South Beach Diet vs Atkins – which is best for diabetic person?

I have been doing Atkins for years and eating low carb. I now find it hard to stick to it. I realize “now” that I am eating tons of fat, butter, sour cream and heavy whipping cream for my coffee.

I have lost thirty pounds, but maybe not due to Atkins, but because I am taking a pill for diabetes that helped me lose weight.

I was reading about the South Beach Diet and it is similar to Arkins only we cannot eat all the fat. This is a harder diet to do because I would have to make certain meals where with Atkins it was just meat, fish, eggs, cheese and broccoli and asparagus .. and salad. I do not want to make a lot of recipes with the South Beach Diet – it just seems to hard to do.

I do not thoroughly understand why I can eat a lot of whole grains on a diet “when” they contain carbs. If I eat normal carbs I gain weight immediately. Whole grains slow down the GL, but I still don’t get it. I need to start a diet today and not sure which is best. Need to lose 40 pounds.

If I were to pick on I’d go for South Beach. Behind the scenes south beach is a low-GI (glycemic index) diet. It focuses on how long foods in your system take to metabolize into sugar in your system.

We’ve been on a low GI diet for about two years now. I didn’t have any weight to lose but its cleared up a couple of my health problems and my wife dropped 30lbs on it.

A lot of the whole grains, are less processed and therefore have more nutritional benefits then fully-processed foods. Also a lot of the whole grains help keep you regular.


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