It's snowing out, but we're on the South Beach.

written by Julie R. Neidlinger      2 comments      link this post     


We're on the South Beach Diet here. For various reasons. Just started. So far so good.

Really, it's the most lenient, livable "diet" I've come across that addresses more than just weight loss, but things like diabetes, blood pressure and heart health. It makes sense, and has lots of good food options once you get unused to sugar and white flour and processed food. I'm a lover of herbs and spices, anyway, you know.

Some of the recipes in some of the SBD cookbooks contain ingredients that I can't easily get here, but as you start reading through them and realize the basic principle and how often the same ingredients keep showing up, it starts to make sense in a way that will allow you to kind of fudge the recipes and make up your own. The "Quick and Easy" cookbook (linked to below) has a great first section that outlines all the basic ingredients that you should use, and even offers ways to reprogram your thinking in making food so that you can whip together quick "sandwiches" and snacks using these ingredients without having to use a detailed recipe. In other words, once you understand it, you won't be trapped into just using the recipes you can buy, but will be able to make up your own foods with those basic (and plentiful, I might add) ingredients.

Anyway, I thought I'd share a way to have food on hand for the South Beach Diet that's ready and easy to prepare. I am a terrible cook, and this is how I would go about doing this with my limited skills.

Chicken
Vegetables
To make your delicious meal, you simply throw the aluminum foil-wrapped chicken on a baking sheet, bake for 20 minutes, then throw some vegetables on with it, bake the remaining 14 minutes, and you're done. A tasty meal that you have ready in a pinch because you did all the preparation earlier and kept it in your freezer. No need to buy frozen foods when you can make your own and cut the sodium and other junk! Also, my earlier recipe with less cheese and using fresh tomatoes that you've cut yourself (sans putting it on pasta, mind you) would also work well for the South Beach Diet as a kind of flavorful tomato sauce.

Herbs/Spices I used:

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Sounds yummy! I may have to try this!

By Anonymous robbie, at 27/11/07 07:12  

In just two weekends, I had four conversations with men in their fifties who were on CPAP machines at night and were diabetic.

Though I still have a few years till fifty, I didn't want to end up like that, even though I was still in the acceptable BMI range and NOT diabetic. I immediately started a low-glycemic diet (similar to South Beach) and have had great results. I dropped eighteen pounds in just three weeks. I only need eight more to reach my target weight! Talk about a simple way to lose weight.

As for that target weight, it's actually what I weighed when I was 19 years old, and my nickname was "Bean" back then, as in "beanpole." So I'm very happy. I'm actually five pounds lighter than I was when I got married almost 12 years ago, so my wife has never seen me this thin. People notice, too.

Good luck on South Beach.

By Blogger DLE, at 3/12/07 07:30  

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