South Beach Diet Review

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$5 per week ($20 per month) after that.
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The South Beach Diet is $5 per week, billed quarterly (every 13 weeks). There is a 4 week minimum commitment. Your credit card will be charged $65 at the beginning of each quarter. You may cancel at any time and receive a refund for the unused portion of your subscription.

Features:

Diet Features:
- The South Beach Diet is divided into three different phases:
  1. Banishing Your Cravings: Eliminate your cravings for sweets and starches;
  2. Reintroducing Carbs: Gradually reintroduce "good" carbs into your diet;
  3. A Diet for Life: Continue eating good carbs & fats and maintain healthy eating.
- Learn how to lose weight while eating foods you enjoy.
- No counting calories or restricting portion sizes.
- No need to follow meal plans to the letter. Swap meals & ingredients to suit your tastes & needs.
- Over 1,000 tempting recipes, approved by Dr. Agatston.
- 100s vegetarian-only recipes with the Recipe Search.
- The "How to Adapt Your Meal Plan" tool allows you to put together South Beach-friendly meals with your favorite ingredients.
- Nutrition Tool and Meal Planner so you can store your favorite meals on-line.
- Customized shopping-list generator (to print and take to the store).
- Tips on how to eat in restaurants and make your favorite foods.

Fitness Features:
- The South Beach Diet has reportedly helped millions of patients reduce their high cholesterol and high blood pressure, lessen their risk of conditions such as diabetes and heart disease, and shed excess pounds. The diet traditionally didn't require exercise in order to provide good results, but the South Beach Diet have developed a range of fitness features to complement the diet to respond to the requests of its users.

Expert Advice from South Beach Dietitians:
- Daily Newsletter: Diet news, health tips, and inspiration delivered to your inbox every day.
- Online Dietitians who visit the message boards frequently to answer questions.
- The Glycemic Index lists over 220 foods and tells you by how much each one increases your blood sugar levels and contributes to weight gain.
- The Foods to Avoid and Enjoy sections offer additional guidelines on what to eat and what not to eat in each phase of the diet.
- In the Food Guide, you'll learn why eating can make you hungry and how combinations of foods can alter your metabolism.

Community Support:
- Take the on-line quiz to find out if the South Beach Diet is right for you.
- Get advice, motivation, and support from fellow South Beach Dieters.
- On-line journal facility allows you to keep a diary of your progress. You can choose to keep your on-line journal private or make it public for other members to read.
- You can also bookmark your favorite journals and follow how other dieters are doing.
- With Beach Buddies you enter your profile and start finding other dieters to buddy-up with.
- With over half a million subscribers to the diet, you're sure to find a great beach buddy!
- Lose weight together and help keep each other on track.

Extras:
- On-line Store where you'll find all South Beach-related products.

Help Files / Technical Support:
- If you have questions about the SouthBeachDiet.com, you can email or call toll-free from 9am - 8pm EST, Monday through Friday.

Editor's Verdict:

The South Beach Diet was developed by Dr. Arthur Agatston, a cardiologist and an associate professor of medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Knowing that his patients weren't doing well on the standard, low-fat American Heart Association diet, Dr. Agatston began to investigate alternative diets in the 1990s. The result was the South Beach Diet, which was offered to numerous heart patients in Florida with impressive results. As Dr. Agatston put it, "The real secret to The South Beach Diet is that it's not just a diet, it's a way to eat for life." The New York Times Bestseller The South Beach Diet is one of the leading diets in the country, with over 5 million books in print and more than 600,000 online subscribers. The South Beach Diet Online introduces its customers to fabulous foods and taste sensations. With hundreds of delicious recipes, flexible guides for eating out, and advice on how to shop for healthy and wholesome ingredients it is one of the most comprehensive eating plans available on the market today.

The South Beach Diet is extremely easy to follow and works around a three-stage diet process. The first stage involves eliminating the cravings and blood sugar fluctuations that contribute to weight gain in order to kick start weight loss and improve the general diet of clients. The second phase is the long-term steady weight loss phase, which involves applying the south beach diet principles, slowly introducing good carbohydrates into your diet to establish a healthy diet and steady, manageable weight loss. The third stage involves continuing to make what South Beach describe as 'good food choices' in order to maintain a healthy weight once you have reached your target. Many users of the South Beach Diet report how easy it is to incorporate the diet into their daily lives, to the point that you forget you're even following a particular diet plan! We especially liked the way in which users can adapt the South Beach Diet to meet their specific dietary needs, or to incorporate some of their favorite foods, which is often a problem with motivating users to continue to follow their diet plans. What's more, this plan is medically endorsed, so you can be sure that following the South Beach Diet isn't going to result in any nasty health problems.

Originally, the South Beach Diet was not accompanied by any particular health and fitness regime. The diet was originally developed as a standalone diet plan and by following the plan users would see results, regardless of whether they added exercise to their daily routine or not. In response to the desires of many of its users, South Beach has added fitness features to the site in order to appeal to a greater audience. As users will undoubtedly see faster and better results if they combine the diet plan with an accompanying fitness program, we think this is a great feature, though it doesn't stop users following the diet without the fitness program if they aren't mobile, for example. The fitness program is good, in that it can be followed at home without any specialist equipment, but still feels a little 'bolted on', a problem that is encountered on other programs where the diet and fitness programs are not developed in conjunction. Users can also take advantage of a range of community features on South Beach Diet, where they can meet and chat with more than 600,000 active South Beach members.

We were impressed with what South Beach had to offer, as its approach to dieting is simple, effective and appreciates the importance of motivation in being successful. While there aren't as many resources as on other sites, which are rated higher in our reviews, we were still impressed.

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