SOUTH BEACH DIET PHASE

South Beach Diet - Phase 1:Weeks of Restrain

This is the strictest phase of South Beach Diet. It last for a period of 2 weeks. Phase 1 of South Beach Diet will strictly restrain your carb intake and banish your cravings. Differ with other diet plan, it doesn't have to be low cabs or low fat but choose the right carbs and the right fat in your meal plan.

This period is just long enough to resolve the insulin resistance condition. It was designed to allow ample portion of protein, good fats and the lowest-glycemic index carbs needed for satisfaction and the control of blood sugar. You will lose somewhere between 8 to 13 pounds during Phase 1 of South Beach Diet. You will have 3 balance meal a day plus snack in the mid-morning and mid-afternoon and desert after dinner.

What you'll eat: During Phase 1, you'll eat normal-size helpings of meat, chicken, turkey, fish, and shellfish. You'll have plenty of vegetables, eggs, cheese, and nuts. You'll have salads with real olive oil in the dressing. You'll have three balanced meals a day, and it will be your job to eat so that your hunger is satisfied.

What you won't eat: during this period you won't be having any bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, or baked goods. No fruit,  No candy, cake, cookies, ice cream, or sugar for two weeks, either. Beside that you should not take any beer or alcohol of any kind. After this phase, you'll be free to drink wine, which is beneficial for a variety of reasons. Not a drop during the first two weeks, however.  You'll begin adding those things back into your diet again in the subsequent phase.

South Beach Diet - Phase 2:Reintroducing of Carbs

Phase 2 of South Beach Diet is where you were reintroduce certain healthy carbs which you forbidden during the phase 1 of South Beach Diet.  By this time the physical cravings that ruled your eating habits will be gone, and they'll stay away for as long as you stick with the program.. Remember the basic rule of South Beach Diet - The weight loss doesn't happen because you're trying to eat less. It will happen because you'll be eating fewer of the foods that created those old bad urges—fewer of the foods that caused your body to store excessive fat.

What you'll eat now:  You should continue to lose weight after the 14-day period ends and started adding back  some of those banished foods back into your life. You may now eat foods from all the dietary food groups.  You'll still be on a diet, but if you feel like taking bread, pasta, or potatoes you'll reintroduce that. Rice or cereal, too. Fruit will definitely be back.

You will have to pick and choose which of these indulgences you permit yourself. You won't be able to have all of them all the time. You'll learn to enjoy them a little differently than before—maybe a little less enthusiastically. But you will enjoy them again soon.

You'll remain in Phase 2 and continue losing weight until you reach your goal. How long it takes depends on how much you need to lose. Once you hit your target, you'll switch to an even more liberal version of the program, which will help you to maintain your ideal weight.

South Beach Diet - Phase 3:Maintaining Weight

By this moment you should be at your ideal weight. Stage 3 of South Beach Diet will lasts the rest of your life. You will be eating normal food, in a normal portions. Bear in mind the basic rule of South Beach Diet-Eat "Good" carbs and "Good" fat.

As you're losing weight and altering how your body responds to food. This will significantly alter your blood chemistry, to the long-term benefit of your cardiovascular system. You will improve invisible factors that only cardiologists and heart patients worry about. Thanks to this final change, you will substantially increase your odds of living long and well—meaning you will maintain your health and vitality as you age.

You may start on the South Beach Diet hoping just to lose weight. If you adopt it and stay with it, you will surely accomplish that much—plus all the benefits of a healthy diet and a thinner body. There will always be times when you overindulge a litter. Then, switch back to Phase 1 & 2 of South Beach Diet plan.