South Beach Diet?

Anyone doing or have already done this program? I am on day 4 of phase 1 and very pleased with the results!

Yeah carie your turning into me when the hubby comes home.....Miss you( you must be busy with driving kids and school starting) Its always crazy when school starts here to.

Hi Carie!

 Not nosey at all. That does happen far too often which lead to, maybe not on the same day - but ultimately leads to my self sabotage. I tend to "hold out" for something healthy, or correct and the wait is just too often too long.

 For this reason I am armed with foods for the work weekn and I've prepared the following for tomorrow's meals/snacks.

Breakfast - 2 Canadian bacon rounds w low fat Swiss melted. These are pretty good. I grill the rounds in a Teflon pan and let the cheese melt on top. Its one of those great 'things' that  I don't mind eating hot, or cold.

For a snack I have the ricotta cheese thing.

Tonight I grilled a NY Strip steak - I got 3 good sized steaks at Albertsons for 7.50. What a deal! I grilled one of them this evening to perfection, to be sliced for a steak salad. I sliced it, at a few slices and MAN was that an amazing steak! And steak is another thing I don't mind eating cold.

I cooked 12 whole chicken breast halves on Saturday and sadly they only yielded about 4 servings - 6 if lucky.

What with all these high protein foods ready to go - I'm in good shape. Therefore tomorrow is the Canadian bacon rounds, ricotta dessert, 3-oz grilled chicken cubed for a snack w/lime over it and the steak for the steak salad. That'd be steak, and lettuce and a hint of a low cal raspberry vinaigrette. Dinner? How does a ground veal patty sound?

I really need to do the 6 snacks a day routine.

Tomorrow - Day 2, but it might have to be day 1. As suspected, I blew it only slightly - that waiting too long to eat thing, and since for me, it's never a good idea to start something on a monday -- well -- then I was in training today.

I have the book, I have the foods packed for tomorrow - but note to self: don't forget the jello and cool whip. YUM

Morning ladies,

How did the weekend go for everyone??  Diet went well.  Even resisted the temptation of apple crumble and ice-cream that my boyfriend offered.  He made an interesting observation though.

He told me that (regarding food / diet) when I'm good, I'm very good.  But when I'm bad, I'm bad.  He didnt say it in a mean way, but when I thought about it, it was so true!!  When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I pig out.

Anyways, Day 6 today.  No refined sugar/chocolate/cakes/biscuits etc in 6 days.  Dont feel like I have lost a whole lot, but my belly does feel better - no bloating etc.  I suppose thats all that matters.

Morning.   congrats on the resistance...apple pie sounds good.  I know the feeling about being bad. Its been almost a week of being bad for me witha a couple of very good days in between.  Its a new week and Im going to be good from now on.  Also going to start working out again.  I quit cause I was getting results with out it ... quess it was working better than I thought LOL!!!

Today is the start to the rest of my life. I've been doing TERRIBLY, binging on every carb I could see. I work as a cashier at a grocery store, so at break.... when there's about a billion different chocolate bars and candies at the front... and I have 600 dollars on my bank card.... ya, not good.

I'm going to confess about what I ate yesterday and maybe it'll make me feel a bit better.

Breakfast- Strawberry Milkshake (not a healthy one, either!)

Snack- Smarties Snack- Aero single Snack- Smarties Snack- Chocolate marshmallow

Supper- Two large servings of stir fry (with WHITE rice), two slices of bread Dessert- two slices of pecan pie Snack- poppyseed muffin Snack (this is definitely the worst part) I finished off the rest of the pie....

So, as you can tell, that's absolutely REPULSIVE and if I don't go on SB and get rid of my cravings for carbs, I'm going to become the next half ton person... okay, well, maybe not that bad, but yesterday was horrible.

SO, from now on, I'm going to listen to my conscience... about EVERYTHING. I always do things, like BINGE, even though I know I shouldn't and there's this little voice in my head that always tells me not to do things, or TO DO things that I don't want to. I've realized that this voice is what I WANT. It knows better, so from now on, I'm going to listen to it about everything. I've already started this morning and, yes, it is very hard, but I know it will be worth it.

Btw: Please please, don't judge me on what I ate yesterday! I feel bad enough already! But, I don't think that's going to happen, you know, on a weight loss forum.

Hope everyone had a great weekend.  I looked online for a Body Fat calculator and then it  *sniff* called me: Obese and said I might want to check the South Beach diet.  This site only tells me I am Moderately Overweight, which sounds so much better.

entersandlady:  I am like you and do extremes,  either good or bad.  Searching for a happy middle.

Need to find my South Beach book.  I know I marked some recipes I want to try.  Skimmed over a post where someone bought some strip steaks and grilled them to have cold in a salad and that sounds so good.  Will put that on my grocery list.

Hi Everyone!

Sun123 was kind enough to invite after I had a question on the Phase I. So here I am and hope I can keep this up, finished my first week and lost 7lbs (yippee for me). Today I am finding it a bit hard and am trying to desperately not eat any bread (my main guilt).

I used to have the old book, but now I just am relying on what I can print out etc. I noticed it said you can have diet cola? I thought you were supposed to stay away from that all together....only reason I ask its a great appetite suppressant (well for me)!

Also, what's the dish on salad dressing, over here (in Ireland), I've picked up an Oil Free French Dressing, here's the details:

Per Tablespoon

Calories: 5

Protein, Fat, Fibre: Trace

Carbs: 1.0 grams

Sodium: .1 grams

The stuff isn't particulary wonderful, but its something....just wanting to know if that's allowed in the Phase 1. Sun 123 stopped me because I was going to have a Sweet Potato for lunch, but she was so kind to let me know that NOPE, not until Phase 2! Thanks again!

So any info on that would be great, to get me through my next week.  And like Carie87 and all, I am the same, either I am as strict as possible (which my boyfriend mentioned last night) or I am the Queen of comfort food binging...LOL

My thing is I get bored with what I eat, same old things either pork chops or chicken....and not much else, but it does seem to work as boring as it is! I think I've messed up once or twice with some grapes and last night I had some carrots in a salad I bought....it showed on the scale up a bit, which is why today I have been trying to be so so good!!! Sometimes this is real hard!!

That's my say, thanks again for inviting me, hope this one will work this time!

From what I understand about the dressings as long as it has no to low sugar you should be fine.  Its the fat in the dressing that is supposed to keep you full and satisfied.  WOo hoo So farso good today no cravings yet. I feel a good thing coming for the next couple of weeks.  Weird how one week is so bad then all of a sudden I get my motivation back.  Any one else feel this way?? Or am I just the odd one here.  I hope everyone is having a good day.  HAHA Ive gone back and reread some of my posts I sound like Im bipolar or something.  MOodswings galore.  Off to have some sf jello and a bottle of water

********** HEY CARRIE*****

How about posting our screennames and reg names in the primary post since we are on such a first name basis.   We could update and refer new beachers to it to know who they heck we're talking to her :D  If I forgot anyone, no offense intended.

• angela   lilreditalian
• angie     irlmonet
• carrie    Carie87
• gina      entersandlady
• jayne    sun123
• jenna    jennasourus
• kelly      goldenowner518
• lisa        lje7
• Mary      mjhjones
• melissa wannabehott
• sarah    getfitgirl
• sharon   sachapp464
• shruti     srdandekar  
• ?? ??      Ohio45
• ?? ??      jelliebellie
• ?? ??      canadiantreefrog  

Trying to keep it alphabetical

**** ALSO Carrie ****

Could we request the below info as well for joining members to provide what ever they feel comfortable sharing.  To newbies, Im the self appointed record keeper because Ive memory issues so it help me keep track.  Im slipping though, had to update the previous post twice - so many new folks and how great to have you!

start date

start weight

current weight 

goal weight

screenname

real name

age

location

Hi Jayne,

Here's my info:

start date - 9/11/07

start weight - 200 (ugh)

current weight - 193

goal weight - 120

screenname - irlmonet

real name - Angie

age - 34

location - Waterford, Ireland (transplant from San Francisco, California) - God when I look at the weight I've gained, well the embarrassment should keep me on track now.

Thanks for doing this, this is great!

Welcome irlmonet!  Gina (enterslady) is Ireland too.  Im hooked on Wishbone fatfree bleu cheese myself, sometimes switching to hidden valley ranch.  Dont now how internationally available they are though.  Im sensing a trend with saint or devil behavior that I share as well.

Im feeling you Ohio.  I had to learn Im not morbidly obese, Im severely morbidly obese.  Did they have to clarify between the two.  So strange as it sounds, looking forward to becoming "morbidly obese" LOL.

Wannabe, you sound like me with the carbs.  Who here can judge - I think we've all had those days.  Ive had those years!  But look how your not letting it drag you down - good going!

Im so happy for you Sarah - your motivation is pouring from you!  Your a real upper and so good to hear how things have turned for ya!  Gina, its hard to believe its been a week practically.  Good to hear your feeling well on it.  Jelli, I like to precook things instead of daily dinners to.  Too easy to cook a tray of chicken then a daily meal.

By the way newcomers, if your interested we've been doing a voluntary Thursday weigh in - if your interested.  Far away from any weekend slips LOL

Thanks Angie and what a convient number to work down from, easier math :D

Hey Girls, How was everyone's weekend? Friday night I was BAD and I mean BAD. My friends and I..um...got the munchies (if you know what I mean) and ordered Dominos. I ate pizza, Oreo pizza (which is glorious btw) and cinna sticks.I'm not gonna lie it was all delicious... But the next day I felt terrible. I stayed away from carbs all day Saturday and my boyfriend and I walked all over Manhattan...so I thought it was gonna be ok. Sunday morning I weighed myself and it said I was 153 NOT COOl. I decided I have had enough of the scale for now and made my boyfriend hide it. After he left I searched all over my room like a mad women... To no avail..lol boy he's a good hider! I had a brilliant idea to not eat again yesterday after breakfast, and then worked out last night. I wound up feeling really sick and lightheaded after the workout and didn't work out very well bc I had zero energy.... Lesson learned. Now that I am back to work I am back on track. Its so much easier during the week!

For those of you guys talking about the apple pie things... I thought they were kinda icky but I gave them to my boyfriend (who is also on SB) and he thought it was the greatest.

Oh also welcome to all the new girls!!!

Hey Irlmonte,

If you are in the city, there is a huge tesco's there (Its been a while since I've been in Waterford.  Went to college there).  although if you live in the city, I'm sure you already know that.

Let me know if I can be of help.  By the way, I'm from Laois.

Just about to head ladies.  Hope you all have a great day!!

Gina

Weekend went well...but this morning is horrible!!! It is 9:23am, I can't eat or have coffee...so imagine what my co-workers are going through...my boyfriend would not talk to me this moring, we always talk on my drive into work!!! It is HORRIBLE...ok the reason, I have to have my yearly bloodwork and physical...I have also changed Dr.s so this is my first appt with him...my other Dr. bless his heart told me that I was MOEBIDLY OBESE!!! now remember this is after I had lost 50lbs....and I was 180lbs....but it is ok I know he was doing it for my own good, but instead of offering me options or choices..it was just basically make another appt and we will discuss it then...ummmm NO THANK YOU...so off to the new doc today...and then a HUGE LUNCH!!!!! without carbs of course..since i am still on Phase 1....

Hey Gina, thanks for the heads up...usually do our shopping at the Tesco in Lisduggan (since that's where my boyfriend grew up), but I do like the one out by the hospital...don't know how new it is but I love SuperQuinn to splurge, they have the best fruits and veggies and the breads are to die for (even though I can't have those anymore LOL). Thanks for the support!

Angela, I'm sure your just having one of those bummer days. If it makes you feel any better my mom went for a physical once and they said she was morbidly obese and she only weighed 140 and is 5'6.....she told the dr. thanks, not only do you consider me obese, but morbidly....I would take that with a grain of salt...anyway you are SB and turning it around just remember that is the best part of it.....you are making a change and that is different than how it was yesterday! We all have those days, just chalk it up & try to have a good afternoon....Good Luck!

Just give them docs the finger and leave.  most of us know we should lose weight or tone up its harder to do than to just know it.  Ive been struggeling with my weight since I was 7 yrs old.  My mom always said I could afford to lose 10 lbs.  What happened well I got an ED and was then told I was to skinny and should take better care of my self.  Now Im focusing on eating right and getting to an average wieght  which is different for everybody... Were all in the same boat just different seats.  Hang in there and do whats right for you .  YOU CAN DO IT!!!!

wooo hoooo I made it!!!! only down side i have to go see a cardiologist, but i already knew that, just never trusted the other doctor to pick a good one for me..yes i know i am young but i have heart murmur/palpataions??? and not from being in love!!!! they make me very dizzy and disoriented sometimes...but all is good, i will go in for the normal physical next thursday that way my new doc will have all the blood work back...nice to be able to talk to a doc that listens to you!!! He did not even flinch when i went into my rampage about all the bloodtests that i wanted...i know it is a money game just like everything, but he agreed with some and said no to others...and he LISTENED!!!!!!

So horrible not having a good doctor - thats great news Angela. 

Hoping all the beachers are having a good day.  Since Im out of the frozen SB wraps, time to start making my own.  Im so lazy with food.  My daughter made me a salad too big so I ate half at night and then half in the morning and thought, how convenient!  Im running low on all frozen in fact so time to just start using up more unprocessed SB items.