How The South Beach Diet Works

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The South Beach Diet is a unique three phase program unlike many other so called dieting programs. It tries to substitutes your bad carbohydrates and fats for good ones. Here is a simplified version of what is about.

Phase 1

Phase 1 is to lasts for two weeks. During this phase, you will eat normal meals of chicken, beef, turkey, fish, and shellfish, lots of vegetables, eggs, cheese, nuts, and garden salads using 100% olive oil for your salad dressing. Everyday you will eat three, well-balanced meals.

You will also eat a snack between breakfast and lunch, and then again between lunch and dinner even if you do not feel like eating these snacks. For the South Beach Diet to work, you need to eat. After dinner, you will even have dessert. During this stage, you can drink all the coffee and tea you want and be sure to drink lots of water.

During this phase, you will cut out all bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, baked goods, fruit, candy, cake, cookies, ice cream, or sugar. In addition to taking these foods out of your diet temporarily, you will also need to avoid any kind of alcohol.

Phase 2

This phase will last different lengths of time depending on each individual person and how their body reacts. During the past two weeks, the way in which your body was reacting to foods making you overweight was corrected. Those cravings have been squelched and the bad eating habits of the past are gone.

 

 

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