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The South Beach Diet is a very popular diet amongst people in this day in time and has been around for several years now. Originally created by cardiologist, Dr. Arthur Agatston, to help resolve his cardiac patients from their ongoing symptoms as well as helping them lose weight at the same time. Little did he know that the diet would become such a success to many people all over the world in their quest to shed their unwanted weight and give them the figure that they have always dreamed of.

The South Beach Diet is compose of three different phases with the first two phases only lasting a short amount of time and the third phase set as a long term diet plan to help maintain and keep your unwanted weight off. Many people find the South Beach Diet to be one of the most popular diet programs to follow because of its lenience versus other similar but more complex diet programs. The South Beach Diet allows a person to forget about calorie counting and focus on eating 3 consecutive meals a day with some pretty tasty meals on the menu at all times.
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The Atkins diet has become a very popular diet since it was first created in 1992 by Dr. Robert Atkins. The diet is known as one of the most effective low carbohydrate diet with rapid results. The Atkins diet consists of four phases with each phase limiting the intake of carbohydrate rich foods.

The first phase of the Atkins diet, Induction, is most notably the hardest phase and lasts for a total of 14 days. For many dieters they find this to be the hardest phase because their body has to change from using burning carbohydrates as their main energy source to now burning fat. The only carbohydrates allowed in this phase are the carbohydrates found in foods such as green vegetables and can only consume 20 grams of carbohydrates per day. In this phase you will be restricted from foods such as cereal, sugar, potatoes, bread, and oatmeal. Although this phase is labeled as the hardest phase many dieters have found that their food cravings subsided after 2-3 days of starting the diet and made it easier to progress into phase 2 of the diet.

The second phase of the Atkins diet, On Going Weight Loss or OWL, you will get to start adding more of a variety into your diet by gradually adding more carbohydrate rich foods. You will only be allowed to add 5 grams of carbohydrates each day and monitor your weight loss very closely. In the weeks of the second phase you will want to find the medium between the amounts of carbohydrates that you are taking in per day as well as where your weight is leveling at. You want to make sure that you are still losing weight each week and it is up to you to find out the amount of carbs that will need to be incorporated in your diet to maintain a steady weight loss.
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