WELCOME! South Beach Diet Thread -- Good Carbs, Good Fats

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Cardiologist Dr. Agaston's diet for healthier hearts resulted in weightloss. 
Healthy carbs ~ Healthy fats ~ Lean meats ~ Low-fat dairy. 
Your body deserves it! 
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PHASE 1 --  2 Week Intro
(Bootcamp - hang in there! Just 2weeks :D)  
   LINK 1  Foods To Enjoy
   LINK 2  Foods To Avoid
   LINK 3  Model Menu
   LINK 4  Tips

PHASE 2 --  Weightloss    
   LINK 5  Foods To Reintroduce
   LINK 6  Foods To Eat Rarely
   LINK 7  Model Menu
   LINK 8  How To Reintroduce Carbs

PHASE 3 --  Maintance   
   LINK 9  A Lifestyle Change 

HEALTHY VS UNHEALTHY 
   LINK 10 FATS
  LINK 11 CARBS
  LINK 12  FIBER

DINING OUT & ONLINE RECIPE COLLECTIONS
  LINK 56  DINING OUT & RECIPES

Much of this data obtained from the southbeachdietbulletinboard .

Thanks for the info.  My pressure has been up and if I can reduce the sodium it may help. 

Hi michele067 I flew out the door this morning and didnt get a chance to say hi and welcome.  I eat mostly meat  and veggies for lunch and dinner.  I started eating oatmeal in the mornings but haven't in a while.  My snacks are when I get the carbs.  I love the fiber one products all the cereals, yogurts,granola bars,and I hear there coming out with a bread soon(for now I eat those latortilla factory wraps).  The low fat cheese is a good snack or on a salad.  Now that being said Ive had super hard time since December controlling my self with the "BAD" stuff.  plus I love to cook.  Like yesterday my kids wanted to make homemade cinnamon rolls so we made them and now its torcher time for me to not eat them LOL.  I still cook noodles and potatoes and rice for my kids and hubby.  but theres only enough for them and them alone.

Boy Ive been meaning to check in today.  Belated hello Michelle!  I got on SB for my health - PCOS/insulin resistance and am appreciating how its helped with my cravings from processed carbs. 

I was thinking about using Tuesday weigh in for tomorrow.  For starters this week Ive gotten on a crazy schedule of staying up until early morning hours (this has got to stop).  I dont imagine much change since yesterday morning but its become such a habit heading to the clinic Thursdays so no predictions here. 

Your off to a great start Gina - happy for you :D! Sounds like a horrible day for your mom Sarah - I imagine she needed you there to help get her home.  Sending sunshine to you Rachael, plenty here but still cool nights.

It's nice to meet all of you!  Strange how you get a visual of people just from reading their posts.  I really do think the SBD is a healthy way of eating.  I'm kind of an all or nothing person, so I'm either right on track and doing great or i mess up a little and all hell breaks loose.  So if I keep things real simple I do great, but it's the things that don't fit in perfectly that mess me up.  I think it is the proteins I get confused with.  Sometimes I don't want meat,chicken,eggs,fish at all.  I want black bean soup for lunch, or just some salad with crumbled reduced fat feta.  It is trying to get all the food to fit into the daily food plan.  Can the reduced fat cheese , cottage cheese or the beans in the meal actually be the whole protein in a meal? 

That is what gets to me when i try going to stage two also, I try to fit the food into the plan but then it is like a bazillion calories.  Like cereal and milk and veggie and fat and 2 ounces protein for breakfast.  I get the whole concept that you need the fat and protein to slow down the carbs, but it seems to wind up being too many calories to lose weight for me at least.  Then I give up.  How do you guys do it and make it work?  Do you follow the daily meal breakdowns?

Michele

So glad to have stepped out of bad sleep scheducle (up to four) and just woke up early so running out weigh in.  Lordy thats one long ride Rachael but sounding so beautiful.-  

You'd asked previously Michelle about modifications and I think we all have had ours.  I do not normally desire protein - its more of a concious decision to eat it but I certainly have kept with the principles of SB, adjusting them for myself and am not as technical.  While Im still off the processed carbs (personally, my appetite is too reactive) and limit the good carbs, I do not always get as much veg and protein as I could but they are what I center meals around.

You'd also asked about counting calories. I dont track mine but do keep a mental estimate running total, easy to do since I used to track so Im know the cals of my foods and check those I dont. 

Morning all!!!  Well Im not to happy about my weight but its better than last week....161.2.   Michele  I think you could sub something else for meat when I go out to eat with friends I get the Veggie soup and salad.  I think you should customize your diet for you.. it will up the chances of you sticking with it for the long term.  You can still stick to the south beach principles good fats and good carbs.  but eat in a way that you like.  I sometimes have a veggie day and only eat yogurt and cheese for my protein.  oh yea and I do count cals but the last couple of days Ive been over my maintenance.

Ive got another busy day ahead of me so Ill check back in later  GOOD LUCK!!!!!

 

Rachel, sounds like that was a fantastic bike ride!!  hope you enjoy your walk & hope your shoulder feels better soon!!  Oh - and thats so true about food!!

Sarah, hope you dont get to tempted with the cinamon (sp?) rolls!! And hope your mum got on ok!!

Jayne, hope your weigh in went well!

Michelle, I'm not exactly on the SB diet, but I have started cutting out all the processed food.  So (almost) everything I eat is made from scratch, rather than from out of a box or tin - with the exception of my morning porridge (oatmeal).  I found that doing this made a huge difference in my weight.  It can be difficult at first, but when you get used to it - you dont want to go back to processed foods.

All is good today.  Weight today is 132 - down 1lb already!!

I know I sent you sunshine Rachael but I may have gone overboard - theyre warning heavy thunderstorms today.  That is true about food becoming a high for depression and unfortunately in an immediate satisfaction.

After a good Tuesday weighin from last Thursdays .8 lb TOM gain, I went from ""May not lost in just 2 days" today to  "Just dont go up" but happy for additional move to 334.5.

Feel like a good week all around for us from last week.  Gina, barely halfway thru the week and already showing on the scale - good going!.  Sarah, your on track to cross 160 again - nice loss!  Michelle, Im an all or nothing person too and know all about the floodgates opening so Im all over simplicity.

Sounds like you guys are all doing great!  Thanks for all your suggestions.  Sorry I can't answer you guys all by name.  I guess you get to know names after awhile.  Have a great weekend!

Michele

No problem Michelle - sun, getfit, enters, ohio and bee work speaking of wheres our bee?  Shes done so well!  Sounds like a great BLT version - Im not a bacon fan but as an accent in a sandwich, Im a fan.

TV dinner breakfast after waking up late and hungry - SB Kung Pao Chicken.  Albertsons grocery store (if you have them) has them at buy one, get one for 3.29 (otherwise Im Walmart 1.98 each).  Stocked up LOL!  Also buy one get one raw cauliflower so you know Im popcorn cauliflowering. 

Yesterday made KFC style light coleslaw.  With 16 cups cabbage and recipe making 16 servings -- 64 calories a serving, recipe HERE.  Gave half to Alice but next time will split recipe.  

Howdy guys.  finally home from errends this morning.  At a loss on what to do with food.  Nothing sounds good today.  could be because I over ate yesterday.  House work ahead of me and dont really want to walk on my tread mill.  Pardon my pity party today Just really down in the dumps.  Glad its Friday though LOL.  Oh yea Mom is fine with the new teeth all went well she just has to get used to them.

Sun, a couple of questions for you ... if I may.

How many net carbs are you permitted to eat on SB maintenance? Just wondering. I have lowered my carbs and upped my fat/protein, so my carbs are now about 40% of my total calories.... was just wondering how that compared to the various phases of SB.

Have you tried Western Bagel's 140 calorie, high protein (18g), high fiber (9g) low net carb (10 net carb) multigrain bagels? I just ordered some ... they should be here next week.  LINK

OK, I increased my calories to 1900 now that I've increased my exercise .... and the scale STILL doesn't seem to be moving. I think I may be stuck around 280ish .... any ideas? Can I ask how long your longest plateau-y thing has been?

MOLLY

Molly, SB doesnt pin down an allowed number of carbs or net carbs daily like Atkins. 

Phase 1 is identified as 'no carb' but in reality it is void of high carb foods. 
Phase 2 carb counting is done in servings of carb items and not the actual carbs themselves (1 fruit 1 starch building up to 2-3 of each daily). 
Phase 3 you can eat as much of anything as you want kidding, but there is no food list and we're to focus on the good carbs so many of the carbs eaten also have a different net carb but no numbers to go by. 

That bagel sounds good - I still remember the English Muffins you liked too. 

How long have you been on 1900?  Ive read it can take 2-3 weeks for the body to adjust. 

Also what about zigzagging? Ive never conciously done it but when its occurred due to breaking my diet, Ive always come back strong loss and think Rachael has had similar experience (will allow you to speak for yourself on that Rachael :D). 

I dont have specifics though on doing it on purpose but J3nn of 300+ thread talks about cycling her calories HERE which I think is the same as zigzagging.  Im sure there are other versions of it - maybe high a few days, low a few daysand its not a science but it might be worth a try.

I can't really zig zag because of my diabetes ... I need to keep things pretty stable so I can manage my blood sugars and meds. However, I do have non-logging days on occasion (maybe 3-4 a month) where I tend to eat more calories, plus on Thursdays I am still eating the 1900 calories but not exercising -- which has the impact of cycling my calories.

I started 1900 calories Monday March 24 .... but I had my TOM last weekend, so that probably messed things up, somewhat. I think I am frustrated because I only lost 6 pounds in Feb (1.5 pounds per week) and 4 pounds in March (1 pound per week), and since I've been bicycling my butt off and eating really clean, this is a bit frustrating, ya know?  When I increased my calories, though, it was with lean protein and a bit more fat -- I didn't add in any carbs. Pretty much my only carbs these days are my high fiber cereal, my high fiber english muffins, and various veggies (plus an apple a day. I don't eat pasta, I don't eat rice, and I rarely eat potatoes. And sweets are few and far between because of my diabetes.  Since I've been eating tuna for breakfast for a week and a half, I guess I just wanted to see the scale move DOWN, and not UP.

And no one can possibly convince me that I've added 3 pounds of muscle in the past month, either. Yes, I am getting stronger and most likely toning up, but I think I'd like to do that AND lose weight, ya know?

Guess I will just keep eating healthy and biking ... I did 11 miles today around my neighborhood ... saw a lot of chirpy robins and swooping jays! And one very yappy beagle! I figure all this biking will help build my leg strength and stamina for hiking/walking on the cruise in May.

Thanks for your help.

MOLLY