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I recently tried the South Beach Diet again, and have now concluded that it doesn't really work for me. I've tried it several times now, and here is what happens: - I can master Phase 1, but I can never manage to master Phase 2. Phase 1 ends up feeling so restrictive, that each time it's over I react by going all out and eating whatever I want. Whenever I do lose weight on Phase 1, it's only in the first week, and it's only 3 pounds and no more. Eventually, I do gain that back again, just like with all the other fad diets.
- Phase 1 puts me out of balance. I like that I get clean of sugar (I have a terrible sweet tooth). But this last time I was near the end of my second week of Phase 1, and my body was so out of balance with not having any grain products and related carbs, that I had horrible PMS symptoms for several days, putting my family through a mom-turned-witch. I was reading The Diet Code recently, which mentions that anyone who puts themselves on this kind of starvation-mode restriction, will experience mood extremes of this sort. It's just not healthy to trick your body into thinking it's starving--this will only backfire, and may be very harmful.
- Lastly, one thing that has always bothered me about the SBD is its generous use of chemical-laden foods.
My friend and I are going to give Will Clower's Fat Fallacy another try. I tried this once, but had a hard time with reprogramming myself to eat slowly at each meal. It was so difficult, I finally gave up. But Clower now has a new book, which is easier to follow and apply. It's called The French Don't Diet Plan. The best things about learning to eat the French way are: - You eat only whole, natural foods. Basically, if a product has anything at all in it that you don't know readily what it is, then you don't eat it. It's all about getting back to the natural foods humans have eaten since the dawn of time--whole milk, fruits and veggies, natural meats, grains, yogurt, sugar, bread, etc.
- The diet allows one to eat all the happy foods, so I am always in a very good mood and LOVE eating again: chocolate, cream, coffee, wine, bread, dessert!
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