Kalyn’s Kitchen: 10 Reasons to Love South Beach
EDITOR’S NOTE: Kalyn Denny of Kalyn’s Kitchen is joining us today as a special guest blogger. This is reprinted with permission from Kalyn’s Kitchen, a blog dedicated to the South Beath lifestyle.
Ten Reasons I Love the South Beach Diet
by Kalyn Denny
1. South Beach isn’t a traditional low carb diet, so after the initial two weeks, you can eat rice, pasta, and bread, if you pay attention to the glycemic index when you choose your ingredients.
2. It’s not a low fat diet, so if you limit saturated fats and trans-fats, you can still eat a lot of very yummy foods that would be forbidden on many traditional low-fat diet plans.
3. This diet has gotten me to start the day with a good breakfast, an important health habit I’ve never been able to achieve before.
4. If you’re human like me, you can cheat a little and a few weeks back on phase one will take off any pounds that have crept back on. This flexibility should probably be number one on my list, because this is the only diet I’ve ever been able to stick to.
5. If you start eating the low-glycemic index way, you’ll have more energy than you ever imagined. I simply never get tired during the day the way I used to.
6. An amazing variety of foods are actually low on the glycemic index, so the diet works for someone like me who thinks about food most of the time!
7. The cover of The South Beach Diet Book says “lose belly fat first” and it really does happen! (I recommend reading the book from cover to cover before you start the diet if you’re considering it.)
8. When you stop eating white flour, sugar, high glycemic white rice, regular white flour pasta, and potatoes you won’t get hungry the way you used to. I would never have believed this before I tried the South Beach way of eating.
9. When you stop eating sugar, your craving for it and other high-sugar foods will completely disappear. Again, it’s amazing.
10. I’ve truly experienced that this diet can really change your life. I’ll always be grateful that I discovered this way of eating and I know I’ll never go back to my old eating habits again.
[…] I was also pleased that my post about Ten Reasons I love the South Beach Diet was re-published at Fit Fare. If you haven’t visitied Fit Fare, it’s a good source for information about diet and exercise, with some great bloggers writing there. There are names you’ll recognize from WHB, so check it out. […]