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The South Beach Diet book became seriously successful as soon as the diet book with the fitting name was finally published and picked up with fast succession among a dedicated inner circle. Each with dieting successes to brag about, the South Beach Diet book, officially titled as, The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss, continues to grow in passion, but the South Beach Diet Phase 1 keeps confusing readers.

The South Beach Diet Phase 1 is designed to be the shortest of phases 1, 2 and 3 of the diet, only lasting for a fourteen day period. It was created to be in your face, kick-start your body and your mindset about how you diet from that point on. The myth to popular thinking and one of the harder to understand parts to Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet, you do not have to hold yourself back only eating low carb foods.

In a nut-shell, Phase 1 instills in you the thinking to: rid yourself of bad carbs that are not doing anything nutritionally for your body, substitute the bad carbs that are abundant in the American diet with substantial amounts of protein, good fats and low glycemic index (G.I.) carbs that solves your hunger and regulate your blood sugar balance.

Foods that do more harm than benefit: fruit, candy, cereal, potatoes, grains, etc. all are eliminated, or the dieter must phase themselves off of during the South Beach Diet Phase 1. A safe bet, if you should have any difficulty, is to eat all the salad, greens, and (most) vegetables you want, as they are right in line for dietary benefit.

It's during this stage that Doctor Agatston has proven that your body's resistance to insulin will decrease, thus depending on your current weight and current health, you may lose 7 to 8 pounds initially, even in the first two weeks right off the bat, as your body begins to eliminate extra body weight.

The major goal of the South Beach Diet Phase 1 two fold: to throw you into a routine that you can manage which keeps you from being hungry and to plant a seed and the groundwork for a mindset that ensures you get rid of the bad foods and move towards the food that will shed pounds, guarantee more energy and improve your quality of life.