The South Beach Diet book became extremely successful as soon as the diet book with the obvious name was published and grew with fast succession among friends, families and fellow dieters. Armed 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, continues to grow in readership, but the South Beach Diet Phase 1 continues to confuse readers.

The South Beach Diet Phase 1 is designed to be the shortest of all phases of the diet, only lasting for a fourteen day period. It was created to be intense, kick-start your body and your mindset about eating from that now on. Contrary to readers’ thinking and one of the stickier 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 your body, 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 solves your hunger and balances your blood sugar.

Foods that do 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. If in doubt, if you should have any difficulty, just eat all the salad, greens, and (most) vegetables you desire, as they are on target for nutritional benefit.

It’s during this South Beach Diet Phase that Doctor Agatston has proven that your body’s resistance to insulin will go down, thus depending on your current weight and condition, you may lose 4 to 12 pounds initially, initially in the first 2 weeks, as your body begins to shed surplus body weight.

The major goal of the South Beach Diet Phase 1 two fold: to push you into a routine that you stick with which keeps you feeling full and to lay the groundwork for a frame of mind that ensures you get rid of the bad foods and gravitate towards the food that sheds pounds, guarantee more energy and better your lifestyle.

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