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I did find a low glycemic diet a few weeks ago. I was searching the internet for one when the first site I went to mentioned that the South Beach Diet is a low glycemic diet. It is! I was stunned. I bought that book years and didn’t realize it was low glycemic! I have the book in my basement so I ran downstairs, grabbed it off the shelf and actually read it this time.

I was shocked I had a low glycemic diet book right in my house the entire time without knowing. Plus I was really unhappy with myself for the same reason! So the South Beach Diet was made by a heart doctor worried about his cardiac patients. He wanted a diet to get their insulin and cholesterol better. A side effect was weight loss. So many that weren’t his patients, but related to his patients, wanted to follow the diet too as people were losing weight and it looked like they were eating some good food too!

I can say that the South Beach Diet is the easiest diet I’ve ever followed. And it doesn’t seem like a diet either. All my meals are really tasty, I’m happy eating them, I’m full and I lost weight without realizing it!

I lost 5 pounds the first week and 3 pounds the second week. Both weeks I was on phase 1. Then on phase 2 I lost 1 pound each week. So the weight loss slowed down pretty bad, but I still lost weight! To those of you that have tried and tried to lose weight even 1 pound a week is a miracle.

I really wish all nutritionists, endocrinologists basically anyone that deals with people with insulin resistance, pcos would all tell their patients to not stress and just follow the South Beach Diet. I wouldn’t have wasted years trying to figure out what to eat if I had known about that diet.

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I had the worst time trying to figure out how many carbs I was eating each meal. I finally just quit. I don’t have the time to try and rigidly stick to counting things. I need to eat and then move on to do things! Plus there were no recipes. I don’t want to eat bland food, I think that’s why I’ve failed a lot of diets. It was horrible food and I couldn’t wait to eat real food again.

I bought a diabetic cookbook that also had carb counts by each recipe. But the recipes I think were for cooks with a lot of time or money. Some of the ingredients I hadn’t heard of! I just want normal food, that I can make fast, tastes good and is low glycemic! Is that too much to ask?

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