Losing weight is really a very simple and uncomplicated process. There are only three basic rules which you must follow: Rule Number One: You must minimize your consumption of foods that are void of color or that grow below ground. Rule Number Two: You must "refine" less "fuel" than your body uses. Rule Number Three: You must avoid what I call the "Deprivation Syndrome" by eating a minimum of three proper meals per day and by selecting one day per week as a "Free Day" to eat anything that you want. These three rules served as guides during the approximately twenty years of research and development for this cookbook. If you will use the specified ingredients, prepare the dishes as instructed and eat only the foods listed in this cookbook, you should lose as much weight as you want like many others have done. All too often, diet "gurus" will explain, in detail, their theories but leave you with the question, "But what do I eat?" I have chosen to take the opposite approach by providing you with dozens of delicious weight loss recipes, without the technical jargon, along with an extensive list of permitted and color-coded foods from which you may choose. When I learned about the culprits that were making me fat, I researched recipes in hundreds of cookbooks, but rarely found a single one that was not loaded with an excessive amount of fat-producing elements. Therefore, I began the time-consuming process of developing and testing my own recipes that excluded the use of most such elements. Although some of the recipes in this cookbook do contain small amounts of carbohydrates, the amounts are insignificant, and therefore non-fattening, when considered in relation to the sum of all the ingredients in the recipe. Also, some carbohydrates become non-fattening when combined with certain other ingredients. This complex combining factor has also been incorporated into the recipes through a color-coding system for your convenience. In summary my proven weight loss theories have been i