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SBDteen · Sun Jan 23, 2005 5:49 pm

do you have to follow the book?

Ramona · Sun Jan 23, 2005 6:08 pm

What part of the book are you talking about? If you mean following the actual recipes in there, no. Just make your recipes from the approved list of foods. If you mean follow the book where sugars and white flour are off limits--yes you have to follow that.

SBDteen · Sun Jan 23, 2005 6:10 pm

do you have to follow the meal plan?

wienerwrld · Sun Jan 23, 2005 6:11 pm

If you mean do you have to follow the MEAL PLANS in the book, no, they are sample suggestions. Eat what you like from the allowed food lists. No diet works if you don't like the food. If you mean do you have to follow the guidelines (for example strategic snacking, lots of veggies, good fats, good carbs) then, yes, you have to follow the rules.

SBDteen · Sun Jan 23, 2005 6:14 pm

all i really need to know is just follow the food list?

Janna116 · Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:27 pm

Yes, follow the food lists.

You don't have to follow the meal plan for contents but you should follow the meal plan in theory as much as possible: Breakfast, Snack, Lunch, Snack, Dinner, Dessert.... what you eat for these meals is what you decide you'd like to eat from the list but make sure you eat plenty of veggies and drink lots of water.

Good luck!
Janna

RedRox · Mon Jan 24, 2005 12:04 am

Check out Kimboroni's FAQ page. I think the link in my sig file should still work, although I saw she just parsed them into a P1 and P2 FAQ. Look for a Q&A about meal planning and portions. There is a very good guideline in there about how to structure each meal during the day in terms of things like veggies, protein, and so forth. That and the food list together should give you enough info to get started with. It looks like it now is called the "meal template" so look for something like that. Also my link now goes to the P2 FAQ, but she has put a link to the P1 FAQ at the very top of it, so you will have to make two jumps to get there!

grace-e · Mon Jan 24, 2005 12:04 am

SBDteen,
I went through your posts when I noticed your username and see you are 13. You really need to be in phase 2. I'm sure the hype of losing big weight in ph 1 is hard to pass up but ph1 isn't healthy for you...that's in the book as well. :) GRACE

SBDteen · Mon Jan 24, 2005 12:59 am

Grace,
1-24 would be the second week of p1 one for me and i already lost 7 pounds. i've been doing fine so far no health problems but p1 is almost over for me and it hasn't done anything to me. thanks for your concern though.

Kimboroni · Mon Jan 24, 2005 9:29 am

redroxco wrote: Check out Kimboroni's FAQ page. I think the link in my sig file should still work, although I saw she just parsed them into a P1 and P2 FAQ. Look for a Q&A about meal planning and portions. There is a very good guideline in there about how to structure each meal during the day in terms of things like veggies, protein, and so forth. That and the food list together should give you enough info to get started with. It looks like it now is called the "meal template" so look for something like that. Also my link now goes to the P2 FAQ, but she has put a link to the P1 FAQ at the very top of it, so you will have to make two jumps to get there!

I'm hoping to have the new p1 and p2 FAQ pages as sticky posts in their respective areas, but the links in our sig lines still work just fine-- I'm leaving the original page intact with all the questions, but with links for both p1 and p2 as options. Hopefully it won't be too confusing!

(the above is a general note... Redrox, I'm sending you a PM as well)

dkstaker · Mon Jan 24, 2005 3:11 pm

Hi,
I would like to join to have some support. I have a friend at work who is doing the sbd and she started three weeks ago and I just started last week. She is mostly great but she follows the sample diet in the book to a T and fusses when she sees I am not. I follow the meal guides and try really hard to make permanent life style changes for both my husband and I. I feel the last month we have been making lots of progress in thisarea. One thing I did wrong was purchase to much food it was a real challenge last week to not allow any of it to go bad. Better idea is to buy, at the most, a weeks worth. I had thought that I had to do the outlined meals in the book for phase one to work. I ended up buying all that stuff. I used the fresh stuff as fast as possible, but find it is better for me as I am a busy nurse to make some stuff in quanity and ahead of time. I also wash and prepare all the vegetables when I purchase them and that also makes it easier. That is my total experience for now. I did weigh last week a bad experience as I have not done this for a long time and it was a shock. I only did so to have a starting point. I will only weigh in once a month as personally I get so attached to the scales that I tend to give up if I do not lose exactlly as I think I should. As I said above it is a life change so slow and easy is my goal.
deb

RedRox · Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:52 pm

Welcome Deb! To me, it is far more important to really understand the principles of the program and how and why it works over time than it is to simply follow the menu plans in the book. What we really NEED is a framework for making better decisions about the foods we eat and consume on a regular basis for the rest of our lives. Unfortunately what many of us WANT is someone to tell us exactly what to eat, and how much to eat, in order to lose weight over the next couple of months. For me, SB really falls into the former category. It just made sense for me and I was lucky in that I like so many of the foods on the "Enjoy" lists.

If all that we do is follow a menu plan, then what do we do when we are confronted with eating out, or a luncheon at work, or any situation that doesn't fit into the daily plan? We stress out is what most of us seem to do!! But if we understand the principles, read ingredient lists, or know what questions to ask, then we can make reasonable determinations of how close or how far something might be from the overall guidelines of what we should be eating. In other words, we just start to make better decisions about what is healthy for us and supports our new way of eating. This program doesn't really require 100% compliance for it to work. IME, it just takes consistency, stick-to-it-iveness, and making better decsions more times than not. In the long run, I think you will likely be more successful with your approach of planning ahead, understanding the guidelines and incorporating them into your own lifestyle than your friend who only follows the sample menus in the book and may not really be learning and internalizing the basics of what makes this such a great way of eating! Good luck!


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