South Beach --- help please :)

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I'm confused about the part where you said, "This what the plan said to eat today." Are you following the example meals from the book or something? Those are in there just as examples. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with following them if you want, but basically what they're doing is showing you what a wide variety of food you can have even on Phase 1. But you do not have to follow that at all. What Dr. A wants you to do is get in 5-7 servings of veggies a day (1 cup raw or 1/2 cup cooked is one serving), a serving of protein at each meal, a couple of snacks of protein/fat/veggie between meals, like nuts or peanut butter on celery for one, maybe string cheese and a bit of raw veggies for the other, and then a nice dessert in the evening. If you eat an egg or two for breakfast, some chicken with a big salad for lunch, nuts and string cheese as snacks, as well as more veggies, and then chicken or fish or a lean hamburger with a couple of cooked veggies for sides for supper, as well as a dessert of say 1/2 c greek yogurt with sweetener & flavoring of some kind for dessert, or a NSA fudgcicle, I can't see a problem with getting adequate calories. Oh, and a suggestion is to eat a serving of beans--great northern, pinto, black, etc.--per day will help keep blood sugar more stable, and added needed fiber that will help with the possibility of "SBD flu"--a feeling of just being kind of "off", lethargic, etc. around days 3-5, and keep your digestive tract moving along nicely.