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The South Beach diet program is among the most popular ways to lose weight today. It is focused around diet and lifestyle changes that help you achieve realistic weight loss goals. By avoiding "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 program. During phase one, dieters avoid all carbohydrates except for vegetables. Although several foods are restricted, dieters still have a wide choice of foods they can consume. The first phase is the most challenging phase, but also the shortest since it only takes two weeks. Dieters can expect to lose approximately 10 pounds during this time. In the second phase, dieters begin adding the previously banned carb-rich foods into their meals. Dieters can expect to lose a couple pounds per week while steadily increasing the volume of carbohydrates in their diet. The second phase lasts until dieters attain their target weight. Phase three is the maintenance phase. Dieters take the strategies from the second phase to keep their goal weight throughout the rest of their lives. If dieters start to gain weight again, they may revert back to phase one of the program. It is likely that you have seen ready-made South Beach snacks and meals sold in stores. These items are highly convenient, but you don't need to spend money on them in order to be on the diet. You only need to commit to the various general guidelines for each phase of the diet. During the first phase of the diet, you are permitted to eat lean meats, such as turkey, chicken, and fish, eggs, nuts, most vegetables, and a limited quantity of dairy products. Fruit juices and fruit are not consumed during this phase because they are high in sugar. Also banned are all carbohydrates, fatty meats, alcoholic beverages, and certain vegetables that are rather high in sugar content, such as beets. The function of this phase is to cut "bad" carbohydrates from your diet and begin the process of losing weight. During the second phase, dieters gradually reintroduce whole grains, fruit, and other banned foods into their diet. In the process, dieters discover how to balance their diet to keep a desirable weight. Once this is successfully accomplished, the diet moves into the lifetime phase, in which dieters attempt to maintain the healthy habits that brought them to their desired weight. The key to success with the South Beach program is dedication to healthy eating. Although that seems easy, this diet and many other diets fail to work because dieters abandon the diet before the plan can achieve results. The difficulties that most men and women have with losing weight often result from deep-rooted problems such as a lack of impetus to lose weight, a habit of eating too much, or an uncontrollable appetite. The good thing is that 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, a technique from a tool called Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) will induce a powerful urge to stay on track with your dieting goals. To begin, dieters pinpoint exactly what it is that is most important to them, as an individual. This is known as their "highly valued criteria." Then, NLP techniques are employed to make the dieters think that by losing weight, their highly valued criteria will benefit greatly. An alternative is to make the dieter think that if they don't lose weight, their highly 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 criterion is that the dieter's children are happy and safe. Using an NLP technique known as Submodalities, we can guide the dieter into feeling that if she or he is unable to lose weight, the children will be condemned to follow the parent's lead and they will also be overweight and unhappy. This idea will give a strong desire and feeling to stay on the diet and get the weight off. Many NLP techniques can help to lessen or even entirely remove the urges and cravings that compel one to overeat. This works very effectively to help dieters stay on the initial and most difficult days of the South Beach diet. Additionally, it helps dieters stick to a fitness program, which will enhance the value of any diet. Stress is a problem that frequently drives people to eat too much or neglect their health, but relaxation can be offered by both hypnosis and NLP practices. One such technique is known as the NLP Flash. With this technique, having your unconscious mind use stress-causing thoughts as triggers for calming thoughts relieves the stress that causes the desire to overeat. Unmanageable eating habits can also cause people to pack on pounds. Many people have seemingly out-of-control appetites because over the years, they have unknowingly developed a "conditioned response" to eat in certain situations. For instance, many of us gorge on junk food in front of the TV even when we are not actually hungry. The good thing is, hypnosis and NLP possess practices that can rapidly eliminate these conditioned behaviors. These practices eliminate the appetite without the use of drugs. By targeting the underlying obstacles that prevent people from shedding pounds, NLP and hypnosis has helped many dieters finally get fit and slim for life. When used with the South Beach diet plan, dieters may enjoy easy weight loss and triumph at achieving their health goals.
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Alan B. Densky, CH has spent over 30 years specializing in weight loss. He offers several ways to lose weight, including diet CD and hypnotism for weight loss DVD. Visit his self-hypnosis CD website for Free hypnosis downloads, videos, and newsletters.
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