Quote Originally Posted by teigyr View Post
I'm not going to do the diet but plan on using a lot of the recipes, if that makes sense. I'm not ready to be structured but I do want to improve on what I'm eating. I need carbs but I'll try to make them good carbs.
You've got the crux of it. While I was reading through the South Beach book it finally dawned on me just how horribly I had been eating. Potatoes or pasta or rice with practically every meal, low on the veggies and beans. I'd have quasi-high fiber bread which, come to find out, wasn't all that high fiber after all. I'd avoid nuts because they were "fattening" but I'd have half a donut (and feel virtuous for only having half ), which compared to a handful of nuts was less filling and had probably twice as many calories and absolutely no nutritional value. I'd skip breakfast and then get hungry late morning, and either get a snack or pig out at lunch. And I'd *always* have a big cookie after lunch.

Well, here's hoping my grand revelations stick. I can't help but laugh at myself, I've been on this diet (or sorts) for less than a week and already I'm sounding like some kind of born-again Disciple of the Whole Grain