The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight...

The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss | Arthur Agatston | Easy Diet and it Works

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	The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss Arthur Agatston Rodale Books, 2003 - 310 pages average customer review:based on 727 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Read it, get lean and healthy

This is a concise and easy-to-follow book. The diet is very restrictive, especially during the first two weeks, but once you totally commit yourself you will realize that it is actually easy to follow. The good thing is that you are allowed to eat as much as you like but you may not consume any carbohydrates. However, you will notice that you actually eat less than usual because you are simply not hungry. It wasn't easy for me to give up on my evening desserts but the reward was that I was losing almost a pound a week and that is what kept me motivated. I got great results and after a few weeks I can again put on the pants from four years ago.

I find South Beach diet very healthy which is also very important to me. I am believer in a lean and healthy body, not a starved one. I think that it is also very important not only to control what and how often you eat, but also how you combine the foods, as outlined in another great book that I highly recommend, titled "Can We Live 150 Year?" The author of this book also brings awareness of the bad habits that lead people to obesity. Here are some of them:

1. The habit of eating fast and not chewing the food well
2. Drinking fluids at meals
3. Frequent snacking or constant chewing
4. Incorrect combining of food products
5. Lying down after meals
6. Sitting lifestyle
7. Eating while watching TV
8. Eating while irritated
9. Eating before bedtime or at night
10. Eating mostly refined and cooked food products.

Good luck. Read the books, get lean, and be healthy. I am.

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Easy Diet and it Works

I'm not one to follow diets usually, because I always believe in eat less/exercise more. Unfortunately that doesn't work, because when I exercise more, I eat more. When a friend recommended the South Beach I decided to read up about the philosophy first before jumping in. I had always been raised to think that carbohydrates are good and fats are bad. What Dr. Agaston explains is that there are good carbs and bad carbs, good fats and bad fats. The South Beach diet educates you on what is good for you, and what causes weight gain and harmful blood chemistry.

As for the mechanics of the diet, it is really quite simple. I never followed their menus, or their recipes. I just looked at the allowed foods and made up my own meals. I really hate to count anything, document anything or look things up. This diet doesn't require any of that, unless it is to count the number of peanuts you should have for a snack (which is really quite simple to do). It also doesn't require purchasing special meals, or drinks, or anything. Just follow the principles, adapt to your own tastes and off comes the weight.

There are 3 phases to the diet, all explained and easily understood. The book also explains the physiology of the diet, and why harmful swings in blood sugar can cause problems, including overweight, diabetes and heart disease. Once you get your blood sugar levels under control, you do not get cravings anymore or hunger pangs in between meals. It is really ironic that being on this diet does not make you hungry. In fact, starving yourself, or being hungry is counterproductive, since the key is to maintain a steady blood sugar state, so that you do not experience the feast/famine cycle which causes overeating, as well as overstorage of fat.

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Very good way of life

There's a lot of good reviews for this book "The South Beach Diet" already written. So I haven't much to offer other than my success from following it this year. From Januay to October of this year (2007) I lost 70 lbs by changing my eating habbits and way of life to the guidelines explained in this book. Instead of just telling you what you should eat, it explains a lot of the "why". Knowing this information gave me the knowleged I needed to finally lay down the burgers, beer and pizzas and starting eating healthy food and (just as important) start adding excercise to my daily routine. If you want to loose weight in a heart-healthy way that also helps avoid the onset of diabetes, this is a very good diet to follow.

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Are you ready?

I've just purchased my sixth gift copy of The South Beach Diet. No, I don't go around sending it to people who I think need to drop some pounds. But when a friend wants to know how I lost weight or why we aren't eating potatoes or bread, and they seriously indicate an interest in following new food-eating patterns, I send them a copy. My husband and I bought a copy three years ago and embarked on our South Beach food adventure. Within six months, I had lost 40 pounds, he had lost the ten that was his goal, and while I have gained part of mine back after slipping off the path, I am now back on it to drop 10 lbs.

Dr. Agatston gives enough philosophy behind his diet suggestions, and his fairly rigorous first two weeks is succcessful quickly enough, that we found it easy to continue. And I can honestly say, I never felt hungry.

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What a wonderful diet plan

I wasn't sure if we would be able to stick to the diet. I love this!! Went on this diet because my boyfriend had to get his blood glucose levels under control. I did not want to cook two different meals so I joined him in the diet. What a wonderful surprise....he's lost approx. 10 pound and I've lost 13. What's even better.....his glucose count has gone down, almost to "normal" levels.

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