The South Beach Diet is the most forgiving diet. On week 2 I am still on track and working hard. But given the lack of items off the menu with the book the correct foods can be made into wonderful dishes that can really have you feeling well. I have not been as diligent as I wanted to be in posting the daily menus but I have been able to add in a little help. There is an app for those of you who have an iphone or an itouch from the wonderful people at www.sparkpeople.com At this site you can register whatever diet plan you are participating in and everyday log food and excercize daily. They have an amazing catalog of foods with complete nutritionals and excercises with calorie burn totals. I cannot say enough about this site at how wll they will keep track of your progress for you. Its nice to have something out there that is free and reliable.
So this is the site that has been my goto lately for tracking my progress and I highly recommend it.
So week 2 was more of a struggle than I thought it would be but I am hanging in there just like I did 2 years ago when my journey began. Sometimes it is difficult because I am such a sweets person. I get it honest. I think that I have gone into before about how I was raised with a wonderful mother that can bake her butt off! So it is tough to make other choices. But it can be done with willpower.
Something to ponder though…when I was back east with my family at Christmas I was having a conversation with my aunt about what I can and cannot eat. She is diabetic. She was explaining to me that if it is in your blood, which it is, to get diabetes, then you will. She explained that there is nothing that can be done. I sort of agreed with her quickly. I thought about my cousin who had been diagnosed with she was young. She was the most active and the thinnest of all of us. She was a speedskater. I was the chubby one that everyone was sure was the next one in the diabetic line. I have yet to be diagnosed. Later though I began to think more about this and thought, well if that is true then how are there cases of diabetics that are cured with diet and excercise. So I dont really know what to think. I dont think that there is really an answer to this. I think that maybe she is right to an extent. If you are ment to get it you will. The reason I think about this is because this became the 2nd reason for me joining the South Beach Diet Plan. I wanted to cut my risk of becoming diabetic because of genetics. We can hope I suppose that I am on the right track.