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South Beach Diet is definitely most top diet plans today when it comes to popularity.  It has been a unique way especially to those people who wants to trim down their fats.  From an everday person to actors and actresses, when they say South Beach Diet, one of the best and effective ways for people who needs to lose some weights and maintain their "wow" figure!  What is it about this diet that makes other so crazy about it?

The Basics of South Beach Diet

Cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston, founder and writer of South Beach Diet says that the essence behind the diet itself, it’s a reduced carbohydrate diet, which stresses the value of whole carbohydrates and the glycemic index.  Some people has a misconception about South Beach Diet, the diet is associated being another "low-carb" diet or another version of Atkins, which is a false thought.

South Beach Diet has also been derided as just another development on the diet world, but only time can tell whether this is true or not.  It may appear to some as being a craze diet, but South Beach has more value than that.  Apart from different views and opinions, probably there’s no other book has educated as many people when it comes to responsible nutrition.  It gives highlights to the value of healthy fats, and the blood sugar / insulin reaction of many processed carbohydrate foods that we normally eat.

3 Phases of South Beach Diet

Like many other diets that has been scattered around the fitness market, the South Beach is divided into 3 phases; Phase 1which is the induction phase – it takes not longer than 2-3 weeks. Phase 2 –The weight loss phase and Phase 3 - A life-long maintenance phase.

1.    The Induction Phase
It’s a low-carb phase where most carbohydrates
and all starchy carbs are completely eliminated. It will give your body a complete rest from reducing your blood sugar and insulin levels. The theory is, this will help you to resolve insulin resistance.

2.    The Weight Loss Phase
This phase is fantastic. It reintroduces (complete carbohydrates
lean proteins and good fats). It educates you to make good food selections, and gratifying your hunger.

3.    The Maintenance Phase
In this last phase, dieters introduce to an even wider array of
foods. The aimed of this phase is to keep your weight stable and the south beach diet recommends you to keep on, on this kind of diet.

In every phase, there’s no boundary on portion or sizes. You simply eat enough amount of food to fulfill your appetite and you’re encouraged to eat 3 meals and snacks each day.
 

The Pros of South Beach Diet
In today’s dieting world where low-carb, high-fat diets are in trend, it’s good to see a diet that recommends eating less foods filled with saturates and replacing some of these foods with heart-healthy one. Diets based on eating low GI foods are also becoming more known and in general, it encourages you to maintain a healthy diet and cut down on carb-rich foods that are packed with few other nutrients such as sweets, cereals and breads.

The Cons of South Beach Diet
The extreme carbohydrate restriction in the first two weeks requires serious willpower and it will make you weak.  For the meantime, you can’t eat fruits and vegetable during the first phase of South Beach Diet.  Trying to reduce all carbohydrate-rich foods during this phase may also means you will be cutting down some other good source of vitamins, minerals and fiber.

South Beach Diet has its own pitfall, and there’s no exact diet that is suitable for everyone by any means. But, it brought a rebalancing in nutrition.  So, it’s all up to you whether you will pursue this kind of diet or not.  Remember the key to each success of every diet plan is in your hand, through willpower and most of all discipline.

When someone engages in any weight loss program, that person’s reason most probably is to take off some pounds or maintain a present body weight. But all diet programs seem so strict and unreliable to be capable of sticking with a certain diet plan without taking too many sacrifices just like constantly starving or even worse the feeling of having no energy at all.

Among the diet plan, may be this rainbow diet could just be a perfect solution for you. Well, this is not precisely a diet program. It does not involve with a specific amount of food to be eaten compare to Atkins diet. Rainbow diet is as multihued and playful as the name implies. In this diet plan, a dieter has a freedom to eat whatever he wants to.

                                                                               
Rules of Rainbow Diet                                       

Every diet program has a rule and the said rules of rainbow diet are just few and very simple. First and foremost, junk foods are strictly prohibited. In addition to these rules, processed products such as pounded meat, smoked fish and a lot more are also a big no-no. Foods that are allowable to eat are as much as possible natural foods, low-caloric foods, vegetables, fruits and many  more to mention. Next rule is, a dieter has to eat on a daily basis at least five meals or snacks of food that has the subsequent five colors: red, blue-violet, yellow-orange, green and white. Sounds funny right?

Rainbow diet is still a kind of low carb diet. Like any other diet program, though rainbow diet seems to be safe and healthy, however there could still be negative implications to your body. Since you are eating less carb, your metabolism might be taken aback for this sudden change but that will only last in the first week of the diet plan but as you do this regularly with mild exercises you’d surely come to your desired weight. In addition, chat with your doctor if this kind of diet program could be safe for you.