When I have totally given up sweets, I am much less hungry througout the day.

So, some people can lose weight eating low fat, high carb. Others need to keep the blood sugar in check.

TZ – Point well taken. You’re absolutely right. You don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater and just because we don’t know everything doesn’t mean we don’t know anything. I really should know better. I have a friend who works in the media department of a government cancer organization, so her day mostly consists of taking calls from reporters and telling them that no, deodorant and cell phones DON’T cause cancer. Media types like to simplify things and write about whatever makes a good story, which I guess this article shows.

First off I would like to congratulate you on your outstanding weight loss success! You are an inspiration for many!

As a dietitian, I get very frustrated at how the media reports nutritional science. It seems that all of the people reading this blog do, as well. I also get very sad when I hear people here say things such as, “eh! they don’t know what they’re talking about.” True, we don’t have all of the answers right now, but we are working VERY HARD to find out as much information about obesity as possible as well as the best treatments for it. The media does a huge disservice to our field by reporting “sound bites” and headlines from isolated studies.

That being said, South Beach diet does work. So does Atkins, Low-fat, Zone, etc. ANY diet works if you stick with it. What the research has not been able to prove is that any one fad diet works any better than the rest for any particular reason – even the glycemic index! People lose weight when they consistently decrease their calories and increase their activity.

I am very happy that you are having such great success, especially since the South Beach Diet is fairly healthy as far as fad diets go. It focuses on healthy fats, whole grains, and vegetables which we all need more of! Just please be sensitive to us nutrition researchers out there who are devoting our lives to learn as much as we can about obesity. It’s the media that chooses to print what they do!!

Keep up the great work!!

http://blogher.org/node/3023

To find the other time, go to the posts under Food and Drink.

Also, you might be interested in my food blog, which is specifically for South Beach Diet Recipes:

http://kalynskitchen.blogspot.com

Good luck in continuing your diet. I think your blog is very inspirational to a lot of people.

But like you said, CHECK YOU OUT! It doesn’t matter if it’s not perfect, I agree with you that every diet has it’s good and bad points and it’s up to the person how they go about it. Diets should be used as tools to form the healthy eating plans and habits…they’re not the Be all and End all of health.

Plus, I did check you out and like I’ve told you it’s such an inspiration and I love that I know another blogger who’s doing the same diet as me.

We should totally start a club. And maybe have routine check out days ;D.