How The South Beach System Works

The South Beach diet plan is among the most popular ways to lose weight today. It is focused around diet and exercise changes that help you lose weight naturally. By avoiding "bad" fats and carbohydrates and eating plenty of "good" ones, dieters can take weight off without sacrificing their health or feeling deprived.

There are three stages in the diet plan. During stage one, dieters avoid all carbs except for vegetables. Although multiple foods are restricted, dieters still have a wide choice of foods they can eat. The first stage is the strictest stage, but also the shortest since it only lasts for fourteen days. Dieters can expect to lose around 10 pounds during this period.

In phase two, dieters begin adding the previously restricted carbohydrate-rich foods into their diet. Dieters are expected to lose a couple pounds each week while slowly raising the amount of carbs in their diet. The second phase lasts until dieters arrive at their ideal weight.

Phase three is the lifetime maintenance stage. Dieters take the healthy eating strategies from phase two to maintain their goal weight throughout the rest of their lives. If dieters begin to gain weight, they may go back to phase one of the diet.

You have probably seen ready-made South Beach snacks and meals sold in stores. These products are very handy, but you don't need to spend money on them in order to be on the diet. You only need to follow the various general guidelines for each stage of the program.

During the first stage of the diet, you can have lean meats, such as chicken, fish, and turkey, eggs, most vegetables, nuts, and a small quantity of low-fat dairy products. Fruits and fruit juices are avoided during this stage because they are high in sugar. Also banned are all carbs, fatty meats, alcohol, and certain vegetables that may have high sugar or carbohydrate content, such as carrots. The goal of this stage is to cut "bad" carbs from your diet and begin the weight loss process.

During phase two, dieters slowly reintroduce whole grains, fruit, and other banned foods into their diet. In the process, dieters discover how to adjust their diet strategies to maintain a desirable weight. Once this is successfully accomplished, the diet switches into the lifetime stage, in which dieters attempt to maintain the healthy habits that brought them to their desired weight.

The factor for success with the South Beach program is committing to healthy eating. Although that appears easy, the South Beach diet and most other diets stop working because dieters abandon the diet before the program can start to work. The difficulties that most people have with weight loss often result from deep-rooted problems such as a lack of motivation, a habit of overeating, or out-of-control appetite. Fortunately, all of these problems can be resolved with techniques that are easy to learn from a good hypnosis weight loss CD program.

To remedy a lack of motivation, practices from a tool called Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) will help give you a powerful desire to stick to your weight loss goals.

First, dieters pinpoint exactly what it is that is most valuable to them, as an individual. This is known as their "highly valued criteria." Then, NLP techniques are practiced to make the dieters believe that by losing weight, their highly valued criteria will become enhanced. An alternative is to make the dieter believe that if they don't lose weight, their highly valued criteria will be placed in jeopardy.

Motivation comes from what we believe in, not from logic! So in the previous example, let us say that the dieter's most highly valued wish is that the dieter's kids are safe and happy. Using an NLP tool known as Submodalities, we can direct the dieter into thinking that if he/she is unable to lose weight, the kids will be fated to follow the parent's lead and they will also be fat and unhappy. This type of belief will provide a powerful urge and feeling to stay committed to the diet and get the weight off.

Other NLP techniques can help to reduce or even completely remove the impulses and cravings that prompt one to eat too much. This works very effectively to help dieters stay on the first and most difficult two weeks of the South Beach diet. It also helps dieters stick to a fitness program, which will increase the efficacy of any diet program.

Stress is an issue that often drives people to overeat or neglect their health, but relaxation is offered by both NLP and hypnotic practices. One such tool is known as the NLP Flash. With the Flash technique, having your unconscious mind use negative thoughts as triggers for positive thoughts relieves the stress that triggers the desire to eat too much.

Uncontrollable eating habits often cause people to gain weight. Countless people have seemingly uncontrollable eating habits because over time, they have developed a "conditioned response" to eat in certain situations. For example, many of us eat in front of the television even when we are not actually hungry. The good thing is, NLP and hypnosis possess practices that can rapidly extinguish these conditioned behaviors. These practices eliminate the appetite without drugs or pills.

By treating the main problems that prevent dieters from shedding weight, hypnosis and NLP has helped countless people finally get fit and trim for life. When used with the South Beach program, dieters may enjoy natural weight loss and success at reaching their fitness goals.

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Alan B. Densky, CH has spent over 30 years specializing in weight loss. He offers several ways to lose weight, including dieting CDs and hypnotism for weight loss DVD. Visit his CDs for self-help website for Free hypnosis downloads, videos, and newsletters.

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