The South Beach Diet And Its Phases

The South Beach Diet is touted as another “big leap” to the slimming arena when it is first formulated by Dr. Arthur Agatston who found out that some of his patients were having little progress by using the traditional low carb-high fat diet plans.

Generally, the South Beach Diet is such an acclaimed form of diet that is mainly divided into three different phases. It is considered that the first phase of the South Beach Diet lasts for two weeks. And it is interesting to know that every phase of the South Beach Diet includes particular meal plans and recipes. For those who have tried the Atkins Diet, you may react that the South Beach Diet with such introduction to its phases really sounds quite similar to that of Atkins, but then try to note that the South Beach Diet is a low-carb diet.

The Phase one of the South Beach Diet is the strictest part of this “big thing”. Here, the dieter will be totally eliminating fruits, bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, sugar, alcohol, and baked goods for two weeks from your diet. Such exclusion of the items is the primary reason why some people may assume that the South Beach Diet is a low-carb plan. With such given fact, the dieter therefore will be eliminating many foods that he or she may be accustomed to eating such as a roll with dinner or a banana in the morning, and say babushka to junk foods. But then, after the set two weeks are done, the dieters are now free to add back what is excluded from their diets.

The second phase of the South Beach Diet involves the discipline of beginning to add the foods that were off-limits before. So the dieters can now begin to add bread, pasta, potatoes, rice, or cereal to their meals. The choice is just up to them. In fact, at this phase of the South Beach Diet, the dieter can add fruit too, if he or she wishes. It is interesting to know that this diet provides the dieters the freedom to choose which of those foods they will add back into their diet. Thus, the key in this phase of the South Beach Diet is to re-introduce those foods in moderation and to not take them as always as before.

Finally, as the third phase of the South Beach Diet enters, the final and the least restrictive phase of the South Beach Diet emerged. It is noted by Dr. Agatston himself that as long as a dieter follows the fundamental rules of the South Beach Diet, he or she will continue to manage his/her own weight until it becomes a way of life.