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What is The South Beach Diet?
Dr. Arthur Agatston is a cardiologist based in south Florida who developed a diet for his chronically overweight heart patients. He published the diet as The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss in 2003 and it has been a bestseller ever since.
What is The South Beach Diet Like?
The diet involves building your meals around specific allowable and forbidden foods. The first 14 days of the South Beach Diet are called Phase 1. It is often referred to as the "strict" part of the plan as it includes the most stringent rules about what you cannot eat.
When you start Phase 2, you can begin eating some of those "forbidden foods" again. You will continue to eat the Phase 1 acceptable foods as well.
How Long are You On It?
By the time you reach Phase 3, you will have learned all the skills you need to maintain your goal weight. You will be on Phase 3 for good ... it is now your way of life.
You can learn everything you need to know about The South Beach Diet with South Beach Diet 101.
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Reference:
The South Beach Diet : The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss, Arthur Agatston, MD, St. Martin's Griffin (April 19, 2005 edition). .
