South Beach Diet - Phase 1, Day 4

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Filed Under Phase 1

Today the morning weigh-in showed only a 1/2 lb loss compared to a a whole pound each on the previous days. But still it is going down, which is great news! Today I had lunch and dinner outside, due to previous commitments. I was a really good girl, stuck with the program!

Lunch was at a Mexican restaurant. I ordered the chicken fajitas naked. Didn’t touch any of the sides except for a bit of guacamole and some lettuce salad. Most of the salad was under the refried beans, so I ate only a bit.

Then for dinner I went out with friends to a fabulous new restaurant in Kirkland - Cafe Harlequin. That menu was so tempting, also M & M were having wine which made me crave so bad. But I had some water with lime and lemon slices and had about 3-4 bottles of water throughout the night.

Our waitress was super friendly and super supportive. After I explained my dietary restrictions, she helped me find items from the menu and gladly accepted slight modifications. I had the baby spinach salad with toasted pecans and goat cheese without the sliced pears and substituted the sherry vinaigrette with the lemon-garlic-vinaigrette. I got the dressing on the side, so that I won’t overdo it. For the main course I got the Seared Salmon Stemperata without the french green lentils. This came with bell peppers, olives, capers and mint. I picked out all the capers, since I wasn’t sure if it was allowed, but after coming home and checking the book I realized that capers are fine. Salmon was super delicious! This restaurant was so good, I can’t wait to go back after the first phase is over!

I was not that diligent about eating vegetables today though. I had no time in the morning to make a salad or some sautéed vegetables for a snack later in the day. The spinach salad I had for dinner was my lone source of veggies today.

Breakfast

2 eggs scrambled with onions and 1 slice of Canadian bacon diced and mozzarella cheese
1 cup regular coffee

Mid-morning Snack

15 almonds

Lunch

Restaurant - Naked chicken fajitas + 1 tbsp guacamole

Evening snack

1 wedge fat free laughing cow cheese
1 cup regular coffee, black
1 string cheese stick, later in the evening

Dinner

Restaurant - Spinach salad with goat cheese and pecans and Seared Salmon

I am not very happy with today’s diet. Hope it hasn’t undone anything.

Target Weight Loss	17.5lb
Days on Diet	3
lbs lost so far	2.5
lbs to go	15

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Comments

8 Responses to “South Beach Diet - Phase 1, Day 4”

varsha says:

December 23, 2008 at 6:09 pm

Good going..But I have a doubt..How do u eat the cheese?As it is,alone??

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- sig says:
  
  December 24, 2008 at 11:37 am
  
  Hi Varsha, I eat the cheese as it is, these are individually packaged as snacks to go, so it is easy. Of course, it is better to combine it some veggies like celery sticks for the evening snack, but that is more work.
  
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Sheela says:

December 23, 2008 at 8:20 pm

Wow, Sig, it has been a while since I did the usual blog rounds and am impressed with your determination.

Winter is usually the worst time for me to start any weight loss plan - I get zero exercise which makes it tough

I love the items you have listed, btw, I can easily live on them, minus the bacon and meats

Good Luck! I am cheering for you (even if to secretly motivate myself heh-heh)

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Raaga says:

December 23, 2008 at 8:57 pm

It won’t undo anything… stay at it girl.

Hugs

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Hil says:

January 5, 2009 at 11:50 am

Good for you! I didn’t weigh myself for the first couple days because I didn’t have a scale. Now am on day 11 and have lost only a couple pounds! I really ate like the SBD dictates before I knew about it plus a little french bread and some ice cream hear and there. I have been virtuous but I guess I am a slow loser.

congrats to you and keep up the good work!

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IisMo says:

January 7, 2009 at 7:08 am

Hi Ladies,

How are you, I too have recently started the South Beach on Monday 1/9/09. I haven’t weighed myself but then again I never looked at weight loss until it was a good amount. What I do look at is inches. My goal is 30lbs…although everyone says that’s alot. I don’t think so…given that I am a 190lbs. So good luck to you Sheela, good luck to us all!

Ingrid

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Cici says:

January 18, 2009 at 9:36 pm

Good for u being good at the restaurant when u could have easily jumped outta the diet and ate bread. I’m starting 2moro…

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- sig says:
  
  January 19, 2009 at 7:15 pm
  
  Good luck Cici!
  
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