Does The South Beach Diet Work?
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Regulating your meal portion size and regular exercise is the only diet that has ever or will ever work.
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It is weight or water retention?  Try 7-day cabbage soup diet.  Check out South Beach Diet.  Don't do diet pills.
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http://www.weight.co.uk/south-beach-diet.html
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It does work but it takes a lot of willpower.  I went on it after having my third child and lost about 50 lbs in 45 days. It did change how food tastes and what I eat now.  Basically it is to cleanse the body and then you go straight to eating foods good for you. Changes the way things taste so you don't head straight for junk food.  However, as with anything...to keep it off is to be active and eat small meals all day long. I have kept the weight off for 3 years now. Keyword:  Willpower:)
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Try the souch beach diet book...
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You can try something like south beach diet. You will definitely lose weight. I once lost 8 pounds in a week. Most of it is water so you need to eat healthy and exercise to keep it off. Its not good to lose weight by crash diets.
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Over 50 years of scientific evidence in the peer reviewed literature proves that...DIETS DO NOT WORK.  The caloric theory of diet has been a miserable failure.\n\nIf you were a doctor instead of a jackass, you would know that and know why.  Human beings aren't machines.  Intake does not equal output.  We are complex, SELF-REGULATING, biological systems.\n\nOnly slashing intake of food to unreasonable levels has any discernable impact over the short term (ie under a year).  That cannot be maintained for very long and the person rapidly gains the weight back and more.  The reason they gain back more is your metabolism immediately reduces in response to starvation (especially starvation of protein).  Also, the weight is lost first from your muscle mass.  Muscle is the most biologically active tissue and is responsible for most of your metobolism.  Reducing muscle vastly reduces your caloric output.  If you eat the same diet with less muscle mass, you gain fat.  Simple as that.  Yo-yo dieting (the ONLY type of dieting people who go on diets engage in) not only doesn't work for reducing weight....it makes you fat.\n\nSo.  What does work?  A healthy diet.  The other side of the coin is someone who makes poor food choices gets fat for a variety of complex reasons.  Whole books have been written on the specifics but they don't matter.  What matters is that, healthy diet works, when engaged in as a permanent lifestyle change.  Get most of your calories (amount does not matter) as meat and most of your bulk as fresh fruits and vegetables.  Drink only water.  Only eat whole grains and those in strict moderation (there are problems with grains).  Don't eat fish...it's contaminated (however, a pharmaceutical grade fish oil supplement is very helpful for a healthy diet).  Don't eat junkfood, fast food, processed food (pasta, tofu, most vegetable oils sugar, flour, MSG, aspartame etc.) etc.  Do have olive oil, palm oil, coconut oil, in reasonable quantities.  Eat butter in moderation.  Use salt with moderation (consider eliminating it as a condiment though).  That's a healthy diet and the only diet that will cause permanent weight loss.  It works by eliminating unbalanced, unnatural, non-food, foods that are the cause of obesity (over eating is definitely NOT the cause of obesity).  Also.  Stay the hell away from vegetarianism.  It is unhealthy and makes you fat.  It is downright dangerous when done incorrectly.\n\nExercise is helpful.  However, most aerobic exercise is worthless.  Engaging in 15 minutes of light aerobic exercise does help....but that is the maximum benefit people get from that.  In order for more benefit, you need to do high intensity exercise (HIT ).  If you want that, get a book and study up on it and use a heart monitor. But, for losing weight, it's weight training you want to engage in.  The more muscle you put on, the less fat you will have, is the bottom line.  Also, you can trim fat off of problem areas by building muscle there (the effect is hormonal).
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I have some knowledge of both.  I believe the South Beach Diet kind of starts out similarly to the Atkins in the respect you limit your carbohydrates a lot in the first two weeks or so. Atkins does the same except it may be somewhat more extreme.  South Beach doesn't champion as much red meat as Atkins too.\n\nPersonally, I think it might be okay the first two or three weeks since both limit carbs.  After that, the diets diverge in philosophy.  The South Beach includes more bread/rice and other things...whereas the Atkins still carb-restricts.  So, I think it would be detrimental to mix them after the first few weeks.\n\nI personally think the South Beach diet is a lot more healthy..I read the book and I feel its a lot healthier to lose weight that way because it gradually introduces carbs back into the diet.  Atkins is too extreme and once you go back to a regular diet with breads and/or rice, you will gain the weight back.
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I too, need a little more info.\n\nTry eating fresh veggies and fruits as much as you can. Get a carb counting book and try and eat only 60 carbs per meal. 30 carbs per snack. It most likely has to do with what your eating, not how much.\n\nEat like a king at breakfast a queen during lunch and a pauper at night. Do not starve yourself it makes things worse.\n\nEating a good breakfast will kick in your metobolism and start to help you loss weight. Right now it sounds like your body is thinking it is starving. (That lowers how fast you burn calories)\n\nYou need to eat, just eat the right things. You even need to snack during the day.\n\nI eat a lot of fresh fruits and veggies and I try to eat a salad every day. I lost 15 pounds just changing one meal a day (The salad). It took a year, but hey that wasn't really difficult.\n\nThe south beach diet is excellent for heart health and to help you lose weight. Check it out.\n\nSome of my favorite things are fresh strawberries and bananas mixed together.\n\nGrilled pineapple, or grilled onions and peppers\nRoasted Red Peppers. They contain very little carbs and you can eat a lot of them. Dried beans are good, all kinds because they have a lot of protein.\nPeaches, strawberries, bananas, blueberries, peppers, grapes, mangos, squash, zuccini, onions, greens, greens and more greens. Tomatoes, pretty much anything out of the produce section you can eat hefty amounts of, just limit white things like potatoes, rice, pasta, white bread etc.\n\nWatch the FFries, and become a label reader. That should help a lot.\n\nRemember don't starve yourself it lowers how fast you burn calories. Just think "Veggie Power".\n\nPower walking helps a lot too. Just eat your fresh veggies and fresh fruits and nuts. Walnuts are really good too. Even peanut butter is ok, it has lots of protein and has good fat. \n\nGo on a learning spree about choices in food.\n\nGood Luck
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Ditch almost anything that is white.\n\nWhite sugar, flour. potatoes rice.\nSwitch to only Whole Grain Breads and Rice and sweet potatoes.\n\nEgg whites are fine as are Onions and cauliflower.\n\nDrink Green Tea.\n\nThose are some of the things that I avoid after loosing 30 pounds on the South Beach Diet and it sees to be saying off!\n\nAVOID all fast food crap.
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As far as I know, it works as long as you will adhere to the recommended diets you need to eat. Most common side effect is the bowel movement changes  which is diferent from what you normally have - usually oily and bowel movement increased and a bit loose. Some degree of abdominal discomfort is the next usual side effect.\n\nSome obtained good results while others also didn't had the result they wanted . Many considerable factors seem to have a role.♥
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Nobody wants to hear it but there are none, diet pills are a waste of money.  If people see results from diet pills they have side effects and are short lived.  The best thing too do is change your diet and start exercising as you'll hear over and over again.  There are some diets that teach you how to eat healthy and help in losing weight (south beach has had good results for a lot of people, but if you're not careful after the diet, you can gain all the weight back plus more). \n\nLearn what different foods do for you, try to cut out all processed foods and cut back on the sugar.  Keep a food diary of every little thing you eat daily.  To find the amount of calories you need to lose weight multiply your body weight by 12 or 15 to start off with. Once you try eating this amount of calories, if you're losing more then 2 lbs you may be losing too much weight, if you're losing about 1 lb a week that would be considered normal.   Make adjustments as needed every two weeks.  You can input your food intake and keep track of calories at fitday.com.    You'll find that small adjustments make the world of difference in the way you feel --you'll have more energy.  It takes 21 days to form a habit so hopefully this will help you get started on the road to a healthy lifestyle.  Remember eat to live, not live to eat.  Good luck!
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Yes, easily. Most low carb diets will do this.\n\nThe South Beach Diet, among others, advertises that people will lose between 7 and 11 pounds in the first two weeks, although the weight loss slows after that.
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south beach is the healthiest for quickest result or weight watchers but weight watchers is a little slower
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First change what you eat! A good diet plan is the South Beach Diet. Then start to exersize! Start with little things first like walking. Then build from that. Good Luck!!\nIf you have anyother questions just ask me!!
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Dr. Atkins is dead. He was a major proponent of low carb dieting, meaning severely restricting carbohydrates while eating lots of protein. While this method of dieting can bring short term results, it does not lend itself to a reasonable lifestyle for most people. Something like the South Beach Diet is a more balanced approach to reduced carb dieting. \n\nChances are your girlfriend, like most people, will quickly abandon this diet, which has severe limitations.
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Hi... I haven't tried the south beach diet.  but i tried weight watchers.  i lost 20 lbs in 3 months.  and you can eat what you want... its all portion control.  and its healthy.  im a big believer in it, so id try that.  ph... and i started losing within about 2 weeks... they say 2 lbs a week is healthy with that.