When starting a new diet it is important to know what can and cannot be eaten, what is and is not part of the diet. The South Beach Diet may seem a bit complicated on the surface with lists of what you can and can’t eat, but remember that only phase 1 is especially restricted. The South Beach Diet Phase 1 shopping list, however, will make it a lot easier to stick to the diet and get through phase 1 with flying colors.

This is the food list that you will want to refer to for your phrase 1 shopping and meal planning. I recommend picking a few different meals from the South Beach books that look interesting and simple to prepare and buy the ingredients neeed ahead of time. Then buy some additional items from the list to prepare other meals more spontaneously. It will also help to keep some of these items on hand so that you have healthy snacks and plenty of phase one acceptable foods when you get puckish.
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How Phase Two of the South Beach Diet Works

Once you get through the first two weeks of the South Beach Diet during phase one, it’s time to move on to the second phase of the diet. Phase two is a bit different from phase one because it is at this point that you will start making some choices of your own about what to eat, rather than simply following the food list from the first phase. It also lasts longer than phase one. Once you fully progress into phase two over the course of six weeks, you’ll stay with it until you read your weight loss goals before moving on to phase three.

Throughout the first six weeks of the second phase of the South Beach diet, you’ll slowly be adding more carbohydrates back into your menu. You’ll do so gradually though, one week at a time, in order to make sure that you are continuing to lose weight and that you aren’t having adverse reactions, such as food cravings, dips in your energy, or weight gain.

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[ReviewAZON asin="031231521X" display="inlinepost"]Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet, which lasts two weeks, is pretty similar to the Atkin’s Diet “induction” period, which, not so coincidentally, also last two weeks. This is the most stringent aspect of the entire diet plan because you will be removing a lot of things that most people really enjoy eating from your diet.

As part of the publicity for South Beach, they tout that you can lose weight without feeling hungry. With the amount of food that you are allowed to have on the plan during phase one, this is actually pretty true. But hunger and cravings aren’t really the same thing. You really are not likely to be hungry, i.e. feeling your stomach growl and holding on by your fingernails until your next meal rolls around. What are you likely to experience though is cravings for the carbs that you’ve suddenly been weaned off of.

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