How The South Beach Weight Loss System Works
The South Beach diet plan is among the leading ways to lose weight today. It is based around diet and exercise changes that bring healthy weight loss. By cutting "bad" fats and carbohydrates and having plenty of "good" ones, dieters can shed excess pounds without sacrificing their health or feeling deprived.
There are three phases in the diet program. During stage one, dieters don't eat any carbohydrates except for vegetables. Although many foods are banned, dieters still have a wide choice of foods they can consume. The first stage is the most demanding stage, but also the shortest since it only takes fourteen days. Dieters are expected to lose between 8 to 12 pounds during this time.
In phase two, dieters begin incorporating the previously banned carb-rich foods into their meals. Dieters are expected to lose a couple pounds each week while steadily increasing the volume of carbohydrates they eat. Phase two lasts until dieters reach their ideal weight.
Phase three is the lifetime maintenance stage. Dieters take the healthy eating strategies from phase two to maintain their desired weight throughout the duration of their lives. If dieters start to gain weight again, they are able to go back to phase one of the diet.
It is likely that you've seen pre-packaged South Beach meals and snacks in stores. These items are very convenient, but you don't need to spend money on them in order to be on the diet. You only need to follow the different general rules for each stage of the diet.
During the first stage of the diet, you can have lean cuts of meat, such as turkey, chicken, and fish, eggs, most vegetables, nuts, and a limited amount of dairy. Fruits and fruit juices are not consumed during this stage because of their sugar content. Also not allowed are all carbohydrates, fatty cuts of meat, alcohol, and a few vegetables that are rather high in sugar or carbohydrate content, such as beets. The point of this stage is to ban "bad" carbohydrates from your diet and begin the process of losing weight.
During the second stage, dieters gradually reintroduce fruit, whole grains, and other banned foods into their diet. In the process, dieters discover how to balance their eating habits to maintain a desirable weight. Once this is successfully accomplished, the diet moves into the lifetime stage, in which dieters try to maintain the healthy habits that helped them reach their goal weight.
The factor for success with the South Beach diet is committing to healthy eating. Although that appears simple, this diet and other diets fail because dieters give up before the plan can take effect. The problems that most dieters have with weight loss often stem from deep-rooted problems such as a lack of inspiration to lose weight, a habit of binge eating, or an inability to control the appetite. Fortunately, all of these problems can be resolved with techniques that are easy to learn from a good hypnotherapy diet CD program.
To reverse a lack of motivation, practices from a tool called Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) will help give you a powerful urge to stay on track with your weight loss program.
First, dieters pinpoint exactly what things are most important to them, as a person. This is called their "highly valued criteria." Then, NLP techniques are used to make the dieters think that by losing weight, their highly valued criteria will become enhanced. An alternative is to make the dieter think that if they don't lose weight, their most valued criteria will be placed in jeopardy.
Motivation is produced by what we believe, not by logic! So in the previous example, let's say that the dieter's most valued wish is that the dieter's kids are safe and well. Using an NLP technique called Submodalities, we can lead the dieter into feeling that if she or he is unable to lose weight, the kids will be condemned to emulating their parent and they will be fat and dissatisfied. This idea will give a strong urge and feeling to stay committed to the diet and get the weight off.
Several NLP techniques can help to lessen or even completely eliminate the urges and cravings that cause one to eat too much. This works very well to help dieters stick to the initial and most difficult two weeks of the South Beach diet. Furthermore, helps dieters stick to an exercise program, which will enhance the value of any diet.
Stress is a factor that often drives people to eat too much or neglect their well-being, but stress-relief is offered by both NLP and hypnotic techniques. One such technique is called the NLP Flash. With the Flash technique, having the unconscious use stressful thoughts to prompt you to have positive thoughts eliminates the stress that causes the urge to overeat.
Out-of-control eating habits often cause men and women to put on weight. Many people have seemingly unmanageable eating habits because over time, they have developed a "conditioned response" to eat under certain circumstances. For example, many of us gorge on junk food in front of the television even when we aren't actually hungry. Fortunately, hypnosis and NLP possess techniques that can quickly eliminate these conditioned behaviors. These techniques create appetite suppression without drugs or pills.
By treating the main problems that prevent dieters from losing weight, NLP and hypnosis has helped countless dieters finally get in the best shape of their lives. Combined with the South Beach weight loss plan, dieters are able to enjoy easy weight loss and triumph at achieving their weight loss goals.
Alan B. Densky, CH has invested over 30 years specializing in weight loss. He offers several ways to lose weight, including diet CD and hypnosis to lose weight DVD. Visit his CD for self-help website for Free hypnosis downloads, videos, and newsletters. http://www.neuro-vision.us/Products/OrderAudioAppetiteControlHypnosisTapes.html
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