Court was off yesterday, so during lunch we stopped by Circuit City (TV spotting and MS Flight 2004 w/$20 rebate) and Sam's Club. I hadn't been to Sam's since I've been down here. I've always kinda liked Sam's, even though just being one guy it wasn't very useful to me. Every once in a while I'd go and pick up a few things...snacks mostly, like a big container of cashews for my Dad. We were actually looking for stuffed shells (which Court likes...and I guess I do too) but they didn't have them there anymore. On the way to that aisle we passed a woman cooking up Tyson chicken tenderloins and they were so good I had to get a bag of those. Also picked up a big box of 20 SuperPretzels. A few other things later, and the freezer is full...and we've got Omaha Steaks coming by the end of the week. Uh oh.

Court also picked up a book on 'The South Beach Diet', which is a big thing down here. She's going to go on it. It's a carb-cutting diet...first two weeks, you cut just about all carbs...then, you gradually allow them back in to your diet at a slow pace. Some things you can't eat in the first two weeks (by memory):

• 2% or whole Milk


• corn


• yogurt


• absolutely anything having to do with potatoes


• fruit and fruit juices


• bread


• candy, ice cream, all those bad things you shouldn't eat anyway


• soda


• alcohol

And those are just the ones I remember. Basically, you can eat three meals a day, with 2 snacks eat day. Snacks are usually something like skim-milk string cheese and 20 strawberries or cherry tomatoes.

I was thinking of going on it before I read the book. Then I saw that just about everything I enjoy eating...milk, bread, corn, potatoes, fruit juice...was on the list. Those things make up like 80% of my diet, with meat being the other 20%. EVERY breakfast suggestion they give you during the first 2 weeks involves eggs, which I will NOT eat in any form. Oh yeah...no cereal either. I figured that if I did go on this diet not only would I be MISERABLE but I'd probably collapse during working out, since juice (apple, orange, grape) is my personal gasoline during the day. I mean, I can drink a lot of water, but still.

This book even corked up the idea that whole milk is better than 2% milk, for some BS reason.