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SHE has been Wonder Woman, a Las Vegas entertainer, cosmetic spokeswoman and Hollywood glamour puss. But curvaceous Lynda Carter, believe it or not, has always had to fight off extra pounds.

"I've always had a weight problem," admits the 35-year-old brunette, who recently trimmed off i nearly 10 pounds in two weeks. "I j don't know of anyone who doesn't Well, actually, 1 do know of a couple of people, but you just want to shoot them."

Lynda has, at times, felt the weight creeping on, and her answer is to cut out the junk food and turn to fresh vegetables.

"I weaned myself off junk food,' she says. "It's difficult. At times, I think the furthest I'll go is just a bite of Wendy's or a Roy Rogers or a pizza, but then I feel guilty and have salad for two days."

Lynda trims down with a soupand-salad diet, supplemented by vegetables and carbohydrates.

"I like complex carbohydrates, like wheat bread with no butter," she says "I don't eat fat."

She also has cut out high-calorie alcohol and limits herself to orange, grapefruit or cranberry juice mixed with Perrier.

"I always mix them." she explains, "because then I can drink twice as much with fewer calories."

Even though Lynda will occasionally take a biteful of steak at a barbecue, she generally tries to avoid red meat.

"I find that the next day I get tired, so if I'm working, I don't eat meat," she explains Lynda's husband of three years. Washington, D.C., attorney Robert Altman, doesn't mind her strict menus.

"We're always dieting," says Lynda. "I'm a terrible cook and God bless his heart, he puts up with it I could say, 'Honey, I'm going to pick up some homemade soup and croissants and brie al the gourmet shop for dinner,' and he doesn't care "

Daily exercise is mandatory to maintain Lynda's svelte figure. "I exercise every day," she says. "When I'm on the road, I can only do door exercises, but otherwise, I play racquetball and tennis or I bicycle. If it's raining or snowing, I do the stationary bike or play racquetball.

A statuesque 5 ft. 9 in., Lynda now weighs about 130 lbs. "I could lose another 7 lbs.," she says. "If I lost 15, I wouldn't feel bad. But any more, and I would be emaciated.

"I mean, I'm all right, but I could always lose."

Lynda's two-week diet is a fast remedy to occasional overindulgence - something nobody is immune to. "I always watch it," she says. "We all have to."

In the spring, viewers can watch a trim Lynda in the CBS-TV movie, Stillwatch, a thriller based on a Mary Higgins Clark novel. Or they can pick up her current home video, to-produced with Maybelline, Lynda Carter: Secrets to the Perfect Make-Up.

You can lose up to 14 lbs. if you stay on the following 1,000-calorie-a-day diet for two weeks. The menu plan, designed by a trained nutritionist, contains many of the healthful foods Lynda used to slim down.

DAY I: Breakfast: 6 oz. sugar-free cranberry juice mixed with 2 oz. sparkling water, 1 cup cream of tomato soup; 3 breadsticks. Lunch: Tossed green salad, including 1/2 cup orange and grapefruit sections topped with 4a cup low-fat cottage cheese; 1 oz. roll; 8 oz skim milk. Dinner. 4 oz. broiled salmon; 1 baked potato; 1/2 cup peas; Y cup carrots; 1/2 cup sugar-free pineapple.

DAY 2: Breakfast: 8 oz. orange juice with 2 oz. sparkling water, 1/4 cup shredded wheat; 8 oz. skim milk. Lunch: 1 cup French onion soup; spinach salad; I hard-cooked egg; I this. diet salad dressing; I oz. whole-wheat bread. Dinner: 1/2 cup fruit cocktail; t4 cup beef barbecue on roll; assorted raw vegetables; 8 oz. skim milk.

DAY 3: Breakfast: 1/2 grapefruit; cup oatmeal; 8 oz. skim milk. Lunch: Open-faced broiled crab salad sandwich (3 oz. crabmeat plus 1 this. diet mayonnaise, plus 1 oz. bread); 1 tomato stuffed with marinated green beans and mushrooms; 1 apple. Dinner. 3 oz. turkey; 1/4 cup sweet potato; cup cauliflower, 1/2 cup spinach; cup sliced pears; 8 oz. skim milk.

DAY 4: Breakfast: 6 oz. cranberry juice and 2 oz. sparkling water, 1 cup cream of spinach soup; 3 breadsticks. Lunch: Large tossed salad; 3 oz. tuna; cup pineapple; 1 this. diet salad dressing, 1 oz. roll. Dinner, 3 oz. broiled sole; % cup rice; cup carrot and raisin salad on lettuce (include 2 tap. diet mayo): % cup asparagus; 8 oz. skim milk.

DAY 5: Breakfast: 8 oz. orange juice and 2 oz. sparkling water, r/4 cup raisin bran; 8 oz. skim milk. Lunch: 3 oz. hamburger on roll; % cup bean-sprout salad on lettuce; 1 this. diet salad dressing. Dinner. 3 oz. chicken; cup i broccoli; % cup beets; 1 baked apple; 8 oz. skim milk.

DAY 6: Breakfast: Wedge of melon, 1 cup cream-of-broccoli soup; 3 breadsticks. Lunch: 4 oz. orange juice and 2 oz. sparking water; large tossed salad; I tbls. diet salad dressing; 3 oz. turkey; I oz. whole-wheat bread; 1 pear. Dinner. 3 oz. broiled scallops; 1/2 cup noodles; 4z cup green beans; 1/2 cup carrots; 8 oz. skim milk.

DAY 7: Breakfast: 4 cup mixed fruit; 1 poached egg; 1 oz. whole-grain bread. Lunch: 8 oz. cranberry juice and 2 oz. sparkling water, 1 artichoke stuffed with 3 oz. chicken salad; 1 oz. roll; 8 oz. skim milk. Dinner. 3 oz. veal; 1/2 cup linguine; 1/2 cup tomato sauce; 1/2 cup zucchini, onion and endive salad; 8 oz. skim milk.

GUIDELINES: 1. No alcoholic beverages permitted. 2. Non-caloric beverages are allowed at and in between meals. 3. Avoid caffeine. 4. Drink 6 to 8 glasses of water daily. 5. Canned fruit and juices should be sugar-free.