Need to Lose Ten Pounds FAST? A Meal that Will Make You Lose Your Appetite for 7 - 10 Days

Need to lose weight, fast? Here's something that may help; a recipe that made me lose my appetite for about a week. At the end of a long day I find myself wandering aimlessly around the grocery store when I get a great idea. I needed to use up the defrosted Hatch green chile in the fridge. In my delirium, I went through the convenience noodle aisle and said, "Yum! spicy Hamburger Helper, Cheesy Macaroni with Green Chilei!"

To call myself a vegetarian, would make me a big, fat liar. Let's just say I go for long stretches of time without eating meat, once it lasted five years. I am not a vegetarian, but five days often pass without me eating any meat. My on and off vegetarianism began about 20 years ago, when I was 14.

Some people can't bear the thought of life without meat. Others go vegetarian and can never imagine eating meat again. If it happens accidentally, they will attest to the fact that it makes them physically ill. What's my problem? I'm not sure.

I still buy into the vegetarian ideology, but there are several of reasons that I gave up on strict adherence. One reason was poverty. I found that I could save precious pennies if I didn't turn my nose up at free food that may contain meat or meat products. Such free food was available in kitchens of restaurants that I waited tables in, on the table at mom or grandma's house, and at various social functions.

When traveling for work or pleasure, I've found that beyond French fries or a sad, pale iceberg-lettuce salad, the available restaurants near my hotel don't offer many nutritional vegetarian options. The last problem I had with being a strict vegetarian is that I didn't have that much time to put into nutritional considerations. My skin, hair, and nails seemed to all improve when I incorporated a bit of meat back into my diet.