South Beach Diet Phase 2, End of Week 3 Checkpoint
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Life is back to normal now, didn’t seem to take anybody much time to get back into the routine at work. Having a set schedule seems to be working for me diet-wise. I really stuck to the eat 5 times a day rule this week, and lost a net of 2.5lbs. My pants are way too comfy now, looks like it might be time to go down a size. I’d wait for another 2.5lbs loss before trying those out, so that I won’t be disappointed in case I am not there yet.
Rant of the Week
Today, I thought I’d rant about a particular group of people who’s been bothering me lately – the Diet Naysayers. If you’ve ever been on a diet, you’d know what I am talking about. For every person who’s supportive and encouraging of your efforts, you will find two who try to put you down and force a multitude of their unsolicited advice on you. Yeah, we all know exercise is good for us, duh! At the same time there is nothing wrong in watching what we eat either! We all deserve to look our very best. Being thin and looking good increases my confidence level, makes me feel better about myself. If I chose to achieve it by going on a diet, instead of putting myself through months and months of vigorous gym routine, I had my reasons. Please, respect my decision! If you have nothing good to say, don’t say anything at all! And fellow dieters, please don’t let all the negativity affect you, choose your path and stick to it. At the end of the day, if you know what you are doing and you are happy with it, then you are doing the right thing!
Incredible Edible Eggs
Now, another topic I wanted to bring up today is Eggs. On my last post, Nags brought up a good question, is it okay to eat eggs every day? I have heard so many different arguments for and against eggs, it almost feels like whichever way you want to go, you just need to choose the right study results. I am not a doctor or dietician or any kid of expert in the field, so please do your own research. But what I learned from my research is that, if you are a healthy person it is okay to eat an egg everyday. If you have a health problem – including but not limited to – heart issues, high cholesterol and diabetes, consuming eggs may cause issues. Egg yolks do have a high amount of cholesterol, but apparently dietary cholesterol has only a very low impact on the blood cholesterol level. That means all that cholesterol in the eggs are not passed into our blood stream, saturated and trans fats have much bigger effects on blood cholesterol levels.
Looks like it is okay to eat one egg a day, especially if you cut back on saturated and trans fats. Most of the issues with eggs seem to be associated with what you eat with it, the steak and bacon and whole milk and all those. If you are really worried about eating so many eggs, use egg whites, since the yolk contain all the cholesterol.
Here are some good reading materials on the topic.
http://www.enc-online.org/GoodNews.htm
https://www.health.harvard.edu/press_releases/egg-nutrition
As I said, I am no nutrition expert, so don’t listen to me. I love eggs, so I am still eggsperimenting with different recipes. I got some great ideas from Kalyn, she has a great collection of South Beach friendly breakfast recipes. I will post my version inspired by Kalyn next week.
For now, here is one of my quick and easy egg recipes. On the days when you don’t have eggs for breakfast, you could have a boiled egg as a snack. I don’t like plain boiled eggs, so I spice them up whenever I can. First I sauté some chopped onions and garlic and curry leaves along with some spices like chili powder, curry powder or whatever I feel like that day. Once this mixture is browned well, I remove this mixture from the pan, and place the halved boiled eggs in the same pan, cut side down to slightly blister the eggs. Add the fried spice mixture back into the pan and mix well. A spicy, tasty snack is ready in no time. 
Stats
Finally, here are the current stats. I am getting there, slowly and steadily.
| Target Weight Loss | 17.5lb |
| Days on Diet | 33 |
| lbs lost so far | 10 |
| lbs to go | 7.5 |
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My opinion is that weight loss of any kind works only when it is accompanied by lean diet, otherwise you end up only maintaining and not losing weight. As long as your diet is nutritious while you lose weight you should not pay any attention to negative criticism. Cheers for losing 5kgs!
You mean, you lost 10 lbs in 33 days on the South Beach DIet? Sounds really good! I am targetting 1.5 to 2 lbs a week, and the goal is to make it sustainable for me (and make sure it’s fat, and not muscle and water). I get body fat % calculated every 4 weeks at my gym, to make sure of that. I fell sick with a virus for a 10 day period, and lost some muscle
. Back on track now. Regaining that muscle fast, and trying to work harder overall, specially on the cardio (that I find pretty boring). –Deepa
Next time you find a naysayer, just give a ‘jealous, much?’ smile or glare depending on your mood and move on.
Bet after a few weeks (so they have enough time to collect themselves, process their thoughts), a few of those will come to you and ask for diet tips!
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