A Visit to South Beach

I may be the last would-be weight watcher in the country to discover the South Beach Diet. The cover of the book by Dr. Arthur Agatston, MD, brags that it's a New York Times bestseller, and it even sports a pop-out button stating "lose belly fat first." Definitely not my usual thing.

But my hubby read the book last year and hasn't stopped talking about it since. "It's the only diet that's sensible, that teaches you how to eat right in the long-term…" he says. "In fact it's not a ‘diet' at all, but a way of life." From the beginning, he insisted that with my carbohydrate-shy and gluten-free eating habits I was essentially on the South Beach Diet by default.

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