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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bront" data-source="post: 2399343" data-attributes="member: 19696">South Beach is actualy an adjusted carb diet that's only initialy low carb (First 2 weeks) if done correctly.  After that, you work the better carbs back into your diet slowly so you find out which carbs work well in your diet.  And it is ultimately more of a lifestyle change if done right (Which is what I tried to do earlier).  When I say I fell off of it when I lost my job, I started regularly snacking on candy again and other bad things again as comfort food, wasn't walking as much (I walked 30 min plus a day to, from, and durring work), and was unable to afford to keep eating mostly leaner meats and better carbs all the time.I liked the South Beach because I wasn't counting anything.  Durring the first 2 weeks (where I lost 25 pounds), I actualy increased my calorie intake a bit.  I just ate better things like nuts and chease instead of candy, and would order the salads at McDonnalds instead of chicken nuggets and fries.  Eventualy, to fill my sweet tooth, I found some sugar free candy that I used as the occasional desert (Russel Stover makes some great stuff).  I droped to diet soda (which I still drink almost exclusively).As the diet went on, I found I needed to snack less. (There are 2 built in snacks in the diet) and my food intake slowly went down as I simply started to need to eat less food to be satisfied.  When I worked carbs back in, my diet became quite broad, but still avoiding regularly consuming the uglier fast food items on a regular basis.  I was a huge pizza fan and found I could still have it on occasion without screwing up my diet (usually cheese or spinach pizza, depending on if it was thin crust or stuffed, avoiding pan or deep dish for the more bready crusts).  Several people at work started the diet after me, and I was their hero for all the weight I lost.  So loosing that support group (And having my GF out of town for 2 weeks when it happened) didn't help either.My big problem is eating at work.  I need to figure out things to either bring to work (I'm never good at that) or order from the few places open over night (There are some good salads and healthier alternitives out there, just need to look).  Stock up on penuts instead of chips or candy (Not the best, but better than the alternitives).  The biggest help was I had protine shakes I'd drink on the way to work instead of a breakfast, but those are expensive.Thanks for the responses so far.  I appreciate the support <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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