Fad Diets and Eating Disorders by Stephen Lau
Copyright (c) 2008 Stephen Lau
Eating disorders are abnormal addictive behaviors, which cause food addiction problems. Many are suffering from food addiction because of fad diets.
What are fad diets?
Fad diets are the popular diets touted to make you thin or to cure a certain health problem you may have. Fad diets come and go. Examples of fad diets are the Atkins Diet, the Weight Watchers Diet, and the South Beach Diet, among many others.
Nearly all of these fad diets are based on the principle of calorie restriction - which essentially means depriving yourself of food or eating only certain types of food while avoiding others, and following diligently some set of rules of eating.
Unfortunately, many of these fad diets failed for two reasons.
Firstly, many individuals fail to adhere to these dieting plans. They do not have the discipline to follow through the set of rules of eating dictated by each fad diet plan. They succumb to the urge of eating. Who would blame them? After all, normal eating is a normal instinct in any individual. To force oneself to eat abnormally is against human instinct. Abnormal eating creates behavioral problems, which often lead to addictive behaviors and food addiction problems, such as anorexia and bulimia.
Secondly, dieting impairs your body's metabolism, which ultimately will turn back on you. Diets, even the relatively healthy ones, are only short-term solutions to your weight or health problems. Down the road, these fad diets will create more problems than what they have solved.
For years, many nutrition experts have warned against going for fad diets, which often promote unhealthy preoccupation with food, instead of normal eating. Abnormal or unhealthy eating behaviors play havoc with your body's metabolism, which is the rate at which you burn calories. Your metabolic rate holds the key to weight loss. When you go on a fad diet, you are in fact "starving" your body, which, out of its natural instinct for survival, will automatically reduce its metabolic rate. As a result, you are not exactly losing the weight you so desperately wish to lose. The initial weight loss from any fad diet may be only the loss of water due to the sudden change in your eating patterns, not the extra pounds you want to shed. Worse, when you stop dieting, you metabolic rate goes up again, but not to where it originally was; in other words, yo-yo dieting (on-and-off dieting) may lead to malfunctioning of your body's metabolism until it can no longer burn calories efficiently. The implication is that your body has learned to maintain its weight with fewer calories. In other words, your effort in dieting has been a waste of good intentions. The net result is ultimate weight gain for you, not the weight loss you had hoped for.
Dieting is only a temporary weight control solution. According to dietitians, unless you change your lifestyle, or can adhere diligently and persistently to your chosen diet regimen for the rest of your life, losing weight permanently is impossible.
The danger of embracing one fad diet after another is that your overt preoccupation with your weight and appearance, such as counting calories, carbohydrates, and worrying about fat content of you food, may turn into an obsession, which will develop into eating disorders down the road.
(More on eating disorders in the next article)
About the Author
Stephen Lau is a researcher, writing medical research for scientists. His publications include "NO MIRACLE CURES" a book on healing and wellness. He has also created several websites on health and healing. http://www.longevityforyou.com http://www.zenhealthylifestyle.com
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=749729
29 January 2008
5 Weight Loss Motivation Tips for a Slender You
5 Weight Loss Motivation Tips for a Slender You by Naweko San-Joyz
Is it your thyroid? Is it that lurking hormone cortisol? Maybe it's menopause, your hectic lifestyle or even your genes. But, the true reason you find yourself battling those last 15 or 20 pounds all comes down to how you handle five major issues. Use these five tips to handle the issues that could otherwise keep you fat.
Weight Loss Issue #1: Understand how weight loss works
Slim Fast, South Beach, Weight Watchers, The Zone, Dr. Phil, Atkins, ...You could waste years testing new weight loss programs that hit the market daily. How do you simplify things? How do you know you've found the right diet?
Even though this fact may burn the ears of many women, the truth remains that if you want to lose weight, eat less and exercise more. Ouch! I just heard some lady scream from the pain of realization. But that's how a diet works.
Just like you can find medical documents that praise and persecute popular diets, you will always find that most medical studies prove that this weight loss formula is just as effective as it was some 3.5 million years ago when Lucy used it- eat less, exercise more.
So don't put so much power into the name of your diet as to the nutritional content of the diet. In short, each and everyday you need to eat proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.
Weight Loss Issue #2: Know how much you need to exercise and do it
Your personal trainer told you and now the FDA is barking down your throat, "Exercise more!" The only way to divorce cellulite from those thighs is to create a fat deficit. That's the only way your body will utilize those excess fat globules.
My favorite way of knowing that I vacating unwelcome cellulite, or encroaching cellulite, is feeling the tingle in my legs as I exercise for 40-50 minutes at a time. You don't need to run yourself dogged, just exercise smarter as researchers at the University of Pittsburgh suggest.
After monitoring 201 overweight women using various exercise methods from high-intensity and long, to low-intensity and short, this study featured in the Canadian Journal of Health & Nutrition found that women who exercised briskly for at least 50 minutes, five times a week while using a sensible diet, lost an average or 25 pounds in six months.
Weight Loss Issue #3: Watch for signs of caving in You'll hear it in gyms and offices all across America. "I didn't lose 20 pounds in two weeks so that diet obviously sucks."
As shocking as it sounds, too many women believe that weight loss should be fast. While "Cosmo" and "Star" will promise to divulge the starvation secrets of how models lose mounds of weight in days, don't buy it.
That stuff might work on Mars, but if you want to see real results, you need to give your body at least eight weeks, or ideally 12. This is because, when you diet, your body wholly resists this change and it is actually going to test your dedication to sticking with the diet.
While you can try to trick your body with get-skinny-quick-diets like ketosis induction or protein diets, you can't stay on such diets for life. Eventually your liver will exhaust from handling excessive amounts of protein. Plus your breath will stink. Yuck! Remember, patience, while repulsive to some, is a dieting virtue.
Weight Loss Issue #4: Why are you trying to lose weight anyway
In a world of too much to do and too little time to fit it in after soccer practice, how are you going to stick with a diet? You have priorities. You wake up everyday, maybe go to work, eat somewhere and collect a paycheck somehow. You will only "do" the important things.
Moreover, you will only do what gives you visible pain or pleasure. If your diet is not actively moving your away from pain and etching you closer to pleasure, you'll relegate you diet to the trash, because the diet proves psychologically useless to you.
Priorities on the other hand, give you real benefits or punishments if they're not respected. For example, wouldn't it suck this weekend if you couldn't buy those Nine West shoes because you ditched work on Wednesday and Thursday.
The same applies to your diet, won't it suck when you can't fit into that $250, two sizes too small dress you caught on sale at Neiman Marcus?
Weight Loss Issue #5: Where's the confidence
There's a great line in Don Miguel Ruiz's Beyond Fear, "We only need to protect ourselves from ourselves." This is certainly the case when dieting.
Whether or not you maintain your self-confidence and self-trust while dieting will determine your dieting success. Don't base your self-confidence on outside events or those mean people that call you "fat" behind your back. Safely house your confidence within, and base it on who you are, not on what you succeed or fail at doing.
Ruiz, penned another cool line, "The normal state of the mind is hell." I just heard an "Amen!" from the audience. Dieting will be hell if you let your self-confidence slip.
Ok, so go get your pen and jot down these five dieting keepsakes and place them in your purse as a reference.
1. I eat less, and exercise more.
2. I exercise moderately five times a week for 50 minutes at a time.
3. I am giving myself at least six weeks to see results from my diet.
4. My diet is a priority and I know the long-term payoffs of my successful weight loss.
5. I am confident and trust myself to lose weight.
What's that now? Silence? I don't hear a single dieting excuse coming from anywhere. My work here is done. Here's to getting the pounds off, and keeping them off long-term.
About the Author
Naweko San-Joyz helps people look better. You can get started by using her free weight loss tool located at http://www.noixia.com/blog
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=749563
Is it your thyroid? Is it that lurking hormone cortisol? Maybe it's menopause, your hectic lifestyle or even your genes. But, the true reason you find yourself battling those last 15 or 20 pounds all comes down to how you handle five major issues. Use these five tips to handle the issues that could otherwise keep you fat.
Weight Loss Issue #1: Understand how weight loss works
Slim Fast, South Beach, Weight Watchers, The Zone, Dr. Phil, Atkins, ...You could waste years testing new weight loss programs that hit the market daily. How do you simplify things? How do you know you've found the right diet?
Even though this fact may burn the ears of many women, the truth remains that if you want to lose weight, eat less and exercise more. Ouch! I just heard some lady scream from the pain of realization. But that's how a diet works.
Just like you can find medical documents that praise and persecute popular diets, you will always find that most medical studies prove that this weight loss formula is just as effective as it was some 3.5 million years ago when Lucy used it- eat less, exercise more.
So don't put so much power into the name of your diet as to the nutritional content of the diet. In short, each and everyday you need to eat proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.
Weight Loss Issue #2: Know how much you need to exercise and do it
Your personal trainer told you and now the FDA is barking down your throat, "Exercise more!" The only way to divorce cellulite from those thighs is to create a fat deficit. That's the only way your body will utilize those excess fat globules.
My favorite way of knowing that I vacating unwelcome cellulite, or encroaching cellulite, is feeling the tingle in my legs as I exercise for 40-50 minutes at a time. You don't need to run yourself dogged, just exercise smarter as researchers at the University of Pittsburgh suggest.
After monitoring 201 overweight women using various exercise methods from high-intensity and long, to low-intensity and short, this study featured in the Canadian Journal of Health & Nutrition found that women who exercised briskly for at least 50 minutes, five times a week while using a sensible diet, lost an average or 25 pounds in six months.
Weight Loss Issue #3: Watch for signs of caving in You'll hear it in gyms and offices all across America. "I didn't lose 20 pounds in two weeks so that diet obviously sucks."
As shocking as it sounds, too many women believe that weight loss should be fast. While "Cosmo" and "Star" will promise to divulge the starvation secrets of how models lose mounds of weight in days, don't buy it.
That stuff might work on Mars, but if you want to see real results, you need to give your body at least eight weeks, or ideally 12. This is because, when you diet, your body wholly resists this change and it is actually going to test your dedication to sticking with the diet.
While you can try to trick your body with get-skinny-quick-diets like ketosis induction or protein diets, you can't stay on such diets for life. Eventually your liver will exhaust from handling excessive amounts of protein. Plus your breath will stink. Yuck! Remember, patience, while repulsive to some, is a dieting virtue.
Weight Loss Issue #4: Why are you trying to lose weight anyway
In a world of too much to do and too little time to fit it in after soccer practice, how are you going to stick with a diet? You have priorities. You wake up everyday, maybe go to work, eat somewhere and collect a paycheck somehow. You will only "do" the important things.
Moreover, you will only do what gives you visible pain or pleasure. If your diet is not actively moving your away from pain and etching you closer to pleasure, you'll relegate you diet to the trash, because the diet proves psychologically useless to you.
Priorities on the other hand, give you real benefits or punishments if they're not respected. For example, wouldn't it suck this weekend if you couldn't buy those Nine West shoes because you ditched work on Wednesday and Thursday.
The same applies to your diet, won't it suck when you can't fit into that $250, two sizes too small dress you caught on sale at Neiman Marcus?
Weight Loss Issue #5: Where's the confidence
There's a great line in Don Miguel Ruiz's Beyond Fear, "We only need to protect ourselves from ourselves." This is certainly the case when dieting.
Whether or not you maintain your self-confidence and self-trust while dieting will determine your dieting success. Don't base your self-confidence on outside events or those mean people that call you "fat" behind your back. Safely house your confidence within, and base it on who you are, not on what you succeed or fail at doing.
Ruiz, penned another cool line, "The normal state of the mind is hell." I just heard an "Amen!" from the audience. Dieting will be hell if you let your self-confidence slip.
Ok, so go get your pen and jot down these five dieting keepsakes and place them in your purse as a reference.
1. I eat less, and exercise more.
2. I exercise moderately five times a week for 50 minutes at a time.
3. I am giving myself at least six weeks to see results from my diet.
4. My diet is a priority and I know the long-term payoffs of my successful weight loss.
5. I am confident and trust myself to lose weight.
What's that now? Silence? I don't hear a single dieting excuse coming from anywhere. My work here is done. Here's to getting the pounds off, and keeping them off long-term.
About the Author
Naweko San-Joyz helps people look better. You can get started by using her free weight loss tool located at http://www.noixia.com/blog
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=749563
Don't Buy "Fat Loss 4 Idiots" Until You Read This
Don't Buy "Fat Loss 4 Idiots" Until You Read This by JJ Bliss
Fat Loss 4 Idiots is an online dieting handbook that generates a diet specifically for your caloric needs. The diet they provide for you is based on "calorie shifting" which means to trick your metabolism into burning more fuel from body fat stores on days that you consume less calories.
This concept is actually not a new one and has been used by body-building enthusiasts for years. I had heard of calorie shifting when I was a personal trainer almost 13 years ago. Even the "low carb" diet that has caught on in recent years was being used by body-builders to get lean way before Atkins published his first book.
So does the calorie shifting Fat Loss 4 Idiots Diet work? I completely agree with their pitch to stop using low carb, low calorie, and low fat diets for long term weight loss. Those fad diets they mention just didn't work for me in the long run. I was successful the first 2 weeks after phase 1 of the South Beach Diet and lost 10 lbs in the 2 week time frame but I couldn't keep it off. Once I went to the more liberal portion of the diet the weight slowly came back.
The Fat Loss 4 Idiots diet has you eating more that 3 times per day and involves the proper timing of meals, as well as selecting the proper types of calories at each meal. So the concept behind their eating plan is eating the right foods at the right times.
The calorie shifting theory:
"Your metabolism doesn't know how much food you'll eat tomorrow or the next day because those days have not happened yet. Therefore, your metabolism always burns calories based on your eating habits during the past few days -- because it assumes that you'll continue to eat in the same general way.
Guess what? You're about to shock your metabolism by doing something you've never tried before -- you're going to do the OPPOSITE of what it expects you to do. You're going to NOT continue eating the same types of calories and meals for more than a couple days at a time, and you're going to lose a lot of weight by doing this.
To make this work you need to SHIFT the types of calories eaten as shown in our diet on the next page, and if you do this then your metabolism will burn all of the calories eaten. Then, when it finishes burning those calories it will find the nearest available fat tissue on your body and burn that too..."
I used something similiar to the theory of calorie shifting along with strength training at least 3 days per week for nearly 10 years. I was in the best shape of my life and felt the best I had ever felt. The only reason I lost track the last several years was because of some tragic events that have happenend in my life. Using calorie shifting and strength training worked as long as I was committed to doing both on a daily basis and making it apart of my life.
Therefore, I would highly recommend the Fat Loss 4 Idiots download because it takes care of the meal planning for you. Once you download the 11 day meal plan all you need to do is add strength training or body toning exercises at least 3 days per week. Remember this is a long term plan for managing your weight, looking fit, and feeling healthy. Realistically, you have to allow at least 4-6 weeks to start seeing changes in the mirror. But once you start seeing your body change for the better it is so motivating! Once you start losing weight and body toning your clothes will fit better, you'll have more energy, and you feel healthier.
To download Fat Loss 4 Idiots Please Visit: http://jjbliss.net/dont-buy-fat-loss-4-idiots-until-you-read-this/
About the Author
loseweight
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=748120
Fat Loss 4 Idiots is an online dieting handbook that generates a diet specifically for your caloric needs. The diet they provide for you is based on "calorie shifting" which means to trick your metabolism into burning more fuel from body fat stores on days that you consume less calories.
This concept is actually not a new one and has been used by body-building enthusiasts for years. I had heard of calorie shifting when I was a personal trainer almost 13 years ago. Even the "low carb" diet that has caught on in recent years was being used by body-builders to get lean way before Atkins published his first book.
So does the calorie shifting Fat Loss 4 Idiots Diet work? I completely agree with their pitch to stop using low carb, low calorie, and low fat diets for long term weight loss. Those fad diets they mention just didn't work for me in the long run. I was successful the first 2 weeks after phase 1 of the South Beach Diet and lost 10 lbs in the 2 week time frame but I couldn't keep it off. Once I went to the more liberal portion of the diet the weight slowly came back.
The Fat Loss 4 Idiots diet has you eating more that 3 times per day and involves the proper timing of meals, as well as selecting the proper types of calories at each meal. So the concept behind their eating plan is eating the right foods at the right times.
The calorie shifting theory:
"Your metabolism doesn't know how much food you'll eat tomorrow or the next day because those days have not happened yet. Therefore, your metabolism always burns calories based on your eating habits during the past few days -- because it assumes that you'll continue to eat in the same general way.
Guess what? You're about to shock your metabolism by doing something you've never tried before -- you're going to do the OPPOSITE of what it expects you to do. You're going to NOT continue eating the same types of calories and meals for more than a couple days at a time, and you're going to lose a lot of weight by doing this.
To make this work you need to SHIFT the types of calories eaten as shown in our diet on the next page, and if you do this then your metabolism will burn all of the calories eaten. Then, when it finishes burning those calories it will find the nearest available fat tissue on your body and burn that too..."
I used something similiar to the theory of calorie shifting along with strength training at least 3 days per week for nearly 10 years. I was in the best shape of my life and felt the best I had ever felt. The only reason I lost track the last several years was because of some tragic events that have happenend in my life. Using calorie shifting and strength training worked as long as I was committed to doing both on a daily basis and making it apart of my life.
Therefore, I would highly recommend the Fat Loss 4 Idiots download because it takes care of the meal planning for you. Once you download the 11 day meal plan all you need to do is add strength training or body toning exercises at least 3 days per week. Remember this is a long term plan for managing your weight, looking fit, and feeling healthy. Realistically, you have to allow at least 4-6 weeks to start seeing changes in the mirror. But once you start seeing your body change for the better it is so motivating! Once you start losing weight and body toning your clothes will fit better, you'll have more energy, and you feel healthier.
To download Fat Loss 4 Idiots Please Visit: http://jjbliss.net/dont-buy-fat-loss-4-idiots-until-you-read-this/
About the Author
loseweight
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=748120
24 January 2008
Sorting Out The Diet Mess
Sorting Out The Diet Mess by Stan Morse
I'm sure you've heard a friend or relative say that they lost weight on the "such-and-such diet" or the "so-and-so diet". It seems like there are a variety of diet pills on the market today, but in reality many of these pills have similar ingredients with one or two changes. When buying diet pills, there are a couple of different ways to go about it.
There are other herbal supplements used in diet pills for their effectiveness, but again it is best to look up each listed and make sure there aren't any warnings associated with it. Among the vast array of weight loss products, use of diet pills is growing more and more as people around the world are affected by obesity. There is no doubt that Phentermine is one of the most popular and effective weight loss diet pills, but always remember, there is no easy cure for obesity.
Among all diet pills, Phentermine being one of the oldest survivors in the category of weight loss drugs is still considered the most effective and cheapest making it one most popular diet pill. * The side effects of Bontril diet pills may vary from normal to severe, depending on the effect of the medicine on the body and follow-up with the doctor to check the progress of the pill on the body and weight loss. Finally, if you want to retain the weight loss you have achieved through Phentermine, you should follow an extensive weight loss program, which will consist of controlled diet program along with regular required exercise supplemented by the diet pills.
However, if the diet pills are used as per doctor's instructions, the drug is very much effective as a successful kick-starter for one's weight loss program and can yield results in a few weeks. There is a lot to be said for low carb diets, but if this sounds like the plan to help initiate your path to weight loss, consult your physician or a dietitian before setting out on a diet that, if misunderstood, could certainly be life threatening. In a convenience store, you have to search a bit more for the low carb Atkins diet plan foods.
As the Atkins diet plan exploded in popularity over the last few years, many food producers have tried to get in on the phenomenon by promoting their products as low carb. When the Atkins low carb diet first came out in the 1970's it was unique; there was nothing comparable in widespread use. I encourage you to work with your doctor and connect with others who are following a low carb lifestyle in order to gain the maximum benefit and effectiveness from the Atkins low carb diet.
He said: "Contrary to current popular views that a diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein keeps weight down, we found that the lowest weight gain came in people with high intake of carbohydrates and low intake of protein. 8) ITS A LOW CARBOHYDRATE DIET: The long and short of it here is that you need carbohydrates in your diet, particularly if you are trying to lose weight. By moving to the South Beach Diet, you will learn to find a balance in your nutrition and in your diet and to allow for you to change your lifestyle so that you can begin to feel healthy and take whatever measures necessary in order to lose weight and keep the fat off.
Once you've done all this examine the lifestyle changes you've made and find out the best healthy eating diet and exercise plan to suit your needs in keeping your weight under control. Remember that a healthy, active lifestyle and a nutritious diet are the true keys to losing weight permanently. Other little additions or in this case subtractions that you can make to your diet to help shed the weight include simply decreasing your portions, not eating past a certain time of day, and not eating foods that are not good for you.
About the Author
Eating a well balanced diet and exercise are the critical success factors for weight loss. Free Weight Loss Report at http://our-health-news.com/
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=748038
I'm sure you've heard a friend or relative say that they lost weight on the "such-and-such diet" or the "so-and-so diet". It seems like there are a variety of diet pills on the market today, but in reality many of these pills have similar ingredients with one or two changes. When buying diet pills, there are a couple of different ways to go about it.
There are other herbal supplements used in diet pills for their effectiveness, but again it is best to look up each listed and make sure there aren't any warnings associated with it. Among the vast array of weight loss products, use of diet pills is growing more and more as people around the world are affected by obesity. There is no doubt that Phentermine is one of the most popular and effective weight loss diet pills, but always remember, there is no easy cure for obesity.
Among all diet pills, Phentermine being one of the oldest survivors in the category of weight loss drugs is still considered the most effective and cheapest making it one most popular diet pill. * The side effects of Bontril diet pills may vary from normal to severe, depending on the effect of the medicine on the body and follow-up with the doctor to check the progress of the pill on the body and weight loss. Finally, if you want to retain the weight loss you have achieved through Phentermine, you should follow an extensive weight loss program, which will consist of controlled diet program along with regular required exercise supplemented by the diet pills.
However, if the diet pills are used as per doctor's instructions, the drug is very much effective as a successful kick-starter for one's weight loss program and can yield results in a few weeks. There is a lot to be said for low carb diets, but if this sounds like the plan to help initiate your path to weight loss, consult your physician or a dietitian before setting out on a diet that, if misunderstood, could certainly be life threatening. In a convenience store, you have to search a bit more for the low carb Atkins diet plan foods.
As the Atkins diet plan exploded in popularity over the last few years, many food producers have tried to get in on the phenomenon by promoting their products as low carb. When the Atkins low carb diet first came out in the 1970's it was unique; there was nothing comparable in widespread use. I encourage you to work with your doctor and connect with others who are following a low carb lifestyle in order to gain the maximum benefit and effectiveness from the Atkins low carb diet.
He said: "Contrary to current popular views that a diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein keeps weight down, we found that the lowest weight gain came in people with high intake of carbohydrates and low intake of protein. 8) ITS A LOW CARBOHYDRATE DIET: The long and short of it here is that you need carbohydrates in your diet, particularly if you are trying to lose weight. By moving to the South Beach Diet, you will learn to find a balance in your nutrition and in your diet and to allow for you to change your lifestyle so that you can begin to feel healthy and take whatever measures necessary in order to lose weight and keep the fat off.
Once you've done all this examine the lifestyle changes you've made and find out the best healthy eating diet and exercise plan to suit your needs in keeping your weight under control. Remember that a healthy, active lifestyle and a nutritious diet are the true keys to losing weight permanently. Other little additions or in this case subtractions that you can make to your diet to help shed the weight include simply decreasing your portions, not eating past a certain time of day, and not eating foods that are not good for you.
About the Author
Eating a well balanced diet and exercise are the critical success factors for weight loss. Free Weight Loss Report at http://our-health-news.com/
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=748038
How To Lose Weight
How To Lose Weight by AskOliverAnything.com
Are you looking for a New Year's resolution? Is one of them, to lose weight? Well, I honestly have tried many different diets. And the best one I would recommend is the South Beach Diet. I've loss so much weight with this diet--15lbs! I would recommend it to anyone.
My journey began when I wanted to lose weight for Halloween (I wanted to be a Chip n' Dale).
You can see my picture at http://www.myspace.com/batmn911. Anyways, I wanted to look good for that day and San Diego is a highly competitive market with smart and attractive individuals. I mean, every girl that night dresses up in lingerie and they're unbelievably hot. So now, I'll diet two weeks before Halloween, so I can wear my Chip n' Dale outfit.
Anyways, the South Beach Diet is basically a low carb diet. Yes, I'm sure you've heard it all before. But, I believe it is the best one out of all the low carb diets out there. For example, some diets allow you to eat as much butter and bacon as you want. However, these contain a whole lot of fat which is obviously unhealthy.
The South Beach Diet was created by a cardiologist, Dr. Agatston who was primarily concerned about his patients' hearts. See, his patients would come in for cardiac surgery, but it was difficult for him to perform the surgery because his patients would have a lot of fat surrounding their hearts. He would give them a diet to stick to, so they could lose a lot of weight before surgery. However, the patients were saying it was too difficult to stick to, even though if their life depended on it. So, he spoke to one of the nutritionists in the hospital and they designed a diet together that was easy to stick to and help patients lose weight before surgery. Well, these patients loss so much weight that they started to recommend it to their friends and family members and it became very popular in South Beach, Florida. Later, Dr. Agatston, the creator of the South Beach Diet, would appear on local television to give advice and eventually write a well-renowned book.
Although, the South Beach Diet is very popular, I did modify it a little bit because I didn't have all the ingredients to make all the meals. For example for two weeks straight, I ate two over-easy eggs for breakfast, 15 almonds for my mid-morning snack, a chicken salad for lunch, 15 more almonds for my mid-afternoon snack, a steak for dinner (no potatoes) and sugar-free jello for desert. However, this is me personally, so you can do whatever you'd like.
Anyways, after every Halloween it's back to my same old diet--hamburgers and fries! So, if you want to lose weight really fast, this is what I would recommend, but don't blame me if it doesn't work out. Everyone is different and you can speak to your doctor for the best approach for your personal diet.
About the Author
Oliver is a new entrepreneur who recently started http://www.AskOliverAnything.com. He built his website based on family and friends' recommendations regarding his excellent advice. He's one of the new smart, young and attractive professionals today. http://www.AskOliverAnything.com
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=745965
Are you looking for a New Year's resolution? Is one of them, to lose weight? Well, I honestly have tried many different diets. And the best one I would recommend is the South Beach Diet. I've loss so much weight with this diet--15lbs! I would recommend it to anyone.
My journey began when I wanted to lose weight for Halloween (I wanted to be a Chip n' Dale).
You can see my picture at http://www.myspace.com/batmn911. Anyways, I wanted to look good for that day and San Diego is a highly competitive market with smart and attractive individuals. I mean, every girl that night dresses up in lingerie and they're unbelievably hot. So now, I'll diet two weeks before Halloween, so I can wear my Chip n' Dale outfit.
Anyways, the South Beach Diet is basically a low carb diet. Yes, I'm sure you've heard it all before. But, I believe it is the best one out of all the low carb diets out there. For example, some diets allow you to eat as much butter and bacon as you want. However, these contain a whole lot of fat which is obviously unhealthy.
The South Beach Diet was created by a cardiologist, Dr. Agatston who was primarily concerned about his patients' hearts. See, his patients would come in for cardiac surgery, but it was difficult for him to perform the surgery because his patients would have a lot of fat surrounding their hearts. He would give them a diet to stick to, so they could lose a lot of weight before surgery. However, the patients were saying it was too difficult to stick to, even though if their life depended on it. So, he spoke to one of the nutritionists in the hospital and they designed a diet together that was easy to stick to and help patients lose weight before surgery. Well, these patients loss so much weight that they started to recommend it to their friends and family members and it became very popular in South Beach, Florida. Later, Dr. Agatston, the creator of the South Beach Diet, would appear on local television to give advice and eventually write a well-renowned book.
Although, the South Beach Diet is very popular, I did modify it a little bit because I didn't have all the ingredients to make all the meals. For example for two weeks straight, I ate two over-easy eggs for breakfast, 15 almonds for my mid-morning snack, a chicken salad for lunch, 15 more almonds for my mid-afternoon snack, a steak for dinner (no potatoes) and sugar-free jello for desert. However, this is me personally, so you can do whatever you'd like.
Anyways, after every Halloween it's back to my same old diet--hamburgers and fries! So, if you want to lose weight really fast, this is what I would recommend, but don't blame me if it doesn't work out. Everyone is different and you can speak to your doctor for the best approach for your personal diet.
About the Author
Oliver is a new entrepreneur who recently started http://www.AskOliverAnything.com. He built his website based on family and friends' recommendations regarding his excellent advice. He's one of the new smart, young and attractive professionals today. http://www.AskOliverAnything.com
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Powerful Fast weightloss diet tips
Powerful Fast weightloss diet tips by James Smith
Are You Overweight? And tried every prescription or food for a fast weighloss diet? Or even spend hundred of dollars on books , gym membership, "special" fast weighloss diet, pills in today's market that promess YOU to get you slim, thin and fit in No time but still look almost the same when You look YOURSELF in the mirror? And Got really frustrated with the results. You even decided to quit trying since nothing has ever work for you?
You are not the only one. I know what it feels like but fear not!
Think closely about what we're about to tell you, since it's going to change the way you think about dieting and change your life for good ... something the so called "Experts" kept for so long away from YOU regarding a fast weighloss diet
You are overweight for the most simple of reasons -- because you're eating the wrong foods, the wrong types of calories per meal, and you're also eating meals in the wrong patterns each day.
FOOD is more powerful than any fast weighloss diet prescription, because the FOOD that you eat can either make you THIN or FAT. You don't get fat because of a lack of exercising, that's a myth. You get fat because you don't eat the right foods at the right intervals each day.
You have gotten overweight by eating the wrong foods, that much is a fact. And guess what? You can get SLIM by eating the RIGHT FOODS at the RIGHT INTERVALS each day.
It's not really any more complicated than that, and the way to start a fast weighloss diet has nothing to do with starving yourself or jogging.
Although the title of this article is fast weighloss diet, I am not sure about it. Is any fast weightloss diet really easy? I don't think so. Enter the market for fast weightloss diet and you will be bombarded with information about different kinds of diets like the atkins diet, the south beach diet, Jenny Craig or weight watchers.
The worse part about a fast weighloss diet is that what may work wonders for others may not work for you. Every individual is unique and hence has unique needs and requirements. This needs to be analyzed first before plunging to any fast weighloss diet program.
Low Fat Foods DON'T WORK.
You cannot lose weight using Low Fat Diets. In the fast weighloss diet or just in any diet plan Low fat foods have been popular for more than 15 years, but yet our society is getting more overweight as each year passes. This fact alone should tell you that eating a purely low fat menu is not the answer to losing weight.
Low Calorie Diets DON'T WORK.
if You trying a fast weightloss diet using a Low Calorie Dieting Plan either. In fact, eating low calories is the worst thing that you can do to your body, since that will only slow down your body's fat burning engine and ruin all chances of losing weight (low calorie diets may allow a few pounds of weightloss for the first few days, but then after that all weightloss comes to a halt --- known as a dieting plateau). You can never get slim by starving yourself when thinking about a fast weighloss diet
Low Carb Plans DON'T WORK.
You'll probably find it extremely difficult to get slim using a Low Carb Dieting Plan as a fast weighloss diet.
Low carb diets have recently become popular over the last couple years, but the problem with low carb menus is that they are too strict and TOO HARD TO FOLLOW for average people. Low carb menus tend to rob your body of too much energy (carbohydrates) and make it nearly impossible to remain on the program for very long. This is why so many dieters find it difficult to follow a strict low carbohydrate menu.
Did you know that your brain controls the release of Fat Burning Hormones after each meal?
Every time you eat something there are 2 types of hormones released into your bloodstream, and together they control Fat Burning and Fat Storage.
Also, did you know that these 2 hormones are controlled by the foods that you eat? It's true.
You're here because you'd like to become slimmer, and you are already convinced that you should lose at least 15 pounds or even 200 pounds this year.
Click on the link below We will tell You How to get it done.
Just focus on one thought right now..........WHAT IF it was really possible to change YOUR body in 11 days without struggle? And To get the body YOU always wanted. Well I dare YOU To find out here in our site, by clicking on the link below:
http://www.fatloss4idiots.com/?hop=webpros21
About the Author
This Is James Smith A Honest reviewer on weight loss diet program and a freelance nutritionist from Ohio University. If You really serious about losing weight, get the body you always wanted and stay slim and healthy without using pills and finally lose 9 pounds in 11 days. Then click on the link here : http://www.fatloss4idiots.com/?hop=webpros21 to grab this hot tip about the most powerful fast weightloss diet
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Are You Overweight? And tried every prescription or food for a fast weighloss diet? Or even spend hundred of dollars on books , gym membership, "special" fast weighloss diet, pills in today's market that promess YOU to get you slim, thin and fit in No time but still look almost the same when You look YOURSELF in the mirror? And Got really frustrated with the results. You even decided to quit trying since nothing has ever work for you?
You are not the only one. I know what it feels like but fear not!
Think closely about what we're about to tell you, since it's going to change the way you think about dieting and change your life for good ... something the so called "Experts" kept for so long away from YOU regarding a fast weighloss diet
You are overweight for the most simple of reasons -- because you're eating the wrong foods, the wrong types of calories per meal, and you're also eating meals in the wrong patterns each day.
FOOD is more powerful than any fast weighloss diet prescription, because the FOOD that you eat can either make you THIN or FAT. You don't get fat because of a lack of exercising, that's a myth. You get fat because you don't eat the right foods at the right intervals each day.
You have gotten overweight by eating the wrong foods, that much is a fact. And guess what? You can get SLIM by eating the RIGHT FOODS at the RIGHT INTERVALS each day.
It's not really any more complicated than that, and the way to start a fast weighloss diet has nothing to do with starving yourself or jogging.
Although the title of this article is fast weighloss diet, I am not sure about it. Is any fast weightloss diet really easy? I don't think so. Enter the market for fast weightloss diet and you will be bombarded with information about different kinds of diets like the atkins diet, the south beach diet, Jenny Craig or weight watchers.
The worse part about a fast weighloss diet is that what may work wonders for others may not work for you. Every individual is unique and hence has unique needs and requirements. This needs to be analyzed first before plunging to any fast weighloss diet program.
Low Fat Foods DON'T WORK.
You cannot lose weight using Low Fat Diets. In the fast weighloss diet or just in any diet plan Low fat foods have been popular for more than 15 years, but yet our society is getting more overweight as each year passes. This fact alone should tell you that eating a purely low fat menu is not the answer to losing weight.
Low Calorie Diets DON'T WORK.
if You trying a fast weightloss diet using a Low Calorie Dieting Plan either. In fact, eating low calories is the worst thing that you can do to your body, since that will only slow down your body's fat burning engine and ruin all chances of losing weight (low calorie diets may allow a few pounds of weightloss for the first few days, but then after that all weightloss comes to a halt --- known as a dieting plateau). You can never get slim by starving yourself when thinking about a fast weighloss diet
Low Carb Plans DON'T WORK.
You'll probably find it extremely difficult to get slim using a Low Carb Dieting Plan as a fast weighloss diet.
Low carb diets have recently become popular over the last couple years, but the problem with low carb menus is that they are too strict and TOO HARD TO FOLLOW for average people. Low carb menus tend to rob your body of too much energy (carbohydrates) and make it nearly impossible to remain on the program for very long. This is why so many dieters find it difficult to follow a strict low carbohydrate menu.
Did you know that your brain controls the release of Fat Burning Hormones after each meal?
Every time you eat something there are 2 types of hormones released into your bloodstream, and together they control Fat Burning and Fat Storage.
Also, did you know that these 2 hormones are controlled by the foods that you eat? It's true.
You're here because you'd like to become slimmer, and you are already convinced that you should lose at least 15 pounds or even 200 pounds this year.
Click on the link below We will tell You How to get it done.
Just focus on one thought right now..........WHAT IF it was really possible to change YOUR body in 11 days without struggle? And To get the body YOU always wanted. Well I dare YOU To find out here in our site, by clicking on the link below:
http://www.fatloss4idiots.com/?hop=webpros21
About the Author
This Is James Smith A Honest reviewer on weight loss diet program and a freelance nutritionist from Ohio University. If You really serious about losing weight, get the body you always wanted and stay slim and healthy without using pills and finally lose 9 pounds in 11 days. Then click on the link here : http://www.fatloss4idiots.com/?hop=webpros21 to grab this hot tip about the most powerful fast weightloss diet
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20 January 2008
Dangers Of South Beach Diet
Dangers Of South Beach Diet by Nishanth Reddy
The South Beach Diet is considered to be a healthy diet, which is concerned on the right carbohydrates and the right fats for a healthy body. As such, many people were drawn to it believing that the South Beach Diet is really the best diet for them. http://mydiet.myinfo.ws/diet-plans/lemonade-diet.php
However, out of this good reputation that the South Beach Diet maintained, still there are some attacks and bad comments about the diet. Well, we don't need to be surprised about this, for this is how the world is set.
What then is the importance of the principle of "yin and yang" if there is only one side for everything? There could be biases, prejudices, and imbalances, right?
So, even though there is really no noted "big" South Beach danger, still there are certain resources which hold that the South Beach Diet danger surface when the improper application of the is made. Lack of Information and Understanding
Numerous resources have noted that part of the South Beach is the lack of information or understanding about the diet. From the word "lack" alone, a sort of South Beach Diet danger is then viewed.
According to many studies, the South Beach Diet danger surfaced for the reason that the South Beach Diet is very demanding for those that are accustomed to carbohydrate-rich diets. Lapsing Into the Old Eating Habits
In line with such view for the South Beach danger, it is also noted that one of the largest South Beach dangers surface when there is a lapsing into the old eating habits.
This was considered to be a South Beach Diet danger for the reason that this lapsing will result in speedy weight gain. Along with that, this part of the South Beach Diet danger may then be a new way of life. Lack of Willpower
In relation to such fact, another support states that a great South Beach Diet danger will also surface when there is a lack of willpower exerted for the diet, especially from the carbohydrates lovers.
In fact, it is a common view that there is always the South Beach Diet danger of lapsing back into old eating habits and increasing the carbohydrate consumption without even realizing it. Steps To Overcome These South Beach Diet Dangers
So to battle this one of the common South Beach dangers, Dr. Arthur Agatston himself recommends that the dieters who do lapse and end up on placing some of the weight back on should then be immediately switch back to the first phase of the South Beach Diet for a short while.
This recommendation is given not only to battle such South Beach danger but also to prevent from the occurrence of several South Beach Diet dangers. It is also interesting to know that if this South Beach Diet danger is not prevented earlier, this will lead to an excess in weight gain.
With such mentioned possible South Beach Diet dangers, the South Beach Diet then received mixed reviews from most dieters. Despite the South Beach Diet dangers, many people still consider the South Beach Diet as an updated version of the Atkins diet that is a far more balanced diet.
Only one thing that this plan does do is really to educate the dieters in eating the correct food to reduce heart disease, high cholesterol levels, and other South Beach dangers.http://mydiet.myinfo.ws/
Article Source: http://articles-galore.com
Nishanth Reddy is an author and publisher of many health related
websites. For more information on south beach plan, south beach diet recipes and tips to loose weight visit his website: www.south-beach-diet-guide.info
About the Author
http://mydiet.myinfo.ws/diet-plans/lemonade-diet.php
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=758711
The South Beach Diet is considered to be a healthy diet, which is concerned on the right carbohydrates and the right fats for a healthy body. As such, many people were drawn to it believing that the South Beach Diet is really the best diet for them. http://mydiet.myinfo.ws/diet-plans/lemonade-diet.php
However, out of this good reputation that the South Beach Diet maintained, still there are some attacks and bad comments about the diet. Well, we don't need to be surprised about this, for this is how the world is set.
What then is the importance of the principle of "yin and yang" if there is only one side for everything? There could be biases, prejudices, and imbalances, right?
So, even though there is really no noted "big" South Beach danger, still there are certain resources which hold that the South Beach Diet danger surface when the improper application of the is made. Lack of Information and Understanding
Numerous resources have noted that part of the South Beach is the lack of information or understanding about the diet. From the word "lack" alone, a sort of South Beach Diet danger is then viewed.
According to many studies, the South Beach Diet danger surfaced for the reason that the South Beach Diet is very demanding for those that are accustomed to carbohydrate-rich diets. Lapsing Into the Old Eating Habits
In line with such view for the South Beach danger, it is also noted that one of the largest South Beach dangers surface when there is a lapsing into the old eating habits.
This was considered to be a South Beach Diet danger for the reason that this lapsing will result in speedy weight gain. Along with that, this part of the South Beach Diet danger may then be a new way of life. Lack of Willpower
In relation to such fact, another support states that a great South Beach Diet danger will also surface when there is a lack of willpower exerted for the diet, especially from the carbohydrates lovers.
In fact, it is a common view that there is always the South Beach Diet danger of lapsing back into old eating habits and increasing the carbohydrate consumption without even realizing it. Steps To Overcome These South Beach Diet Dangers
So to battle this one of the common South Beach dangers, Dr. Arthur Agatston himself recommends that the dieters who do lapse and end up on placing some of the weight back on should then be immediately switch back to the first phase of the South Beach Diet for a short while.
This recommendation is given not only to battle such South Beach danger but also to prevent from the occurrence of several South Beach Diet dangers. It is also interesting to know that if this South Beach Diet danger is not prevented earlier, this will lead to an excess in weight gain.
With such mentioned possible South Beach Diet dangers, the South Beach Diet then received mixed reviews from most dieters. Despite the South Beach Diet dangers, many people still consider the South Beach Diet as an updated version of the Atkins diet that is a far more balanced diet.
Only one thing that this plan does do is really to educate the dieters in eating the correct food to reduce heart disease, high cholesterol levels, and other South Beach dangers.http://mydiet.myinfo.ws/
Article Source: http://articles-galore.com
Nishanth Reddy is an author and publisher of many health related
websites. For more information on south beach plan, south beach diet recipes and tips to loose weight visit his website: www.south-beach-diet-guide.info
About the Author
http://mydiet.myinfo.ws/diet-plans/lemonade-diet.php
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Principles Of The South Beach Diet
Principles Of The South Beach Diet by Lana Hampton
Dieting has become very popular as people are now realizing the importance of getting or keeping a healthy and fit body. While the number of dieters looking for a way to lose weight increases, so does the number of plans being developed. Just like with everything else, some of these diets have been more effective and popular than others.http://mydiet.myinfo.ws/diet-plans/zone-diet.php
The latest diet in the series of diet fads is the South Beach Diet. As more and more people hear about the excitement of the diet, they ask:
* What is the South Beach Diet? * What is involved in the South Beach Plan?
Different Diets
As the number of diets to choose from increases, so does the search for the best program. Some of the diets you can choose from are:
* Low-fat diets * Low-carbohydrate diets * Reduced-calorie diets * Low protein diets
This diet plan is the most recent contender, and has amazingly taken the whole continent of America by storm and is set to have an impact worldwide.
With all the various diets to choose from, how is a dieter going to know which one is the best? Knowing the basic facts of the diet is the starting point. So, what actually is this diet all about?
Difference
The South Beach Diet plan is very different from any other forms of diet plans. Why? It is mainly for the fact that it does not rely on the low carbohydrates or low fat like other main diets.
Main Purpose
Instead, the main purpose of this plan is to discipline people, especially the dieters, to rely on the right carbohydrates and fat. This diet is also designed to teach the people on how to avoid the food items that are 'worst' for their bodies.
This plan is in fact a diet program that is generally set for a healthy body. The most significant principle of the diet is that it teaches you to rely on the right kinds of carbohydrates and the right types of fats to maintain health and facilitate weight loss. These particular groups are considered as the 'good' carbs and fats. By eating the 'good' food items and avoiding the 'bad' ones, you can now lose weight and stay healthy.
The South Beach Diet plan is further contrasted from one of the hottest plans that also swept the continent of America and worldwide - the Atkins Diet. Unlike the Atkins plan, this plan does not entail removing a particular food group. Whereas the Atkins Diet relies primarily on the no carbs and limitless proteins and fats, this diet plan seems to be rooted around a balanced and healthy eating regime. You get to eat what is 'good' for you and avoid what is 'bad'.
Within the principles of the South Beach Plan, the good carbohydrates such as whole grains, fruit and vegetables, are highly recommended, as are unsaturated fats. Proper form of exercise and healthy eating plans are not a critical necessity. For this reason, some people have expressed concern with this diet, since it is a proven fact that exercise helps speed up the process of losing weight.
If you are looking for a diet plan that can aid in reducing cholesterol and minimize the risk of cardiovascular problems, the South Beach Diet is the right choice for you. Numerous studies have been done to prove this. Determination and willpower are both required while on the because satisfying hunger is a big part of the diet.
Eating healthy and learning how to include good carbs and fats in your meals are a few of the things this teaches you. By learning this it will ensure:
* Your heart is cared for * Make you more fit for life * Increase your vitality * Increase quality of life
Article Source: http://articles-galore.com
About the Author
http://mydiet.myinfo.ws/diet-plans/zone-diet.php
Dieting has become very popular as people are now realizing the importance of getting or keeping a healthy and fit body. While the number of dieters looking for a way to lose weight increases, so does the number of plans being developed. Just like with everything else, some of these diets have been more effective and popular than others.http://mydiet.myinfo.ws/diet-plans/zone-diet.php
The latest diet in the series of diet fads is the South Beach Diet. As more and more people hear about the excitement of the diet, they ask:
* What is the South Beach Diet? * What is involved in the South Beach Plan?
Different Diets
As the number of diets to choose from increases, so does the search for the best program. Some of the diets you can choose from are:
* Low-fat diets * Low-carbohydrate diets * Reduced-calorie diets * Low protein diets
This diet plan is the most recent contender, and has amazingly taken the whole continent of America by storm and is set to have an impact worldwide.
With all the various diets to choose from, how is a dieter going to know which one is the best? Knowing the basic facts of the diet is the starting point. So, what actually is this diet all about?
Difference
The South Beach Diet plan is very different from any other forms of diet plans. Why? It is mainly for the fact that it does not rely on the low carbohydrates or low fat like other main diets.
Main Purpose
Instead, the main purpose of this plan is to discipline people, especially the dieters, to rely on the right carbohydrates and fat. This diet is also designed to teach the people on how to avoid the food items that are 'worst' for their bodies.
This plan is in fact a diet program that is generally set for a healthy body. The most significant principle of the diet is that it teaches you to rely on the right kinds of carbohydrates and the right types of fats to maintain health and facilitate weight loss. These particular groups are considered as the 'good' carbs and fats. By eating the 'good' food items and avoiding the 'bad' ones, you can now lose weight and stay healthy.
The South Beach Diet plan is further contrasted from one of the hottest plans that also swept the continent of America and worldwide - the Atkins Diet. Unlike the Atkins plan, this plan does not entail removing a particular food group. Whereas the Atkins Diet relies primarily on the no carbs and limitless proteins and fats, this diet plan seems to be rooted around a balanced and healthy eating regime. You get to eat what is 'good' for you and avoid what is 'bad'.
Within the principles of the South Beach Plan, the good carbohydrates such as whole grains, fruit and vegetables, are highly recommended, as are unsaturated fats. Proper form of exercise and healthy eating plans are not a critical necessity. For this reason, some people have expressed concern with this diet, since it is a proven fact that exercise helps speed up the process of losing weight.
If you are looking for a diet plan that can aid in reducing cholesterol and minimize the risk of cardiovascular problems, the South Beach Diet is the right choice for you. Numerous studies have been done to prove this. Determination and willpower are both required while on the because satisfying hunger is a big part of the diet.
Eating healthy and learning how to include good carbs and fats in your meals are a few of the things this teaches you. By learning this it will ensure:
* Your heart is cared for * Make you more fit for life * Increase your vitality * Increase quality of life
Article Source: http://articles-galore.com
About the Author
http://mydiet.myinfo.ws/diet-plans/zone-diet.php
The South Beach Diet Phase One: What You Must
The South Beach Diet Phase One: What You Must Know by Jackie Black
The South Beach Diet book became extremely successful as soon as the diet book with the obvious name was finally published and picked up with fast succession among a grassroots following. Each with their own dieting success stories to brag 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 one keeps confusing 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 intense, kick-start your body and your mindset about dieting from that point on. Contrary to popular 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 instills in you the thinking to: rid yourself of bad carbs that are not providing anything nutritionally for yourself, replace the bad carbs that are found in surplus 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 cause you more harm 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, is to consume all the salad, greens, and (most) vegetables you want, as they are on target for nutritional benefit.
It's during this stage that Dr. Agatston has proven that one's body resistance to insulin will go down, thus depending on your current weight and current health, you may lose 2 to 15 pounds initially, initially in the first two weeks, as your body begins to eliminate excess body weight.
The major goal of The South Beach Diet phase one has two objectives: to push you into a routine that you stick with that keeps you free from hunger and to plant a seed and the groundwork for a mindset that ensures you get rid of the bad foods and gravitate toward the food that drops pounds, guarantee more energy and better your quality of life.
About the Author
Tapping into straight talk and healthy information about the healthy life you want to adopt, is not rocket science. No matter your interest: from serving yourself astrawberry banana smoothie to how to really lose weight, you name it.
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=751771
The South Beach Diet book became extremely successful as soon as the diet book with the obvious name was finally published and picked up with fast succession among a grassroots following. Each with their own dieting success stories to brag 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 one keeps confusing 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 intense, kick-start your body and your mindset about dieting from that point on. Contrary to popular 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 instills in you the thinking to: rid yourself of bad carbs that are not providing anything nutritionally for yourself, replace the bad carbs that are found in surplus 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 cause you more harm 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, is to consume all the salad, greens, and (most) vegetables you want, as they are on target for nutritional benefit.
It's during this stage that Dr. Agatston has proven that one's body resistance to insulin will go down, thus depending on your current weight and current health, you may lose 2 to 15 pounds initially, initially in the first two weeks, as your body begins to eliminate excess body weight.
The major goal of The South Beach Diet phase one has two objectives: to push you into a routine that you stick with that keeps you free from hunger and to plant a seed and the groundwork for a mindset that ensures you get rid of the bad foods and gravitate toward the food that drops pounds, guarantee more energy and better your quality of life.
About the Author
Tapping into straight talk and healthy information about the healthy life you want to adopt, is not rocket science. No matter your interest: from serving yourself astrawberry banana smoothie to how to really lose weight, you name it.
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=751771
16 January 2008
Great Results with the South Beach Diet
Great Results with the South Beach Diet by Thomas Husnik
Copyright (c) 2008 Thomas Husnik
When you put on too much weight it can dramatically reduce the quality of your health and life in general. So when weight gain happens to most people, they seek out diets to get that weight down. And there are so many diets to choose from. Some want money to buy their special menus and others have requirements that cannot be consistently met. What is their result? They fail--simple as that. If you have to go to a specialty health food store to buy the proper food for a diet you will find it to be very expensive and unsustainable because it wrecks your budget. If you have to cut out carbohydrates or things you like to eat from your diet forever you will soon grow weary and go back to eating them--another diet failed. But there is a diet that gives you some balance and doctors recommend it quite often: The South Beach Diet.
The South Beach Diet was designed by cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston who set out to create a diet that was both safe and effective. The diet is a solution to the problem of insulin resistance in a person who eats a lot of foods with what is called a high-glycemic index. Eating too much bread, potatoes, candy, and foods with processed sugar can create what is known as insulin resistance syndrome. This syndrome interferes with insulin's ability to process fat and sugars therefore the person puts on more weight.
So the starting point with this diet is a period of two weeks when these high-glycemic foods are cut out of the diet in an attempt to force the body to lose its insulin resistance. This reduction in insulin resistance should cause the body to start burning stored fat and the person will start to experience significant weight loss in a short time. This is phase one of the diet. The person in phase one will eat three normal meals a day consisting of meat, fish, cheese (low-fat), vegetables, and eggs. Snacks between the noon and evening meals are required and can consist of products like nuts or cheese sticks. It is estimated that a person will lose between 8 and 12 pounds during this phase.
This is probably the most difficult part of the diet as one can go through periods of feeling weak and dizzy as their body adjusts to the absence of carbohydrates. Also, because the person has to do without many fruits and vegetables, there may be some vitamin deficiencies. Plus, the absence of bread in the diet can result in fiber deficiencies. So you may have to take some vitamin and fiber supplements.
Phase two of the diet consists of introducing small amounts of the forbidden foods (like bread) back into the diet. Weight loss should continue during this phase and the goal is to keep losing 1 to 2 pounds per week until the dieter achieves the desired target weight.
Once the target weight is achieved, phase three or the maintenance phase begins and the dieter needs to maintain a balanced diet. Monitoring the weight is still important because if it starts to climb again the dieter returns to phase one.
About the Author
My name is Tom Husnik. I live in Minnesota. My web site is at: http://www.bestfixitbiz.com/
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Copyright (c) 2008 Thomas Husnik
When you put on too much weight it can dramatically reduce the quality of your health and life in general. So when weight gain happens to most people, they seek out diets to get that weight down. And there are so many diets to choose from. Some want money to buy their special menus and others have requirements that cannot be consistently met. What is their result? They fail--simple as that. If you have to go to a specialty health food store to buy the proper food for a diet you will find it to be very expensive and unsustainable because it wrecks your budget. If you have to cut out carbohydrates or things you like to eat from your diet forever you will soon grow weary and go back to eating them--another diet failed. But there is a diet that gives you some balance and doctors recommend it quite often: The South Beach Diet.
The South Beach Diet was designed by cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston who set out to create a diet that was both safe and effective. The diet is a solution to the problem of insulin resistance in a person who eats a lot of foods with what is called a high-glycemic index. Eating too much bread, potatoes, candy, and foods with processed sugar can create what is known as insulin resistance syndrome. This syndrome interferes with insulin's ability to process fat and sugars therefore the person puts on more weight.
So the starting point with this diet is a period of two weeks when these high-glycemic foods are cut out of the diet in an attempt to force the body to lose its insulin resistance. This reduction in insulin resistance should cause the body to start burning stored fat and the person will start to experience significant weight loss in a short time. This is phase one of the diet. The person in phase one will eat three normal meals a day consisting of meat, fish, cheese (low-fat), vegetables, and eggs. Snacks between the noon and evening meals are required and can consist of products like nuts or cheese sticks. It is estimated that a person will lose between 8 and 12 pounds during this phase.
This is probably the most difficult part of the diet as one can go through periods of feeling weak and dizzy as their body adjusts to the absence of carbohydrates. Also, because the person has to do without many fruits and vegetables, there may be some vitamin deficiencies. Plus, the absence of bread in the diet can result in fiber deficiencies. So you may have to take some vitamin and fiber supplements.
Phase two of the diet consists of introducing small amounts of the forbidden foods (like bread) back into the diet. Weight loss should continue during this phase and the goal is to keep losing 1 to 2 pounds per week until the dieter achieves the desired target weight.
Once the target weight is achieved, phase three or the maintenance phase begins and the dieter needs to maintain a balanced diet. Monitoring the weight is still important because if it starts to climb again the dieter returns to phase one.
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The South Beach Diet Phase One: A Dieter's Guide
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 by similar name was published and grew with fast succession among a dedicated inner circle. Armed with their own dieting success stories to tell everyone 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 one keeps confusing readers.
The South Beach Diet phase one is designed to be the shortest of phases 1, 2 and 3 of the diet, only lasting for a 2 week period. It was designed to be intense, kick-start your body and how you think about dieting from that point on. The myth to readers' thinking and one of the more difficult to grasp 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: rid yourself of bad carbs that aren't providing anything nutritionally for your body, substitute the bad carbs that are overwhelming in quantity in the American diet with substantial amounts of protein, good fats and low glycemic index (G.I.) carbs that solves your hunger and regulate your blood sugar balance.
Foods that do more harm 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 one. A safe bet, if you should have any difficulty, is to ingest as much salad, greens, and (most) vegetables you want, as they are on target for nutritional benefit.
It's during Phase 1 that Dr. Agatston has proven that your body's resistance to insulin will go down, so depending on your body weight and condition, you may lose 4 to 15 pounds initially, just in the first 2 weeks alone, as your body begins to shed surplus body weight.
The major purpose of The South Beach Diet phase one is 2-fold: to push you into a routine that you can manage that keeps you from being hungry and to plant a seed and the groundwork for a mindset that ensures you rid yourself of the bad foods and move toward the food that will shed pounds, deliver energy and improve your quality of life.
About the Author
If you want real talk in regards to healthy living tips, there's no independent health web site is better for telling it like it is and without the typical mumbo jumbo than HealthyLivingStraightTalk.com, especially when it comes to turning complex subjects into easy ones.
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The South Beach Diet book became tremendously successful as soon as the diet book by similar name was published and grew with fast succession among a dedicated inner circle. Armed with their own dieting success stories to tell everyone 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 one keeps confusing readers.
The South Beach Diet phase one is designed to be the shortest of phases 1, 2 and 3 of the diet, only lasting for a 2 week period. It was designed to be intense, kick-start your body and how you think about dieting from that point on. The myth to readers' thinking and one of the more difficult to grasp 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: rid yourself of bad carbs that aren't providing anything nutritionally for your body, substitute the bad carbs that are overwhelming in quantity in the American diet with substantial amounts of protein, good fats and low glycemic index (G.I.) carbs that solves your hunger and regulate your blood sugar balance.
Foods that do more harm 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 one. A safe bet, if you should have any difficulty, is to ingest as much salad, greens, and (most) vegetables you want, as they are on target for nutritional benefit.
It's during Phase 1 that Dr. Agatston has proven that your body's resistance to insulin will go down, so depending on your body weight and condition, you may lose 4 to 15 pounds initially, just in the first 2 weeks alone, as your body begins to shed surplus body weight.
The major purpose of The South Beach Diet phase one is 2-fold: to push you into a routine that you can manage that keeps you from being hungry and to plant a seed and the groundwork for a mindset that ensures you rid yourself of the bad foods and move toward the food that will shed pounds, deliver energy and improve your quality of life.
About the Author
If you want real talk in regards to healthy living tips, there's no independent health web site is better for telling it like it is and without the typical mumbo jumbo than HealthyLivingStraightTalk.com, especially when it comes to turning complex subjects into easy ones.
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12 January 2008
An Idiot's Guide To The South Beach Diet Phase 1
An Idiot's Guide To The South Beach Diet Phase 1 by Jackie Black
The South Beach Diet book became extremely successful as soon as the diet book with the fitting name was published and picked up with fast succession among a dedicated inner circle. 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 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, only lasting for a two-week period. It was designed to be in your face, 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 do not have to hold yourself back only eating low carb foods.
In a nut-shell, Phase 1 force feeds you the thinking to: rid yourself of bad carbs that are not doing anything nutritionally for yourself, substitute the bad carbs that are abundant in the American diet with large amounts of protein, good fats and low glycemic index (G.I.) carbs that entertain 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 phase themselves off of during the South Beach Diet Phase 1. If in doubt, if you should have any difficulty, is to ingest as much salad, greens, and (most) vegetables you want, as they are right in line because of their dietary benefit.
It's during this stage that Dr. Agatston has proven that one's body resistance to insulin will decrease, thus depending on your current weight and current health, you may lose 7 to 9 pounds initially, even in the first 2 weeks, as your body begins to eliminate excess body weight.
The major purpose of the South Beach Diet Phase 1 has two objectives: to test and discipline you into a routine that you stick with that 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 toward the food that drops pounds, deliver energy and improve your lifestyle.
About the Author
If you want real talk in regards to living a healthy lifestyle, there's no independent health site is better for telling it like it is and without the typical mumbo jumbo than HealthyLivingStraightTalk.com, especially when it means turning complex subjects into simple ones.
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=725689
The South Beach Diet book became extremely successful as soon as the diet book with the fitting name was published and picked up with fast succession among a dedicated inner circle. 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 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, only lasting for a two-week period. It was designed to be in your face, 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 do not have to hold yourself back only eating low carb foods.
In a nut-shell, Phase 1 force feeds you the thinking to: rid yourself of bad carbs that are not doing anything nutritionally for yourself, substitute the bad carbs that are abundant in the American diet with large amounts of protein, good fats and low glycemic index (G.I.) carbs that entertain 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 phase themselves off of during the South Beach Diet Phase 1. If in doubt, if you should have any difficulty, is to ingest as much salad, greens, and (most) vegetables you want, as they are right in line because of their dietary benefit.
It's during this stage that Dr. Agatston has proven that one's body resistance to insulin will decrease, thus depending on your current weight and current health, you may lose 7 to 9 pounds initially, even in the first 2 weeks, as your body begins to eliminate excess body weight.
The major purpose of the South Beach Diet Phase 1 has two objectives: to test and discipline you into a routine that you stick with that 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 toward the food that drops pounds, deliver energy and improve your lifestyle.
About the Author
If you want real talk in regards to living a healthy lifestyle, there's no independent health site is better for telling it like it is and without the typical mumbo jumbo than HealthyLivingStraightTalk.com, especially when it means turning complex subjects into simple ones.
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=725689
Discover All About The South Beach Diet
Discover All About The South Beach Diet by sas_worldofwarcraftbuddy
The South Beach Diet, created by cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston, is a safe and effective diet that differs from other diets in that it advocates not just a new way of eating but a new way of life.
The South Beach Diet puts an end to counting calories and it puts an end to portion control. The South Beach Diet also avoids putting people in a position where they feel like they're depriving themselves from eating food that tastes good and satisfies them.
The focus of the South Beach Diet is on fats and carbohydrates, more specifically, the right fats and carbohydrates. With the South Beach Diet, you find that healthy carbohydrates and fats satisfy your hunger and feed you energy while eating the wrong carbohydrates and fats can actually make you feel hungrier than you were before eating them, causing you to eat even more and, as a result, gain weight.
The South Beach Diet works in 3 phases, dieters going through phases 1 and 2 sequentially, each for a particular period of time, then moving to phase 3 where they remain for the rest of their lives.
South Beach Diet Phase 1 - For two weeks certain forms of carbohydrates are restricted, based on their glycemic index (a measurement of their affect on a person's blood sugar). Portion sizes for all other foods are normal. This two week period is the most intense and restrictive of the three phases. Foods emphasized in Phase 1 include chicken and turkey, fish and shellfish, vegetables with a low glycemic index (including salads with light dressing), low fat cheeses, eggs, and nuts. This is the period where drastic weight loss is usually noticed in a short time. This type of weight loss is not sustainable, however, which is why the South Beach Diet then promptly transitions you into Phase 2 where you can adjust your dietary patterns so as to achieve a more sustainable rate of weight loss without gaining back that initial poundage you just shed.
South Beach Diet Phase 2 - Here many of the carbohydrates that were forbidden in Phase 1 are incrementally introduced back into your diet. The desired effect of Phase 2 is to get yourself to a place where you lose between1 and 2 pounds each week, a rate of weight loss than you can easily sustain until you achieve your body's individual "healthy weight" (generally best determined by your Body Mass Index and percentage body fat to muscle mass). Phase 2 lasts as long as it takes for you to reach your desired weight.
South Beach Diet Phase 3 - Now you begin to establish the balanced diet you aim to maintain for the rest of your life, so long as weight remains where it is. Should you start to gain weight again, you can simply go back to one or both of the earlier phases until you get back to where you need to be.
The South Beach Diet is not a starvation diet. In it, you eat 3 satisfying meals per day plus 2 snacks in-between meals. Your meal plans are not set in stone, so you can still enjoy variety and spontaneity in your diet.
Studies of the South Beach Diet have shown that it not only helps people lose weight, but it increases their "good cholesterol" (HDLs) and decreases their "bad cholesterol" (LDLs) levels, while also improving their levels of insulin.
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The South Beach Diet, created by cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston, is a safe and effective diet that differs from other diets in that it advocates not just a new way of eating but a new way of life.
The South Beach Diet puts an end to counting calories and it puts an end to portion control. The South Beach Diet also avoids putting people in a position where they feel like they're depriving themselves from eating food that tastes good and satisfies them.
The focus of the South Beach Diet is on fats and carbohydrates, more specifically, the right fats and carbohydrates. With the South Beach Diet, you find that healthy carbohydrates and fats satisfy your hunger and feed you energy while eating the wrong carbohydrates and fats can actually make you feel hungrier than you were before eating them, causing you to eat even more and, as a result, gain weight.
The South Beach Diet works in 3 phases, dieters going through phases 1 and 2 sequentially, each for a particular period of time, then moving to phase 3 where they remain for the rest of their lives.
South Beach Diet Phase 1 - For two weeks certain forms of carbohydrates are restricted, based on their glycemic index (a measurement of their affect on a person's blood sugar). Portion sizes for all other foods are normal. This two week period is the most intense and restrictive of the three phases. Foods emphasized in Phase 1 include chicken and turkey, fish and shellfish, vegetables with a low glycemic index (including salads with light dressing), low fat cheeses, eggs, and nuts. This is the period where drastic weight loss is usually noticed in a short time. This type of weight loss is not sustainable, however, which is why the South Beach Diet then promptly transitions you into Phase 2 where you can adjust your dietary patterns so as to achieve a more sustainable rate of weight loss without gaining back that initial poundage you just shed.
South Beach Diet Phase 2 - Here many of the carbohydrates that were forbidden in Phase 1 are incrementally introduced back into your diet. The desired effect of Phase 2 is to get yourself to a place where you lose between1 and 2 pounds each week, a rate of weight loss than you can easily sustain until you achieve your body's individual "healthy weight" (generally best determined by your Body Mass Index and percentage body fat to muscle mass). Phase 2 lasts as long as it takes for you to reach your desired weight.
South Beach Diet Phase 3 - Now you begin to establish the balanced diet you aim to maintain for the rest of your life, so long as weight remains where it is. Should you start to gain weight again, you can simply go back to one or both of the earlier phases until you get back to where you need to be.
The South Beach Diet is not a starvation diet. In it, you eat 3 satisfying meals per day plus 2 snacks in-between meals. Your meal plans are not set in stone, so you can still enjoy variety and spontaneity in your diet.
Studies of the South Beach Diet have shown that it not only helps people lose weight, but it increases their "good cholesterol" (HDLs) and decreases their "bad cholesterol" (LDLs) levels, while also improving their levels of insulin.
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10 January 2008
Is The South Beach Diet Safe? What Every Dieter Needs To Know
Is The South Beach Diet Safe? What Every Dieter Needs To Know. by Darlene Nicholson
On quick glance, the south beach diet seems fairly safe and overall, pretty healthy cuisine. It does offer a way to eat healthy for life which is not the norm for fad diets. Support is also available through online communities and direct advice from the doctor who formed the diet and his nutritionists. Sounds good, right? But look a little closer and you'll see its pitfalls.
The biggest pitfall of the south beach diet is found right at the beginning. The first two weeks of the south beach diet are excruciating. Absolutely no fruit, bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, sugar, alcohol or baked goods are allowed. If the dieter is accustomed to eating these things, this will be extremely difficult to get through. This fact alone makes the south beach diet a potential failure.
In addition, the south beach diet in the first two weeks puts the body in a state of ketosis. Ketosis occurs when adequate carbohydrates are not taken in and ketone bodies are produced. If ketosis continues, then ketoacidosis can occur leading to coma and death. This will be amplified in anyone with kidney problems, but is certainly a problem even in healthy people. Moreover, the majority of weight lost in a state of ketosis is water weight and it will be regained when normal eating resumes. Lowering calories to this extreme also reduces metabolism thereby making weight loss more difficult in the future.
Designed for lowering cholesterol in heart patients and also for diabetics, the south beach diet is basically a low carb diet. After the initial two weeks, healthy carbohydrates such as whole grains, fruits and vegetables are gradually added back in. The potential for gaining back pounds lost in the first two weeks is high at this point. It's very difficult for a person to deny themselves of something and not go overboard when the item is reintroduced. Again, a great deal of self-resolve will be needed.
Another pitfall to the south beach diet is rather subjective, but nevertheless, an issue. The south beach diet offers books and advice by the ton creating somewhat of a complicated plan. A lot of people will simply not make it through learning the diet and become frustrated when things become too complicated. If a person has a difficult time understanding a diet, he or she will have an even more difficult time sticking to it.
The south beach diet, overall, is just too strict. Eating healthy for life doesn't have to mean giving everything up. There aren't many allowances for occasional indulgence. This, in and of itself, will make it difficult for a person to stick to the south beach diet.
Though it's not the worst fad diet ever, the south beach diet just isn't the best way to achieve healthy weight loss and keep it off for life. The best way to achieve healthy weight loss is by learning the basics of nutrition, some of which we learned quite simply in kindergarten with the food guide pyramid. Seems a bit simpler than memorizing the Glycemic Index, doesn't it?
Rather than following the south beach diet, try a more straightforward approach. Make a list of all the items you eat that are high in fat and sugar. Eliminate most of these from your daily intake and only allow a small amount now and again. Read food labels and try to understand portion sizes. You may be surprised at what you find. For instance, a serving of ice cream is only half a cup for a total of about 300 calories. Can you see how easy it would be to serve up a cup or even a cup and a half? Now that "serving" of ice cream is 600 to 750 calories! Try to get at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day. This could be a standard exercise such as running mixed up with some fun like dancing.
Remember the key to a healthy diet: Everything in moderation! The south beach diet may work for some people, but it certainly won't work for everyone. Following a generally healthy diet and exercising regularly is a less complicated approach to weight loss.
About the Author
From a sickly little girl to a healthy chef to the stars, Darlene Nicholson transformed herself into The "Kick in the Butt" Healthy Lifestyle Expert and creator of the popular DVD "The Healthy Grocery Store Tour". Visit her website http://www.lifechanginghealthysoutions.com or grab a copy of her free ebook "4 Steps to Permanent Weight Loss"...guaranteed to open your eyes to how easy weight loss can be with the right pl
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=718319
On quick glance, the south beach diet seems fairly safe and overall, pretty healthy cuisine. It does offer a way to eat healthy for life which is not the norm for fad diets. Support is also available through online communities and direct advice from the doctor who formed the diet and his nutritionists. Sounds good, right? But look a little closer and you'll see its pitfalls.
The biggest pitfall of the south beach diet is found right at the beginning. The first two weeks of the south beach diet are excruciating. Absolutely no fruit, bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, sugar, alcohol or baked goods are allowed. If the dieter is accustomed to eating these things, this will be extremely difficult to get through. This fact alone makes the south beach diet a potential failure.
In addition, the south beach diet in the first two weeks puts the body in a state of ketosis. Ketosis occurs when adequate carbohydrates are not taken in and ketone bodies are produced. If ketosis continues, then ketoacidosis can occur leading to coma and death. This will be amplified in anyone with kidney problems, but is certainly a problem even in healthy people. Moreover, the majority of weight lost in a state of ketosis is water weight and it will be regained when normal eating resumes. Lowering calories to this extreme also reduces metabolism thereby making weight loss more difficult in the future.
Designed for lowering cholesterol in heart patients and also for diabetics, the south beach diet is basically a low carb diet. After the initial two weeks, healthy carbohydrates such as whole grains, fruits and vegetables are gradually added back in. The potential for gaining back pounds lost in the first two weeks is high at this point. It's very difficult for a person to deny themselves of something and not go overboard when the item is reintroduced. Again, a great deal of self-resolve will be needed.
Another pitfall to the south beach diet is rather subjective, but nevertheless, an issue. The south beach diet offers books and advice by the ton creating somewhat of a complicated plan. A lot of people will simply not make it through learning the diet and become frustrated when things become too complicated. If a person has a difficult time understanding a diet, he or she will have an even more difficult time sticking to it.
The south beach diet, overall, is just too strict. Eating healthy for life doesn't have to mean giving everything up. There aren't many allowances for occasional indulgence. This, in and of itself, will make it difficult for a person to stick to the south beach diet.
Though it's not the worst fad diet ever, the south beach diet just isn't the best way to achieve healthy weight loss and keep it off for life. The best way to achieve healthy weight loss is by learning the basics of nutrition, some of which we learned quite simply in kindergarten with the food guide pyramid. Seems a bit simpler than memorizing the Glycemic Index, doesn't it?
Rather than following the south beach diet, try a more straightforward approach. Make a list of all the items you eat that are high in fat and sugar. Eliminate most of these from your daily intake and only allow a small amount now and again. Read food labels and try to understand portion sizes. You may be surprised at what you find. For instance, a serving of ice cream is only half a cup for a total of about 300 calories. Can you see how easy it would be to serve up a cup or even a cup and a half? Now that "serving" of ice cream is 600 to 750 calories! Try to get at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day. This could be a standard exercise such as running mixed up with some fun like dancing.
Remember the key to a healthy diet: Everything in moderation! The south beach diet may work for some people, but it certainly won't work for everyone. Following a generally healthy diet and exercising regularly is a less complicated approach to weight loss.
About the Author
From a sickly little girl to a healthy chef to the stars, Darlene Nicholson transformed herself into The "Kick in the Butt" Healthy Lifestyle Expert and creator of the popular DVD "The Healthy Grocery Store Tour". Visit her website http://www.lifechanginghealthysoutions.com or grab a copy of her free ebook "4 Steps to Permanent Weight Loss"...guaranteed to open your eyes to how easy weight loss can be with the right pl
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09 January 2008
Tips On South Beach Diet Phase 1 Recipes
Tips On South Beach Diet Phase 1 Recipes by Flor Serquina
The South Beach diet is one of the most popular diet plans in the world. There are many diet fanatics who endorse this diet, and these include a handful of celebrities. It has become so popular that many books have been published on how to go about the whole program, including recipes of dishes that those who follow the diet plan can enjoy. This diet program consists of several phases, and among the contents of those books are South Beach diet Phase 1 recipes.
The first phase of the South Beach diet is said to be full of restrictions on the type of food that you can eat. Some of those who went through it will tell you that it is one of the hardest stages of the program. There are some who get discouraged to go through the rest of the plan because the first phase alone is hard to get past by. In order to encourage people to get on with the plan, many South Beach diet Phase 1 recipes have been published not only in books but also in the Internet, which makes it easier for dieters to access.
Tips For Easier Dieting
As you go through this first stage of the plan, here are some tips that can help you with this stage of the diet program:
Make a diary of your experiences with the diet. Write entries daily, stating in detail your feelings and your thoughts about the whole process.
Avoid going to the shopping mall during your Phase 1 stage of the diet. You might end up in the food court and eat everything you can get your hands on. Instead, stay home and eat those meals provided by the South Beach diet Phase 1 recipes.
Restrain yourself from attending those gatherings that will surely serve mountains of food. Believe me, once you lock eyes with the buffet table, you are likely to lose your resolve and forget that you are supposed to be on a strict diet.
Overcoming this first stage of the diet is undeniably difficult. Most of the people who tried it will tell you that their brains are so occupied with thoughts of devouring pizza, ice cream and all the potato chips that they can get. It takes enormous willpower to accomplish this first phase of the plan.
Here is an example a of South Beach diet phase 1 recipe that you can cook and enjoy right in your home.
Tuscan Grilled Steak
Mash 3 large cloves of crushed garlic with 2 teaspoons of extra virgin olive oil in a bowl until it becomes paste. Rub this paste over a 2-pound flank steak, then sprinkle salt and pepper over it. Then grill the steak for about 5-7 minutes until it turns brown. Flip it over and cook the other side for about 5 minutes longer. Wait until the meat turns medium rare.
You can check how cooked the meat is by slicing the meat with a knife. To make sure that is medium rare, remove the meat from the oven when it is a little less cooked that you wish it to be. Cover the meat loosely with foil then let it rest for about 10 minutes. After this, slice meat thinly, and then drizzle with the juices that accumulated from the cooking.
Aside from your own research, it would be useful if you also ask other dieters about the South Beach diet Phase 1 recipes that they are using. They can recommend the most delicious ones from the batch; recipes, which will not make you feel deprived when you eat it because they are as delicious as those dishes that are off limits for you. Be adventurous when it comes to trying out dishes. They might become a staple in your kitchen for a very long time.
About the Author
Visit The-Good-Diet.com for useful information and resources about South Beach diet Phase 1 recipes, diet to control high cholesterol and the GERD diet.
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=696839
The South Beach diet is one of the most popular diet plans in the world. There are many diet fanatics who endorse this diet, and these include a handful of celebrities. It has become so popular that many books have been published on how to go about the whole program, including recipes of dishes that those who follow the diet plan can enjoy. This diet program consists of several phases, and among the contents of those books are South Beach diet Phase 1 recipes.
The first phase of the South Beach diet is said to be full of restrictions on the type of food that you can eat. Some of those who went through it will tell you that it is one of the hardest stages of the program. There are some who get discouraged to go through the rest of the plan because the first phase alone is hard to get past by. In order to encourage people to get on with the plan, many South Beach diet Phase 1 recipes have been published not only in books but also in the Internet, which makes it easier for dieters to access.
Tips For Easier Dieting
As you go through this first stage of the plan, here are some tips that can help you with this stage of the diet program:
Make a diary of your experiences with the diet. Write entries daily, stating in detail your feelings and your thoughts about the whole process.
Avoid going to the shopping mall during your Phase 1 stage of the diet. You might end up in the food court and eat everything you can get your hands on. Instead, stay home and eat those meals provided by the South Beach diet Phase 1 recipes.
Restrain yourself from attending those gatherings that will surely serve mountains of food. Believe me, once you lock eyes with the buffet table, you are likely to lose your resolve and forget that you are supposed to be on a strict diet.
Overcoming this first stage of the diet is undeniably difficult. Most of the people who tried it will tell you that their brains are so occupied with thoughts of devouring pizza, ice cream and all the potato chips that they can get. It takes enormous willpower to accomplish this first phase of the plan.
Here is an example a of South Beach diet phase 1 recipe that you can cook and enjoy right in your home.
Tuscan Grilled Steak
Mash 3 large cloves of crushed garlic with 2 teaspoons of extra virgin olive oil in a bowl until it becomes paste. Rub this paste over a 2-pound flank steak, then sprinkle salt and pepper over it. Then grill the steak for about 5-7 minutes until it turns brown. Flip it over and cook the other side for about 5 minutes longer. Wait until the meat turns medium rare.
You can check how cooked the meat is by slicing the meat with a knife. To make sure that is medium rare, remove the meat from the oven when it is a little less cooked that you wish it to be. Cover the meat loosely with foil then let it rest for about 10 minutes. After this, slice meat thinly, and then drizzle with the juices that accumulated from the cooking.
Aside from your own research, it would be useful if you also ask other dieters about the South Beach diet Phase 1 recipes that they are using. They can recommend the most delicious ones from the batch; recipes, which will not make you feel deprived when you eat it because they are as delicious as those dishes that are off limits for you. Be adventurous when it comes to trying out dishes. They might become a staple in your kitchen for a very long time.
About the Author
Visit The-Good-Diet.com for useful information and resources about South Beach diet Phase 1 recipes, diet to control high cholesterol and the GERD diet.
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South Beach Diet and Diabetes: Good And Bad Carbohydrates
South Beach Diet and Diabetes: Good And Bad Carbohydrates by Flor Serquina
Is there a connection between the South Beach diet and diabetes?
This medical condition is a chronic disorder where the level of sugar or glucose in the blood becomes increasingly high or elevated. Glucose in the blood is an important source of energy for the body in order to perform bodily functions.
At a healthy level of body sugar, our bodies are able to function well. When this level consistently elevates or depreciates, metabolic processes are affected resulting in complications that affect the kidneys, the heart, blood vessels and nerves, and even the eyes.
A Matter Of Lifestyle
Until today, there is no known cure to diabetes, and most medical treatment of this condition depends on lifestyle modifications such as dietary support, exercise and insulin injection. Because of this, diabetes is said to be a "lifestyle" disease. The latest news however is that the South Beach diet may just be the right approach to take in countering the deleterious effects of the "Western" lifestyle.
It was cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston of Miami, Florida who started the so-called South Beach diet. It is a diet plan that emphasizes the consumption of "good carbohydrates" and "good fats." It was first developed for cardiac patients based on the scientific dieting research of Dr. Agatston.
The basic principle surrounding the South Beach diet involves the excess consumption of the so-called bad carbohydrates found in carbohydrates with high glycemic index, which creates an insulin resistance syndrome, resulting in the insulin's inability to properly process fat or sugar.
Bad Fats Versus Good Fats
Dr. Agatston also believed that consumption of "bad fats" such as saturated and trans-fats increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. In order to avoid these possible conditions, the South Beach diet reduces consumption of both bad fats and carbohydrates and encourages eating of good fats and carbohydrates.
Recent statistics show that incidence of diabetes is significantly higher in developed countries where people live a fast-paced life. This shows the connection between a lifestyle indicated by stress, consumption of processed food and the lack of healthy food, and the concentration of cases of diabetes.
While at the moment a direct cure to diabetes have yet to be discovered, treating diabetes would involve changing lifestyle patterns that aggravate the metabolic disorder. This most importantly involves altering food habits and eating patterns.
A healthy diet is an important ally in the fight against diabetes. Altering lifestyle patterns can significantly contribute towards the prevention of lifestyle diseases such as diabetes. An example of such a healthy eating pattern is the South Beach diet. By reducing consumption of both bad fats and carbohydrates and encouraging intake of good fats and carbohydrates, one can lose weight and also maintain a healthy level of body glucose.
Bad Carbohydrates Too?
Like most diabetic diet plans, the South Beach diet differentiates food products into good and bad carbohydrates based on the glycemic index or the pattern, which identifies the rate when and where digested food can increase levels of glucose in the blood.
Consuming bad carbohydrates, according to the South Beach diet, causes an increase release of insulin and makes one feel hungrier, resulting in overeating and gain in body weight. Increased body weight makes a person susceptible to diabetes. From this perspective, a South Beach diet is a good way to maintain a healthy diabetic diet meal plan.
Some people, however, remain skeptical about the South Beach diet's ability to help persons with diabetes. A number of diabetic specialists believe that the glycemic index does not indicate a significant role in controlling weight. It is rather the quantity of carbohydrate intake that affects weight.
A Shift In Perspective
Like a healthy diabetic diet plan, the South Beach diet emphasizes a permanent shift in one's eating attitude, choosing from a wide range of health food and creating a meal plan with ease and flexibility. It encourages eating whole grains and vegetables together with ample amount of mono and polyunsaturated fats like omega 3 fatty acids that can be found in fish. Consumption of processed food products, meat with high fat content, and saturated fats is strongly discouraged.
John Kenneth Galbraith, a contemporary writer and author of the book The Affluent Society, wrote, "More die in the United States of too much food than of too little." Clearly, whether or not the South Beach diet significantly or directly reduces the effects of diabetes and helps control glucose within moderate levels, it evidently shows that what kind, how much, and at what time do we eat can greatly affect the risk of lifestyle diseases such as diabetes. By embracing a healthy eating pattern, such as the South Beach diet, the occurrence of diabetes may just be controlled.
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Is there a connection between the South Beach diet and diabetes?
This medical condition is a chronic disorder where the level of sugar or glucose in the blood becomes increasingly high or elevated. Glucose in the blood is an important source of energy for the body in order to perform bodily functions.
At a healthy level of body sugar, our bodies are able to function well. When this level consistently elevates or depreciates, metabolic processes are affected resulting in complications that affect the kidneys, the heart, blood vessels and nerves, and even the eyes.
A Matter Of Lifestyle
Until today, there is no known cure to diabetes, and most medical treatment of this condition depends on lifestyle modifications such as dietary support, exercise and insulin injection. Because of this, diabetes is said to be a "lifestyle" disease. The latest news however is that the South Beach diet may just be the right approach to take in countering the deleterious effects of the "Western" lifestyle.
It was cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston of Miami, Florida who started the so-called South Beach diet. It is a diet plan that emphasizes the consumption of "good carbohydrates" and "good fats." It was first developed for cardiac patients based on the scientific dieting research of Dr. Agatston.
The basic principle surrounding the South Beach diet involves the excess consumption of the so-called bad carbohydrates found in carbohydrates with high glycemic index, which creates an insulin resistance syndrome, resulting in the insulin's inability to properly process fat or sugar.
Bad Fats Versus Good Fats
Dr. Agatston also believed that consumption of "bad fats" such as saturated and trans-fats increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. In order to avoid these possible conditions, the South Beach diet reduces consumption of both bad fats and carbohydrates and encourages eating of good fats and carbohydrates.
Recent statistics show that incidence of diabetes is significantly higher in developed countries where people live a fast-paced life. This shows the connection between a lifestyle indicated by stress, consumption of processed food and the lack of healthy food, and the concentration of cases of diabetes.
While at the moment a direct cure to diabetes have yet to be discovered, treating diabetes would involve changing lifestyle patterns that aggravate the metabolic disorder. This most importantly involves altering food habits and eating patterns.
A healthy diet is an important ally in the fight against diabetes. Altering lifestyle patterns can significantly contribute towards the prevention of lifestyle diseases such as diabetes. An example of such a healthy eating pattern is the South Beach diet. By reducing consumption of both bad fats and carbohydrates and encouraging intake of good fats and carbohydrates, one can lose weight and also maintain a healthy level of body glucose.
Bad Carbohydrates Too?
Like most diabetic diet plans, the South Beach diet differentiates food products into good and bad carbohydrates based on the glycemic index or the pattern, which identifies the rate when and where digested food can increase levels of glucose in the blood.
Consuming bad carbohydrates, according to the South Beach diet, causes an increase release of insulin and makes one feel hungrier, resulting in overeating and gain in body weight. Increased body weight makes a person susceptible to diabetes. From this perspective, a South Beach diet is a good way to maintain a healthy diabetic diet meal plan.
Some people, however, remain skeptical about the South Beach diet's ability to help persons with diabetes. A number of diabetic specialists believe that the glycemic index does not indicate a significant role in controlling weight. It is rather the quantity of carbohydrate intake that affects weight.
A Shift In Perspective
Like a healthy diabetic diet plan, the South Beach diet emphasizes a permanent shift in one's eating attitude, choosing from a wide range of health food and creating a meal plan with ease and flexibility. It encourages eating whole grains and vegetables together with ample amount of mono and polyunsaturated fats like omega 3 fatty acids that can be found in fish. Consumption of processed food products, meat with high fat content, and saturated fats is strongly discouraged.
John Kenneth Galbraith, a contemporary writer and author of the book The Affluent Society, wrote, "More die in the United States of too much food than of too little." Clearly, whether or not the South Beach diet significantly or directly reduces the effects of diabetes and helps control glucose within moderate levels, it evidently shows that what kind, how much, and at what time do we eat can greatly affect the risk of lifestyle diseases such as diabetes. By embracing a healthy eating pattern, such as the South Beach diet, the occurrence of diabetes may just be controlled.
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07 January 2008
The South Beach Diet Weight Loss Bonus
The South Beach Diet Weight Loss Bonus by Allen Honeycutt
AMAZING BUT TRUE:
The South Beach Diet was originally not developed for weight loss purposes. Instead, it was developed to be a heart-healthy way of eating for (diet creator) Dr. Arthur Agatston's patients. In other words, weight loss turned out to be a really great bonus.
LIKE MANY COMMERCIAL DIETS,
The South Beach Diet is divided into phases. Three, to be exact:
PHASE 1
Consider this phase the carbohydrate boot camp! It lasts for 2 weeks, and is similar to a low carb diet. You will cut out all flour, sugar, fatty meats, fruit and fruit juices, dairy (except for some low fat cheeses) and alcohol. Starchy vegetables like potatoes, corn, carrots and most dried beans are also taboo during this phase. Allowed however are lean meat, tofu, mozzarella cheese sticks, olive and canola oil, cottage and ricotta cheese, most non-starchy vegetables, nuts, fish, and up to 75 calories a day of sugar substitute treats.
ACCORDING TO DR. AGATSTON,
You will lose up to 13 pounds in this first phase, depending on your weight. This also depends, however, on wether or not you already are a low carber. If you are, you will not lose as much weight up front on the South Beach Diet.
PHASE 2 OF THE DIET
Is considered the "long haul", so fortunately you get to add some tasty carbs back into the plan. You first add back in some fruit, sweet potatoes, whole grain bread, whole grain pasta, and brown rice.
WEIGHT LOSS SLOW DOWN
Can occur when you start adding back in these foods. For a balanced diet it is however important that you indeed do reintroduce them to the plan. Start by adding one serving a day, and continue doing so as long as you are still losing weight. If, during Phase 2, you actually stop losing weight --or even begin to add on some-- you need to move back to Phase 1, or at least cut back on some of the carbs that you started to reintroduce.
STILL FORBIDDEN
In Phase 2 are white flours and potatoes, carrots, corn, bananas, sugar, honey, cookies, cakes, etc. The key is low sugar, whole grains, and good fats. But it can be hard to add in just the right amount of carbs. Furthermore, portion sizes are not very specific on South Beach. So instead, you have to learn to eat until you are no longer hungry. Thus, two great reasons to join an online menu service!
EXAMPLE:
You might be stumped on lunch, and are tired of chicken breast, broccoli and brown rice. If you join an online service, you might well find tasty meals like smoked turkey pitas with raspberries. Yum, now that sounds like a diet that we can stick with!
DON'T FORGET
That the South Beach Diet wants you to take a multi vitamin daily, take calcium supplements, drink plenty of water, and cut caffeine down to a minimum.
PHASE 3
Of the diet is for the rest of your life. On it, you go back to 'normal' proportions, which basically means adding a handful to each Phase 2 meal. You can splurge for dessert more often, or eat more bread, but you will of course still need to watch your calories.
SO, TO SUM IT ALL UP:
The South Beach way of life is an excellent choice for a diet. It may feel a bit confusing until you get the hang of it, but the foods are very tasty, and overall satisfying. The online menu services are recommended more so for this plan than for most others.
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AMAZING BUT TRUE:
The South Beach Diet was originally not developed for weight loss purposes. Instead, it was developed to be a heart-healthy way of eating for (diet creator) Dr. Arthur Agatston's patients. In other words, weight loss turned out to be a really great bonus.
LIKE MANY COMMERCIAL DIETS,
The South Beach Diet is divided into phases. Three, to be exact:
PHASE 1
Consider this phase the carbohydrate boot camp! It lasts for 2 weeks, and is similar to a low carb diet. You will cut out all flour, sugar, fatty meats, fruit and fruit juices, dairy (except for some low fat cheeses) and alcohol. Starchy vegetables like potatoes, corn, carrots and most dried beans are also taboo during this phase. Allowed however are lean meat, tofu, mozzarella cheese sticks, olive and canola oil, cottage and ricotta cheese, most non-starchy vegetables, nuts, fish, and up to 75 calories a day of sugar substitute treats.
ACCORDING TO DR. AGATSTON,
You will lose up to 13 pounds in this first phase, depending on your weight. This also depends, however, on wether or not you already are a low carber. If you are, you will not lose as much weight up front on the South Beach Diet.
PHASE 2 OF THE DIET
Is considered the "long haul", so fortunately you get to add some tasty carbs back into the plan. You first add back in some fruit, sweet potatoes, whole grain bread, whole grain pasta, and brown rice.
WEIGHT LOSS SLOW DOWN
Can occur when you start adding back in these foods. For a balanced diet it is however important that you indeed do reintroduce them to the plan. Start by adding one serving a day, and continue doing so as long as you are still losing weight. If, during Phase 2, you actually stop losing weight --or even begin to add on some-- you need to move back to Phase 1, or at least cut back on some of the carbs that you started to reintroduce.
STILL FORBIDDEN
In Phase 2 are white flours and potatoes, carrots, corn, bananas, sugar, honey, cookies, cakes, etc. The key is low sugar, whole grains, and good fats. But it can be hard to add in just the right amount of carbs. Furthermore, portion sizes are not very specific on South Beach. So instead, you have to learn to eat until you are no longer hungry. Thus, two great reasons to join an online menu service!
EXAMPLE:
You might be stumped on lunch, and are tired of chicken breast, broccoli and brown rice. If you join an online service, you might well find tasty meals like smoked turkey pitas with raspberries. Yum, now that sounds like a diet that we can stick with!
DON'T FORGET
That the South Beach Diet wants you to take a multi vitamin daily, take calcium supplements, drink plenty of water, and cut caffeine down to a minimum.
PHASE 3
Of the diet is for the rest of your life. On it, you go back to 'normal' proportions, which basically means adding a handful to each Phase 2 meal. You can splurge for dessert more often, or eat more bread, but you will of course still need to watch your calories.
SO, TO SUM IT ALL UP:
The South Beach way of life is an excellent choice for a diet. It may feel a bit confusing until you get the hang of it, but the foods are very tasty, and overall satisfying. The online menu services are recommended more so for this plan than for most others.
About the Author
DietsExposed.com gives you the scoop on all the popular diets. The site features diet reviews and articles, sample diet menus, info about online diet services... And more, so come explore: http://DietsExposed.com
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South Beach Diet
South Beach Diet by Milan
Diets mortal come and destroyed, there jazz been hundreds of them, most of them being classed as null solon than fad diets. They position around for a few months, group try them and generally miscarry which leads to them sharing up and locomotion absent disappointed yet again.
However, there is one fasting which seems to acquire lasted quite a spell and which galore fill, including celebrities, swear by - The Southwesterly Beach fast. So what makes this one so primary? Why has it cragfast around when so umpteen others hold unsuccessful? One of the reasons why the Southward Beach fast has stuck around is that instead of fair beingness a intelligent fad it is actually a way of vivification. it is a fasting which relies on the mortal ingestion the rightish total of carbohydrates and fat, what's writer this fast promises that if you copy it then you can regress between 8 and 13 lbs in fair a duo of weeks.
The Southward Beach fasting was archetypal introduced to the world by Dilute Character Agatson, a cardiologist. The diet basically complex in phases that you staleness espouse in say for the diet to be a terminated success. The introductory two of these phases are for a unique become of quantify time the position point is wilful to be utilised for the set of your period and become your new way of experience.
The model of succeeding this fasting is that there is no pauperism to judge calories or the situation of the portions on your shield. You don't get to laboriously coefficient out the matter on consideration scales anymore and you aren't parcel feeling deprived because you module be included organic and solid content in your fast. The fast focuses on you eating iii principal meals a day with frequent sorted portions, the alimentation plans are really supple and there is writer nifty broadcast. Following this diet you are allowed to eat two snacks a day, you are healthy to relish a full variety depending on what takes your castellated Beach fast The Southward Beach fast consists of triplet primary phases. During phases one you are allowed to eat pattern size portions for your meals with the exclusive component existence that and foods that contain carbohydrates are circumscribed. This effort of the fasting faculty high for two weeks and is wise to be the strictest relation to the fasting. It is during this arrange of the fasting that you testament love to expend want to annihilate carbohydrates from your diet; this includes items specified as potatoes, food, fruit, breadstuff and lyricist. Erstwhile you person gone finished the two weeks then things will get a slight easier, now you gift get victimised to intake what are wise to be Stage two module consist of you gradually adding sustain foods which were classified due to spot carb proportion, you can slowly add posterior few pasta, product e.t.c though manifestly you cannot go sustain to your old shipway.
State cardinal is all near continuing with your new fast and perception it as your newfound style. If you poverty to care deeper into the Southerly Beach fasting, there is a really accommodating volume acquirable by the comparable found.
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Written by Milan N. Find more information about the Sacred Heart Diet
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Diets mortal come and destroyed, there jazz been hundreds of them, most of them being classed as null solon than fad diets. They position around for a few months, group try them and generally miscarry which leads to them sharing up and locomotion absent disappointed yet again.
However, there is one fasting which seems to acquire lasted quite a spell and which galore fill, including celebrities, swear by - The Southwesterly Beach fast. So what makes this one so primary? Why has it cragfast around when so umpteen others hold unsuccessful? One of the reasons why the Southward Beach fast has stuck around is that instead of fair beingness a intelligent fad it is actually a way of vivification. it is a fasting which relies on the mortal ingestion the rightish total of carbohydrates and fat, what's writer this fast promises that if you copy it then you can regress between 8 and 13 lbs in fair a duo of weeks.
The Southward Beach fasting was archetypal introduced to the world by Dilute Character Agatson, a cardiologist. The diet basically complex in phases that you staleness espouse in say for the diet to be a terminated success. The introductory two of these phases are for a unique become of quantify time the position point is wilful to be utilised for the set of your period and become your new way of experience.
The model of succeeding this fasting is that there is no pauperism to judge calories or the situation of the portions on your shield. You don't get to laboriously coefficient out the matter on consideration scales anymore and you aren't parcel feeling deprived because you module be included organic and solid content in your fast. The fast focuses on you eating iii principal meals a day with frequent sorted portions, the alimentation plans are really supple and there is writer nifty broadcast. Following this diet you are allowed to eat two snacks a day, you are healthy to relish a full variety depending on what takes your castellated Beach fast The Southward Beach fast consists of triplet primary phases. During phases one you are allowed to eat pattern size portions for your meals with the exclusive component existence that and foods that contain carbohydrates are circumscribed. This effort of the fasting faculty high for two weeks and is wise to be the strictest relation to the fasting. It is during this arrange of the fasting that you testament love to expend want to annihilate carbohydrates from your diet; this includes items specified as potatoes, food, fruit, breadstuff and lyricist. Erstwhile you person gone finished the two weeks then things will get a slight easier, now you gift get victimised to intake what are wise to be Stage two module consist of you gradually adding sustain foods which were classified due to spot carb proportion, you can slowly add posterior few pasta, product e.t.c though manifestly you cannot go sustain to your old shipway.
State cardinal is all near continuing with your new fast and perception it as your newfound style. If you poverty to care deeper into the Southerly Beach fasting, there is a really accommodating volume acquirable by the comparable found.
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Written by Milan N. Find more information about the Sacred Heart Diet
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05 January 2008
South Beach Diet Tips
South Beach Diet Tips by Wade Robins
South Beach Diet' is a name that comes on the lips of every person who has even an iota of interest in the world of diet and dieting. It is formulated by renowned Miami based cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston. The diet is a result of research undertaken by Dr. Agatston who wanted to reduce the incidence of strokes and other cardiovascular ailments in his patients. However, word-of-mouth ensured that the diet attained popularity throughout America.
South Beach diet stresses on avoiding the intake of bad carbohydrates, which are mainly found in processed items and products made from refined flour. It also asks the dieters to avoid food containing saturated fats
If you have already started following South Beach diet or are in the process of starting with it, it will augur well if you keep the following tips in mind.
Tip No 1:
Make sure that you take at least eight glasses of water. In fact, if you are following the South Beach diet, it is ideal if you can increase the intake of water. The first phase of South Beach diet restricts the amount of carbohydrates that enter your body. In the absence of carbohydrates, the body is compelled to use the fat stored in the cells. This also leads to drainage of water from the cells. Hence, when following South Beach diet, it is advisable to increase consume large amounts of water.
Tip No 2:
As far as beverages are concerned, South Beach diet does not allow the intake of soft drinks. Similarly, beverages containing caffeine are to be avoided. However, you are allowed to sip decaffeinated beverages such as club soda, tea, coffee, or decaffeinated sugar-free soda.
Tip No 3:
Vitamin and mineral supplements are necessary if you follow South Beach diet. Since many food items become off limit, the body may be deprived of essential nutrients. This is especially true in the first phase, during which the dieter is supposed to refrain from fruits, wheat and other grains etc. Hence the necessity to take vitamin and mineral supplements.
Tip No 4:
Ideally, while preparing meals for South Beach diet, you should try to balance all the three vital constituents i.e. carbohydrates, proteins and fats. The meal taken by you should be complete, wholesome and nutritious.
Tip No 5:
In case, you are accustomed to having a sustained workout or exercise which lasts for more than 90 minutes, it is advisable to go in for a low - glycemic index carbohydrate snack, otherwise you will feel tired and might not be able to prevent yourself from overeating. The snack should be ideally consumed about an hour before the scheduled workout.
Tip No 6:
As a South Beach diet follower, it will do well if you try out different permutations and combinations. This will allow you to come up with food items that you like and avoid those that you don't. Take for instance cottage cheese. It is a good alternative to the full breakfast and many people find it convenient and tasty.
So follow these tips and you have launched yourself onto the road of success.
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South Beach Diet' is a name that comes on the lips of every person who has even an iota of interest in the world of diet and dieting. It is formulated by renowned Miami based cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston. The diet is a result of research undertaken by Dr. Agatston who wanted to reduce the incidence of strokes and other cardiovascular ailments in his patients. However, word-of-mouth ensured that the diet attained popularity throughout America.
South Beach diet stresses on avoiding the intake of bad carbohydrates, which are mainly found in processed items and products made from refined flour. It also asks the dieters to avoid food containing saturated fats
If you have already started following South Beach diet or are in the process of starting with it, it will augur well if you keep the following tips in mind.
Tip No 1:
Make sure that you take at least eight glasses of water. In fact, if you are following the South Beach diet, it is ideal if you can increase the intake of water. The first phase of South Beach diet restricts the amount of carbohydrates that enter your body. In the absence of carbohydrates, the body is compelled to use the fat stored in the cells. This also leads to drainage of water from the cells. Hence, when following South Beach diet, it is advisable to increase consume large amounts of water.
Tip No 2:
As far as beverages are concerned, South Beach diet does not allow the intake of soft drinks. Similarly, beverages containing caffeine are to be avoided. However, you are allowed to sip decaffeinated beverages such as club soda, tea, coffee, or decaffeinated sugar-free soda.
Tip No 3:
Vitamin and mineral supplements are necessary if you follow South Beach diet. Since many food items become off limit, the body may be deprived of essential nutrients. This is especially true in the first phase, during which the dieter is supposed to refrain from fruits, wheat and other grains etc. Hence the necessity to take vitamin and mineral supplements.
Tip No 4:
Ideally, while preparing meals for South Beach diet, you should try to balance all the three vital constituents i.e. carbohydrates, proteins and fats. The meal taken by you should be complete, wholesome and nutritious.
Tip No 5:
In case, you are accustomed to having a sustained workout or exercise which lasts for more than 90 minutes, it is advisable to go in for a low - glycemic index carbohydrate snack, otherwise you will feel tired and might not be able to prevent yourself from overeating. The snack should be ideally consumed about an hour before the scheduled workout.
Tip No 6:
As a South Beach diet follower, it will do well if you try out different permutations and combinations. This will allow you to come up with food items that you like and avoid those that you don't. Take for instance cottage cheese. It is a good alternative to the full breakfast and many people find it convenient and tasty.
So follow these tips and you have launched yourself onto the road of success.
About the Author
You can also find more info on south beach diet success stories and Origin of South Beach diet.
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=669105
The South Beach Diet and Weight Loss Programs
The South Beach Diet and Weight Loss Programs by Franchis Adam
What is the South Beach Diet?
Developed by cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston, the South Beach Diet is self-described as "neither low-fat nor low-carb," but rather a method that teaches followers to rely on the "right" carbs and the "right" fats.
Like the Atkins Diet, this plan is divided into phases: Phase One lasts 14 days, and is the strictest. Normal-sized portions of lean protein are allowed, as are vegetables, nuts, cheese and eggs
What is the The South Beach Diet Like?
This diet focuses on a healthy balance between carbs and fats -- good carbs and fats.
Dr. Agatston says decreasing the bad carbs will help you metabolize what you eat more effectively and will also improve insulin resistance, leading to weight loss.
On the South Beach Diet you would consume more low-glycemic carbs, or good carbs, such as whole grains and vegetables. These are absorbed gradually into the blood stream and so don't trigger the spikes in your sugar/insulin cycle.
Dr. Agatston believes that excess consumption of so-called "bad carbohydrates", such as the rapidly-absorbed carbohydrates found in foods with a high glycemic index, creates an insulin resistance syndrome--an impairment of the hormone insulin's ability to properly process fat or sugar. In addition, he believes along with many physicians that excess consumption of "bad fats", such as saturated fat and trans fat, contributes to an increase in cardiovascular disease. To prevent these two conditions, Agatston's diet minimizes consumption of bad fats and bad carbs and encourages increased consumption of good fats and good carbs.
Amazingly the weight loss benefits of this diet are a secondary outcome; they were not the original intention. Dr. Agatston designed his diet to help his cardiac patients maintain a healthy lifestyle and lose weight. When lots of patients began to report positive weight loss he decided he was onto something and quickly dashed off the book.
You work the diet in three phases, which initially restrict certain foods and then restore them to your diet.
In Phase 1, which lasts 14 days you eliminate most of the carbs from your diet and instead you eat protein-rich foods, such as lean meats, chicken, fish, nuts, cheese, eggs, vegetables and olive oil.
Cravings for bad carbohydrates should be eliminated by the end of this phase.
The second phase lasts until you reach your target weight, and is less restrictive than Phase 1. Shoot to lose one to two pounds per week.
You can eat good carbs like whole grain breads, sweet potatoes, brown rice, pasta and fruit. You can also have chocolate and wine in moderate amounts.
Once you hit your target weight you should be coasting. The diet becomes part of your life style, you're eating complex carbs again and the carb cravings should be gone.
South Beach Diet - Effectively Changing Eating Habits to Lose Weight
In developing the South Beach Diet, Dr. Agatston reduces the consumption of believes "bad carbohydrates". These carbs quickly absorbed by the body, and have a high glycemic index; in the long run, there is insulin resistance. This means that the insulin seizes to process fat or sugar in the correct way. He also takes a very critical look at saturated fat and Trans fat; these two are the biggest contributing factors to cardiovascular ailments. The South Beach Diet emphasizes on reducing the consumption of "bad fats and bad carbs" and of course increases the consumption of "good fats and good carbs".
What are the pros to the South Beach Diet?
In today's dieting world where low-carb, high-fat diets are in vogue, it's good to see a diet that recommends eating fewer foods packed with saturates and replacing some of these foods with heart-healthy monounsaturates. Diets based on eating low GI foods are also becoming increasingly popular and in general, encourage you to 'de-junk' your diet and cut down on carb-rich foods that are packed with few other nutrients such as white bread, sugary cereals and sweets.
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What is the South Beach Diet?
Developed by cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston, the South Beach Diet is self-described as "neither low-fat nor low-carb," but rather a method that teaches followers to rely on the "right" carbs and the "right" fats.
Like the Atkins Diet, this plan is divided into phases: Phase One lasts 14 days, and is the strictest. Normal-sized portions of lean protein are allowed, as are vegetables, nuts, cheese and eggs
What is the The South Beach Diet Like?
This diet focuses on a healthy balance between carbs and fats -- good carbs and fats.
Dr. Agatston says decreasing the bad carbs will help you metabolize what you eat more effectively and will also improve insulin resistance, leading to weight loss.
On the South Beach Diet you would consume more low-glycemic carbs, or good carbs, such as whole grains and vegetables. These are absorbed gradually into the blood stream and so don't trigger the spikes in your sugar/insulin cycle.
Dr. Agatston believes that excess consumption of so-called "bad carbohydrates", such as the rapidly-absorbed carbohydrates found in foods with a high glycemic index, creates an insulin resistance syndrome--an impairment of the hormone insulin's ability to properly process fat or sugar. In addition, he believes along with many physicians that excess consumption of "bad fats", such as saturated fat and trans fat, contributes to an increase in cardiovascular disease. To prevent these two conditions, Agatston's diet minimizes consumption of bad fats and bad carbs and encourages increased consumption of good fats and good carbs.
Amazingly the weight loss benefits of this diet are a secondary outcome; they were not the original intention. Dr. Agatston designed his diet to help his cardiac patients maintain a healthy lifestyle and lose weight. When lots of patients began to report positive weight loss he decided he was onto something and quickly dashed off the book.
You work the diet in three phases, which initially restrict certain foods and then restore them to your diet.
In Phase 1, which lasts 14 days you eliminate most of the carbs from your diet and instead you eat protein-rich foods, such as lean meats, chicken, fish, nuts, cheese, eggs, vegetables and olive oil.
Cravings for bad carbohydrates should be eliminated by the end of this phase.
The second phase lasts until you reach your target weight, and is less restrictive than Phase 1. Shoot to lose one to two pounds per week.
You can eat good carbs like whole grain breads, sweet potatoes, brown rice, pasta and fruit. You can also have chocolate and wine in moderate amounts.
Once you hit your target weight you should be coasting. The diet becomes part of your life style, you're eating complex carbs again and the carb cravings should be gone.
South Beach Diet - Effectively Changing Eating Habits to Lose Weight
In developing the South Beach Diet, Dr. Agatston reduces the consumption of believes "bad carbohydrates". These carbs quickly absorbed by the body, and have a high glycemic index; in the long run, there is insulin resistance. This means that the insulin seizes to process fat or sugar in the correct way. He also takes a very critical look at saturated fat and Trans fat; these two are the biggest contributing factors to cardiovascular ailments. The South Beach Diet emphasizes on reducing the consumption of "bad fats and bad carbs" and of course increases the consumption of "good fats and good carbs".
What are the pros to the South Beach Diet?
In today's dieting world where low-carb, high-fat diets are in vogue, it's good to see a diet that recommends eating fewer foods packed with saturates and replacing some of these foods with heart-healthy monounsaturates. Diets based on eating low GI foods are also becoming increasingly popular and in general, encourage you to 'de-junk' your diet and cut down on carb-rich foods that are packed with few other nutrients such as white bread, sugary cereals and sweets.
About the Author
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Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=653358
04 January 2008
The South Beach Diet - Does It Really Work?
The South Beach Diet - Does It Really Work? by Jim Keayes
Sounds good... hang at the beach all day and get thin! Maybe get a walk-on part in Baywatch?
Perhaps not! Unfortunately this diet plan has nothing to do with hangin' at the beach other than the fact that Dr. Agatston, who created the South Beach diet lives or practices medicine in South Beach, Florida.
What is the South Beach Diet?
It's a diet that shoots to achieve a healthy balance between carbohydrates and fats--good carbs and good fats. Highly processed foods like baked goods, sweets, and soft drinks spike our blood sugar. In those who are susceptible they create carbohydrate addiction and eventually lead to insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome. Sugars in the blood stop being effectively absorbed by the muscles and instead get converted to fat and deposited around the belly.
Dr. Agatston says that decreasing the highly processed carbs in your diet can help you reverse this syndrome and improve insulin resistance, leading to weight loss.
So here's the big question... does it work?
Yes... it does seem to get results.
The diet is founded on the principle that high-glycemic carbohydrates-those with a glycemic index of 55 or higher such as white bread, potatoes and white rice (which Dr. Agatston calls bad carbs) lead to weight gain and eventual diabetes and heart disease.
On the South Beach Diet you would consume more low-glycemic carbs, or good carbs, such as whole grains and vegetables. These are absorbed gradually into the blood stream and so don't trigger the spikes in your sugar/insulin cycle.
Amazingly the weight loss benefits of this diet are a secondary outcome; they were not the original intention. Dr. Agatston designed his diet to help his cardiac patients maintain a healthy lifestyle and lose weight. When lots of patients began to report positive weight loss he decided he was onto something and quickly dashed off the book.
You work the diet in three phases, which initially restrict certain foods and then restore them to your diet.
In Phase 1, which lasts 14 days you eliminate most of the carbs from your diet and instead you eat protein-rich foods, such as lean meats, chicken, fish, nuts, cheese, eggs, vegetables and olive oil.
Cravings for bad carbohydrates should be eliminated by the end of this phase.
The second phase lasts until you reach your target weight, and is less restrictive than Phase 1. Shoot to lose one to two pounds per week.
You can eat good carbs like whole grain breads, sweet potatoes, brown rice, pasta and fruit. You can also have chocolate and wine in moderate amounts.
Once you hit your target weight you should be coasting. The diet becomes part of your life style, you're eating complex carbs again and the carb cravings should be gone.
All in all this is quite a successful diet, not too limiting or restrictive and you will lose weight.
On the other side of the coin, people become frustrated with the time involved in preparing the meals. As well as that, this is not a low cost diet solution... some of the recommended foods can be quite expensive.
Bottom line... this doesn't seem to be a diet that people are inclined to get into for the rest of their life. It's work intensive and somewhat expensive. It's my experience that if a diet gets too complex to prepare and maintain then people don't persist and they don't achieve their desired result.
Much better would be a plan that is low cost, simple, everything is prepackaged and prepared for you and you would be happy to stay on it for life; a diet that is healthy, tasty, satisfying and allows you to lose those pounds and easily maintain a healthy weight long term... and you would never need to go hungry.
If you're interested I can show you a plan like that.
About the Author
I have recently written a book entitled "Lose Weight - Never Go Hungry" which lays out a plan for overcoming carbohydrate addiction and losing weight. You can download it FREE here: http://www.loseweightnevergohungry.com/Book
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=652018
Sounds good... hang at the beach all day and get thin! Maybe get a walk-on part in Baywatch?
Perhaps not! Unfortunately this diet plan has nothing to do with hangin' at the beach other than the fact that Dr. Agatston, who created the South Beach diet lives or practices medicine in South Beach, Florida.
What is the South Beach Diet?
It's a diet that shoots to achieve a healthy balance between carbohydrates and fats--good carbs and good fats. Highly processed foods like baked goods, sweets, and soft drinks spike our blood sugar. In those who are susceptible they create carbohydrate addiction and eventually lead to insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome. Sugars in the blood stop being effectively absorbed by the muscles and instead get converted to fat and deposited around the belly.
Dr. Agatston says that decreasing the highly processed carbs in your diet can help you reverse this syndrome and improve insulin resistance, leading to weight loss.
So here's the big question... does it work?
Yes... it does seem to get results.
The diet is founded on the principle that high-glycemic carbohydrates-those with a glycemic index of 55 or higher such as white bread, potatoes and white rice (which Dr. Agatston calls bad carbs) lead to weight gain and eventual diabetes and heart disease.
On the South Beach Diet you would consume more low-glycemic carbs, or good carbs, such as whole grains and vegetables. These are absorbed gradually into the blood stream and so don't trigger the spikes in your sugar/insulin cycle.
Amazingly the weight loss benefits of this diet are a secondary outcome; they were not the original intention. Dr. Agatston designed his diet to help his cardiac patients maintain a healthy lifestyle and lose weight. When lots of patients began to report positive weight loss he decided he was onto something and quickly dashed off the book.
You work the diet in three phases, which initially restrict certain foods and then restore them to your diet.
In Phase 1, which lasts 14 days you eliminate most of the carbs from your diet and instead you eat protein-rich foods, such as lean meats, chicken, fish, nuts, cheese, eggs, vegetables and olive oil.
Cravings for bad carbohydrates should be eliminated by the end of this phase.
The second phase lasts until you reach your target weight, and is less restrictive than Phase 1. Shoot to lose one to two pounds per week.
You can eat good carbs like whole grain breads, sweet potatoes, brown rice, pasta and fruit. You can also have chocolate and wine in moderate amounts.
Once you hit your target weight you should be coasting. The diet becomes part of your life style, you're eating complex carbs again and the carb cravings should be gone.
All in all this is quite a successful diet, not too limiting or restrictive and you will lose weight.
On the other side of the coin, people become frustrated with the time involved in preparing the meals. As well as that, this is not a low cost diet solution... some of the recommended foods can be quite expensive.
Bottom line... this doesn't seem to be a diet that people are inclined to get into for the rest of their life. It's work intensive and somewhat expensive. It's my experience that if a diet gets too complex to prepare and maintain then people don't persist and they don't achieve their desired result.
Much better would be a plan that is low cost, simple, everything is prepackaged and prepared for you and you would be happy to stay on it for life; a diet that is healthy, tasty, satisfying and allows you to lose those pounds and easily maintain a healthy weight long term... and you would never need to go hungry.
If you're interested I can show you a plan like that.
About the Author
I have recently written a book entitled "Lose Weight - Never Go Hungry" which lays out a plan for overcoming carbohydrate addiction and losing weight. You can download it FREE here: http://www.loseweightnevergohungry.com/Book
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=652018
South Beach Diet and the Atkins Low Carb Plan
South Beach Diet and the Atkins Low Carb Plan by Dom Tass
South Beach Diet and the Atkins Low Carb Plan.
Review:
The Atkins Low Carb Diet is based on eating very few carbs (especially during phase 1), and we believe that it's one of the strictest weight loss plans on the market, and it's probably one of the hardest to follow low carb programs ever created.
There is no mistaking this program for anything other than an extremely strict low carb plan which will sap your energy very quickly, since it only allows 80 carb calories per day during the first phase. That's less carbs than you'll find in a decent sized apple.
This program is not for the faint of heart.
What about the South Beach Diet?
The South Beach diet is also a fairly strict low carb program (during the first phase), though perhaps not quite as strict as the Atkins program. But we also believe that the South Beach plan is too strict to be practical for everyday dieters, since it's no picnic either and it has the potential to sap your energy during phase 1 with the severely reduced carbs.
For example, we've observed that the higher carb foods (on the South Beach menu) are severely limited in portions during the first phase of the diet and this prevents a normal amount of carbs from being eaten during the first phase.
In fact, the only foods which dieters are allowed to eat in "unlimited portions" (during phase 1) are protein foods and super-low-calorie vegetables.
For example, the South Beach menu allows unlimited lettuce during phase 1 but yet it limits the portions of "tomatoes" and "onions" and "peanuts".
Additionally, the "sweet snacks" which are allowed on the South Beach menu are limited to a mere 75 calories per day during phase 1.
Can you believe that? Only 75 calories of sweet snacks per day? That's almost ridiculous.
So although the South Beach plan allows so-called "sweet snacks" they are limited to just 75 calories per day (that's less calories than a typical cookie contains).
So although the South Beach program is not as strict as the Atkins diet, it's our opinion that both diets are fairly strict and we believe that both are difficult to follow for average dieters.
Plus, both diets seem to have no "end" in sight since both the Atkins plan and the South Beach diet never allow dieters to return to a normal carb lifestyle (where carbs don't have to be closely watched).
These 2 diets do gradually allow more and more carbs to be eaten as time goes by of course, but even after 6 months dieters are still told to watch their carb intake to some degree each day.
So it's a major lifestyle change which is required by these diets, and many dieters will find it difficult to never be able to enjoy carb filled restaurant meals which can be eaten completely "as served".
So overall we think that both diets are not very practical for average dieters, since we believe that most people will find it difficult to modify their entire lifestyle forever. We therefore strongly recommend against using the South Beach and Atkins programs.
About the Author
To begin losing weight fast I recommend using the new diet from Fat Loss 4 Idiots since there are no specific "portion limits" at any meal (and it also allows 3 cheat days every 11 days where anything can be eaten). You can begin this new diet right here. FatLoss4Idiots
Source: http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=2232541802638565236
South Beach Diet and the Atkins Low Carb Plan.
Review:
The Atkins Low Carb Diet is based on eating very few carbs (especially during phase 1), and we believe that it's one of the strictest weight loss plans on the market, and it's probably one of the hardest to follow low carb programs ever created.
There is no mistaking this program for anything other than an extremely strict low carb plan which will sap your energy very quickly, since it only allows 80 carb calories per day during the first phase. That's less carbs than you'll find in a decent sized apple.
This program is not for the faint of heart.
What about the South Beach Diet?
The South Beach diet is also a fairly strict low carb program (during the first phase), though perhaps not quite as strict as the Atkins program. But we also believe that the South Beach plan is too strict to be practical for everyday dieters, since it's no picnic either and it has the potential to sap your energy during phase 1 with the severely reduced carbs.
For example, we've observed that the higher carb foods (on the South Beach menu) are severely limited in portions during the first phase of the diet and this prevents a normal amount of carbs from being eaten during the first phase.
In fact, the only foods which dieters are allowed to eat in "unlimited portions" (during phase 1) are protein foods and super-low-calorie vegetables.
For example, the South Beach menu allows unlimited lettuce during phase 1 but yet it limits the portions of "tomatoes" and "onions" and "peanuts".
Additionally, the "sweet snacks" which are allowed on the South Beach menu are limited to a mere 75 calories per day during phase 1.
Can you believe that? Only 75 calories of sweet snacks per day? That's almost ridiculous.
So although the South Beach plan allows so-called "sweet snacks" they are limited to just 75 calories per day (that's less calories than a typical cookie contains).
So although the South Beach program is not as strict as the Atkins diet, it's our opinion that both diets are fairly strict and we believe that both are difficult to follow for average dieters.
Plus, both diets seem to have no "end" in sight since both the Atkins plan and the South Beach diet never allow dieters to return to a normal carb lifestyle (where carbs don't have to be closely watched).
These 2 diets do gradually allow more and more carbs to be eaten as time goes by of course, but even after 6 months dieters are still told to watch their carb intake to some degree each day.
So it's a major lifestyle change which is required by these diets, and many dieters will find it difficult to never be able to enjoy carb filled restaurant meals which can be eaten completely "as served".
So overall we think that both diets are not very practical for average dieters, since we believe that most people will find it difficult to modify their entire lifestyle forever. We therefore strongly recommend against using the South Beach and Atkins programs.
About the Author
To begin losing weight fast I recommend using the new diet from Fat Loss 4 Idiots since there are no specific "portion limits" at any meal (and it also allows 3 cheat days every 11 days where anything can be eaten). You can begin this new diet right here. FatLoss4Idiots
Source: http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=2232541802638565236
The Relationship of South Beach Diet and Diabetes
The Relationship of South Beach Diet and Diabetes by Sandra Stammberger
According to statistics, around 127 million of Americans are obese or overweight and around 21 million suffer from diabetes. Health authorities were scared of these alarming figures and that is why they have spun into action. For many years, researchers were trying to find out the major causes of obesity and diabetes and recently they found out that the diet is a major cause. A diet that is full of oil, fats, refined flour, processed foods, etc. can make anyone more prone to obesity and diabetes.
So what is the possible solution? The answer is quite simple - change your diet. Dietary habits are hard to change but if you're determined to prevent obesity and diabetes, you'd better start now.
In order to maintain your overall health, medical fraternities came up with different diet charts. One of the very famous diets ever created is the very popular South Beach Diet. The South Beach Diet was invented by a cardiologist named Doctor Arthur Agatston.
Different communities were taken by storm by the South beach Diet. This diet follows several principles including:
1. Carbohydrates are of two kinds - good and the bad 2. Try to avoid the bad carbohydrates; foods that have GI or glycemic index are high in bad calories so better stay away from them 3. Don't eat foods high in saturated fats because these types of food can cause cardiovascular complications and arteriosclerosis.
The diet is also divided into three phases wherein most dieters find the first phase very difficult as it is the strictest. The diet is very strict on eating processed foods. Each body is different and the diet can or cannot work for you. It is therefore recommended by the South Beach Diet to have a trial & error method. You have to experiment on different food combinations until such time that you find what is suitable for you.
The last two phases are less strict and the dieter can now gradually eat grains, fruits, and milk products that are low in fat. Processed foods are still discouraged. Only the most nutritious foods that contain good carbohydrates are recommended by the South Beach Diet.
South Beach Diet can reverse the manifestations of type 2 and pre-diabetes. By decreasing the consumption of bad carbohydrates, insulin release is controlled and you will feel less hungry. As you can see, weight gain can lead to diabetes so if you can decrease your chances of gaining weight, you will be less prone to diabetes.
According to American Diabetes Association, the South Beach Diet can't control diabetes because they don't believe or approve of GI or glycemic index. They claim that carbohydrates are primarily responsible for increasing weight rather than the glycemic index.
Other doctors also don't approve of the South Beach Diet for controlling diabetes. They claim that the diet consisting of fruits and grain breads are not sources of good carbs. Insulin levels are affected by intake of grains and fruits. Not only that, Dr. Agatston recommends the intake of artificial sweeteners which is criticized by other doctors because they believe that it will make people more prone to cancer and diabetes.
The South Beach Diet has its share of pros as well as cons. It is therefore up to you whether you will try the diet or not. If you're a diabetic person, decide whether you need the diet or not.
About the Author
Sandra Stammberger owns and operates http://www.southbeachdietnewbie.com/southbeachdietanddiabetes.html - South Beach Diet And Diabetes
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=619573
According to statistics, around 127 million of Americans are obese or overweight and around 21 million suffer from diabetes. Health authorities were scared of these alarming figures and that is why they have spun into action. For many years, researchers were trying to find out the major causes of obesity and diabetes and recently they found out that the diet is a major cause. A diet that is full of oil, fats, refined flour, processed foods, etc. can make anyone more prone to obesity and diabetes.
So what is the possible solution? The answer is quite simple - change your diet. Dietary habits are hard to change but if you're determined to prevent obesity and diabetes, you'd better start now.
In order to maintain your overall health, medical fraternities came up with different diet charts. One of the very famous diets ever created is the very popular South Beach Diet. The South Beach Diet was invented by a cardiologist named Doctor Arthur Agatston.
Different communities were taken by storm by the South beach Diet. This diet follows several principles including:
1. Carbohydrates are of two kinds - good and the bad 2. Try to avoid the bad carbohydrates; foods that have GI or glycemic index are high in bad calories so better stay away from them 3. Don't eat foods high in saturated fats because these types of food can cause cardiovascular complications and arteriosclerosis.
The diet is also divided into three phases wherein most dieters find the first phase very difficult as it is the strictest. The diet is very strict on eating processed foods. Each body is different and the diet can or cannot work for you. It is therefore recommended by the South Beach Diet to have a trial & error method. You have to experiment on different food combinations until such time that you find what is suitable for you.
The last two phases are less strict and the dieter can now gradually eat grains, fruits, and milk products that are low in fat. Processed foods are still discouraged. Only the most nutritious foods that contain good carbohydrates are recommended by the South Beach Diet.
South Beach Diet can reverse the manifestations of type 2 and pre-diabetes. By decreasing the consumption of bad carbohydrates, insulin release is controlled and you will feel less hungry. As you can see, weight gain can lead to diabetes so if you can decrease your chances of gaining weight, you will be less prone to diabetes.
According to American Diabetes Association, the South Beach Diet can't control diabetes because they don't believe or approve of GI or glycemic index. They claim that carbohydrates are primarily responsible for increasing weight rather than the glycemic index.
Other doctors also don't approve of the South Beach Diet for controlling diabetes. They claim that the diet consisting of fruits and grain breads are not sources of good carbs. Insulin levels are affected by intake of grains and fruits. Not only that, Dr. Agatston recommends the intake of artificial sweeteners which is criticized by other doctors because they believe that it will make people more prone to cancer and diabetes.
The South Beach Diet has its share of pros as well as cons. It is therefore up to you whether you will try the diet or not. If you're a diabetic person, decide whether you need the diet or not.
About the Author
Sandra Stammberger owns and operates http://www.southbeachdietnewbie.com/southbeachdietanddiabetes.html - South Beach Diet And Diabetes
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=619573
The South Beach Diet
The South Beach Diet by Gaetane Ross
This diet was created for people with cardiovascular conditions. Developed by a cardiologist, this diet allows you to eat three meals a day as well as snacks and dessert. How does this diet afford you the opportunity to lose weight?
A cardiologist developed The South Beach Diet. His intent was to help heart patients and diabetics. By lowering carbohydrate intake and turning that intake into complex carbohydrates such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables, lean fats and proteins. By eliminating all simple sugars is a great diet for someone with diabetes.
The South Beach diet encompasses a meal plan filled with good carbs. The assumption is that bad carbs, which are associated with a high glycemic index, disables the body to resist insulin, thereby unable to properly dispose of fats and sugars that accumulate in the body.
The South Beach Diet has three levels or phases. The first phase encompasses a two-week regimen which allows you to consume regular meals which include: meat, vegetables, fish, eggs, low fat cheeses and yogurt, as well as your favorite snacks and desserts. The second phase consists of fruits and whole grain foods. The third phase is the point at which you have reach your weight loss goal and you continue maintenance by consuming three meals a day in combination with whole grain and fruits.
The bottom line is that the South Beach Diet combines good eating habits while decreasing bad carbs. Avoiding high fat content meals and processed foods is the method by which this diet claims success.
In addition, the website offers information including: a recipe database, a meal planner, shopping list generator, food guides, list of registered dieticians, a beach buddies program, message boards, a private online journal, a daily newsletter, a calendar tool, and a weight tracker. These weight-loss tools offer you an opportunity to not only stay on track but use the information to help you maintain your diet, ask questions, and seek advice. In addition, there are over a thousand recipes to choose from, the ability to talk with a dietician online as well as live support. There is even an online quiz which determines whether or not the diet is right for you.
While the South Beach diet is not considered to be a low-carb diet, its main function is to change your way of eating by decreasing the intake of bad carbs and increasing the consumption of fruits and vegetables. This is a great diet for people with heart conditions, and is a wonderful and healthy diet regimen as well.
About the Author
Gaetane Ross is a Certified Natural Health Consultant who has spent 4 years focusing on Nutrition and Health. She also specializes in Alternative Medicine.
http:thebestdiet4U.live-o-natural.com http://Live-O-Natural.com
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=607261
This diet was created for people with cardiovascular conditions. Developed by a cardiologist, this diet allows you to eat three meals a day as well as snacks and dessert. How does this diet afford you the opportunity to lose weight?
A cardiologist developed The South Beach Diet. His intent was to help heart patients and diabetics. By lowering carbohydrate intake and turning that intake into complex carbohydrates such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables, lean fats and proteins. By eliminating all simple sugars is a great diet for someone with diabetes.
The South Beach diet encompasses a meal plan filled with good carbs. The assumption is that bad carbs, which are associated with a high glycemic index, disables the body to resist insulin, thereby unable to properly dispose of fats and sugars that accumulate in the body.
The South Beach Diet has three levels or phases. The first phase encompasses a two-week regimen which allows you to consume regular meals which include: meat, vegetables, fish, eggs, low fat cheeses and yogurt, as well as your favorite snacks and desserts. The second phase consists of fruits and whole grain foods. The third phase is the point at which you have reach your weight loss goal and you continue maintenance by consuming three meals a day in combination with whole grain and fruits.
The bottom line is that the South Beach Diet combines good eating habits while decreasing bad carbs. Avoiding high fat content meals and processed foods is the method by which this diet claims success.
In addition, the website offers information including: a recipe database, a meal planner, shopping list generator, food guides, list of registered dieticians, a beach buddies program, message boards, a private online journal, a daily newsletter, a calendar tool, and a weight tracker. These weight-loss tools offer you an opportunity to not only stay on track but use the information to help you maintain your diet, ask questions, and seek advice. In addition, there are over a thousand recipes to choose from, the ability to talk with a dietician online as well as live support. There is even an online quiz which determines whether or not the diet is right for you.
While the South Beach diet is not considered to be a low-carb diet, its main function is to change your way of eating by decreasing the intake of bad carbs and increasing the consumption of fruits and vegetables. This is a great diet for people with heart conditions, and is a wonderful and healthy diet regimen as well.
About the Author
Gaetane Ross is a Certified Natural Health Consultant who has spent 4 years focusing on Nutrition and Health. She also specializes in Alternative Medicine.
http:thebestdiet4U.live-o-natural.com http://Live-O-Natural.com
Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=607261
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