South Beach diet- What's your meal plan for the 1st 2 weeks?

[JEDI]

i have acid reflux no meds can fix it. i read that someone here had the same problem. he went on the South Beach diet, and his reflux was gone.

I can't find that thread. 🙁

What's your intro South Beach Diet plan?

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What can't I Eat?
Phase 1 is the strictest part of The South Beach Diet. For two weeks, you'll totally eliminate fruit, bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, sugar, alcohol, and baked goods from your diet.

What can I Eat?
You can eat meat, chicken, turkey, fish, and eggs, shell-fish during Phase 1.

You will also be eating vegetables, cheese, nuts, and salad veggies.

no fruit- Does that mean no Orange juice?

aka, what am i allowed to drink? (ie: diet soda?)

 

[aphex]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=38&threadid=1896621&enterthread=y 🙂

Correct, no fruit means no fruit juice.

During phase 1 i mainly drank water, diet soda (which i always drank anyways before the diet), non-fat milk, V8

 

[JEDI]

water, diet soda, and pina colado v8.. i could do that for 2 weeks

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: JEDI
water, diet soda, and pina colado v8.. i could do that for 2 weeks

You'll feel like sh1t by day 2.

 

[Legend]

I simply don't understand why any diet would eliminate all fruit. Most fruit is loaded with fiber, and thus has a low GI making it virtually impossible to gain fat from it. The phytonutrients from it give you enormous health benefits, some of which include a healthier metabolism.

Fruit juice on the other hand is bad because it lacks the fiber and most of the nutrients.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: Legend
I simply don't understand why any diet would eliminate all fruit. Most fruit is loaded with fiber, and thus has a low GI making it virtually impossible to gain fat from it. The phytonutrients from it give you enormous health benefits, some of which include a healthier metabolism.

Fruit juice on the other hand is bad because it lacks the fiber and most of the nutrients.

Bananas, cherries, grapes.. really high GI. Sugar is sugar, whether it's from rice, fruit, or soda. Phase 1 is the stage to ween you off sugar dependence.

South Beach Diet phase 1 is fairly easy to follow, just hard to stick to.

Here's what you'll be eating: Eggs, sandwich meats, lettuce, cucumbers, zucchini, mushrooms, eggs, broiled chicken, broiled fish, cheese sticks, eggs... oh did I mention eggs?

Whatever you can make out of those ingredients is what you'll be eating. So for example:
Breakfast:
1 Scrambled Egg topped with 1 slice of ham and 1 slice of cheese.
1 hard boiled egg

Lunch:
lettuce wraps with sandwich meat
salad wich chicken on top
chicken, cucumbers, mushrooms, zucchini chopped up stir fried w/ lettuce cups

Dinner:
broiled chicken
broiled fish
(with any veggies on that list)

I didn't follow any recipes in the book, I just bought the ingredients that it said I could eat then made my own recipes.

 

[Legend]

Originally posted by: fs5

Originally posted by: Legend
I simply don't understand why any diet would eliminate all fruit. Most fruit is loaded with fiber, and thus has a low GI making it virtually impossible to gain fat from it. The phytonutrients from it give you enormous health benefits, some of which include a healthier metabolism.

Fruit juice on the other hand is bad because it lacks the fiber and most of the nutrients.

Bananas, cherries, grapes.. really high GI. Sugar is sugar, whether it's from rice, fruit, or soda. Phase 1 is the stage to ween you off sugar dependence.

Not really

http://www.gifoundation.com/GI%20Food%20List.htm#Fruit

Some fruit is, but most isn't. Sugar is sugar. But sugar with less surface area and more fiber releases energy at a rate similar to fats and protein.


People are just shooting themselves in the foot because they're missing out on all the nutrition found in fruits:

http://www.whfoods.com/foodstoc.php

 

[Pabster]

Some fruits are better than others. For example, an orange is preferable to a banana.

And the health benefits ARE real. Eliminating fruit entirely from your diet is pretty stupid.

Do avoid the fruit juices though. Often they are only 2-5% fruit juice and the rest is sugar (or worse...HFCS!).

 

[JEDI]

hm.. i dont like milk plain, and i bet i cant have chocolate milk.

is oatmeal ok?

 

[JulesMaximus]

What is your diet like now? Are you overweight?