How To Take Off Weight With The South Beach Lifestyle System

Following the South Beach diet is one of the most popular methods of losing weight today. It is built around lifestyle and diet changes that help you steadily lose weight. By cutting out "bad" fats and carbohydrates and having plenty of "good" ones, dieters can lose weight without feeling deprived or sacrificing their health. 

There are three steps in the South Beach diet. During phase one, dieters avoid all carbs except for vegetables. Although several foods are banned, dieters still have a variety of foods they can eat. The first phase is the most demanding phase, but also the shortest since it only lasts for two weeks. Dieters are expected to lose around ten pounds during this time.

In phase two, dieters begin reintroducing the previously restricted carbohydrate-rich foods into their meals. Dieters are expected to lose 1 to 2 pounds each week while steadily increasing the volume of carbs in their diet. The second phase lasts until dieters achieve their goal weight.

The third phase is the lifetime maintenance phase. Dieters use their strategies from phase two to maintain their goal weight throughout the rest of their lives. If dieters begin to regain weight, they can revert back to phase one of the program.

You've probably seen ready-made South Beach snacks and meals sold in stores. These products are very handy, but you do not need to spend money on them in order to be on the diet. You just need to commit to the various general rules for each phase of the diet.

During the first phase of the diet, you can enjoy lean cuts of meat, such as turkey, chicken, and fish, eggs, most vegetables, nuts, and a limited quantity of dairy products. Fruit juices and fruit are avoided during this phase because they are high in sugar. Also not allowed are all carbs, fatty cuts of meat, alcoholic beverages, and certain vegetables that may have high sugar content, such as corn. The intent of this phase is to cut "bad" carbs from your diet and begin the weight loss process.

During phase two, dieters gradually reintroduce whole grains, fruit, and other formerly prohibited 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 lifetime maintenance phase, in which dieters attempt to maintain the healthy habits that brought them to their target weight. 

The key to success with the South Beach program is dedication to healthy eating. Although that sounds simple, this  diet program and most other diet programs 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 problems such as a lack of drive to lose weight, a tendency to binge on food, or an uncontrollable appetite. Fortunately, all of these problems are treatable with techniques that are easy to learn from a good hypnotherapy diet CD program.

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

To begin, dieters identify exactly what things are most important to them, as an individual. This is known as their "highly valued criteria." Then, NLP techniques are utilized to make the dieters think that by losing weight, their highly valued criteria will become enhanced. Another option is to make the dieter think that if they do not lose weight, their most valued criteria will be in jeopardy.

Motivation comes from what we believe in, not from logic! So in the above case, let's say that the dieter's most valued criterion is that the dieter's children are happy and safe. Using an NLP technique known as Submodalities, we can guide the dieter into believing that if he or she fails to lose weight, the children will be fated to follow the parent's lead and they will be fat and dissatisfied. This idea will provide a powerful desire and feeling to stay committed to the diet and lose weight.

Other NLP techniques can help to lessen or even completely remove the impulses and cravings that compel one to eat too much. This works very well to help dieters stay on the first and most challenging days of the South Beach diet. Additionally, it helps dieters stick to a fitness program, which will enhance the efficacy of any diet.

Stress is a factor that frequently drives people to overeat or quit caring about their health, but stress-relief can be provided by both NLP and hypnotic practices. One such technique is known as the NLP Flash. With this technique, having your unconscious mind use stressful thoughts as triggers for calming thoughts eliminates the stress that triggers the desire to eat excessively.

Uncontrollable appetites often cause men and women to pack on pounds. A lot of people have apparently unmanageable eating habits because over the years, they have developed a "conditioned response" to eat in certain situations. For instance, many of us eat in front of the television even when we're not really hungry. Fortunately, hypnosis and NLP both have practices that can easily eliminate these conditioned responses.  These practices create appetite suppression without the use of drugs.

By targeting the underlying issues that keep people from shedding pounds, NLP and hypnosis has helped countless people finally get in the best shape of their lives. When used with the South Beach diet, dieters can experience easy weight loss and triumph at achieving their fitness goals.