Even a lemonade stand requires some knowledge and capital investment. 

Primarily, a low carbohydrate diet is what works and has, in fact, even had success with T1 diabetes.

So, that's the way I look at the current situation with rose colored glasses and making lemonade out of lemons.

Every day I buy a large Diet Coke as breakfast at McD's.  

Is it a health and fitness book talking about staying on a diet for 30 days? 

I definitely will be implementing the food/diet into that mix as well in the future :).How do you like to implement exercise into your life?

Put another way, you are asking what kind of diet you should follow as an NBA star but you haven't even tried shooting a basketball to see if you have any skill.

Did you follow your dr's diet? 

It's sort of like the theory if you have lemons make lemonade but the question is WHY.

Verifying income with the current employer, at a publicly listed phone number (to ensure it's not their buddy's cell phone number) is also reasonable... anything larger than a lemonade stand with 1 employee is going to have a "verification of employment" process that you can use, the authorization form to use it you just include in your tenant application package.