Ways To Lose Weight With The South Beach Diet

By: Alan B. Densky

[ Posted On: 2008-04-29 ]

The South Beach diet is among the leading ways to lose weight today. It is focused around lifestyle and diet changes that bring healthy weight loss. By cutting "bad" fats and carbohydrates and eating plenty of "good" ones, dieters can lose weight without sacrificing their health or feeling deprived.

There are three steps in the South Beach program. During phase one, dieters cannot eat any carbs except for vegetables. Although several foods are not allowed, dieters still have a wide range of foods they can consume. The first phase is the most challenging phase, but also the shortest since it only lasts for two weeks. Dieters are expected to lose approximately ten pounds during this time.

In the second phase, dieters begin adding the previously banned carb-rich foods into their meals. Dieters are expected to lose a couple pounds per week while slowly increasing the amount of carbs in their diet. Phase two lasts until dieters arrive at their ideal weight.

The third phase is the lifetime maintenance phase. Dieters use their strategies from the second phase to maintain their goal weight throughout the duration of their lives. If dieters start to gain weight again, they are able to revert back to phase one of the diet.

It is likely that you've seen pre-prepared South Beach meals and snacks sold in stores. These foods are very handy, but you don't need to spend money on them in order to be on the diet. You just need to commit to the various general guidelines for each phase of the plan.

During phase one of the diet, you may have lean cuts of meat, such as chicken, fish, and turkey, eggs, most vegetables, nuts, and a small amount of dairy products. Fruits and their juices are not consumed during this phase because of their sugar content. Also not allowed are all carbs, fatty cuts of meat, alcoholic beverages, and a few vegetables that are rather high in sugar content, such as carrots. The function of this phase is to cut "bad" carbs from your diet and jumpstart the weight loss process.

During the second phase, dieters slowly reintroduce whole grains, fruit, and other banned foods into their diet. In the process, dieters discover how to balance their diet to maintain a desirable weight. Once this is successfully completed, the diet switches into the maintenance phase, in which dieters attempt to maintain the healthy strategies that brought them to their target weight.

The key to success with the South Beach program is dedication to healthy eating. Although that seems easy, this diet and many other diets stop working because dieters give up before the plan can take effect. The struggles that most men and women have with weight loss often stem from deep-rooted issues such as a lack of impetus to lose weight, a tendency to eat too much, or out-of-control appetite. The good thing is that all of these issues are treatable with techniques that are easy to learn from a good hypnosis weight loss CD program.

To treat a lack of motivation, a technique from a tool called Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) will give you a strong desire to stay on track with your dieting goals.

First, dieters identify precisely what things are most valuable to them, as a person. This is known as their "highly valued criteria." Then, NLP techniques are utilized to make the dieters believe that by losing weight, their highly valued criteria will become enhanced. Another option is to make the dieter believe that if they don't lose weight, their valued criteria will be placed in jeopardy.

Motivation comes from what we believe in, not from logic! So in the above case, let us say that the dieter's most highly valued criterion is that the dieter's kids are safe and happy. Using an NLP technique known as Submodalities, we can steer the dieter into thinking that if she or he is unable to lose weight, the kids will be condemned to follow the parent's lead and they will be fat and dissatisfied. This type of belief will give 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 entirely remove the impulses and cravings that cause one to eat too much. This works very well to help dieters stay on the first and most difficult weeks of the South Beach diet. Furthermore, helps dieters stick to a fitness program, which will increase the effectiveness of any diet.

Stress is a factor that frequently drives people to eat too much or stop paying attention to their health, but stress-relief is offered by both hypnosis and NLP techniques. One such technique is known as the NLP Flash. With the Flash technique, having your unconscious mind use stressful thoughts as triggers for positive thoughts eliminates the stress that triggers the impulse to eat too much.

Unmanageable eating habits often cause men and women to pack on pounds. A lot of people have seemingly unmanageable eating habits because over time, they have developed a "conditioned response" to eat in certain situations. For example, many of us gorge on junk food in front of the television even though we're not actually hungry. The good thing is, hypnosis and NLP possess techniques that can quickly eliminate these conditioned behaviors. These techniques create appetite suppression without drugs or pills.

By targeting the main problems that prevent dieters from seeing weight loss, hypnosis and NLP has helped many people finally get fit and trim for life. When used with the South Beach program, dieters are able to enjoy easy weight loss and triumph at achieving their health goals.

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About The Author: Alan B. Densky, CH is an NGH Certified Hypnotherapist. Visit the hypnosis website for Free hypnotherapy videos, newsletters, & downloads. He offers several ways to lose weight, including video hypnotism for weight loss DVDs & lose weight self-hypnosis CDs

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