South Beach Diet

The South Beach Diet worked for me. I'm not a diet plan geek--the books bore me--but after reading the South Beach Diet for fifteen minutes, it made a whole lot of sense. Cut out the carbs. Eat plenty of vegetables. Not exactly rocket science, to be sure. I can't say if it will work for you, but I can say that I lost a total of 35 pounds on the South Beach Diet ...

The geek lifestyle can't help but put on the pounds. After having living it for so long, there was plenty to lose.

Truth be told, I've never had the patience to sit down and read diet books. And I've tried reading a few. I tend to flip through them. The South Beach Diet was the first diet book I read that clicked. And this was after flipping through a couple of the Atkins books. It was easy to see the similarities

I cut out all the sugar and most of the starches. Sugar (other than ice cream) wasn't that tough to do without. But the starches ... they're something else. When I'm at it, I go entirely without bread, rice, and pasta. Ouch.

Living without pizza is the hardest thing ... for a good pizza is the geek food of the gods. I still have an easy twenty pounds to lose, but now that I'm more than halfway to my goal, I do indulge my pizza-loving self once in a while. I've been known to eat everything on the pizza without the crust while on the diet. It's torture.

A (tasty!) low-carb thin-crust pizza would be nirvana. Cardboard with lousy cheese and sauce need not apply.