Hello Everyone
I'm looking to lose about 20 pounds using the South Beach Diet and Jillian Michael's fitness videos. I was focusing on just doing Jillian, had great results, hit a plateu, hit some rough times in life, regained most of it and now need to lose again!
I read the SB diet and find it makes a lot of sense to me, and know my mom had great results with it when she tried it.
Unfortunately, I don't live in the States anymore and live in Japan.
This presents some setbacks for me in terms of ingredients and what to eat.
Actually, while reading the book, I wanted to ask Dr. Agaston how he could explain the island of Japan to me- very thin people, diet based very heavily on carbs.
First of all, finding the ingredients for me is not easy. Or if they are there, they are extremely expensive. For instance, ricotta is just not available. O 300 grams of cottage cheese costs about 385 yen, for example. I'm not sure what to eat or make because I also have a very Japanese kitchen.
No oven, only one burner, no broiler needless to say. Most apartments here are equipped like that because cooking rice is done in a rice cooker anyway.
I lived with a host family here before (been here a couple years) and tried the traditional Japanese diet. I found I got seriously fat and constipated. For now, I eat lots of veggies and fish and meats, but am always hungry without carbs.
What should I do? Should I give up on this diet and do something else? Is it possible to do this diet here in the land of noodles and rice?