Americans spent about $26 billion on diet soda, prepackaged diet dinners and artificial sweeteners in 2010, along with about $1.2 billion on diet books and exercise videos, and about $3.3 billion on commercial weight-loss programs, according to Marketdata estimates.
When I was single, my fridge was empty save for frozen diet dinners and hard cheese.
The people of Crete, Greece and southern Italy, whose traditional eating habits are the basis for the diet, treat dinner as a communal event, not a timed one.
Add in grains to your diet for dinner.
In addition, patients were instructed to have a regular meal for lunch and only liquid diets for dinner the day before the operation.
He was eating a cold cut sandwich and "a little bit of diet Coke" for dinner when I called.
If they still disagree and force you to eat meat, you can either just give up, or, if this means a lot to you, you can refuse and just eat whatever is OK for a vegan or vegetarian diet on your dinner plate.
During his first couple of weeks of freedom, Mr. Taubman, some 30 pounds lighter from his jailhouse diet, gave small dinners at his estate in Southampton, friends say.
So that morning, Mr. Ravitch rose in his Fifth Avenue apartment at dawn, trundled once around the Central Park reservoir in a 25-degree chill — a mostly symbolic nod to his health, given his diet of steak dinners — showered, dressed, threw a shirt in a bag, took a few puffs on a cigarette and climbed into his state-trooper-driven sport utility vehicle for the ride north, working two cellphones.
No more crash diets, no more dinner table debates, no more girls who always looked better than I did.
