Kalyn's favorite Phase One Recipe from August 2011 was Spicy Sichuan Style Green Beans. |
Right now I'm feeling very pleased about the number of really fantastic Phase One recipes I found on other blogs during the month of August. When I reached three years of doing these round-ups and decided to start limiting them to recipe ideas that hadn't been previously featured, I wasn't sure how many new ones I'd find every month, but in August there were tasty Phase One recipes everywhere I looked. Some of you are going to laugh when I say this, but maybe it was partly because for the entire month of August I felt guilty that I should have been doing Phase One and I wasn't! All summer I've been a little too focused on traveling, family parties, and restaurant dinners and my weight was starting to creep up a bit. But this Monday I started Phase One for real, and I've already lost a couple of pounds. (And that's one of the reasons why I love the South Beach Diet!)
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