I'm in South Beach! No, not this kind. Not even the white sand beach in Florida kind. I wish. It would be a lot more fun than the South Beach DIET, which is what I'm really visiting. But the sad fact is that any and all baby-weight loss that was going to happen on its own stopped long ago, and now it's sliding back uphill. It has left me about 23 lbs heavier than I was pre-baby. WAH. So I'm going to have to buckle down and start doing something about it.
If you have read my blog, you'll know that I did the HCG diet last summer. It was very successful. I got down to my college weight (i.e. my super mega dream weight), and I felt fantastic! But the HCG diet was brutal. Really brutal. I-want-to-die-just-thinking-about-it brutal. So clearly I don't want to have to do it again unless it's an absolute last resort. I thought about (and actually signed up for) Weight Watchers 6 weeks ago, but either my pregnancy hormones were messing with me or it just wasn't enough of a diet because I lost no weight in that time. So I thought I'd try something new--The South Beach Diet.
I was a little worried about posting my progress with a new diet on my blog. I don't want to come off as a wacky, repetitive crash dieter or anything. But the fact is, I need somewhere to document my progress and to force myself to be accountable. And last time I did that with the HCG diet, it really helped me to be able to post what I was eating, how I was feeling, and how well it was working. I even got a few people respond with their experiences, which helped a ton too. So if you don't like reading about me dieting (those 3 of you left who still read my blog), I'm sorry. I'll try to post a few other things to keep you all from completely abandoning me. But if you have comments, questions, thoughts, support, or know someone who is in the same boat/has experience with this diet, please chime in, send them over, or just give me a WOOT should I actually happen to shave an inch or two off my gut.
Here goes...South Beach or bust!
5 comments:
Good luck on the diet. It took exactly 1 year and 9 months for me to loose the 50 lbs I gained with your baby brother, but with iron self control I succeeded. You will too! What's the South Beach diet about?
And, incidentally, that awful man in the green thong that looks like it is making him a soprano, is the most uncomfortably ghastly picture I ever saw!
You can do it! I'm about to try the 17 day diet for these stubborn 10 pounds that always creep back on. It seems a lot easier to follow. HCG is indeed brutal.
WOOT! WOOT! still reading.
I'm seriously considering pulling the South Beach Diet book off the shelf and giving it a go.
If I could look like Borat in a speedo by winter, well, that would just be gravy.
High Five!
(I could totally get down with salads with as much salad dressing as I want.)
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