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Ways To Lose Weight With The South Beach Diet

 

The South Beach plan is among the leading methods of losing weight today. It is built around diet and lifestyle changes that help you achieve realistic weight loss goals. By cutting “bad” fats and carbohydrates and eating plenty of “good” ones, dieters can lose weight without feeling deprived or sacrificing their health.

There are three steps in the South Beach diet plan. During stage one, dieters avoid all carbs except for vegetables. Although multiple foods are restricted, dieters still have a wide range of foods they can consume. Stage one is the most challenging stage, but also the shortest since it only goes on for two weeks. Dieters can expect to lose 10 pounds during this phase.

In the second phase, dieters begin incorporating the previously banned carbohydrate-rich foods into their diet. Dieters are expected to lose one to two pounds per week while slowly raising the volume of carbs they eat. The second phase lasts until dieters attain their desired weight.

The third phase is the maintenance stage. Dieters take the strategies from the second phase to keep their desired weight throughout the duration of their lives. If dieters start to gain weight, they can revert back to the first phase of the program.

You’ve likely seen ready-made South Beach snacks and meals in the grocery store. These items are handy, but you don’t need to buy them in order to follow the diet. You just need to follow the various general guidelines for each stage of the plan.

During stage one of the diet, you can consume lean meats, such as fish, turkey, and chicken, eggs, most vegetables, nuts, and a limited quantity of dairy products. Fruit juices and fruit are not eaten during this stage because of their sugar content. Also not allowed are all carbs, fatty cuts of meat, alcohol, and a few vegetables that are rather high in sugar or carbohydrate content, such as carrots. The function of this stage is to cut “bad” carbs from your diet and start the process of losing weight.

During phase two, dieters slowly reintroduce whole grains, fruit, and other formerly prohibited foods into their diet. In the process, dieters learn how to adjust their eating habits to keep a desirable weight. Once this is successfully accomplished, the diet switches into the life maintenance stage, in which dieters try to maintain the healthy strategies that helped them reach their goal weight.

The factor for success with the South Beach diet program is committing to healthy eating. Although that seems simple, this diet and many other diet plans fail to work because dieters give up before the plan can start to work. The challenges that most people have with losing weight often stem from deep-rooted problems such as a lack of drive to lose weight, a tendency to eat too much, or an inability to control the appetite. Fortunately, all of these problems can be resolved with techniques that are easy to learn from an excellent hypnosis weight loss CD program.

To remedy a lack of motivation, practices from a tool called Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) will help give you a powerful desire to stick to your dieting goals.

First, dieters pinpoint exactly what things are most important to them, as an individual. This is called their “highly valued criteria.” Then, NLP techniques are employed to make the dieters believe that by losing weight, their highly valued criteria will benefit greatly. An alternative is to make the dieter believe that if they don’t lose weight, their valued criteria will be in jeopardy.

Motivation comes from what we believe in, not from logic! So in the previous example, let us say that the dieter’s most valued wish is that the dieter’s kids are safe and happy. Using an NLP tool called Submodalities, we can steer the dieter into believing that if she or he fails to lose weight, the kids will be fated to emulating their parent and they will also be overweight and dissatisfied. This idea will provide a powerful desire and feeling to stay on the diet and lose weight.

Several NLP techniques can help to reduce or even entirely remove the impulses and cravings that prompt one to overeat. This works very well to help dieters stick to the initial and most difficult two weeks of the South Beach diet. It also helps dieters stick to a physical activity program, which will increase the efficacy of any diet.

Stress is an issue that frequently drives people to eat too much or stop paying attention to their health, but stress-relief is offered by both NLP and hypnotic practices. One such tool is called the NLP Flash. With the Flash, having your unconscious mind use negative thoughts to prompt you to have calming thoughts relieves the stress that triggers the impulse to eat too much.

Out-of-control eating habits can also cause people to gain weight. Countless people have seemingly out-of-control eating habits because over the years, they have unconsciously developed a “conditioned response” to eat in certain situations. For instance, many of us snack in front of the television even though we are not actually hungry. The good thing is, hypnosis and NLP contain practices that can rapidly extinguish these conditioned behaviors. These practices create appetite suppression without the use of drugs.

By treating the underlying problems that prevent people from shedding weight, hypnosis and NLP has helped many dieters finally get fit and trim for life. Combined with the South Beach weight loss plan, dieters can enjoy easy weight loss and success 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.
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