Why the South Beach Diet? I decided to try it for three reasons.

First, a couple who are good friends of mine have made impressive improvements in how they look and in their health this way.

Second, on SB you don’t count calories, and that is not an activity that comes naturally to me.

Third, in some ways it’s pretty close to how I like to eat anyway: lots of veggies and salads plus lots of lean meat and other proteins. I’m allergic enough to wheat that I eat it rarely — I don’t have celiac disease but wheat tends to make me sleepy. When my husband makes homemade whole wheat bread in his Zojirushi bread machine, I greatly enjoy the smells. It’s been interesting to discover I can enjoy food smells without wanting to eat whatever smells good! Once in a while I do have a small slice of his bread. So from not eating wheat to going easy on all grains is a pretty natural step for me.

As this point, I am in the most demanding part of South Beach, Phase 1. It only lasts for two weeks, a good thing! I have to admit to eating a couple of fresh strawberries on the vine when I went out to the garden this morning, despite the no-fruits rule for this phase.

Rebounding is a joy, and I will write about it for the exercise section of this site. Rebounding is said to be very beneficial for your lymphatic system, and I am noticing that I have more power and energy on the rebounder as I get used to it. A word of caution: Cheap rebounders can hurt your knees. I’ve had cheap ones and now I have a good one and the difference is amazing.

So between South Beach and Rebounding, I’m down over five pounds. Actually only one of those pounds is since I started SB a few days ago. The other weight just kinda came off from the extra exercise as I read the The South Beach Diet Supercharged book and got things together for the full-fledged program.

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