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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