The South Beach Diet Phase 1
The South Beach Diet book became seriously successful when the diet book by similar name was published and grew with rapid succession among friends, families and fellow dieters. Each with dieting successes to brag about, the South Beach Diet book, officially titled as, The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss, is still growing in passion, but the South Beach Diet Phase 1 keeps confusing readers.
The South Beach Diet Phase 1 is the shortest of all phases of the diet, lasting for a two-week period. It was designed to be confrontational, kick-start your body and how you think about dieting from that point on. The opposite to popular thinking and one of the harder to understand parts to Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet, you don't have to hold yourself back only eating low carb foods.
In a nut-shell, Phase 1 force feeds you the thinking to: get rid of bad carbs that aren't providing anything nutritionally for yourself, replace the bad carbs that are overwhelming in quantity in most American diets with large amounts of protein, good fats and low glycemic index (G.I.) carbs that entertain your hunger and regulate your blood sugar balance.
Foods that cause you more harm rather than benefit: fruit, candy, cereal, potatoes, grains, etc. all are eliminated, or the dieter must wean themselves off of during the South Beach Diet Phase 1. A safe bet, if you should have any difficulty, is to ingest all the salad, greens, and (most) vegetables you want, as they are on target because of their dietary benefit.
It's during Phase 1 that Dr. Agatston has proven that one's body resistance to insulin will lower, thus depending on your body weight and current health, you may lose 2 to 9 pounds initially, just in the first two weeks right off the bat, as your body begins to eliminate extra body weight.
The major goal of the South Beach Diet Phase 1 two fold: to push you into a routine that you can manage that keeps you feeling full and to plant a seed and the groundwork for a frame of mind that ensures you rid yourself of the bad foods and move towards the food that will shed pounds, deliver energy and better your lifestyle.
Tapping into tell it to you straight and real insight about the healthy lifestyle you want to adopt, is not as hard as you think. No matter your interest: from water conservation to alternative health dieting tips you can't find in a book, you name it. Adopting a healthy living doesn't have to be sacrificial, or at all challenging if you do not want it to be, nor must you have to sacrifice all the flavors, living like a rock star lifestyle and adventure you now appreciate as often is the myth.
Published December 8th, 2007
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