The South Beach Diet

The South Beach Diet According to Agatston (American cardiologist who invented it) is the South Beach Diet not a diet but a way of life that causes people to lose excess weight permanently. The principles of the South Beach diet: low in saturated fat and good carbs. That is, especially carbohydrate-rich foods with low glycemic index, like vegetables, whole grain cereal and fruit should be eaten. The diet has three phases.   Stage 1: Withdrawal The first step should be followed two weeks. In this period it is 3.5 to 6 pounds. This phase is meant to wean. One has to if it were withdrawal of foods high in refined carbohydrates, the products where fat has become such as white bread, candy and cake. In this phase, the process of losing weight in motion. The diet in the first 2 weeks consists exclusively of lean meat, white fish, vegetables, low fat cheese and a limited amount of up to 250 milliliters skim milk. For the preparation is only recommended oil.   Phase 2: Gradual weight loss The second phase should be continued until the target weight is reached. The rate of weight loss should be 0.5 to 1 kg per week. In this phase may be added to the diet Phase 1 of the good carbs are gradually added vegetables and whole grain products.   Phase 3: Weight Maintenance The third phase is to ensure weight maintenance. In principle, everything eaten. The diet includes three meals, so that should satisfy there is no need for snacks.   Compositionally builds on the diet of the second phase: lean animal products, fruit, vegetables and whole grains. It continues a pattern with many lean meats and vegetables. Persons in the second or third phase coming back, are recommended for several days following Phase 1 and then proceed with phase one Sat

Summary South Beach Diet The South Beach Diet is despite the fact that it is set up as a medical diet, the easiest diet there is. You do not have to count calories and you do not weigh portions. The big difference with all other diets is that you only have to take into account the glycemic index of your daily foods and good fats and good carbohydrates. And that's pretty easy because there are more food resources than allowed prohibited. If you teach yourself to choose foods that are low to medium on the glycemic index score, then you are doing well. The South Beach Diet is therefore the most flexible diet that I know. You can create your own culinary imagination free rein in every way. After all, you can more often than not. If you once the glycemic index in your head, you can vary as much as you want. Moreover, you always have enough to eat, you have to take snacks and there is no calorie guide or kitchen scales involved. Could not be simpler. And so is the result.   The South Beach Diet is not low-carb way of eating. And it's not a diet which is low in fat is allowed. The South Beach Diet teaches you to rely on the good carbs and good moisturizing right so you eventually learn to live happily naturally without bad carbs and bad fats. The result is that you'll be healthier and lose weight. This loss is in the first two weeks as between 3.5 and 6 pounds, and that's just the beginning!