I was just curious if anyone follows their own version of SBD or has any personal modifications to the plan. I know in the book the author even stressed that it's a flexible plan and you need to find what works for you. It included an example of a guy who followed the plan but ate a bowl of ice cream daily. Also a camara guy who he explained the basic principles to who was able to loose weight just based on this. The majority of the success stories in the book included some sort of...but I still occasionally do this.
I've also been a fan of pasta queens blog..a woman who lost nearly 200 pounds following SBD. She was pretty honest in her blog that she cheated pretty regularly, and ate some not quite SBD friendly foods regularly...ie lean cusiene pizzas.
I personally have been sticking to mostly phase 1 past my 2 weeks. Whenever I tried to add more phase 2 foods into my diet the cravings come back. I ate an entire box of chocolate SBD bars in the span of 2 days. It's the kind of food I tend to overeat if it's in the house. So I've been sticking with something that is kind of like phase 1.3, I eat mostly phase 1 foods but occasionally add a minor phase 2 ingredient or something.
I follow SBD on a week to week basis. Each week I must work out 5 days and follow "phase 1.3" strictly for 6 days. I then give myself a "cheat" day. But on the cheat day I only cheat a little, this may be a saturday night where I got out to the bar with my friends and drink a pitcher of light beer or allow myself to eat an ice cream cone. I don't go to crazy but allow myself a treat if I'm good all week. Although the cheat day can be any day I want it to be..ie if theres a party on wed it will be on wed.
what does everyone else do?