Posted by tabitha on February 16, 2004, at 16:43:55
In reply to Re: South Beach Diet, posted by rainyday on February 16, 2004, at 9:55:51
I haven't lost any weight either. You're supposed to lose a bunch of water right away as your stored glucose gets used up. I think my body has just decided to quit functioning rather than using up the stores. I'm feeling cold all the time, and lethargic. I don't really want to lose weight so much as just get off all the sugar and junk food that crowds everything else out of my diet.
I've eaten more vegetables the last 3 days than I probably ate in the last 3 months. It must be good for me, right? Normally I don't even think of them as food-- more just as garnish. I'm being liberal with the olive oil, which helps make them palatable.
I read some hypoglycemia websites-- they recommend a similar diet, cut all sweets for a while, then add them back in gradually (but not refined sugars and starches). It said you feel worse for the first week, so maybe there's still hope my body will figure out how to function on all these alien foodstuffs.
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