Hi all. I'm Jen and I came here while looking for recipes for South Beach and decided it would probably be a good idea to stay - you know what they say about people with support groups doing better with their goals.
I started SB last week and it hasn't been as hard as I was afraid it would be. I am feeling a bit like I'm in a Monty Python sketch - only with eggs instead of spam - in the morning. But the drop's been fantastic; somewhere between five and eight pounds already (I forget to wear the same things when I weigh in, and it doesn't help that my scale tares out at 3# instead of zero.) My mother's been on a medically-supervised program for a few months now, and her current regimen is something that resembles Phase 1 SB, so we can share recipes and go out together, which has been great.
I gained 40# as an undergrad, which is what going to a school rated in the top ten for dining every year will do to you. The food in grad school was much worse and I only added about eight. Now I'm trying to finish my graduate thesis, which stalled last year, and my goal is that as I lose weight, it better gain some!
I just moved to a city and I love it; it's much more aggravating to drive and try to park, than walk. I can walk home from one of my jobs! There's also a park, with some pretty demanding rocky trails, within walking distance of my apartment. Additionally, I did a bunch of weight lifting in high school and a little in a study I was in last year, and I'm trying to figure out how to add that in.
