The South Beach Diet book became extremely successful when the diet book with the fitting name was published and grew with fast succession among a dedicated inner circle. Armed with dieting success stories to tell everyone 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 popularity, 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 14 day period. It was created to be in your face, kick-start your body and your mindset about how you diet from that point on. The opposite to popular thinking and one of the more difficult to grasp parts to Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet, you do not have to hold yourself back only eating low carb foods.
In a nut-shell, Phase 1 instills in you the thinking to: rid yourself of bad carbs that aren’t doing anything nutritionally for your body, replace the bad carbs that are overwhelming in quantity in most American diets with substantial amounts of protein, good fats and low glycemic index (G.I.) carbs that solves 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 phase themselves off of during the South Beach Diet Phase 1. If in doubt, if you should have any confusion, is to ingest all the salad, greens, and (most) vegetables you desire, as they are on target because of their nutritional benefit.
It is during this stage that Doctor Agatston believes that one’s body resistance to insulin will lower, thus depending on your current weight and condition, you may lose 7 to 13 pounds initially, even in the first two weeks alone, as your body begins to eliminate extra body weight.
The major purpose of the South Beach Diet Phase 1 is 2-fold: to test and discipline you into a routine that you stick with which 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, guarantee more energy and better your lifestyle.
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- Thor Daniels