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

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

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wonderful Way of Life!
Review: My husband and I have managed to lose over 200 pounds by simply cutting out the bad carbs and enjoying the great foods that are available to us on this lifestyle. It makes sense and you honestly lose those cravings and addictions for the foods that are making America so obese. We found it very easy to stick to but the only thing is the meals are a bit more labor intensive then we have time for, but we did find a couple other books that have great recipes and are quicker and easier. I recommend this book and it's idea's but I also recommend "Eat Yourself Thin Like I Did" for regular meals and if you have a sweet tooth like my husband does, I highly recommend "Eat Yourself Thin With Fabulous Desserts!"

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Montignac revisited
Review: The South Beach Diet is simply the Montignac diet renamed and repackaged: Same operating principles, same philosophy, same indexes, and same results.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: a thoughtful approach to diet & nutrition
Review: The South Beach Diet is a reasonable, delicious, intelligent way to change your eating habits. I began the diet, not in an attempt to lose any significant weight, but rather because I wanted to spend some time paying close attention to the food I was eating. It's very easy for even a reasonably healthy eater to fall into a rut; and it's certainly easy, in our culture, to begin indulging in far too many processed foods.

For the most part, the recipes are good, and relatively simple to prepare. I'm participating in this plan along with my vegetarian partner, and the meals are very easy to adapt to that diet. Some of the items are even better with veggie-friendly substitutes - beans instead of tuna in composed salads, soy analogues in lieu of the evening's chicken or fish, etc. I really like that the meal plans are so reliant on vegetables - I don't worry any longer about getting the requisite '5 a day.'

I wasn't a consumer of artificial sweeteners, canned or frozen vegetables, red meat, or egg substitutes prior to this diet, so I've chosen not to include them now. I've found that it's pretty simple to continue eating whole, fresh foods while adhering to the plan's essential tenets (most of the Diet's recipes already employ whole foods - this was a minor change). I wasn't too sure about beginning with Phase 1 - it seemed to restrictive for my goals - but I found that completely cutting out high glycemic index carbs for the two week period really helped me sort through what I liked about chocolate, potatoes, breads, sugar, alcohol, certain fruits, etc. So many of those cravings are simply force of habit, and nudging my body's chemistry around in order to lose those habits turned out to be a very good thing. It is not that hard - there are many other good things offered as replacements here, and you will certainly not go hungry.

Phase 1 doesn't emphasize portion control, but I found that a typical day's meal plan was simply too much for me to consume. However, I found it important to have all the 'right' foods on hand, in order to prevent a slip on the day that 3pm hunger does strike!

For me, the South Beach Diet has proven to be an excellent way to approach my diet more thoughtfully and rationally. Many of the other reviews here testify to its weight loss potential, as well.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: OK, but a little slow
Review: I was expecting more vivid characters and a more exciting plot line. This was a good read, but Kafka is more interesting, and he apparently lost a good deal of weight. Check out "The Amazing 6-Day Czech Diet."

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It works !!
Review: My wife and I went on this diet 13 weeks before we went on vacation, she lost 30 pounds and went from size 12 jeans to size 8. I lost 35 pounds and went from size 40 pants to size 34. I have never found a diet the would work and let me eat enough that I didn't always feel ether hungery or starving. Like I have stated this is one diet that really works.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: You get out what you put in....
Review: ... but isn't that how life is with everything?

I have never been on a diet in my life. Frustratingly within the last 5-10 years I've watched my weight (& clothes size) creep up in spite of dietary changes & intermittantly added exercise. This time I refused to buy another sizer larger. This was one of 3 "diets" that my doctor recommended. (The other two were Scarsdale Medical Diet & Weight Watchers -- I'm not learning a new counting system.)

Honestly I found information on South Beach Diet (SBD) easier than I could for Scarsdale. SBD made sense to me. It is logical & well-researched. Is it easy? No. But then I'm a child of immediate gratification & convenience foods. This requires planning ahead for meals & snacks. I have never eaten so much food daily in my life. At times it's hard to fit it all in. I've also spent more time in the kitchen than every before! :/

I've stuck it out. Have I been perfect? No. But then this is a lifestyle choice for me and not about regimented dieting (as my hubby keeps reminding me). It's about healthier eating AND living.

My only critcism is that SBD advocates various sugar substitutes in place of sugar and doesn't address natural sweeteners. I can't reconcile putting artificial and/or chemical sweeteners into recipes for consumption. I am doing it for Phase 1 (detox) & Phase 2 (weight loss), but for Phase 3 (lifestyle maintenance) I will be researching the addition of natural sweeteners. I don't use them that much anyway.

I've lost more in noticeable inches than I have in pounds, but it encourages me. Have I lost as fast or as much as others? No. But it depends on where you start & where you're going.

Would I recommend this book? Wholeheartedly. I would also recommend prevention.com's forum, yahoogroup.com's support e-mail lists and the SBD web site (costs money). If it wasn't for everyday people supporting me and answering my questions, I don't think I would have stuck with this.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: 35 pounds off, no cravings and no self-sabotage!
Review: With 40 pounds of fat bulging over my trousers, I read your reviews and bought two highly recommended books. The first was this great book and the second was Optimal Thinking: How To Be Your Best Self. Well I gotta tell ya I have never stuck to a diet before, and I am doing it now. This book makes it so easy because I can basically eat what I like. Optimal Thinking really showed me how to stop using food to deal with my emptiness and anger and optimize my thinking to make the most of my life. I am happy !!!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Where have I read this before?
Review: I liked this book the first time I read it. When it was called "The Atkins Diet". If rehashing what someone else wrote is all it takes to write a best seller, then I'm on my way.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is finally it!
Review: I have been eating this way since July and have lost around 35 lbs. If you would have known me before you would have seen me easily down nachos, candy, ice cream and anything else without a thought - and that was just at bedtime! I felt like I had to do something or I was literally going to burst! I gave an honest effort to the South Beach diet and saw amazing results and that was great motivation. But the true test is three months later and I feel so good. I eat what I truly want to eat now. And as hokey as it sounds the cravings for the before mentioned foods went away. I now snack on peanuts, string cheese and an occasional sugar free fudgcicle. The majority of people I work with have started this as well and the pounds are falling off and the energy is going through the roof. My husband lost 15 lbs without trying because that was what was available and he too feels great.

I have read where people are bashing this way of eating after two days...give it a chance. Anytime you cut out all that processed sugar and simple carbos your body won't feel the same. A few more days and you feel wonderful.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Not Original
Review: The South Beach diet sounds suspiciously like Adele Puhn's "5 Day Miracle Diet," published in 1996. Not very original of you, Arthur Agatston. If you buy this book, buy it for the recipes only.


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