South Beach Diet

The South Beach Diet shows you how to eat the right amounts of fats, carbrohydrates and protiens whilst still loosing weight. This is a healthy eating regime which will while enabling eating normal sizes portions aid greatly with weight loss. The South Beach Diet was originally designed to help heart problem patients loose weight. Successfully weight loss was a achieved and it was due to Dr Arthur Agatston who designed the South Beach Diet.

Step One

The South Beach Diet consists of a three step plan. The first Step concentrates on the elimination of what is called processed carbohyrdates.

These include:

• Bread
• Pasta
• Rice
• Potatoes

By eating three normal meal sized helpings from the following list you are kick starting your South Beach Diet and best of all you won't feel hungry all the time as you would by following other diet regimes.

• Skinless Chicken and Turkey Breast (remove visible fat)
• Top Round of Beef (lean cut)
• Lean Ground Beef
• Tenderloin of Beef(lean cut)
• Sirlion (lean cut)
• Toploin of Beef(lean cut)
• Eye of Round Of Beef (lean cut)
• Veal Cutlet
• Veal Topround
• Veal Chop
• Lamb Centre cut
• Lamb Loin
• Lamb Chop
• Pork Tenderloin
• Boiled Ham
• All types of Sea and Shellfish

The following types of cheese can be eaten as long as they are low fat or fat free:

• Provalone
• Cheddar
• String
• Mozzarella
• American
• Cottage Cheese
• Cream Cheese
• Parmesan
• Ricotta

When it comes to vegetables most are suitable apart from a few. Rather than lisitng everything you can eat we have made it easier by listing the vegetables you cannot eat while following this diet:

• Sweet Potatoes
• Carrots
• Yams
• Corn
• Beetroots
• Potatoes

Step Two

Step Two of the South Beach Diet should follow on immediately after finishing Step One and should be continued until the required weightloss has been gained. This step allows you and shows you how to reintroduce healthy carboydrates into your diet. By eating these healthy carbohydrates you still lose weight but your body is gaining that extra energy source it needs. Below we have listed some of the foods permitted in Step Two.

• Sweet Potatoes
• Brown Rice
• Wholewheat Pasta
• Wholewheat Bread
• High Fibre Cereal
• Popcorn

The above list gives you an idea into the basics you can start eating again at the end of Step One, However, there are still some foods to avoid at this point. We have put a rough list together below for you.

• White Bread
• White Pasta
• White Rice
• White, Baked or Instant Potatoes

With regards to reindroducing vegetable at this stage there are only two allowed:

• Barley
• Peas

No doubt by this stage you will be wondering when you can have that bit of chocolate you have in the back of the refridgerator without the guilt that you kept for emergencies. Well at this stage Yes you Can have it. Eat chocolate sparingly. You don't want to ruin all your hard work at this early stage. This also applies to fat free or lower fat puddings.

Low fat or fat free yoghurts are also allowed at this stage of your South Beach Diet.

Step Three

The aim of Step Three of the South Beach Diet is to help you maintain the weightloss you wanted when you first started this diet and now have achieved. You can now at this stage eat the foods you enjoy without starving yourself. The most important fact is that by following this you will not put back on the weight you have worked so hard to loose.

There are no specific foods that you cannot eat when you have reached Step Three but one thing you want to remember is all that you have learned from following Steps One and Two. You can now eat all the foods that were previously disallowed. Eat them in moderation. You have successfully acheived to live without or cut down on these foods so the last thing you want to do is overload yourself on them. Any foods that were disallowed in the previous two step should be eaten in small portions maybe once or twice a week. Remember you don't want to gain all that weight back again, Do You?