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Summary: Easier to follow than Atkins, cholesterol dropped.
Review: Like some other reviewers who have posted here, I have been on a lot of different diets including Atkins but like The Southbeach Diet the best.When I started on the South Beach Diet, I weighed 198 lbs. and my cholesterol level was 350. M doctor told me that was abt double the normal range and I needed to do something quick. In 10 weeks, I lost 25 lbs, 6 inches from my waist and my cholesterol dropped over 100 points.I told my sister about this program and she lost 12 lbs. during the same 10 week period.We love the South Beach Diet. This guidebook helps make the right food choices and makes the diet program even easier.
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Summary: Great pocket size- fits in my purse!
Review: Perfect purse size book that is a quick/easy reference for grocery shopping, dining out. You can buy the main book-- but this one is all you really need. Has a basic text to explain the principles behind the diet. Have lost 18 pounds so far since I started 1 month ago and I do not really exercise... FYI..
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Summary: It works!
Review: So far i've lost 15 pounds on this diet, and only 5 more to go. My husband's lost 30 so far, but he has a lot more to go.The best thing about it is because after awhile you figure out what foods work best for you and what treats you can afford to have without gaining weight. It's also good for rebalancing sugar and cholesterol, and easier than atkins and more cholesterol conscious. Definately recommended. D
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Summary: Great Companion Reference
Review: The "Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide" is a great little companion to "The South Beach Diet." It's helpful for quick food references when making food selections. It's geared toward the lifestyle approach of the South Beach plan, listing foods as "allowed, good, limited" etc. It has helpful suggestions when fast food is your only option and other difficult situations to maintain your healthy eating style.
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Summary: Great Companion Reference
Review: The "Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide" is a great little companion to "The South Beach Diet." It's helpful for quick food references when making food selections. It's geared toward the lifestyle approach of the South Beach plan, listing foods as "allowed, good, limited" etc. It has helpful suggestions when fast food is your only option and other difficult situations to maintain your healthy eating style.
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Summary: Small & Compact Guide for a Great Diet
Review: The diet is great because it allows more food types than other Atkin's type diets, but still allows for bigger portions of the right foods. There is a beginning strict phase and then a more laxed phase like Atkins. This seems more sensible than Atkins though. There are less hunger pains on this diet than other types of diets and the fat comes off fast. Good small guide for a great diet. I recommend to anyone who is trying to lose weight (or make positive changes of other types) the amazing book "Effortless Wellbeing" by Evan Finer. That book will give you a simple way to feel better no matter what you weigh, will help you win the weight loss battle, and help you stay tuned to what is important-- generally make your more powerful and successful. Wonderful highly recommended books!! Good luck!
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Summary: Voodoo Science
Review: The idea that maltose in beer is somehow guided to your belly and causes a "beer belly" is nonsense. Glucose is the simple sugar that is transported into our cells and then converted to energy by a series of oxidation-reduction reactions. Maltose is a disaccharide that consists of two glucose molecules linked in an alpha 1,4 glycosidic bond. Maltose is not absorbed from our intestines. It must be converted to a monosaccharide (glucose) before it can be absorbed---that's why the tips of our villi in our proximal small intestine contain enzymes that break disaccharides into monosaccharides. The enzyme maltase does it for maltose, lactase does it for lactose (glucose and galactose) and sucrase does it for sucrose (glucose and fructose.) Where then does the popular "beer-belly" scenario fit in? Sugars are converted to fat if there is an excess in the blood compared to current metabolic needs, but the idea that maltose, after it is split and absorbed has some sort of homing rader that leads it directly to the abdomen where it will be converted to fat is silly. As long as you are able to absorb the sugar, it will go wherever it is needed in the body. The real reason for the "beer belly" is that people who develop them are taking in way more carbohydrates than their current metabolic needs. Dr. Agatston appears to be a wine snob who doesn't know how to enjoy the complexity of a good tasting beer or two.
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Summary: Great Companion!!
Review: THE SOUTH BEACH DIET GOOD FATS, GOOD CARBS GUIDE is a well-organized and easy-to-use companion to THE SOUTH BEACH DIET. I've been on Dr. Agatston's plan since August and have lost 32 pounds. The Guide is an ideal quick reference -- especially for shopping and eating out -- for Phase 3 dieters. Much appreciated!
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Summary: Great Supplemental Information
Review: The South Beach diet is a healthy alternative to the Atkins diet and allows enough variety in your diet to maintain a "healthy lifestyle, not just a diet." This is not a cookbook and offers only a few pages of discussion about the diet itself. Use this book as a supplement to the main South Beach Diet book. The book discusses the basic framework of the South Beach diet, including important information about the glycemic index of certain foods, which play a key role in insulin production and fat gain. The basic premise of the book, according to the author, is to help you "consume the right carbs and the right fats and learn to snack strategically." To teach you how to do this, the book categorizes carb rich foods according to good and poor choices. For example, whole grains, legumes, rice, and starchy vegetables are listed as good carbs, while crackers, pasta, white bread, and processed food products are bad. The bulk of this small paperback is dedicated to lists of foods with their respective carbs, fat, protein, and sugar listed in grams. In short, it is a reference book that supplements the information you get from "The South Beach Diet" book. Eating of course, is enjoyable, while dieting is a pain. However, having lost approximately 50 pounds over the past 18 months, I can tell you the pleasure of feeling and looking better is worth the inconvenience. Atkins helped me lose weight, but I could only take so much fatty foods, while longing for the crisp, clean taste of fresh fruit. I also read Dr. Phil's book and learned about how my emotions (stress, anger, boredom, etc) effect the way I eat. Trying to diet without understanding why you eat is an uphill battle, so I would recommend you try Dr. Phil and South Beach together.
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Summary: www.southbeachdiet.co.uk World Support by She Unlimited
Review: There are masses of carbohydrate diets like the Atkins Diet and The Zone. Now Ham tons diet meets South Beach. I think most of us know the reason for it's creative principle of lowering cholesterol for Dr A`s patients and those with diabetes. The diets regimen is based on the consumption of complex carbohydrates such as whole grains, fruits and vegetables, and lean fats and proteins. It eliminates simple carbohydrates almost entirely (sweets, pasta, most bread, etc.) and aggressively restricts carbohydrate consumption during the weight loss phase of the diet, similar to Atkins.
This type of diet is simply going to lower caloric intake for those who follow it, consequently weight loss. I still think calories count, although you can eat what you want from the allowed foods list, if you overtake in calories....well, some experience no weight loss. However over time your hungry will subside and you will then naturally take in a less amount of food.
The book does focus on decreased carbohydrate consumption in a healthier manner, but the book falls into the trap of marketing itself in a similar manner as all fad diets: they clearly know what appeals to desperate, overweight people and they use the common buzzwords in this business such as, "lose weight fast", "13 Pounds in 2 weeks", "cravings were gone", "never unsatisfied." Overly optimistic claims are certainly dubious when lasting weight loss is difficult, as we all know.
Which diet does not, how else to get the market moving without such BUZZ words. It is essential. And this diet makes diet sense. It is easy to follow, some find it hard finding the low fat ricotta cheese, but other then that it is a simple lay out plan for regular people and not geared toward the fitness enthusiastic.
Keep in mind once you reach your goal you can have your loved (no so healthy foods) in moderation..
It takes hard and adding some source of exercise into the program just helps to build you metabolism.
I did it, you can do it too.
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