I started at 243 lbs. and am now 238 lbs.

This is not unusual for the start of the South Beach diet, except that I’m not strictly following the South Beach diet.

I’ve been eating Phase I foods (eggs, meat, nuts, cheese, non-starchy vegetables) fairly consistently, but not slavishly. Why? Because I HATED it the first time!!

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Having done it before, I pretty much know the drill and how to best make it work for me. A little less of high-carb foods and replacing white flour products with whole grain stuff. I’m eating very few sweets too, walking a half hour daily with some light calisthetics thrown in for good measure

Part of me still wants to go on a full-pack hike into the mountains or take a day-long cross-country ski expedition. Fortunately, the rest of me knows better.

My take on this sort of thing is this: I believe weight loss to be a negative, self-defeating term and much prefer to think in terms of health enhancement. When you “lose weight”, it involves giving things up, including part of yourself; when you enhance your health, you’re improving and adding value to your life. MA-jor difference, huh?

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