RE: Re: Just to make sure.....

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The only thing I can suggest is that you need to get veggies with each meal.

SBD recommends 1/2 cup veggies with breakfast (do V8 if you can't handle

veggies at breakfast), 2 cups with lunch and 2 cups with dinner. Start

lunch and dinner with 3 ounces protein and your 2 C veggies. If you're

still hungry, add more protein and veggies til full.

When you're adding the carbs back, what you're really trying to figure out

is, how is the carb that I added affecting my hunger (aka giving me

cravings?) After Phase 1, I added back my usual apple with breakfast.

Turns out that apples are a hunger trigger for me - half an hour after

breakfast I was starving! No wonder I was gaining weight prior to SBD, I

was eating my " apple a day " at breakfast every day, which was sending me

into a hunger spiral all day. Same thing with dairy for me. Once you

figure out which carbs make you hungry (aka give you " cravings " ), you learn

to eat those foods differently. I eat my apples and dairy for " dessert " ,

never on an empty stomach.

It's best to add carbs one at a time so you can really monitor how that

particular carb affects your hunger. Add a piece of WW toast for 3 days or

so, and see how your body reacts. If you get no cravings, then try and add

a piece of fruit - again, see how your body reacts. The most important

thing when you start phase II (after you've cleared all of the sugar out of

your system during Phase I) is to listen to your body when you start adding

food back. If you add too much too soon, you can't identify which foods

give you trouble.

Rita (5'8 " , at goal 130 since July 2005)

Re: Just to make sure.....

Right on, sister! Way to go!

Donna

>

> I am going to post a food diary from today, because I wanted to

make

> sure I started the first day back on track the right way....if you

> remember me saying that I realized I was doing a lot of things

> wrong.....like canned tomato soup, going over my sweet calories,

> etc. I decided to do 2 days of phase 1 again and then add back in a

> slice of bread and piece of fruit (hopefully the right way this

> time) after these 2 days are up.....

>

> I had 2 eggs for breakfast with one piece of cheese melted over top

> and 2 pieces of canadian bacon

>

> For lunch I had a veggie burger (morningstar) with a piece of

cheese

> melted over top and 2 deviled eggs (4 halves) (with just mayo and

> mustard)

>

> For dinner I had a lettuce sandwhich....its one of my favorite

> things....I had lettuce on the bottom, tomato sliced up, SBD

turkey,

> 3 part skim mozz cheese slices and mayo with more lettuce on top,

> and I also had steamed broccoli

>

> My snacks were 2 whole dill pickles, one string cheese, and some

> kraft 2% cheese block snack things (they say SBD approved on the

> back)

>

> My sweet treat calories were one no sugar added creamsicle and some

> hersheys no sugar addded choc syrup in some skim milk

>

> I also measured out my water today and drank exactly 64 oz, I had

> one diet soda also

>

> Am I on the right track once again or is there anything I

> could/should still change?

>

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Reminder: The South Beach Diet is not low-carb. Nor is it low-fat. The

South 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 Agatston, MD. ISBN 1-57954-814-8