Not on its own, no, but it can help.

If you want recipes ideas  or what ever just ask  I know hunfreds of ways to
make eating healthy taste gret and be easy.  Specaily I just learned a new
onion ring recipe that does not involved deep frying

I also like using a lot of beans - kidney beans, borlotti beans,
chickpeas, etc.  Preparing the beans from scratch may taste a little
better, but tinned beans are so quick and are always in my cupboard.
They can be used as part of a pasta sauce / casserole (minestrone
style) or as part of a mexican-style dish (with ground corriander,
cumin and chilli), as part of an eastern European style stew with a
little bacon, and so on.  Admittedly, mostly my efforts turn out to be
variants on the "brown stew" concept, but they taste good and are very
filling without being too fattening (mind you, you have to stay away
from the cheese and cream toppings!).  

Beans can also be used to "stretch" minced (ground) meat recipes, e.g.
substituting half the quantity of minced meat for red kidney beans
when cooking bolognaise sauce.  You can also "pad" bolognaise sauce by
putting in lots of grated carrot, or one of my favourites, beetroot
(which gives the sauce a spectacular colour) - they both add a bit of
sweetness to the sauce and make a little bit of meat go a *long* way.

Of course, there is any number of delicious Indian vegetarian meals.
One of my favourites, for quick, easy, healthy food, is to cut up a
handful of each of 4 - 6  different vegetables (cabbage, carrots,
beans, onion, etc), tossing a dessert-spoon of the spice mix "panch
phora" into a hot pan, adding the veggies and stir fry them until they
are al-dente (this may require putting different veggies in at
different times).  Add chilli if you wish.  Season to taste.  Serve
with rice.  super and takes about 10 minutes of cooking (and about 10
- 15 minutes before that of cutting up the vegetables).  I generally
cut up the veggies until they are fine (e.g. shredded cabbage) so that
they cook quickly.

I am constitutionally unable to cook small quantities, so I always
seem to make bucket-loads.  I'm lucky that all varieties of bean
casserole keep well and generally taste better the day after.  If we
can't face the same meal twice in two days, I put the left-overs into
the freezer for when I can't be bothered cooking.  Otherwise DH gets
it for lunch the next day (and the day after, and the day after that!)

I'm going through the process you're about to start (and from roughly
the same starting point) and so far I've lost about 15kg without any
extraordinary effort.  I know I have a long way to go, but making some
progress is such a nice feeling.  I've been following the guidelines
of a low GI diet (with varying degrees of strictness), which works for
me.  I started exercising by walking a short distance and then
gradually increasing it.  I began with finding it hard to walk 20
minutes at a good pace and now, 18 months later, am walking 2-3 hours
at a time (although not every day!).  I also am getting out and
working in the garden more often, which is great upper-body and
stretching exercise.  I find it difficult to stick to a gym routine,
so a more informal regime of getting out of doors works for me.

Tish

Yes, great! We can emal each other off the ng. What I'm looking for are
very easy, quick and tasty veggie dishes. But the recipes will have to
be without bell peppers, as they don't agree with me unless they're
"baked dead" like in a lasagna, where the dish is in the oven for about
an hour.

Don't tell yourself you have to avoid interesting food, you only have to
avoid food that's bad for you. I now find it very interesting to
"research" all sorts of veggie/light recipes and finding my own way of
making them.

Just like I keep telling my mum, not to keep telling herself she'll
never learn to use a computer, because then her sub-conscious will
listen to that "command" and make it harder for her to learn. That
dratted sub-conscious of ours has NO sense of humour and doesn't do
sarcasm. It just takes what we say or think at face value.

You've got to go off most drugs in that category very, very slowly to
avoid such side effects. I knew someone who was taking a similar drug who
was told by her doctor (a GP, not a psychiatrist, but still, he should
have known better) to taper off far more quickly than she should have
done, and she was as sick as a dog. It was winter, too, with bad weather,
and she couldn't get to the ER during the worst of the withdrawal.

I got such a foul reaction to Lithium, except I was still on the nasty stuff. My
body just doesn't process it, and I end up storing it up in my liver and all
those other places that like to stockpile toxins. I got so sick from lithium
toxicity that I too was hospitalised; I was also badly dehydrated and dropped a
boatload of weight because I was in a constant state of nausea. Needless to say
I refuse to ever have the vile thing in my cupboard again, I don't care how bats
I go. The doctor has me on a somewhat effective mix of anidepressants, an
anticonvulsant, diazepam and Strattera; it will never bring me to full
"normalcy," whatever that is, but keep the crazies at bay just enough. He relies
now on a job change, which the slimeballs at HSBC are not accomodating, and
psychotherapy with people with one experienced in dealing with wannabe
Napoleons. Sometimes it doesn't do its full job, I mean the medicine; otherwise
I wouldn't have been in both the heart ward and booby hatch within six weeks of
each other. But it beats the hell out of having multiple mood swings and being
so ADHD I can't work at all.

Blessed be,
Baha

Yes, it was horrible. I was so stunned I couldn't speak.