hard to figure out if you're not used to (1) these boards, (2) the search engine on these boards.

Didn't mean to yell in all caps other than to say, "Hey, look down here for more info" sort of thing.

Maria