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South Beaching It

in Everyday on 03/23/11

Sadly not the actual beach…the diet.  Kind of. Except for the part where I cheat on it.  Constantly.

I’m eating egg whites and peppers.  I want a big fat chocolate chip muffin.

I’m snacking on celery.  What cruel God created celery? What I want is freshly baked cookies and coffee with cream.

I’m choking down enough green salad to choke a horse.  I want a big fat juicy burger with a side of greasy fries and mayo to dip them in.

For dinner it’s a chicken breast, goat cheese, tomato and asparagus.  Should be more then enough but I’m still obsessing about the damn cookie.

Starting the south beach diet today seemed like a great idea last night, but right about now I would trade my favourite pair of shoes for a bowl of popcorn and a coke. 

Sigh.  I hate skinny people and the creators of all thing chocolate.

Screw it.  I’m eating a cookie.

If you have any great South Beach Diet tips feel free to pass them along.  I have the feeling I’m going to need all the help I can get.

Mwah!

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    Comments

    1. Deanna says

      March 24, 2011 at 10:30 am

      I hear your pain. I was going to start Dukan yesterday but with raging PMS and a snow day for the kids I decided to start today.

      I REALLY want a piece of toast but hanging in. I’m going to be busy with “Spring” cleaning to distract me LOL
      Good Luck!

    2. J.G. says

      March 24, 2011 at 4:17 am

      I wouldn’t last 10 minutes on this diet, though I do like celery. Wishing you luck from the sidelines!

    3. Maria @BOREDmommy says

      March 24, 2011 at 2:38 am

      First of all, celery isn’t actually food, so there’s that. Also, I hate to break it to you but you ARE one of those skinny people dude.

      Here is my South Beach tip, and I’ve done it and plan on it again – get used to eating A LOT of chicken.

    4. Cool Gal says

      March 24, 2011 at 2:37 am

      I have zero South Beach recipes. Sorry. I dont diet, just try to follow the moderation philosophy and try to exercise daily. I certainly wish food didn’t make is gain weight. It’s so much fun to eat! 🙂

    5. Cool Gal says

      March 24, 2011 at 2:37 am

      I have zero South Beach recipes. Sorry. I dont diet, just try to follow the moderation philosophy and try to exercise daily. I certainly wish food didn’t make is gain weight. It’s so much fun to eat! 🙂

    6. Sara @ Domestically Challenged says

      March 24, 2011 at 2:23 am

      Man, I lived to cheat on diets. Lived. Whenever you tell me i CAN’T have something, it doubles my NEED for it!

    7. blueviolet says

      March 24, 2011 at 12:43 am

      I stink at following diets. I rebel against rules in general so if I know I can’t eat something, I want it even more than I would have normally.

      But good luck! I’m really no help, am I?

    8. Joey @ Big Teeth and Clouds says

      March 24, 2011 at 12:28 am

      I’m with Shell. Now I have to go eat another powdered donut.

    9. Shell says

      March 24, 2011 at 12:07 am

      All this post did was make me hungry.

    10. diarydays says

      March 24, 2011 at 12:04 am

      You are getting alot of great feed back!

      It is extremely hard to loose weight! Although, our number 1 problem is calling it a DIET!

      Try thinking of it as a life style change! It is hard, and I struggle with loosing 5 pounds! But if you put your mind to it, you can honestly achieve it. I LOVE COFFEE AND COKE, I NEED TO HAVE like two coffees a day, and a coke with my meals! Although, I read a book called skinny bitch (pretty interesting), and around the same time, lent started so I gave up both! It’s been two weeks and I have not had either (except coke once, at the movies lol) but it wasn’t easy, but now I manage when I see other people drink coke, or coffee.

      Try doing things in phases! I know you love your coffee! A recent study mentioned that coffee can actually help break down fat lol.

      S.

    11. Amy says

      March 23, 2011 at 11:32 pm

      I know you can do it.. You can still have a treat…

    12. Minivan Lover says

      March 23, 2011 at 10:27 pm

      No hints, just wishing you luck! Your dinner actually sounds pretty good 🙂 (I am pregnant and I have not even begun to cook our dinner, so just about anything sounds good)

    13. Debbie says

      March 23, 2011 at 10:18 pm

      I got nothing over here. I am the poster child for lack of willpower and cheating!

    14. Sue says

      March 23, 2011 at 10:11 pm

      I lived through the ’90’s diet craze of low-fat carbs. Remember Snackwells? Yeah. That’s what I’m talkin ’bout.

      Which is why I’m still a carb girl to this very day. Forget South Beach, girlfriend. Have a loaded baked potato with me.

    15. Gigi says

      March 23, 2011 at 9:51 pm

      I did that diet – kinda sorta – a long while back. I don’t recall losing anything though. I can’t cut carbs – I just can’t. But I do recall that you are allowed to have chocolate covered strawberries while on the South Beach.

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