Re: Re: 5 1/2 cups of vegetables a day

January 7, 2006

That is really how I do it...I make sure I get two servings in at each meal and

maybe even add a salad.

MB

Re: " 5 1/2 cups of vegetables a day "

Well, if you have a serving of veggies at breakfast, two at lunch and

two at dinner, you are pretty much there. That's how they do it in

the book menus. You learn to estimate pretty quickly what is a cup

without measuring.

ann

>

> I too went searching through my SBD book for this " instruction " ,

since

> I certainly don't remember reading it. While it is true that if you

> add up the sample menus, you'd come up with about that amount, I

> bristle at the idea of keeping track of how many cups of vegetables

> I'm consuming per day. Getting away from " measuring " and " keeping

on

> track " is one of the main reasons I've embraced SBD as a way of

life,

> and abandoned " dieting " . Plus, it implies that if one consumes 5.5

> cups in one sitting, the " requirement " (uck!) has been met. Again,

if

> you review the sample menus, there are vegetables at most meals,

which

> I think, is more to the point.

>

> Don't get me wrong! Guidelines to help us make sure we're

> " South-Beach-Getting-It-Right " are great! And portion size is very

> important.

>

> Mari<-sneaking vegetables into all kinds of goodies!

>

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Beach Diet teaches you to rely on the right carbs and the right fats-the good

ones - and enables you to live quite happily without the bad carbs and bad fats.

For more on this Way Of Eating please read " The South Beach Diet " by Arthur

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