Fit for Life....or at least this week

I've been on and off, then back on and back off the South Beach diet since November. I've gotten okay results, but seem to be loosing and gaining back the same darn five pounds! The SB recipes are delicious and quite a few have been added to my box of favorites. But if I have to eat one more egg for breakfast I'm going to go postal on somebody! You know the feeling, the one where you have eaten the same food so often that just the smell of it can make you nauseous. So, I will glean some of the healthy eating tips from SB and move on to new horizons. Or I should say old, since I followed the Fit for Life book last year at about this time. For anybody who has not heard of it, the book was published back in the 80's and is still one of the most bought diet books on Amazon. I got turned on to it by a friend....a healthy friend (not skinny, but healthy, which is what I want) I could go into details, but its basically eating nothing but fruit all morning, then after noon you can eat whatever you want, just got to be specific about what foods you eat together and stop eating at 8pm. The book details how your body digests foods, the cycles your body goes through on a daily basis and other rather interesting stuff like that. Like all diets it promotes eating fresh fruit and veggies, stay away from fried fatty foods ect. What I like about it though it that nothing is off limits, in moderation. When I followed the guidelines last year I lost almost 20lbs (which I have since gained back, dang it!) and I felt wonderful. I actually stayed with the program for over six months, until the holidays rolled around and my supply of summer fruit had dwindled. So spring is upon us, the grocery stores overflowing with sweet yummy fruits and delicious looking veggies and I have a good six months to plot how to push through the holiday season without tossing my good eating habits out the window.