The South Beach Diet Phase One: A Dieter's Guide

by Jackie Black

The South Beach Diet book became tremendously successful as soon as the diet book with the fitting name was published and picked up with fast succession among friends, families and fellow dieters. Each with dieting successes 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, is still growing in popularity, but The South Beach Diet phase one continues to confuse readers.

The South Beach Diet phase one is designed to be 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 your mindset about how you diet from that point on. The opposite to readers' 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 are not providing anything nutritionally for yourself, replace the bad carbs that are abundant in the American diet with substantial amounts of protein, good fats and low glycemic index (G.I.) carbs that satisfy your hunger and balances your blood sugar.

Foods that cause you more harm rather than benefit: fruit, candy, cereal, potatoes, grains, etc. all are to be eliminated, or the dieter must wean themselves off of during The South Beach Diet phase one. A safe bet, if you should have any difficulty, just eat all the salad, greens, and (most) vegetables you want, as they are on target because of their dietary benefit.

It is during Phase 1 that Dr. Agatston has proven that your body's resistance to insulin will lower, thus depending on your current weight and current health, you may lose 6 to 11 pounds initially, just in the first 2 weeks, as your body begins to shed excess body weight.

The major goal of The South Beach Diet phase one is two fold: to throw 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 get rid of the bad foods and move toward the food that will shed pounds, deliver energy and improve your lifestyle.

If you want down to earth reporting about healthy living tips, no independent health site is better for telling it like it is and minus the typical mumbo jumbo than HealthyLivingStraightTalk.com, especially when it means turning the often confusing subjects into simple ones.

Published December 8th, 2007

Filed in Fitness, Health, Women

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