South Beach Diet Phase 1 Simplified

I’ve broken down Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet into simple rules to make it easy to eat out or change the menu to suit your taste. See chart below:

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

V8 Juice
Coffee (decaff)
2 eggs, any style
add reduced fat cheese, mushrooms, salsa, or other veggies to your eggs to make an omelette

Big Salad
4-6 ounces chicken, fish, cottage cheese in the salad
lots of low glycemic vegetables
2 Tbsp low carb dressing.

4-6 ounces chicken, fish or lean beef
Salad
Low gylcemic vegetables
sugar free jello or Ricotta Creme for dessert

Two snacks per day, examples include:

Vegetables with hummus or low fat cream cheese.
1 string cheese stick
1/2 cup cottage cheese