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Many people do well on SB. I did not. It made me feel horrible. I now simply try to cut back on my portions and incorporate whole grain products into my diet as much as possible. Good luck with your fitness goals!
Lots of people who are into South Beach insist on referring to it not as the "South Beach Diet" but instead as the "South Beach Way of Life" or "South Beach Way of Eating" - because in order to be successful on it, you really do have to restructure your relationship with food, which often means restructuring your life. In other words, quick grab-and-go foods are not the way of getting healthy on South Beach, I'm sorry to have to tell you. It is a time-consuming diet for sure, because the point of it is to cook whole, healthy meals from fresh ingredients with lots of vegetables. It takes planning, but the payoff in improved health and better quality food is totally worth it.
You can have a cappuccino on South Beach, but you'll need to use skim milk instead of half-and-half to make it, and you'll count the milk as part of your daily milk allowance (two cups).
I love the diet precisely because it forces you to cook meals from real ingredients with real health benefits instead of letting you slide by on packaged and processed foods. It's a great way to approach eating! As for your breakfasts, there are a million different breakfast casseroles that you can make that get you your vegetables in the morning and are delicious, and you can make those on a Sunday and have them ready to heat up a portion quickly each morning. That strategy will work for your lunches and dinners too if you're pressed for time - make a couple of big meals on the weekend and put them in the fridge or freezer to eat later in the week.
This blog has a few long lists of delicious SB-friendly recipes: http://kalynskitchen.blogspot.com/
The blog also has a page specific to phase-one legal recipes, with lots of the breakfast casseroles I mentioned.
I would encourage you to give it a try, and good luck!
My MIL has cooking day on the weekends, where she makes a ton of food and then freezes it. Then, during the week, she just reheats it and has a super quick meal!
Can you make your cappuchino with soy or low fat milk? You don't want to cut out everything you love right away, otherwise, you'll hate your diet and it will be that much harder to follow.
I've done South Beach in the past and was really successful with it. It's good that your FI is on board. FI is the reason I'm not back on it.
The first two weeks are the time when you'll struggle the most. For breakfast I would do hard boiled eggs and canadian bacon or I'd scramble some eggs and make a burrito, replacing the tortilla with a romain leaf.
Once I got past the first two weeks I'd do some yogurt with some oats mixed in for a little fiber.
Google for some easy South Beach recipies. It's totally doable.
Just a warning, SB is hard to 'maintain.' I lost 60 lbs. Gained back 80. There's nothing wrong with carbs and in fact, you need them! I was so exhausted on that diet. I was an athlete, I was working out, in college, and exhausted. Now I just track my daily calories on Livestrong.com and exercise. 20lbs down, several more to go but at least I'm not eating to a 'plan' and I know how to maintain it eventually!
If you do want some quick protein fixes, here are some:
Egg whites microwaved in a small pyrex. Eat on whole grain toast with cheese
Almonds or peanuts sprinkled with cayenne
Cottage cheese with berries
Peanut butter with an apple/banana
String cheese
These are some of my favorite snacks. :)
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Hey y'all... I am considering (after some initial reading/research, admittedly not a ton) the South Beach Diet for both me and FI.
My main concern is time though. We like what recipes and foods that are allowed from what we've seen so far, but we never have time to cook, really, and especially not in the morning.
I am better about regularly eating breakfast than FI is but my breakfast usually consists of a piece of fruit, and yogurt, or both. Or sometimes a piece of fruit and some nuts and granola trail mix type stuff. I do rely heavily on fruit.
I'm interested in the SB diet because I recognize that I have a HUGE carb and sugar problem... I love bread, bagels, granola, fruit, fruity yogurt, muffins, etc. I also love these foods for breakfast and snacks because they're fast and easy. I see that SB allows lots of eggs which is cool because I like eggs but there's no way I have time to make eggs for breakfast, except hard boiled which I guess I could do (make ahead) but wouldn't that get old fast?
I am also addicted to my morning cappuccino (FI makes), with 1/2 and 1/2 and sugar. I can totally envision following the rest of the SB diet but not when I consider giving up this. Ack. Would it really kill the whole thing if I allowed myself my ONE cappuccino and follow everything else perfectly?
Anyway, all of the recipes look awesome but I am wondering how time consuming it all is to prepare. We tend to go for whatever is easiest to make (we have 3 kids also)... nothing gourmet here. A typical dinner is chicken (boneless/skinless but cooked in oil in the skillet) mixed with some veggies and rice or pasta, spaghetti, something pre-cooked and frozen (fish, or chicken, or whatever, but not from scratch)... so it looks like we could handle dinner time-wise but I am thinking more about breakfast, lunch, snacks. We are up early and out the door early and gone allll day long. We end up eating whatever is cheap during the day, or the previously mentioned fruit / nuts kind of thing, never even bother with making sandwiches or anythign like that due to time.
We just rely a LOT on grab & go foods... so i am not sure how to work the SB into this. Maybe I'm just not understanding yet what is allowed and what isn't.