South Beach Support- UPDATED SB Food lists and Advice PAGE 3

[SeaSpray]

WOW lovestoscrap, EXCELLENT and THANK YOU!!!!!

 

[andrychowski]

Hi lovetoscrap:

Thanks for all the posts. I have read some of them from the unofficial SBD site already, but it was good to reread them.

I have just finished my 1st week in P2 and am not very happy with my progress. I needed to lose between 20-25 lbs from the start and lost 7 lbs during P1. I guess I fall into the group that needs to lose less than 30 lbs and may not lose as quickly.

Since starting P2, I have gained 2 lbs. I eat far less than I did before dieting and eat much healthier food. I can't quite understand why I am not losing. I know they say my "body is adjusting", but my mind isn't! Most days I added an apple for morning snack with some low sugar pb (same ingredients as natural). 1 or 2 days I added a piece of whole grain bread with lunch or whole grain pasta for dinner. Sometimes I would also add oatmeal for breakfast rather than eggs. I wonder if I added too much too quickly. I have backed off again today and will only add a grain today without any fruit.

I am wondering if I should continue to just do P1 with 1 grain for a few more days before adding 1 fruit or not?

I also need to add some additional water (which I have been). I also read that carrots are ok now. We like carrots. Does this include raw carrots?

How about green peas? Are they allowed?

You had commented on my post from a few days ago about vegies and I am trying to add more. My family doesn't really care too much for many of the vegies we are allowed so we are trying. I need to add some tomatoe juice for breakfast and more vegies at lunch. I think I do pretty well at dinner.

Has anyone else experienced this bump in the road?

 

[lovetoscrap]

Hi lovetoscrap:

Thanks for all the posts. I have read some of them from the unofficial SBD site already, but it was good to reread them.

I have just finished my 1st week in P2 and am not very happy with my progress. I needed to lose between 20-25 lbs from the start and lost 7 lbs during P1. I guess I fall into the group that needs to lose less than 30 lbs and may not lose as quickly.

Since starting P2, I have gained 2 lbs. I eat far less than I did before dieting and eat much healthier food. I can't quite understand why I am not losing. I know they say my "body is adjusting", but my mind isn't! Most days I added an apple for morning snack with some low sugar pb (same ingredients as natural). 1 or 2 days I added a piece of whole grain bread with lunch or whole grain pasta for dinner. Sometimes I would also add oatmeal for breakfast rather than eggs. I wonder if I added too much too quickly. I have backed off again today and will only add a grain today without any fruit.

I am wondering if I should continue to just do P1 with 1 grain for a few more days before adding 1 fruit or not?

I also need to add some additional water (which I have been). I also read that carrots are ok now. We like carrots. Does this include raw carrots?

How about green peas? Are they allowed?

You had commented on my post from a few days ago about vegies and I am trying to add more. My family doesn't really care too much for many of the vegies we are allowed so we are trying. I need to add some tomatoe juice for breakfast and more vegies at lunch. I think I do pretty well at dinner.

Has anyone else experienced this bump in the road?

7 pounds in Phase 1 is excellent! What you have gained back this week may just be some water weight or just some of that adjustment.


It does sound like maybe you should back off of the grains and fruits a bit and go back to the Phase 1 list with just 1 added fruit OR Grain a day. It really does need to be a S L O W process to see what your body can handle. And each person is different. Since you don't have much to lose that probably affects it also.

For me I HAVE to have the carbs, can't even do Phase 1. I got incredibly sick, not just the "SB flu" that is mentioned sometimes, but actually unable to function-- disoriented and dizzy and passed out 2x. So for me I have to have a little carb with each meal.

Is your oatmeal Instant or the long Cooking kind? If you look around the other SB site you will see that they advocate Steel Cut Oats because they are really much better. Instant is a no-no and long cooking is okay.

Raw Carrots are okay, but they are pretty high on the GI because of the sugar in them so I would limit them as much as possible. I am not much of a veggie eater--I get most of mine from salads.

I am pretty sure that Green Peas are a starchy, sugary vegetable and thus are on the foods to limit list. I will try to look as soon as I find my book--do you have the thin SB book with the lists of all types of foods? I really like having it for a reference. Even though things have been updated it is still a big help. ETA: Found on the food list: Green Peas - 1/2 cup (considered a starchy vegetable; count as a starch/grain serving)
I have found with veggies that if I like it chances are that is because it is high in natural starch/sugar (corn, peas, carrots) so I figure if it is one I really enjoy I have to limit it!


Drink that water, and also get in as much exercise as you can. That will also really help.

 

[SeaSpray]

Hi lovetoscrap:

Thanks for all the posts. I have read some of them from the unofficial SBD site already, but it was good to reread them.

I have just finished my 1st week in P2 and am not very happy with my progress. I needed to lose between 20-25 lbs from the start and lost 7 lbs during P1. I guess I fall into the group that needs to lose less than 30 lbs and may not lose as quickly.

Since starting P2, I have gained 2 lbs. I eat far less than I did before dieting and eat much healthier food. I can't quite understand why I am not losing. I know they say my "body is adjusting", but my mind isn't! Most days I added an apple for morning snack with some low sugar pb (same ingredients as natural). 1 or 2 days I added a piece of whole grain bread with lunch or whole grain pasta for dinner. Sometimes I would also add oatmeal for breakfast rather than eggs. I wonder if I added too much too quickly. I have backed off again today and will only add a grain today without any fruit.

I am wondering if I should continue to just do P1 with 1 grain for a few more days before adding 1 fruit or not?

I also need to add some additional water (which I have been). I also read that carrots are ok now. We like carrots. Does this include raw carrots?

How about green peas? Are they allowed?

You had commented on my post from a few days ago about vegies and I am trying to add more. My family doesn't really care too much for many of the vegies we are allowed so we are trying. I need to add some tomatoe juice for breakfast and more vegies at lunch. I think I do pretty well at dinner.

Has anyone else experienced this bump in the road?

Since I was in a contest at work since starting South Beach, I kept a record of how much I lost (or didn't lose, or gained! lol) each week! I just looked at my records, and here's what I lost over the last 3 months:

Week 1: lost 5 pounds
Week 2: lost 4.5 pounds
Week 3: lost 1 pound
Week 4: lost 1/2 pound
Week 5: lost 1 1/2 pounds
Week 6: stayed the same
Week 7: lost 2 1/2 pounds
Week 8: lost 1 pound
Week 9: stayed the same
Week 10: lost 1/2 pound
Week 11: lost 2 pounds
Week 12: gained 2 pounds (I was away for a few days)
Week 13: lost 2 pounds
Week 14: lost 6.5 pounds

Total lost in 15 weeks: 23 pounds. You have to look at this in a long-range kind of way (at least, that's what I'm doing, just keep myself motivated and not disappointed because I'm not losing 5 pounds per week), and I know that if I had never started South Beach, I wouldn't have lost those 23 pounds, and may have gained instead.

I know it probably doesn't help too much to hear us say "hang in there", and lovestoscrap has given you some excellent advice, but I hope you do hang in there, and I hope you see results soon

 

[andrychowski]

Don't fear, I am not giving up. If I had stayed the same, that would be cool. It just hurts that I gained 2 lbs back and I feel like I am doing so much better. I have started exercicing more the last few days so I think that will definately help.

My husband has high cholesterol at age 39 and is trying to do this diet, too. That is another reason I won't quit. I have heard lots of stories where this has helped cholesterol.

I am sitting here very hungry and dinner is an hour or so away. I am hoping that backing up a little will help. I wasn't hungry all the time during p1.

Thanks for the encouragement.

By the way: how did you lost 6 lbs in week 15!

 

[SeaSpray]

Don't fear, I am not giving up. If I had stayed the same, that would be cool. It just hurts that I gained 2 lbs back and I feel like I am doing so much better. I have started exercicing more the last few days so I think that will definately help.

My husband has high cholesterol at age 39 and is trying to do this diet, too. That is another reason I won't quit. I have heard lots of stories where this has helped cholesterol.

I am sitting here very hungry and dinner is an hour or so away. I am hoping that backing up a little will help. I wasn't hungry all the time during p1.

Thanks for the encouragement.

By the way: how did you lost 6 lbs in week 15!

Whenever I'm STARVING and dinner is still an hour or two away, I'll either have a salad with Walden Farms Calorie-free/Sugar-free/Fat-free dressing, or just cut a cucumber into slices and dip it into the dressing. A healthy, filling snack for absolutely no carbs at all, and very, very little calories!

Sometimes I'll take a spoonful of natural peanut butter and lick it like a lollipop, if I need a healthy snack after work, before dinner. lol You have to be careful to not get carried away though, and take more than just a spoonful. LOL Easier said than done


Overall for the entire month of August, I only lost 7 pounds, so that big loss of 6.5 pounds really was the culmination of a very strange month of losing, gaining, and staying the same! In the end, it all worked out, with my overall loss of 7 pounds for the month. I'm just glad it happened in time for my final weigh-in at work yesterday! LOL

 

[Hook's Girl]

Just want to give a HUGE thank you to Lovestoscrap! Thank you so much for the recipies, lists and links! I've been on the Beach for most of the summer and am getting a little bored. Thanks again!

 

[SeaSpray]

Bumping up for SamRoc!!

 

[ScrapHappyMama]

Just joining in!!! I am on Day 2 of Phase 1, so really just a newbie. I like it so far, think it will be fairly easy to follow. I am trying to train myself to like v8... anyone have any tips for that??? One thing that I am really going to try hard to do is to only weigh myself once per week. I have a tendancy to weigh every day, and if I am up I really sabatoge myself (gained weight... might as well eat ____ too), even though I know in my head that your weight will naturally fluctuate some throughout the week, it is a big trigger for me.

so far today I have had: breakfast - one egg, two slices canadian bacon, one slice 2% cheese and a v8 with a little splash of skim milk in it, morning snack - mozz cheese stick and green pepper strips (sounds like an odd combination, but suprisingly good). For lunch I will be having a small chicken breast cooked with NSA spag sauce and topped with mozz cheese, and a cup of cooked green beans on the side (last night's leftovers), and afternoon snack will be a cup of ff plain yogurt with pumpkin pie spice and crushed walnuts. Don't know for sure what supper will be!!

looking forward to chatting with you all about the beach!!!!