This is my second time on South Beach.
I lost 40 pounds quickly and easily on SBD several years ago. I was committed to the program while I was using it, but I thought of it as a diet not a lifestyle change. I used a lot of the SB snack bars and frozen meals and once I was happy with my weight I went back to my old eating habits. I depended on exercise to maintain my weight and did OK for close to a year but then health problems and medications made it tough to exercise and easy to comfort myself with food. I slowly but surely ate my way back into plus size clothing.
I'm doing things differently this time - I've learned to shop, cook and eat differently rather than depending on convenience foods. I lost 50 pounds and then focused on maintaining that loss for 6 months - not just by exercising this time, but by making good food choices and going back to Ph 2 when I noticed my weight going up. Now I'm working on getting down to a normal BMI and I'm confident that I'll get there. I know I can stay there for the rest of my life if I stay committed to the SBD lifestyle. I also know I can easily gain all the weight back if I let myself go back to my old ways.....