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Renee! That's a horrible idea! Eating diet pills and not eating is so dangerous! And, speaking as someone who basically didn't eat for two years, my metabolism is so fucked up now, and it is all kinds of wrong. I have gained like thirty pounds over the last couple of years. Okay, not couple of years, more like six years. But whatever. Bleh. I feel your pain.
But! You can't just not eat! You need to eat! I know you don't cook, but if you want to lose weight, you need to simply eat less junk food and more healthy food. Less calories, more nutrients, that's the way to go. If you get pizza, eat salad with it instead of french fries, or something. And not some icky nasty salad either, with gross iceberg lettuce. A nice salad with lots of leafy greens and tomatoes and carrots and peppers and maybe some chickpeas as well.
Exercise would help, but I, like you, loathe and hate it, so I don't do it either. But how about something like walking? It's a great exercise, and it can be fun if you do stuff like walking in the park or in the woods. You can take your kids and go out exploring nature, or something. You can bird watch together, and then it will be a fun activity rather than boring exercise. Or, walk to the supermarket to pick up some ice cream. Or walk to the post office. Or whatever.
There has got to be some better, safer way to lose weight than not eating and drinking diet sodas.
I know... but the problem is, I HATE healthy foods. The only thing I like in that salad you mentioned was the tomatoes. I don't like vegetables and I don't like fruit. I don't even like meat. I like cheese. And occasionally peanut butter. If I was to try to only eat "healthy" foods, I wouldn't eat. Well... I like Minute Rice okay. Maybe I could eat Minute Rice with spray butter and salt for non-pizza dinners. And Diet Pepsi. *sigh*
Nevertheless, you cannot not eat. If you don't eat, and then you lose weight, it's because you are starving to death. Then again, if that's what you want, do it. But I don't think it's a very good idea, myself.
What about trying some new foods? Every time you go to the supermarket, buy something new. Then you might find something else that you really like. I'm fond of making veggie burgers with tomato and avocado slices on top. I know you don't like soy foods much, though. But sandwiches like that are really easy to make, since all you have to do is slice a roll, some tomato, and some avocado, put some ketchup or whatever on, and put the burger in a frying pan for about three minutes, then assemble and put some salt and pepper on the top. Basically no cooking involved, and it's very healthful too. And filling. Sean likes to make veggie burgers with hot sauce and peanut butter on the roll.
I was going to suggest you buy pizza crusts and sauce, and low-fat mozzarella (which really doesn't taste that different from the full-fat kind) and make your own pizzas, with slightly less cheese and more of other toppings, but then I remembered that your oven doesn't work. But if it ever does, that's a good idea. I make my own pizza all the time, and it's much better than pizza place pizza because I can put all kinds of junk on it.
Or how about West African Peanut-Butter soup? I seem to recall it was very easy to make, and the peanut butter flavor was very strong.
Veggie sloppy joes are really easy, too, and very yummy. (Though again you might not like them because of the soy factor). Morningstar Farms makes these veggie burger crumbles which basically cook like ground meat. Then you just add some tomato paste, water, and a packet of sloppy joe seasonings, cook on the stovetop for about ten minutes, and you have a meal right there.
And ooh, as for the soda, one thing I've found that really helps my soda cravings is flavored carbonated water! It has no sugar, so it's not bad for you, but it's still all nice and bubbly. And if you get the flavored kind, it actually tastes good too. I like the mandarin orange the most.
Or another idea that I've seen in a lot of cookbooks is to use better cheese that has been more aged. Then it has more flavor and you don't need to use as much of it. I don't know how practical that is in a non-cooking situation, though. Mostly I think it pretty much applies to hard cheeses like parmigian and gouda.
Anyway, those are just a few suggestions I could come up with off the top of my head. I don't know if any of them will be any help at all, since they seem to suggest foods you don't even like, but... It must be better than eating Minute Rice with spray-on fat. =)
Sean puts peanut butter on his burgers??? Thanks Laurie, that was a great diet aid! ;-P
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