Wow, the South Beach Diet is acutally quite amazing in its simplicity. The thing that impresses me the most is you don’t deprive yourself of any basic food types. Instead you make intelligent choices (i.e. “good” carbs vs “bad” carbs).
I also did a bit of Googling and discovered www.southbeach-diet-plan.com which is a community site for people on the SBD. The site looks quite interesting. I will read the forums more when I get a chance. My plan as of right now is to buy all the groceries I need for the SBD Phase 1 on Wednesday night, and start the SBD on Thursday.