Understanding the South Beach Diet

How do you define a diet? For me, it’s a D – diligent, I – intelligent, E - eating, T- transformation. You just can’t pick up a diet program from the newspaper or one that your neighbor told you about or one that promises to transform you body in a day or two. There has to be a very specific and good reason for choosing a diet program.

South Beach Diet

I found a hundred good reasons for choosing the south beach diet. Unlike other diet programs, the south beach diet is based on the glycemic index. It means that you improve the health of your heart and end up losing weight along with it. Isn’t that fantastic?

How it all started

Noted cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston found out that most of his patients were suffering from heart problems owing to their faulty and unhealthy eating habits. He wanted to re-introduce some changes into their diets and he came up with a diet plan that restricts carbohydrates for the first two weeks. Then, the carbohydrates are reintroduced into the diet slowly with a low glycemic index. The saturated unhealthy fats in the diet are replaced by unsaturated ones.

He found two startling things about his diet plan.

1. The heart-health of these patients started improving by leaps and bounds.
2. They started to lose a lot of weight along with the improvement in their heart health.

That’s when Dr. Arthur discovered that he had just invented what would be one of the most used diet programs of all times i.e South Beach Diet.

Why south beach diet is different ??

Most diet programs require you to count the calories that you consume, weight the food portions that you eat etc. Is it easy? Would you want a weighing scale next to your food table everyday or would you like to indulge in calculations each time you want to eat something?


The south beach diet changes your entire eating habits in a span of three phases. The first two phases have to be followed for a limited amount of time and the third phase for life.

You are allowed to eat three normal sized meals, two snacks and meal plans that are extremely flexible. So are you ready to transform your life?