It's not like Adkines or South Beach, it is Ayurveda.Which means the science of life.My husband and I began by visiting an Ayurveda Dr.He gave us herbal suppliments and asked us to begin eatting acording to the Ayurveda way.He gave us a booklet.We visited thousands of web sites, bought three cook books, and joined chat groups like this.It's very differant from how most Americans grow up eatting.It's very differant from how we were taught about food too.
If you don't start by seeing a Ayurveda dr.(which is kinda pricey, but worth it)beging to eat this way (which is 90% of the science of life) will give you great benefits!
An easy to follow book that I bought at Wholefoods is The Ayurvedic cookbook by Amadea Morningstar and Urmila Desai.
It's all Indian cooking.They say in another book I have that Indian cooking is based on Ayurveda.
The reason for this change in our life was due to my husbands constant indigestion.Even water gave him heart burn!We were willing to try any thing!We've been doing this for 6 weeks now and we're glad we did.
Some things that go back to your situation is, the diet is gluton free, no refined sugars, no yeast or formented foods, no processed foods,no beans,only use basmati rice, no milk (soy milk is o.k.), no aged cheeses..............
The idea is that when you start feeding yourself right alot of other things are able to fix themselves.Your body isn't waisting so much time digesting all those odd things.
I still have alot to learn and I hope some other peeps here will chime in.
Even just trying the spelt bread and spelt flour may give you all the joy you need.