Posted by wordwitch on November 2, 2003, at 7:45:22
In reply to ****Larry ****, I need your advice . Atkins diet, posted by Tepiaca on November 1, 2003, at 23:33:04
Hi!
Check out the South Beach Diet, which was developed by a cardiologist for his patients--not as a weight loss regime. He began investigating its use as a weight loss diet when his heart patients began to lose weight after following it.
I've tried it and it works wonderfully without any of the unrealistic limitations of the Atkins Diet.
The SB diet limits carbs to a certain extent, but it does so intelligently--not by telling people to stop eating half the foods available for human consumption, as the Atkins plan does. The SB diet uses the categorization of foods by their glycemic index--which I don't understand except that it basically divides foods into low, medium, or high glycemic index, with low glycemic index foods being considerd "good" carbs and high glycemic index foods considered to be "bad" carbs.
The best thing about the SB diet is that it's realistic--rather than having to spend a week or two eating virtually no fruits, veggies, dairy, or grains, you're supposed to eat some foods that Atkins forbids even at Day 1 of the diet. And as you progress through the phases, you are able to incorporate more of the high glycemic foods (the "bad" carbs) back into your diet, in reasonable portions of course.
You can find info on the SB diet online if you go to the Prevention magazine website.
Good luck!
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