Re: Re: South Beach Diet????

[Guest guest]

Same here, Alice. I write down everything I eat and record calories, staying within a goal number on the calories, but trying to think about the total food value of everything I eat, and trying to stay away from empty calories. Not as good as I should be, but far better than I have done in a very long time. I am achieveing the calorie goal, and getting better all the time on the healthy food. It is a process!

W.

Re: South Beach Diet????

I have looked at the book, but I don't follow the diet. It seems to be focused on healthy foods, and it doesn't appear to be an extreme diet. I think it would be a good one if you were inclined to follow a program. I think has it pegged about what is good for us to eat. But it is also important to control our calorie intake., what do you typically eat? Do you know approximately how many calories you consume in a day? What helped me most was to write down everything I ate and total the calories. Then I saw how small treats were adding up into big calories and preventing me from losing faster.Alice>> Anyone one following the South Beach Diet?? > > My Dr recommended it. I borrow the books from the library but I am very> skeptical about any type of diet. Any input.. good or bad would be> appreciated!!> > Thanks,> > in Texas (TnT)> Give yourself a real pay raise. GET OUT OF DEBT!>

[Guest guest]

I was down about 40 pounds but I have put back on 10 pounds. I want to catch it before I gain it all back. I still need to lose over 100 pounds so I have a very long way to go. I lost the 40 pounds by watching portion sizes. I have gone back to my old style of eating and it is very obvious it doesn't work!! LOL I do have a long on my computer from Fitday.com that I will try to start using again to log my calories

Thanks for the tips!!!

in Texas (TnT)

Give yourself a real pay raise. GET OUT OF DEBT!

From: thefatmanwalking_group [mailto:thefatmanwalking_group ] On Behalf Of AliceSent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 11:28 AMTo: thefatmanwalking_group Subject: Re: South Beach Diet????

I have looked at the book, but I don't follow the diet. It seems to be focused on healthy foods, and it doesn't appear to be an extreme diet. I think it would be a good one if you were inclined to follow a program. I think has it pegged about what is good for us to eat. But it is also important to control our calorie intake., what do you typically eat? Do you know approximately how many calories you consume in a day? What helped me most was to write down everything I ate and total the calories. Then I saw how small treats were adding up into big calories and preventing me from losing faster.Alice>> Anyone one following the South Beach Diet?? > > My Dr recommended it. I borrow the books from the library but I am very> skeptical about any type of diet. Any input.. good or bad would be> appreciated!!> > Thanks,> > in Texas (TnT)> Give yourself a real pay raise. GET OUT OF DEBT!>

[Guest guest]

Theresa,

I just went to my word processor on MS Word and typed it out each day thus:

MONDAY MAY 29

Breakfast: Oatmeal (320) /w creamer (30)

coffee /w creamer (30) V-8 (25) 405

Snack: Banana (105) 105

Lunch: Lean Cuisine Chicken something (280)

Tomatoes & Cucumbers /w Drsg (60) 340

Dinner: Healthy Choice Lemon Pepper fish (310) 310

TOTAL 1160

Don't know if that is easier or harder than what you use. I have a few sites bookmarked where I can look up calories, etc. When I go off my diet, I still try to record, and mostly the habits I have developed will have made the bad choices not as bad as in past, so I feel better about myself. I try to give myself a meal off about every two weeks, and get something I really like. In over two months, I have gone over 2000 calories only once and over 1500 calories only a few times. Even bad days, it seems, are better than I once was.

Happy eating

W

Thanks, Steve for inspiring us.

RE: Re: South Beach Diet????

I was down about 40 pounds but I have put back on 10 pounds. I want to catch it before I gain it all back. I still need to lose over 100 pounds so I have a very long way to go. I lost the 40 pounds by watching portion sizes. I have gone back to my old style of eating and it is very obvious it doesn't work!! LOL I do have a long on my computer from Fitday.com that I will try to start using again to log my calories

Thanks for the tips!!!

in Texas (TnT)

Give yourself a real pay raise. GET OUT OF DEBT!

From: thefatmanwalking_group [mailto:thefatmanwalking_group ] On Behalf Of AliceSent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 11:28 AMTo: thefatmanwalking_group Subject: Re: South Beach Diet????

I have looked at the book, but I don't follow the diet. It seems to be focused on healthy foods, and it doesn't appear to be an extreme diet. I think it would be a good one if you were inclined to follow a program. I think has it pegged about what is good for us to eat. But it is also important to control our calorie intake., what do you typically eat? Do you know approximately how many calories you consume in a day? What helped me most was to write down everything I ate and total the calories. Then I saw how small treats were adding up into big calories and preventing me from losing faster.Alice>> Anyone one following the South Beach Diet?? > > My Dr recommended it. I borrow the books from the library but I am very> skeptical about any type of diet. Any input.. good or bad would be> appreciated!!> > Thanks,> > in Texas (TnT)> Give yourself a real pay raise. GET OUT OF DEBT!>

[Guest guest]

I agree that writing down what you eat is important, though sometimes

I find it hard these days. I don't know why because i used to do it

all the time and got to the point that I didn't want to eat something

if I didn't know the nutritional info for it. I found I could get

nutritional info for lots of things I wouldn't have thought, like

See's candy will give it to you if you ask and even the deli dept at

the grocery store.

I was doing this before the days of food logs on the net so I had made

an Excel spreadsheet and copied the data from food labels. Not only

did it make me aware of how things add up, over a day or a week, etc,

it also brought to my attention what I was eating. Some things that I

knew weren't good for me, but ate anyway, I no longer wanted them when

I looked at the hard data. Like those big muffins. I knew they

contained a lot of calories and fat but when I saw that they were as

many, or more calories than what I want to eat for lunch, and these

were only a snack, I no longer ate them. There were other things like

this as well. Also, I would sometimes think, I can't believe this

little thing can hold this many calories. It's delicious but not

worth it, and I didn't want it any more.

I also did best when I focused on what I WANTED to eat rather than

what I didn't want to eat. It got to be almost like a hobby, finding

good recipes and fresh produce, etc. Also, I know that deprivation

kills me so if I really did want a cookie, I had one or two (which is

why I know the calories in my favorite See's candy). I made sure I

wrote it down on my food list and when I didn't lose weight that week,

I knew why. I was also able to see that I lost less, or no weight,

the weeks the total calories got too low.

I did stop bringing most types of food in my home that I didn't want

to eat, so if I wanted a cookie or ice cream, I had to go out and get

just what I wanted to eat right then. No half gallons of ice cream

came home. But at the beginning, a couple times, I got more than one

ice cream cone in a day. That didn't last long though and in a couple

months I just didn't want the ice cream or candy anymore.

I agree with that we should eat food as fresh and unaltered as

we possibly can. There're books written by a doctor who appears on

Oprah sometimes, Dr. Roizen. He calls it the " real age way "

of eating, saying that certain foods will make you younger. But I

think this is just a way to sell it, that what he's really saying is

that this will make you healthier. The books are avaiable at

libraries http://www.realage.com/

Real Age isn't another weird diet but tells you what to eat that is

healthy -- and for the most part, they advise you eat natural, fresh

food.

Best of luck, - and everyone else in this struggle.

Elaine

> I have looked at the book, but I don't follow the diet. It seems to

> be focused on healthy foods, and it doesn't appear to be an extreme

> diet. I think it would be a good one if you were inclined to follow

> a program. I think has it pegged about what is good for us

> to eat. But it is also important to control our calorie intake.

>

> , what do you typically eat? Do you know approximately how

> many calories you consume in a day? What helped me most was to

> write down everything I ate and total the calories. Then I saw how

> small treats were adding up into big calories and preventing me from

> losing faster.

>

> Alice

>