I am going to take this banding journey and combine the South Beach diet. Just see it as just "1 more tool' to use on your lapband journey.

The more tools you use the better!

The bandster rules and the South Beach diet go hand in hand.

Anyone interesed can just sign up! I will be starting up on Saturday!

But anyone can jump in anytime!

It can also be a place of being accountable daily. I am the kind of person who does better when I know I have to be accountable somewhere! How bout you? I also do better having a structured program. I am sure there are others out there like me!!

Please tell us a little about yourself, your goals, stats, etc.

OFFICIALL WEIGH IN DAY WILL BE FRIDAYS! :funscale: Now our scale will say nice things to us!!!

See you on the beach!!!

Audree

The important thing about carbs is to have the right ones. Do you know about the gylcemic index?

I thik this is great idea! I too have thought about incorporating the South Beach Diet with the Band when I can eat.

I think it really is the best way to eat with the band. It's a very healthy way to eat.

Nobody has posted in here for a while, but just wanted to say that my doc required phase 1 of the south beach diet to help prepare me for surgery and shrink my liver and I've already lost 5 pounds since Saturday. AND, I feel fricking fantastic. I was a HUGE breaditarian... I've only gone two days in my life without carbs and I was miserable, but this time, I was able to do it.. I've been eating: chicken, salads, green beans, string cheese, tuna, scrambled eggs, turkey bacon, peanuts, pistachios and much more... it's been wonderful. I have more energy than I ever have.. I litterally reconstructed my closet and was on my feet all day yesterday from 7am till midnight and was fine.. I couldn't believe it. I hope my liver looks good next week when the doc goes in.... and I will continue with this diet. OH, not only that, my two skin conditions are oddly clearing up. I've always thought I had an allergic reaction to sugar cane sugar... and my face is clearing up and oddly my psoriasis is too...

Yea Im kind of doing south beach. I have been eating those darn little cereal bars and now Im completely hooked. I promised myself that once this box is gone Im not buying them anymore because I cant control myself. There no longer a healthy low calorie snack if your eating 3 of them a day. :cursing:

I have been basically doing South Beach the entire time I have been banded. (Except for the times when I completely lose it and binge on sugar) It's a very healthy way to eat. I don't think going completely carb free is healthy. The main place I do get my carbs is from fruit or high fiber

whole grain cereal. I think it's the perfect way to eat, in my opinion!

So, I know this is an old thread but I recently so a couple of people post about this diet. I myself have used SBD in the past with great success (losing the weight, not keeping it off...I am a bandster after all). I'm just over 1 week post-op and plan to this diet as a foundation for my eating, together with the band I really believe I can lose the weight and keep it off permanently. Good luck everyone.