Another South Beach diet ?

[lwseymour]

I'm seriously considering trying this diet. Before I buy the book this afternoon, can anyone give me an example of what you ate in a day on this program? I just want to look at an example to see if I can handle it before I spend the money. What kind of breakfast did you eat on this program (that isn't eggs)?

Thanks.
Lisa

 

[candi]

Breakfast on SBD is limiting if you're not into eggs. You're not supposed to, but I found the lowest sugar yogurt I could and ate that for breakfast. I remember one recipie I used on the weekend. Take 1 egg, 1/4 cup ricotta cheese, 1/4 tsp vanilla and a packet of Splenda. Mix together and then cook like a pancack in a fry pan coated in PAM. I actually poured the batter in a small dish and microwaved it for about 30 seconds. It was pretty good. As you can see, I like the sweet tasting stuff.

I don't see why you couldn't use a low carb protein powder like GROW or something as long as it doesn't contain sugar.

 

[christy g]

yogurt

Just an FYI on the yogurt.... It is now allowed on the South Beach Diet during all phases. I subscribe to email updates from the SBD site and they emailed this out January 20th.

It use to be that you could not have yogurt until Phase 2 and even then it had to be low-fat/sugar/calories.
Well, now you can have that in Phase 1. Phase 2 they added the light fruit yogurt to the list of "foods to enjoy"

 

[candi]

RE: yogurt

Wow, that's good they added the yogurt. I ate it for breakfast every day and lost weight. Here's another recipe I just found.

Mock Danish
2 ounces fat free cream cheese,soften in microwave.
1 Egg
1 tsp lemon concentrate,or fresh lemon juice
1/2 tsp.vanilla extract
Mix egg and soften cream cheese gently. Add and mix remaining ingredients.Microwave on high 1 1/2 to 2 minutes,depending on microwave.
Variations- omit lemon, add cinnamon OR cocoa powder to taste.
Some add sugarfree jelly

 

[christy g]

Here are some more ideas... from SBD email updates:

Phase 1:

Deviled or hard-boiled eggs
Celery sticks with natural peanut butter (trans-fat free)
Single serving nonfat or 1 percent cottage cheese cups
Precooked turkey bacon
Precut vegetables in plastic sandwich bags
Individual, low-fat cheese slices or low-fat cheese sticks
Sliced turkey or other low-fat meat
Tomato or vegetable juice cocktail in single-serving cans
Ready-made hummus
Plain fat-free yogurt


Phases 2 and 3—all of the above, plus:

Low-fat plain yogurt
Nonfat artificially sweetened yogurt—limit to 4 ounces daily
Whole-wheat bread or whole-wheat English muffins
Berries (prepared the night before)
Sugar-free bran muffins (without raisins)—choose a small muffin and check the ingredient label for the fat content

 

[Faythe]

I just started Atkins seriously last week. Since Nov. I've been cutting out carbs, but eating some. Then I read about the Atkins diiet on their website (Atkins.com) and went for it. This past week I only worked out 4x (out of 7 days) and lost 3 #. It's coming off slower than I thought, but I know that's healthier. From what I understand, The southbeach diet is very similar, with some exceptions I'm sure. Atkins for the first stage the only carbs are vegies, but after the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th you slowly reintroduce them. I will be reintroducing "real" whole grain products and such. I think south beach doesn't eliminate whole grain products in the beginning. I just found their website:
http://secure.agoramedia.com/index_sbd2.asp?promo=7BA99B16-34DE-438F-8F0D-D9B4A75063DB&email=

Faythe

 

[candi]

One of the major differences as I recall, the SBD does not restrict you to a certain carb count initially as Adkins does (at least when I tried it a few years ago I believe the first week or two you're not to exceed 20 grams carbs). SBD was much more flexible and easy to live with for me.

You will notice in the list of foods not to eat the first two weeks, sugar is the thing to stay away from, either refined or in fruit. Like Adkins, this is to rid your system of the stuff and eliminate cravings. This caused me difficulty at first, but the ability to eat a variety of nuts seemed to help offset my cravings which TOTALLY surprised me. Like Adkins, South Beach does eliminate whole grains those first two weeks.

SDB encourages eating foods in their natural form as much as possible, aka, clean eating so it is a very healthy way of eating.

Oh yeah, one more thing, while on Adkins, your body eliminates Keytones through saliva and urine. This phenomenon does not occur on SBD. I don't know if this is good or bad but the book and message boards I've seen makes a point of mentioning this.

 

[Faythe]

I had not had sugar in quite a few weeks now, and especially the last week (on Atkins) and have NO cravings which amazes me! Also, the keytones are to get the body to learn to use the fat for fuel instead of relying on the carbs you eat. So far, I am not hungry, and feel good. But on either diet, I would make sure and get some good vit's (multi and calcium, potasseum and magnesium). The only thing I don't care for so far is no milk (even skim), but we can have cream, or half&half.
Faythe

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