…have I weighed less.
\nThe diet we’ve been on since September (REAL South Beach, meaning you-cook-it) is wonderful.
\nAs Jane says, dessert every evening lets us go to a birthday party and resist cake, by telling ourselves, “we get dessert this evening, and if we have that, we can’t.”
\nMostly veggies means, yes, sometimes I have to run to the grocery for fresh, and I always have to cook, but I’ve got most recipes down to 10-20 minutes, and pre-cooking 10 lbs of chicken means—diced chicken is always there to be used.
\nWe miss some foods, BUT, because this diet doesn’t rely on ketosis, it means we can set ourselves a date on which we will have our favorites (often creme pie, pizza, chili with spaghetti, and Champagne) and then go immediately back on strict dieting to burn it off. It’s not yo-yo dieting because we don’t really ‘gain’ the weight, ie, it doesn’t stay long enough. It’ll just take a couple of weeks to convince our bodies to drop some more, because it’s stored a bit. But then we do go on losing.
\nPlateaus, old set-points, on the way down, are interesting. I even have wardrobe for these set-points…weight levels at which a diet stalls for a while, because that’s an old maintenance level. It may take two months to work past an old set-point. But work past it you do. I have about five I’ve worked past, since 2000. But I am within 3 lbs of my original target weight. When I saw the diet was working, I reset my goal ten more pounds down, so I will stall again at the target weight—and keep dieting until I like the result.<\/p>\n
Pretty darned good for going-on-four-months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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