I wanted to start this new thread for convenience for myself so I sure hope no one minds. I have been doing the diet for 17 days now with very little in the way of noticable weight loss but then again I'm cheating a little bit. I tried really hard to start out having no coffee or caffeine drinks but the day after I started I got really sick with migraine and vomitting. After another two days of constant headache and lethargy I had a cup of coffee and within half an hour felt fine. Very sad indeed. So now I have one or two coffees a day with lots of milk and I'm coping. I bungled and ate some meat but I'll just keep going.

The best thing about the whole procedure is I feel really great now. Lots of energy. I had a period of about 6 months where I just felt blue all the time. Probably overloaded blue green aura but now I'm happy and participating in life joyfully again.

I have to tell you all that I'm not doing this under perfect circumstances either. My husband (a very true Cancerian) thinks I'm an absolute fruit cake and my two little girls (2 and 4) think Mummy is very funny to lie naked on the floor with red lamps shining on her. The eldest insists on trying to tell me things when I've got the walkman on and sometimes even tries to get between me and the lamps.

I've had to go to the two lamp method because I can only get 40w bulbs here and I lie on the floor because of power points in my house. See you can improvise. I'm also trying to get clear red contact to stick on my spectacles so I can do the red sunglasses thing. With prescription lenses it is too costly to get another pair made just now so I thought the contact would work. Celephone paper doesn't stick well enough. I tried it.

So I have lots more story to tell but another time. I thought this might help and or inspire anyone else researching the diet.

Light and love to all.

Hi Heidi,

I can really imagine you lying on the floor handling two lamps and two little kids... sounds like you are having lots of fun with the colour diet.

I also had the problem with the bulbs - first I tried some construction with a lamp and red transparent paper, but I didn't feel very good with it, so I bought an infrared lamp, and this one worked really well.

Did you ever think about doing the colour-bath early in the morning or late in the evening, when your children are asleep? I did mine before getting up in the morning - it gave me a really good start for the day.

Don't be too strict about yourself concerning food. Everybody reacts different - some drink lots of coffee and eat white meal and sugar and lose weight in spite of it, others have to be more careful. I found out for myself that it is better not to eat white meal and sugar - an it is healthier anyway.

Good luck with your diet

Morgana

Hi Morganna,

Thanks for the encouragement. I read your story in the other threads. Two hours of printing so I could study hard. I do my baths in the morning around 7. I have the luxury (?) of being a mother at home but my darlings get up at that time too. I just couldn't manage any earlier. It's winter here and cold in the morning. I can't do it without a heater either although just one hand stays warm.

I'm a bit down today about it but will persist. I keep forgetting the visualisation but the rest is pretty good. I do eat white bread and probably a few too many sugar laden biscuits but the colours are perfect. Most of all I just want to finish the 45 days. I've not managed before so even that will be an achievement and you never know your luck. Some weight might come off.

Thanks again for the good wishes. Much appreciated and welcome.

Hello everyone, anyone. I kind of feel like I'm talking to myself here but it is very good for the soul. A confessional if you will. I am on day 27 which is very pleasing because I'm looking forward to day 45 immensely. This has been very hard for me but not because of what I have to do. I'm still making mistakes and have eaten meat again so the weight effect is thoroughly lost. I nearly gave up and quit but I just feel that I must continue the colour baths and water and food because at the end of the process it will be of great benefit to me. I still feel much happier and zesty. I'm bouncing around with my kids again which at my size looks quite hysterical but I'm enjoying it.

I think I have not lost any weight because my mind set is skewiff. I can't seem to shake the calorie theory and though I admire Thomas's and Teresa's efforts greatly I think it set a bit of a negative thought process in myself which hasn't helped. I just couldn't get wholly positive about losing weight. But as I say I don't mind as I have other benefits from this. So, stuggling as I am to continue I will and am using this forum to keep myself honest.

I now feel absolved and can continue with a degree of enthusiasm.

Light and love to all, Heidi.

Heidi;

come om girl! you KNOW you can do it!

I for one believe you will. already i think your body could be talking to you, telling you what it needs...and telling you that it's trying to support you too! With two of you working on it I'm sure you're going to get there.

You're not out there on your own; talking to yourself....we're there too, listening, and sending lots of "support vibes"

Love and belief
Aus

Thank you Australdi. I appreciate your support so much but alas I quit. Well, circumstances got the better of me I'm sad to confess. Yesterday I got up late, had two whiney children who wanted 100% attention, a husband who was off to work late and I was in a rush to get ready and go for kindergarten and playgroup. Sounds quite pathetic now but yesterday it was all too much so I stopped. But.... and it's a big but I feel really good about it all.

I have a sense of getting what I needed out of the process. And a knowledge that I did it well. I just feel like such a new person and that was what I needed most anyway.

I've tucked away my red lightbulbs in a handy spot incase I need some more red light as I really feel that sitting under a red lamp will be the quickest way to rid my self of the blues.

Thank you to everyone who thought good thoughts for me.

I'll see you somewhere else in these discussion pages I'm sure. Thank you.

Heidi.

Feeling good is the whole point of it,
so well done .

Hi Heidi,
I just discovered this site today and read your posts. So I believe you quit yesterday? I actually tried the red color diet years ago myself and was never able to complete it. At the time I remember thinking: well, of course no one can say that this color therapy diet doesn't work, because it is so complicated and so difficult that no one could possibly ever complete it! You gotta find the red drinking glasses, find the red bulbs (opaque - not clear), find the sunglasses...it's enough to make a person crazy! And I say that with all due respect to Linda Goodman because I adore her.
Still, it's always stayed in the back of my mind and I've always wondered if it has actually worked for people and if I should maybe try again. But I've never run across anyone who's tried it. If there is anyone out there who has done the red Rainbow Diet and had success with it, please let me know. I would very much appreciate it. And Heidi, thank you so much for sharing your story. It was nice to hear about someone else's experience with it, and I'm glad you got so much out of it.

AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaa!
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LazieHussy
Do I dare ask where you came up with that name?
That's what my grandmother has always called me, and my aunt, etc., when we don't do what she wants...along with "contrary", but the way she says it, it sounds like
---con-TRAAYIR-riee---
There is no way to adequately spell that, you just have to hear it, it's shrieking and full of shock and you would think the person she is saying it about had committed a horrible crime instead of just *not* getting her forgotten glass of tea for her from the other room she just left it in.
"You mean you won't get that for Granny...after I did ______ for you yesterday! Well you lazy hussy."
I'm just cracking up thinking about it...she's the one we all learned it from anyway, her name is Mary and like the rhyme goes she is quite contrary herself!
Women always talk about, "oh God, I'm turning into my mother", but for me it skips a generation I love her and admire her terribly much though
Anyway, thanks for reminding me...and welcome to the site!!

Hi Lazyhussy. I agree with Daisygoogoo. That sure is a user name. I'm glad you were able to be inspired by my story so to speak. There are other threads here, The Rainbow Diet, 2, 3 and 4 before me that are full of much information. You may have to search a bit back in time but they are there and worth the read.

I found the diet easy enough to follow but the circumstances in which I did it weren't great. Perhaps another time.....though I really don't feel I need it for dieting anymore. Much more to the point for me was accepting myself the way I am and going from there. That has been a hard trod road with meditation and experience but I believe that until I can say I am an acceptable person to myself the way I am I'm going to be caught up in self image battles which extend to what I am able to do and what I'm not.

But I still feel really good. Thanks Australdi.

Anyway Lazyhussy, good reading and success if you try again.

Light and love to all, Heidi.

LazieHussy

Did it! A very long time ago I did that color therapy to lose weight (I haven't seen ANYTHING on this site about anyone trying the blue diet at all!) and it worked. It was very hard to stick to, especially with the lifestyle I had (always travelling so food was at hotels mostly, and I had to resort to picking at my food sometimes, to take out the greens), but I did it. I stayed thin and sexy for a very long time, in fact, for many years, although I ate everything in sight and have a sweet tooth like no one else I've known. I totally forgot about it until I found this site, and I was in the midst of trying to lose some weight again 'coz I had to take some medicine that threw my body into chaos and made me gain so much weight that I hadn't been able to lose, even though I went to the gym almost everyday and went on a very strict diet. I re-discovered the Red therapy and I just started it a few days ago, and I must say it's already taking effect. It's not that hard to find the supplies, this site sells the red bulb, and a shop like Akia sells plastic red "glasses." I found the sunglasses at ROSS, and there were some at Rite Aid too. Besides, those are just a plus, you don't have to use them to make it work. Anyway, you wanted to hear from someone who did it, well, that's me! Among lots of others, if you read the other threads. So, what can I say, happy lighting!

Daisygoogoo,
That's so cool your grandma used to say that.
That seems real cute and sweet. I never heard anyone say it before. It just came to me as something that suited my personality when I was trying to think of an email/screen name. But that's nice your grandma used it. I picture her fanning herself with one of those folded, hand-held fans.

Heidi,
Thanks for the tip about the other threads. I guess I didn't get a chance to look around all that much yesterday. I see what you're talking about now though. Yeah, I think that self acceptance is one of the best things in the world a person could possably do and I think that's cool you're moving in that direction. I want that too. Wow, just imagine not struggling so hard against yourself all the time and being able to actually completely relax for once.Lots of times I want to be so different than how I am now. It's nice to hear about someone actually being accepting of theirself, especially for women in this day and age with so many images being constantly thrown at us for comparison.

Shanya,
Wow, Thanks for all that advice. Very useful tips. I appreciate that. Thanks for the inspiration and good luck with your latest venture!

LazieHussy

Hey All Linda fans!!
i'm an ardent fan of Linda's, From the day i read Star Signs my life was changed forever
i've tried the Color Therapy once with a considerable success, but then later i put on some more wt again, i repeated the therapy but this time it didn't give me the same results as b4!!! ofcourse i haven't been xtremely strict abt all the rules...
now after a few mths i've just started the therapy again. In my country 150 watts redbulbs r not available i had used just a 40watt bulb the first time and it had worked fine, this time however i think i'll try with 2 bulbs.
Hope it works for me this time! ne one having similar experiences?
luv
Angel

Hi All:

My color journey is over. I know everyone here in Lindaland thought we (Teresa and I) had given up on the color diet long ago. We didn't. We stuck with it for a year. If perserverance and faith mattered a whit in this case, we'd have won the battle long ago.

My results were generally disappointing. I only lost approximately 25-30 pounds. I started in the 380s, and my weight is now in the 350s. I started the color diet in June, 1999. I went about four months without any noticeable results. Then, sometime during the fall, I lost the weight mentioned above. I can't pinpoint exactly when it was since I tried to stay away from the scales as much as possible. For the rest of the color diet, I saw nothing significant.

My advice to other color dieters is to give it a good try for 63 days. If you don't see anything significant during that period, move on to something more productive. The color diet probably works for some and not for others. I have no idea why. Linda Goodman did not reveal her sources for this plan, so there is no way to follow-up for any additional information (and Lord KNOWS I've tried!).

As far as I'm concerned, the color diet is ineffective more often than it produces results. Only two or three members here saw any real results. Kelly, who started the initial Rainbow Diet thread, claims to have lost 65 pounds in 63 days. A couple of other members reported minor results. The balance of us reported basically no weight loss -- or results significantly bolstered by other factors unrelated to the color diet.

I recall reading a few of the reader reviews of Star Signs on amazon.com. I think two reported that they followed the color diet for the entire recommended 63 days and did not lose any weight.

It may be significant to mention that, even before the end of the first 63 days, Teresa and I both had aura photographs done. In both cases, there was a positive balance of the red-gold spectrum. So, I guess the color diet did work in terms of changing the color patterns of the aura, even if it did not produce significant weight loss.

Good luck everybody!

Thomas

Hello everyone. Hello Thomas. It was so good to hear from you and hear how you went. I'm sorry you didn't get the results you wanted but you really must be applauded for sticking with it so long. Fair dinkum it's hard work and you just amaze me. Both you and Theresa. I feel like I know you both so well after reading avidly through the other threads. And yes I tend to agree with you. I think that anyone doing the diet has to hit on the right balance for themselves (food etc) which inludes your mental state too.

I'm still happy from the amount I did and I have to confess after wearing greens and blues for so long I now hunger for reds, yellows and oranges and pay more attention to those coloured foods too. I don't seem to be as depressed as regularly and am much nicer to my beautiful little girls. That is I do lots less yelling than I used to before the diet. They are pretty pleased about that I can tell you.

So the very best of, I was going to say luck but as there is really no such thing I will say all the very best of Labouring Under Correct Knowledge to all and sundry who are undertaking this diet.

Love and light to you all, Heidi.

Hi Heidi:

Thank you for your kind words.

I have to say that the color diet was extremely difficult in an emotional-mental-spiritual sense. I should have cut my losses a long tim ago. I was very certain that Linda would be right about this. I very much wanted her to be right. I should have been open enough to counsel from my HS. The original vibes I got from my HS about this were probably negative (I can't recall exactly), but I wasn't receptive.

I was weary of dieting in general and wanted to try something different. I'm not a compulsive dieter, but I've been on a few diets in my lifetime. I didn't want to do something that would be difficult to do. The color diet turned out to be many times harder and more stressful than any other diet I've ever tried or heard about. After surviving a year like the one I just had, which included other significant sources of stress than the color diet, a regular diet/exercise program will be a piece of cake.

As you know from my posts on the other Rainbow Diet threads, I've been dealing with the color diet on and off for about 10 years. I'm glad to be finally closing this chapter. I kept wondering what was wrong. Why wasn't it working? Now I know: It just doesn't work for many people.

I love your breakdown of the word LUCK. The biggest lesson here is to listen to the HS without reservation. He or she will always give you the Correct Knowledge Under which to Labor.

Thomas

I haven't tried the Rainbow Diet but I did give up red meat. It's been 4 1/2 years and I remember feeling very light and airy the first 6 months. It was as if I could float away or that I was floating. I don't feel so light now but maybe I will when I give up chicken next year.

It's hard to knock something out of your diet when you have a family to feed and they eat differently from you and when so much food products we buy has something else in it. Like the Egg Drop Soup packets I was buying because my kids love it. I discovered it has geletin in it which is, I believe, from pork fat! Vitamin supplements also have meat products in them. When I gave up red meat I felt so good I wanted to go totally Kosher. I won't even eat something that has been touched by meat or cooked in meat fat. But it is so time consuming to read the labels as we shop. I don't know if I'll make it to being a fruit-arian. Produce has such a bland flavor when they are out of season. I'd have a hard time on the red diet because I love my salads!

I've been reading some of the previous Rainbow Diet threads and I'd like to know what is a vegan? What is the difference between a vegetarian and a vegan? Why are you supposed to stay away from white flour? Is it because it's bleached? I've tried to avoid bleached flour but it's in everything!

I could stand to diet but I won't try while I'm breastfeeding. I'm supposed to take in 2800 calories a day and I don't have the appetite to fulfill that requirement! Would bathing in the red light and wearing the glasses give enough benefit to be worth trying alone? Sounds like the red diet promotes positive vibes if nothing else.

Happy Dieting!

Well, I've been on the Rainbow Diet for 19 days and feel good, and don't know if I've been losing any weight or not. Yesterday I had to miss a day as I had to take my child to one of her all day events. I missed the colorbath and so now I'm wondering if I should just go on through to 45 days, or if
I have to start all over again?
HELP!!! Does anyone have the answer to this question?

Hi to all. Been awhile since I last posted. I've had trouble with my computer and my net connection. Shona it's good to hear from you and I wish you much success with your diet.

I'm thinking now after my own experience that you need to continue after missing just one day. All I've read through the other 4 thread on this subject indicate that one miss won't ruin you like missing the colour bath.

Other mishaps though will such as eating meat and too much white flour and sugar. And I think coffee should be avoided. I couldn't because it sadly made me sick. Addiction is a very sad thing. I believe you need to stick with it quite rigidly to get the best results. However, saying that, there must be room for some bending as you've no doubt read if you've gone through the Rainbow Diet, 2, 3 and 4.

And if you have small children like I do who don't have any particular routine and still need mummy quite a lot it make it difficult, not impossible mind you, to do things like your colour bath and visualisation. I have to confess that visualisation was one of the hardest things for me to remember to do and consequently I didn't do much at all.

Keep going though because you will get something out of the process anyway.

Light and Love, Heidi.

Hello everyone! It has been a long time since I last read this thread.

I was sad to hear Thomas how dissapointed you were with the results. My own results were minimal to moderate but I was already within 10 pounds of where I wanted to be anyway. For me it was much more the positive emotional results I got from the red light. I still wear my cheapie red/yellow sunglasses just because I feel good with them on!

Just one point I wanted to make (or question to ask) Thomas, although it sounds like you have had enough of the diet. It sounds like you did the diet straight for a year without breaks. Is this true? I ask because I did Weight Watchers awhile ago (which was successful for me) and I know from exerpience and the meetings that often, you may be wonderful to sticking to a diet and yet you will not lose weight. Sometimes the people who fall off the diet actually lose more! The key I learned, is your body is excellent at figuring out patterns very quickly and once it knows your pattern so to speak, it will fight losing more weight. Dieters are often encouraged to change their dieting patterns, including eating more. Then the weight often starts dropping again.

When I read the colour diet in Star Signs, I took Linda very seriously when she advised to go no longer than 63 days before stopping. I think this may have the same reasoning. It's good to totally stop the colour diet and and go back say a month later when it will feel brand new to your body than continue diligently and have your body (which is very protective and smart) fight the colour diet very inch of the way.

Just a thought for anyone considering the diet now.

Thomas, I hope you do not feel too dissapointed with your results. I hope you recognize the success of 30 pounds (it sounds like a lot to me!) Your jounrney may be longer but I hope that you did get something positive out of your experience. I know I was helped by your contributions to this site.

Good luck to everyone trying the diet now. No, I don't think everyone will have fantastic results but I do think some results can be met. Best thing for me was just being able to discuss my success/failure with other people on the same wavelength.

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Peace, The Drever Pup

Hi..I'm new to this forum, and would like to know...What is the Rainbow Diet and How does it work.?? I read quite a few comments on it, but nobody actually said what it is.Thanks to you all'

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kittcat2

Hi Kittcat, be sure to read up on all the previous rainbow diet threads. That should answer all your questions.
HI Morgana, Dreverpup and everybody else I haven't seen in a while! With the exceptions of your posts, this thread has become extremely gloomy. I am sorry about that, but everyone I know who followed the diet STRICTLY saw real results. My sister lost 45 pounds six years ago and hasn't been that heavy since. I lost 25 pounds, and that was a lot for my frame. I now happily wear a size 8 instead of a 12/14. Dreverpup, your advice was key. Doing the diet for more than 63 days when it isn't working is only setting yourself up for major dissapointment.

My advice to current colordieters is stick to the script. Personally, I saw NO results when I ate anything in the green spectrum or flour or sugar. This diet is very hard, but if you do it right it works. Rememeber that.

LOve and Red Blessings to you all.
MOlIca

Molica:

First of all: Ouch! If my posts (which you were obviously referring to) made you gloomy, then excuse me for giving my honest appraisal of my color diet experience. About following the diet STRICTLY: I certainly have followed the diet STRICTLY several times in the past. I only saw minimal results each time. The only possible explanation at the time was that I wasn't giving the diet long enough. I tried a longer time period, but saw nothing.

BTW, BOTH Teresa and I had aura pictures done before the end of the first 45 days. We both showed auras that were predominately red-orange. The diet did a fantastic job of changing our auras. It just didn't produce significant weight loss.

About your weight loss: I didn't say so at the time, but I will now. I recall that, along with doing the color diet, you cut many carbohydrates out of your diet and picked up an exercise program. Sounds like Atkins to me. I think this was the major force behind your weight loss success, not necessarily the color diet. I say this because I recall you reporting previous attempts at the color diet (without the extra elements) with disappointing results.

Basically, we have two different perceptions of the color diet, which is OK. But, we should make a point to respect each other's viewpoints.

Thomas

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Thomas,

Wow.. did you misunderstand me. You were not the only one who posted "gloomy". There were several other posts not just in this thread that, I believe, may turn some people off to the color diet.
I never cut out carbohydrates, you might have me confused with Kate (I think her name was) that started these threads in the beginning. She lost 60 some pounds with exercise, the red color diet and even cheated with coffee I think
Personally, I have always exercised and followed the principles of yoga, but they were not helping me shed those extra pounds.
All I was suggesting is that everyone who wants to try the diet should strictly follow Linda's original plan. If I recall, you would eat salads on the diet when you knew that the diet states no foods in that spectrum.
I know you've tried it strictly with no success in the past, and I am truely sympathetic. My only intention was to pep up people that were on the diet now, and to tell them not to give up. I don't know why it hasn't worked for you in the past, but my suggestion was that it couldn't possibly work if it isn't at least followed strictly. I think Linda even stated that in the Star notes you posted.
The aura photo you took is interesting. Maybe, there is some emotional issue blocking your progress. I hope you find the weight loss program that will work best for you. My apologies if I sounded harsh. It definitely wasn't personal Let us know if you find better results with something else.

Nothing but LOve
MOlIca

Hi to all. I've been of the air for awhile. The website changed and I wasn't smart enough to search; just kept trying to get the old one. Ahhh, somedays I just amaze myself.

Lots of posts since I last looked. Definitely be positive about this diet. For those that it has worked for it's a great thing and I think that one day in the future I'll try it again and follow the rules and it will work for me. I did confess to extending the guidelines a lot and that's why I saw no results in weight loss I believe. But I also think that for whatever reason I was not at that point in time that I would do it right anyway. However, it does give other benefits that are worth the effort. I still feel really good and relatively energetic so I must have balanced my aura a bit more. I sure am keen to wear much more red, yellows and oranges these days. I'm still hunting for red or yellow sunglasses that won't break my bank (the cellophane on my glasses just didn't work).

I know for myself that the mind set of an overweight person (me) who has battled with weight issues for a long time (about 20 years), tried many diets with and without success is one of desperation but I truly believe now that you have to be very accepting of yourself as you are for "diets" to work. The Red Colour diet is a great thing to do and if it works for weight then great. If it doesn't and you only do a good half to three quarters of it you'll still get some good results that are worth the effort you have put in. Give it a go.

Light and love to all.

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