IMHO

Day 15

Of being on the South Beach Diet. Day 13, technically, because on Saturdays (the busiest day at the Center) the danger of suffering from hypoglycemia is all too real, so that's my "day off." Last Saturday was a very long day off because it began at sundown on Friday - Ate Helen's birthday feast in Looban for her son Jason was just way too good to pass up. And then continued on - you just cannot have "one" Red Horse when in conversation with Kuya AG (or Ate Honey, for that matter). Then a quick breakfast, lunch time, half a sandwich at a meeting, late dinner...and then an impromptu sidetrip of more conversation and a few more beers and balut on the side, until sunrise of Sunday. And then back on the diet once more.

This diet appears to be working pretty well, given my eating preferences. Three years ago, Atkins worked wonders but the cravings during the first week got so way out of hand that I was given to bouts of binge-ing, eating tons of chicharon (allowed in unlimited amounts on the diet, but definitely not very good for you!) and smoking my lungs out. But SB is a lot more reasonable, and a lot more healthy. I'm a big meat eater and don't have a sweet tooth so it's really the starches - rice, bread, potatoes - that I miss; SBD replaces them with vegetables, so I'm eating more salads and gulay in place of my normal habit of substituting my greens with my starches. Plus I'm more easily full and I don't crave too much even on my days off. Except maybe alcohol - now a rare treat instead of an every day nightcap, which is very good. The results: not bad, not bad at all. A few more months on this program and Neil will have to find something else to make lait about (I'm pretty sure he won't have too big of a problem there!).

posted by Honey Oliveros @ 3:09 PM