How this Fast Diet Lifestyle works: Eat these meals tomorrow, for a calorie total of less than 600. On another day this week, eat the meals from a different post, another day of eating 600 calories or less. Eat sensibly the other days of the week. That’s it: a simple way to lose weight and be healthier.

What must it be like to have both great beauty and an excellent mind? Most of us will never know, yet that describes Hollywood glamour girl Hedy Lamar. Hedwig Eva Kiesler was born on 9 November 1914. Her father, although a bank director, knew a lot about how things worked and would instruct his little girl about street-car engines or printing presses while they took long walks together. From an early age, little Hedwig was curious about machinery. She was taught piano and ballet as well. At age 16, she was ‘discovered’ by a director and was in two movies in quick succession. The film Ecstasy became infamous, and Hedy left films for the stage. An infatuated arms dealer married her, stopping her career. Their dinner parties had Nazis and other fascists at the table, discussing munitions and radio-controlled weapons. Hedy, of Jewish ancestry, left her over-bearing husband and met Louis B. Mayer in London. He signed her up for Hollywood fame and fortune, and a new career was launched for “Hedy Lamarr”. Hedy was paired with the leading men of the 30s, starring in many hit movies. But she still loved mechanical devices, and worked on innovations in her trailer between takes while filming. In 1940, Lamarr was upset that she could not contribute to the war effort. She teamed up with film composer George Antheil, another would-be inventor. They knew that one problem in war was that radio-controlled torpedoes could be jammed if their radio signals could be intercepted. Lamarr and Antheil worked out a way to operate a torpedo on a signal that jumps from frequency to frequency in a random pattern, thwarting its interception. This was called frequency-hopping spread spectrum. They patented the idea and tried to give it to the Navy, but it was rejected. Lamarr then did her best to sell War Bonds, and she was very good at that too. Skip to 1962, when the US military employed the idea during the Cuban Missile Crisis. If the patent hadn’t expired, Lamarr might have been paid for her development. In 1985, communications corporations saw a need for FHSS as they developed mobile phones and internet transmissions. Too bad Hedy Lamarr could not profit from her invention. She is quoted as having said,  “Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.” Hedy Lamarr was always glamorous but she was never stupid.

A breakfast from Miss Lamarr’s youth, and a dinner of Cesar Salad that was popular in the California of her adulthood.

Wiener Fruhstuck:  287 calories 10.5 g fat 3.4 g fiber 16 g protein 18 g carbs 140.6 mg Calcium  NB: The food values given above are for the plated items only, not the optional beverages.  PB In Vienna, this is a very popular meal, as I am sure you will agree when you sample it. The name means “Viennese Breakfast”.

One half of a 2-oz egg, hard-boiled 1 slice 70-calorie whole-grain bread ¼ oz Emmental or Gruyere cheese 1 oz pear or apple or 1.5 oz melon 27 g/1 oz veal sausage, such as Bockwurst   Optional: blackish coffee [53 calories] or blackish tea or mocha cafe au lait [65 calories]

Steam or cook the sausage in a pan with cooking spray. Slice needed amount of sausage and enjoy the remainder at lunch or dinner tomorrow. Plate all the elements, sip your coffee, and imagine yourself in a Viennese coffee house. Very pleasant.

Cesar Salad:  240 calories 9 g fat 4 g fiber 33 g protein 5.4 g carbs  106 mg Calcium  PB GF Straight out of the Fast Diet book, with quantities clarified a teensy bit. Large portion, good flavor.

2.5 slices Canadian bacon 3 oz chicken breast, left over from a roast 2.5 c chopped romaine or 2.5 c. mesclun 1 T grated Parmesan 3 oz tomatoes salad dressing: 1 tsp olive oil + 1 tsp lemon juice + Mexican oregano [Cesar Salad after all is of Mexican origin, not from Roman rulers]

Heat the bacon on a hot, ungreased griddle until it begins to brown. Remove and slice into strips. Cut chicken meat into strips or chunks, as you wish. Roughly chop or tear the romaine, if using. Whisk the oil and lemon juice in a salad bowl. Add the lettuce and toss to coat with the dressing. Plate the greens and sprinkle with the Parmesan cheese and oregano. Arrange the meat and tomatoes on top of the greens. Isn’t that a big meal?!

Ingredients for next week: Breakfast, single portion for Monday …………………………… single portion for Thursday:

Whole wheat ‘sandwich thin’	1 two-oz egg
pineapple canned in juice	scrapple + scallion
3%-fat ham	raspberries
fat-free vanilla yogurt	fat-free vanilla yogurt
optional smoothie	optional smoothie
optional hot beverage	optional hot beverage

Dinner, single portion for Monday:………………………….. single portion for Thursday:

5 cups whole-grain bread cut in cubes	3 cups shredded cabbage
four 2-oz eggs + 3%-fat ham	corned beef
20 oz can crushed pineapple  + brown sugar	Bechamel sauce, no cheese
1 Tbsp butter +  side salad with beets	Swiss cheese
Sparkling water	Sparkling water