Fri, Apr-30-04, 17:48
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Senior Member
Posts: 989
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Plan: South beach (modified)
Stats: 185/154/150
BF:
Progress: 89%
Location: Michigan
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FIrst, celebrate how luck you all are to be in this together! It is twice the work if you also have to cook for two parts of the family - the anti meat anti veggie pizza and noodles as well as south beachers! You are lucky.
Somewhere here a guy complained that SBD is too much cooking. But I am in your boat - full time career, two girsl 12 and 15 (but the chabbier 12 year old hates meat and veggies, and is very active, and the 15 year old looks great- I am not pushing), so in a way it is worse, on the other hand I only think of me (DH is diabetic and can't cut carbs in that way without getting his insulin messed up).
So, what do I find? I have a lot of allowed snacks around (peanuts, string cheese, lf plain yoghurt), I always have a head lettuce (Boston or butterhead), I always have deli cut turkey breast and lf cheese, and smoked Salmon. I sometimes cook hard eggs ahead. So, I don't often chop veggies for breakfast and Lunch - that is mostly the lettuce with some tomatoes and the deli meat and cheese. For dinner I don't think it is more work - in the beginning the biggest work was my breakfast since I often made warm veggies with eggs - now I am on a whole grain bread with avocado and cheese or salmon etc....
I often made about a 3 x recipe of the veggie quiche on a free momment in the weekend and froze about 10-15 of them. They are also a snack for me.
Dessert - we are not too much into that and the most popular one if was a large pack of jello that hung around for a few days in the fridge - eaten by all, SBD or not. Or I make fruit salad late in the evening - wash raspberries, blueberries, cut kiwi and pear and orange.
It seems you 4 have an admirable attitude of everyone pitching in! And don't forget to switch to phase 2 after two weeks - with so little to loose and teenagers it may be useful to make it all look more normal, have (albeit whole grain) Spaghetti again etc. so they don't drop and go the other way. Good luck - and report back here in a couple of weeks, PLEASE!
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