South Beach Diet Phase 1 Review – Anyone Can Loose Weight!
You’ve probably heard of the South Beach Diet. It became popular in the early years of this decade, and since then, a lot of false information has spread about it. Most people think of this eating plan as a low-carb or low-fat diet, but it’s not about eating less fat or fewer carbohydrates – it’s about choosing the right, healthy ones.
The South Beach Diet wasn’t originally designed to help people to lose weight. It was put together by a cardiologist to promote healthy eating, especially the kind that would be good for the heart. That’s where good fats and bad fats, and good carbs and bad carbs, come into the picture. You’ve probably heard of “trans fats” and “saturated fats”. Well, those are the kind that not only contribute to cholesterol and the risk of heart disease, but are also very hard to lose once you’ve consumed. Unsurprisingly, The South Beach diet eliminates these in Phase One – that means no fatty cuts of red meat. Bad carbohydrates create a rapid increase in blood sugar, making you hungry again quickly. These – like pastry and most bread – have to go too.
The diet works in phases. Phase One lasts around two weeks, and is the strictest phase: you may not eat any sugars, processed carbohydrates, or even fruit. The aim of this phase is to diminish the hunger cycle – by the end of it, you should not only have experienced significant weight loss, but also feel hungry less often. Phase Two lasts as long as you want it to – it’s similar to the first, but less strict, with fruit and some whole-grain carbohydrates re-introduced. Phase Three has no list of restricted foods, but instead dictates that the dieter live by the basic principles of the diet. This is called the maintenance phase.
The South Beach Diet has many benefits, not least what it can do for your health. While many diets have harmful long-term effects on your general well-being, and especially you metabolism, The South Beach Diet does only good things for your cholesterol levels, your heart, and your risk of diabetes. Because it’s not a crash diet, it increases your metabolic rate.
More good news about The South Beach Diet is that it allows for a wider choice of foods than most other diets. While the first phase is strict and prescriptive, adherents of the plan are left to make their own food choices after this point, using the lists provided only as guidelines. Snacking is allowed, and eating dessert after dinner is allowed.
The South Beach Diet’s Phase One might look at first like one of the many “fad diets” that come and go, but it’s something different. Rather than being just another scheme to take advantage of people desperate to lose weight, it’s helped many to develop a truly healthy – and yes, thinner – lifestyle. The South Beach Diet looks to be here to stay.
