South Beach

Having been incredibly impressed with a friend who is currently following the South Beach Diet (she's lost 43 lbs so far) I've decided that I might give it a go and see how well I get along with it.

So before I nip to the gym for my usual session (up to 20 mins solid running now!) I go the local book shop and pick up a copy of the South Beach Diet book. After I've done my workout I then zip off to Tesco to get most of the ingredients I'll need for Phase 1 of the diet which lasts 2 weeks.

When I get home I have a good read of the introductory blurb and from what I can see it makes some sort of sense. If you wanted a summary, it basically says cut way back on white bread and potatoes and other such food that contains a certain type of carbs and increase your intake of food that has another type of carbs or have a high level of good healthy fats. All of this apparently helps your blood chemistry / cardiology etc etc. Its a bit complicated to list it all on a blog entry so here's a summary.

So for lunch today I find myself munching on a chicken breast with salad instead of the usual sandwich and packet of low fat crisps which made a bit of a novelty on my part - but still it was very nice, especially with the dressing that I made of balsamic vinegar, olive oil, basil, thyme and seasoning. Lovely.

For tea it was salmon with asparagus and salad (whilst Phil had chips and peas) which when I ate it didn't seem much to say the least, but strangely I felt satisfied.

I gotta say it's gonna be difficult to live with out bread and potatoes, but if the effort reaps rewards, then I'm willing to go without.

Posted by Abi on the June 5, 2006 9:59 PM