Your Simple Guide To The South Beach Diet Phase 1
Sunday, December 30th, 2007The South Beach Diet book became extremely successful when the diet book with the obvious name was published and picked up with rapid succession among a grassroots following. Each with dieting success stories to brag about, the South Beach Diet book, authored by Doctor Arthur Agatston, The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss, continues to grow in readership, but the South Beach Diet Phase 1 keeps confusing readers.
The South Beach Diet Phase 1 is designed to be the shortest of phases 1, 2 and 3 of the diet, lasting for a 14 day period. It was created to be intense, kick-start your body and how you think about eating from that now on. The opposite to readers’ thinking and one of the harder to understand parts to Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet, you do not have to limit yourself only eating low carb foods.
In a nut-shell, Phase 1 force feeds you the thinking to: get rid of bad carbs that are not providing anything nutritionally for your body, substitute the bad carbs that are found in surplus in most American diets with substantial amounts of protein, good fats and low glycemic index (G.I.) carbs that solves your hunger and regulate your blood sugar balance.
Foods that cause you more harm 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. If in doubt, if you should have any difficulty, is to consume all the salad, greens, and (most) vegetables you desire, as they are right in line for dietary benefit.
It is during Phase 1 that Dr. Agatston believes that one’s body resistance to insulin will decrease, thus depending on your body weight and condition, you may lose 3 to 8 pounds initially, just in the first two weeks, as your body begins to eliminate extra body weight.
The major purpose of the South Beach Diet Phase 1 is two fold: to test and discipline you into a routine that you stick with which keeps you free from hunger and to lay the groundwork for a mindset that ensures you get rid of the bad foods and move towards the food that sheds pounds, guarantee more energy and improve your quality of life.
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