I eat four meals a day.  Each meal is 400 calories.  Sometims a tad
more and sometimes a tad less.  My meals consist of about 2 to four
teaspoons of olive oil a day, three ounces of fatty fish, a potato,
whole wheat bread, fruit, vegetables, yogurt, occasionally nuts,
sometimes a teaspoon or two of peanut butter and one to three
teaspoons of all fruit jam.  Occasionally I eat three cups
of popcorn as the starch with my meal.  I eat other whole grains.

I carefully weigh and measure everything.  Just for fun, I calculated
the weight of a couple of days worth of my meals and consistently came
up with between 5 and 6 pounds of food a day.

I am losing weight slowly but surely.  I do not want to eat so few
calories that my metabolism slows and I feel the pain of hunger all
day.  My diet is varied, balanced and contains hardly any junk food.
I am satisfied enough that I do not eat between meals.  It is a way of
eating that I can be happy with permanently.  ON very very rare
occasions, I can substitute some ice cream for some of my 400 calories
in a meal.

I cannot imagine eating  the 2 pound diet--at least not for any length
of time.  If I continued to eat my present well balanced diet and
reduced the amount of food to 2 pounds I would be eating 800 calories
a day.  I would guess that anyone could lose weight on 800 calories a
day.  For me to do this, I would need to be in a hospital with an
armed guard at the door.

Is there somewhere I can find menus for the 2 pound diet.  I am very
curious as to what a real life eating plan would be.

P.S.   I am t2 diabetic.  I just did a random blood test and my blood
sugar is 81 .  No meds, just diet and some exercise.

Dolores