| dancinmyazoff
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| What diet have you have the most success and most weight loss on?? |
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Wed May 25, 2005 8:12 pm |
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| Kimboroni
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| Definitely South Beach, because with the other diets I did, I couldn't make them a lifestyle change. Once I was done losing weight, I'd go back to my old way of eating, so I'd gain all the weight back plus 10-20 pounds more. Long-term, those other diets actually made me gain weight. I've lost a lot of weight with SB, and I know how to keep it off. |
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Wed May 25, 2005 10:30 pm |
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| grace-e
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That's really two questions.
I've lost a good amount of weight on a few different diets, but I wouldn't call them sucessful. Like Kim said, I didn't keep it off. I've been doing SB over a year and on ph2/3 since about October. I have no doubt that I'll never need a diet again. :) GRACE |
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Thu May 26, 2005 2:57 am |
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| RedRox
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| I still don't feel like I have gone "on" a diet, but for great healthy lifestyle changes, make mine South Beach!! Lost nearly 40 lbs and completely turned my health and my life around. |
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Thu May 26, 2005 4:23 am |
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| Cyrstl
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I cringe a bit when I hear SB termed as a diet. It's not a quickie fix. Not a "make me skinny next week/month for that wedding/reunion/vacation". It's a lifestyle -- one I've chosen to embrace because of its ongoing rewards.
It takes all the drama out of food as a source of recreation or comfort/guilt and with a new perspective I've learned to enjoy food without obsessing about it. I eat to nourish my body. I've learned to truly enjoy food...to savor it in appropriate proportions and am reaping the rewards.
Simple really...I'm not deprived...I'm not hungry... I CHOSE!
...and I chose to be healthy. |
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Thu May 26, 2005 11:13 am |
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| RedRox
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Cyrstl wrote: It takes all the drama out of food as a source of recreation or comfort/guilt and with a new perspective I've learned to enjoy food without obsessing about it. I eat to nourish my body. I've learned to truly enjoy food...to savor it in appropriate proportions and am reaping the rewards.
Great outlook and comments!! The word "diet" is used all wrong in this country and unfortunately while used properly on the book's cover, it is interpreted incorrectly by virtually eveyone who looks at it. Such is life I suppose. My little mantra that I came up with to describe my new outlook and relationship with food is summarized in the idea that we should "Love only those foods that love us back!" For many of us I think our old ways of eating were like being in abusive relationships that we just couldn't figure out how to get out of safely. SB often provides the "escape hatch" that we needed by providing the knowledge and structure to leave our abusive diet and meet the eating program that supports and nurtures us and allows us to become the people we were meant to be. I thought your comments really capsulized those ideas very well! Thanks! |
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Thu May 26, 2005 3:54 pm |
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