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The South Beach Diet book became extremely successful as soon as the diet book with the obvious name was published and picked up with fast succession among a dedicated inner circle. Armed with dieting successes to tell everyone 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, is still growing in readership, but the South Beach Diet Phase 1 keeps confusing readers.

The South Beach Diet Phase 1 is designed to be the shortest of all phases of the diet, lasting for a two-week period. It was designed to be in your face, kick-start your body and how you think about eating from that now on. The opposite to popular thinking and one of the more difficult to grasp parts to Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet, you do not have to limit yourself only eating low carb foods.

In a nut-shell, Phase 1 force feeds you the thinking to: get rid of bad carbs that are not providing anything nutritionally for your body, replace the bad carbs that are found in surplus in the American diet with ample amounts of protein, good fats and low glycemic index (G.I.) carbs that entertain your hunger and balances your blood sugar.

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

It is during this South Beach Diet Phase that Dr. Agatston has proven that one's body resistance to insulin will decrease, thus depending on your current weight and condition, you may lose 3 to 13 pounds initially, just in the first two weeks right off the bat, as your body begins to shed surplus body weight.

The major purpose of the South Beach Diet Phase 1 is two fold: to throw you into a routine that you can manage which keeps you feeling full and to plant a seed and the groundwork for a mindset that ensures you rid yourself of the bad foods and move towards the food that drops pounds, deliver energy and better your lifestyle.