South Beach Diet

[Q1821]

Ok, so I've put on a little weight since getting married and in order to wear my bikini this summer I've been doing the South Beach diet. I have found it ok during the first 2 weeks of phase one but once I get into phase two I become frustrated. I can't eat whole grains (other than brown rice), so there goes the "healthy whole grains" idea of phase two. If I want to have a sandwich I use corn torillas but corn isn't on the recomended list of ok foods. Is anyone else doing this diet? Do you have any tips?

[jnclelland]

Ok, so I've put on a little weight since getting married and in order to wear my bikini this summer I've been doing the South Beach diet. I have found it ok during the first 2 weeks of phase one but once I get into phase two I become frustrated. I can't eat whole grains (other than brown rice), so there goes the "healthy whole grains" idea of phase two. If I want to have a sandwich I use corn torillas but corn isn't on the recomended list of ok foods. Is anyone else doing this diet? Do you have any tips?

I've been doing South Beach since May, and I really like it. First of all, it calls for a lot LESS grains than I used to eat, so I don't have to do as much gluten-free subsitution as I used to. As for which grains to eat - I do fudge it a little bit since there are fewer to choose from. Most mornings for breakfast I have either a piece of toast on gluten-free bread (I use the mix from Breads by Anna, which is free of almost everything objectionable) or cream of rice cereal (I like Rice and Shine from Arrowhead Mills). I just have a big salad for lunch most days with no grains at all, and for dinner I either have brown rice, Tinkyada rice pasta, quinoa, or a sweet potato.

There's a good South Beach discussion site at Open Original Shared Link, and I've gotten lots of good ideas from there. Good luck!