First Day of New Diet

So today is the first day of doing the South Beach Diet.  I'm doing good so far.  I am so not hungry, which is a first for me.  Had breakfast egg scramble with onions, garlic, tomatoes and cheese, turkey bacon and tomato juice.  For snack, had some string cheese, a few almonds and some more tomato juice.  Now I'm making Chock-Full-of-Veggies Chili from the South Beach Diet Supercharged book.  Good thing I like veggies.  Looks good to me.  What do you think?

Ingredients for chili:

Vegetables (except for tomatoes) cooking.

Everything simmering.  Smells very yummy!

Finished product served with a salad and yummy homemade Dijon lemon garlic dressing.

The kids were not at all interested in this, but that at least gives me more to freeze and fewer meals to make later!

Just to give you warning, I will not be posted this much detail every day.  It's just because we are snowed in.

Even the carport did not protect the cars from getting covered in snow.

I think I'm staying in side, cuz Baby, it's cold outside.

Stay warm and safe.

G

South Beach Diet Supercharged

I recently made a visit to my new cardiologist.  I just love him!  He's helped me way more than my old cardiologist ever did.  I'm feeling better and stronger every day.  Among his advice for me was to get the book South Beach Diet and read it.  This is the diet he says comes the closest to the lifestyle he recommends living.  So I took the plunge and downloaded the book South Beach Diet Supercharged to iBooks on my iPhone.  This is perfect timing for me since we are starting our Pound for Pound Challenge at work on Tuesday, February 1.  I'll post more about the Pound for Pound Challenge later.

So Tuesday is the day.  I've decided to take the first step towards making permanent and lasting lifestyle changes.  I'm excited about this.  I'm ready for a healthier life.  One in which I can keep up with the kids!  I've been cleaning out the cabinets of foods that will tempt me back into the old way of life.  I've made a grocery list and Bud's gone to the store for me (he's so good about that!  I'm a lucky woman!) I'm ready for Tuesday.

I'll be blogging my progress.  In addition to continuing to post recipes from Mom's cook book, Cooking with Mom, I'll be posting recipes that are for the South Beach Diet.  If you're living the South Beach way, share your recipes too.  I'm sure I'll be on the hunt for more as time goes on.  I want to get the South Beach Diet Super Quick Cookbook and the South Beach Diet Quick and Easy Cookbook, but that we have to wait for now.  My birthday is coming up, maybe I'll get it then!