South Beach Diet Book Report

Few years back, I witnessed my stepmother going through dieting. She used a book in titled “The South Beach Diet.” I never found out if it worked on her, but now I am very interested to learn about the South Beach Diet, not for me, but for my husband. My husband is a very active man, he plays basketball, lift weights, and his job is sparingly physical work, but even with all these physical work outs that he does everyday, he gains weight really fast. I do believe that what he eats is what’s not working on him. I really would like to gain more knowledge about South Beach Diet so maybe I can persuade my husband to try it. South Beach Diet is about restricting bad carbohydrates and bans unhealthy fats but strongly promotes healthy ones. Promoting good carbs
Switching to good fats protect the heart and prevent hunger. The South Beach Diet doesn’t count grams of carbs, but looks at how much sugar is in a carb. Low-sugar carbs, those with a low glycemic index are good. There are three different phases in the South Beach Diet. All three phases includes specific allowable foods, meal plans, and recipes. Phase one takes about two weeks and the strictest of the three. This is the phase when you will have to limit the most carbs from the daily diet including fruits, bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, sugar, alcohol and baked goods. Food to avoid on phase one includes certain meats and poultry (fatty cuts of beef, prime rib, dark meat chicken and turkey, and honey-baked ham), certain vegetables (beets, carrots, corn, green peas), all starches (bread, potatoes, cereal, pasta, rice), all fruits and fruit juice, whole milk, all Alcohol, all sweets (ice cream, baked goods, candy). The foods that are allowed on phase one are certain meats and poultry (boiled ham, lean ground beef, turkey and chicken breast, Canadian and turkey bacon, low- and nonfat lunch