Last week I started on the South Beach Diet which required me to abstain from all rice, pasta, bread, fruit, and sugar. I decided that I needed to go on a diet after trying on my wedding dress just a week before because it was much tighter than I remembered. So I headed over to Trader Joe's to buy low carb foods. My first low carb meal was terrible. I made low carb pasta which looked, smelled, and tasted like cardboard. Then I got my period and I realized that I had just been bloated. So I lasted a whole three days on the diet. These no or low carb diets were not made for rice eating asians like me. After this experience I decided that exercising is less painful than going on a diet.