The Rice Diet anyone?

I have been reading up on the Rice Diet and have ordered the book. Has anyone ever tried it? I am at goal and have been there since September, but I wanted to look into something to put hubby in as he has a few pounds to lose (about 30) and he has not had WLS so I can't instill my rules. Since I will be cooking for him, I wondered about eating the same way myself. Any "Ricers" out there????

I've never heard of it! Do you have a link?

You can read about it here: http://diet-plans.featherish.com/diet-plans/rice-diet/rice-diet.html Low-fat, low-salt, mostly vegetarian (fish is the key meat).

Well...basically its a more vegetarian version of the southbeach diet. If your hubby isn't a big meat eater, then he should do fine on it....I personally couldn't live on this. I love my meat, eggs, etc. But that's me lol. Good luck! I will say, it is NOT recommended to be on this 'diet' without doc supervision...but most will ignore that warning

I looked at the link, and the first phase is grains and fruit only. So there is very little protein. Might work for your husband, but for us post-ops the low protein part doesn't sound like a good idea, especially for long-term. Just my opinion from reading the short explanation. Connie -147#

Rice is one of the few things that my pouch will simply not tolerate. Maybe one or two grains would be fine but even a half of a forkful kills me.

I am so glad I found this board. There was actually an article in Woman's World Magazine a bit ago about this... I will look to see if I still have it & retype it to post. I do remembrt that you can swap out other whole grains for the rice in this version. I may just try this over the weekend... Becky