The South Beach Diet book became tremendously successful as soon as the diet book by similar name was finally published and grew with fast succession among friends, families and fellow dieters. Each with dieting success stories to brag about, the South Beach Diet book, officially titled as, The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss, is still growing in passion, but the South Beach Diet Phase 1 keeps confusing readers.

The South Beach Diet Phase 1 is the shortest of phases 1, 2 and 3 of the diet, only lasting for a 14 day period. It was created to be confrontational, kick-start your body and your mindset about how you diet from that point on. The opposite to readers' thinking and one of the harder to understand parts to Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet, you don't have to hold yourself back only eating low carb foods.

In a nut-shell, Phase 1 force feeds you the thinking to: rid yourself of bad carbs that are not doing anything nutritionally for your body, substitute the bad carbs that are found in surplus in most American diets with large amounts of protein, good fats and low glycemic index (G.I.) carbs that satisfy your hunger and balances your blood sugar.

Foods that do more harm than benefit: fruit, candy, cereal, potatoes, grains, etc. all are to be eliminated, or the dieter must phase themselves off of during the South Beach Diet Phase 1. A safe bet, if you should have any confusion, is to ingest all the salad, greens, and (most) vegetables you desire, as they are on target because of their nutritional benefit.

It is during this South Beach Diet Phase that Doctor Agatston has proven that one's body resistance to insulin will go down, so depending on your body weight and current health, you may lose 6 to 14 pounds initially, initially in the first two weeks right off the bat, as your body begins to shed excess body weight.

The major purpose of the South Beach Diet Phase 1 two fold: to throw you into a routine that you can manage that keeps you free from hunger and to plant a seed and the groundwork for a mindset that ensures you rid yourself of the bad foods and gravitate toward the food that drops pounds, deliver energy and improve your lifestyle.