South Beach Diet Update

[JCJRSmith]

For the Beach crowd, if you don't subscribe to southbeachdiet.com, there have been some updates to the diet. Here they are:

Milk:
Old Version:
Avoid all dairy in Phase 1, except for less than 2 tablespoons fat-free ½ and ½, nonfat milk, 1 percent milk, or soy milk allowed with coffee.

New Version:
Phase 1:
Now includes 1 percent or fat-free milk, low-fat plain soy milk (4 grams of fat or less per serving), 1 percent or fat-free buttermilk, and fat-free plain yogurt on the Phase 1 "foods to enjoy" list. Limit dairy to 2 servings a day. Note: Feel free to flavor your fat-free plain yogurt like a ricotta creme.

Phase 2:
May add low-fat plain yogurt as a "food to enjoy" in Phase 2. May also introduce commercial artificially sweetened nonfat flavored yogurt, but limit this variety to 4 ounces daily. Note: Since the SBD is still low in saturated fat, high-fat whole milk products will remain on the "foods to avoid" lists for all Phases.

Tomatoes:
Old Version:
Limited to one whole tomato or 10 cherry tomatoes per meal in all Phases.

New Version:
Not limited in any Phase.

Onions:
Old Version:
Limited to 1/2 per day in all Phases.

New Version:
Not limited in any Phase.

Carrots:
Old Version:
Avoid carrots in Phase 1 and 2; allowed in moderation in Phase 3.

New Version:
Allowed, starting in Phase 2.

 

[tw1nsmom]

Thanks for the info.! Tomatoes and onions are some of my favorite foods to cook with. It will be nice not to have to count/measure them anymore (I'm trying to stick with phase one for a while longer).

 

[ADisneyMom]

Hi,

Thanks for the update. I am going to make the revisions right in my book.

ADisneyMom

 

[A1A1]

Thank you very much for this information. It will come in handy as I drink my coffee. I was afraid to drink any milk at all, and can't drink coffee without it.

 

[sueg]

DH & I are both on SB & I'm glad to see these changes. While we were pretty strict on Phase 1, I always violated the milk rule for my one cup of caffenated coffee in the AM. I have frequently violated the onion & tomato limitations in Phase 2. We abandoned our beloved "Roasted carrots", but I'm going to re-introduce them, now. I think that carrots-as-high-glycemic-food as been one of the most controversial SB positions.