Move over Atkins: the South Beach Diet is Hot, Hot Hot!

Web MD ^ | 6/17/2003 | John Casey

[sinkspur]

This is a modified-Atkins plan, with a few more vegetables in the initial stages.

There is no doubt that low carb diets with no processed carbs are much healthier and will keep the weight off.

The best thing about them is no hunger!

[Jimmyclyde]

And no alcoholic drinks of any kind (wine, fruit and whole-grain breads may be added back to the diet in subsequent phases).

Screw it.....

[Mr. Jeeves]

This is the Atkins diet - the two are virtually identical. What is this character trying to do, cash in on the success of Atkins by hyping nonexistent differences?

[dixiechick2000]

marking...

[BureaucratusMaximus]

This is the Atkins diet - the two are virtually identical. What is this character trying to do, cash in on the success of Atkins by hyping nonexistent differences?

Thats the same thing I thought...and Atkins WORKS!

[D. Brian Carter]

And no alcoholic drinks of any kind

That is definitely NOT the "South Beach" diet...

[1stFreedom]

It's an Atkins derivative. Atkins didn't invent the low carb diet either. He rediscovered it.

Bread=bad. I lost lots of weight on Atkins. Then I started working in the city again. Crossaint for breakfast and pizz for lunch started packing weigh on me again.

For me, it's bread that I have to avoid.

[seeker41]

Yeppers, sounds just like Atkins to me. Only difference is that Atkins does not allow bread at any point.

[Frapster]

Oh my gosh! It's the Atkins plan. What a crock.

[Paulus Invictus]

I just lost 17 pounds in 15 days on the Isagenics diet. This is the most I have lost on any of several I have tried, including the vaunted, fat-filled Atkins Diet.

[Centurion2000]

Criminy .... Atkins diet copyright infringment ..... his heirs now have something to sue over :)

[Hugin]

This is the Atkins diet - the two are virtually identical. What is this character trying to do, cash in on the success of Atkins by hyping nonexistent differences?

Yep. But hey, it worked for the guy who "invented" The Zone diet, which is pretty much identical to this.

[gridlock]

I'd have to look closer. It does look an awful lot like Atkins (down 30 lbs since May 1, thank you very much). The one thing it seems to have different is the emphasis on lean meats and lower fat. These things don't matter much on Atkins. Also, I have heard that it is a little less restrictive on high-fiber carbohydrates. I would have to look at that closer to verify. Actually, Atkins diets are moving more that way as well.

Mrs. Gridlock is having some issues with Atkins. Maybe this one would be more to her liking.

Now, what did they mean by lean bacon?

[ctlpdad]

Exactly my thought.

Too good to be true.

[LouD]

This sounds like a winner. I started out on Atkins, but morphed into something very much like this, when I found that no/very low carbs of the Atkins diet left me feeling weaker at the gym.

So I cut out simple carbs, ate reasonable portions of complex carbs (mostly brown rice, fruits, and vegetables), and skewed carb consumption to earlier in the day, and before and after workouts. It works well for me.

[SGCOS]

I just lost 17 pounds in 15 days

Yikes!

[mombonn]

Forbidden in those first 14 days, however, are fruit, bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, or baked goods. No sugar, ice cream, cookies, or cake.

My question is, would a low carb diet bring about the same results - it would just take longer? In other words, is the first stage of the diet just to give you the immediate gratification of dramatic weight loss?

[MadelineZapeezda]

Similar to Atkins and Sugar Busters diet. They all work because white flour + sugar are bad for you. Eliminate these from your diet and you lose weight. Thanks to the late Dr. Atkins I lost 54 pounds and plan on losing more. Heartburn was lost as well.

[Bahbah]

"the Isagenics diet."

So tell us what this is.

[sinkspur]

This is the Atkins diet - the two are virtually identical. What is this character trying to do, cash in on the success of Atkins by hyping nonexistent differences?

Atkins preaches that reaching ketosis is essential to the success of his diet.

I never bothered with ketosis; doing it right requires buying strips and testing urine and other such nonsense. Also, you get really constipated and your breath smells awful.

This South Beach Diet is modified Atkins, and it seems to work just as well.