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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Upstate NY
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Adia did such a great job on this post! Here are some tips from today's Daily Dish on preparing your kitchen for Phase 1 that I thought were helpful in this thread:
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Stocking Up Your Kitchen
The journey of reaching your weight-loss goals starts in the kitchen. Taking stock of the foods that you will be cooking and eating as you follow the South Beach Diet is a good way to improve your results. This means removing certain foods altogether. To help you get started (or to serve as a reminder), we’ve created this checklist of foods that should be eliminated for Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet. Most of these foods can be reintroduced two weeks later, once you enter Phase 2. Learn how to create a healthy kitchen with this easy Phase 1 cheat sheet:
Foods to Avoid in Phase 1
Baked goods: Breads (even those made with whole-wheat flour), cakes, cookies, crackers, cupcakes, muffins, pastries, and waffles
Beverages: All fruit juices, sodas, and any other drinks containing sugar, fructose, or corn syrup, as well as all alcoholic beverages
Cereals: All varieties of cereals
Condiments, dressings, and seasonings: Barbecue sauce, honey mustard, ketchup, and any other condiment, sauce, or salad dressing made with corn syrup, molasses, or sugar
Dairy and cheese: Whole milk; cheeses made with anything but 1% milk, part-skim, or fat-free milk; creamy cheeses except for low-fat cottage cheese
Flour: All cornmeal and flour, including pancake and waffle mixes
Fruit: All fruit and fruit products, including dried fruits
Meat and poultry: Anything processed using sugars (honey-baked or maple-cured ham, for instance); fatty fowl such as duck and goose; pate; dark-meat chicken and turkey (legs and wings); processed fowl (such as packaged chicken nuggets or patties); beef brisket, liver, rib steaks, and other fatty cuts
Oils and fats: All solid vegetable shortening or lard, butter, and hydrogenated oils
Pasta: All pasta, even whole wheat
Rice: All rice, even brown
Snacks: All packaged snacks are off-limits, both sweet and salty varieties, except for one-ounce packages of dry-roasted nuts
Soup: All powdered soup mixes (many are full of trans fats)
Sweeteners: All sweeteners, except sugar substitutes
Vegetables (starchy): Beets, carrots, corn, green peas, sweet and white potatoes, pumpkin, turnips (root), winter squash, and yams
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