The South Beach Diet Supercharged: Faster Weight Loss and Better Health for Life

The South Beach Diet Supercharged: Faster Weight Loss and Better Health for Life | Arthur Agatston, Joseph Signorile | SBDS has it all

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	The South Beach Diet Supercharged: Faster Weight Loss and Better Health for Life Arthur Agatston, Joseph Signorile Rodale Books, 2008 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 73 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

South Beach Works

I recently turned 45 and after a cruise vacation with my husband I came home 142 pounds. I had done the SBD years ago, lost weight and foolishly abandoned the principles. I immediately went and dusted off my old copy.
I started 9 weeks ago and also started walking 30 minutes a day on a treadmill. I'm now 125 pounds. All my clothes are at the tailor's being taken in. I look better, I feel better and my husband is thrilled. It's so much easier than trying to eat "low fat" - there are so many options. We don't miss potatoes, and when we do we have sweet potatoes instead. I've become expert at delicious salads with lots of healthy veggies and lean protein. I'm really excited to try some of the new recipes in the Supercharged book. What I'm really looking forward to is trying the interval training - just walking was getting boring - and I was worried I'd have to start walking longer and longer to keep up the benefit. Hopefully the intervals will allow me to keep my exercise routine around 30 minutes a day.
If you want to lose weight and keep it off get this book!

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SBDS has it all

Reasons for the guidlines, good food habits for life, an exercise plan that eases you in to a more active lifestyle--this book has it all.

Audio book

Am very happy with my purchase. It arrived in great condition, quickly and was exactly what I was expecting.

diets can be tasty

I was surprised at how flavorful the recipes were for Phase I. While I do miss starchy foods from time to time, the diet allows you to eat and snack quite a bit and encourages you to do so until you're full - and the food I'm eating now is healthier, so I don't feel guilty about it.

Super Charged or Super Dud?

In the latest version of "The South Beach Diet" the authors say that their program is now "supercharged" with an exercise routine involving only 20 minutes per day of interval training but promises "Faster Weight Loss and Better Health for Life." Unfortunately the latest studies do not seem to support the validity of this claim. According to a recently published study in the "Archives of Internal Medicine," 20 minutes of exercise, even combined with a strict diet, is decidely insufficient to maintain weight loss in overweight women.

"Effect of Exercise on 24-Month Weight Loss Maintenance in Overweight Women - John M. Jakicic, PhD; Bess H. Marcus, PhD; Wei Lang, PhD; Carol Janney, MS, Arch Intern Med. 2008;168(14):1550-1559.
The addition of 275 mins/wk of physical activity, in combination with a reduction in energy intake, is important in allowing overweight women to sustain a weight loss of more than 10%." A mere 20 minutes of interval training would fall far short of this requirement.

Further commentary on the study is provided by: Warren G. Thompson, MD; James A. Levine, MD, PhD, Arch Intern Med. 2008;168(14):1559-1560.

"Although dieting has a modest short-term effect in the treatment of obesity, the long-term benefit has yet to be demonstrated. This is not surprising because caloric intake has not increased during the last 100 years. Rather, there has been a sharp drop in caloric expenditure secondary to changes at the workplace and in the home. Surveys of people who have sustained significant weight loss for more than 5 years demonstrate that a significant increase in energy expenditure is necessary.... They conclude that 2000 kcal/wk of exercise is needed to sustain weight loss."

As paraphrased in a review of the study by the BBC "Women who want to lose weight - and keep it off - need to be exercising for almost an hour, five days a week, according to US experts... The University of Pittsburgh study found the 55-minute regime was the minimum needed to maintain a 10% drop in weight."

"Thirty minutes a day is good for general health, but if you want to lose weight, you need to be doing more, and if you want to sustain weight loss, you need to be doing even more than that..." - Professor Paul Gately, Leeds Metropolitan University"

In summary, women need a minimum of 55 minutes per day of exercise 5 days per week or at least 40 minutes every day in order to achieve and maintain weight loss. The only two programs that I am aware of which are built around a foundation of regular exercise meeting these requirements are: The Biggest Loser and the Dump Your Trainer program. Of the two, my personal preference is the later for its simplicity, emphasis on both self-empowerment and the need to avoid injuries but if you want to lose weight and keep it off "The South Beach Diet, Supercharged," according to the latest research, may not be sufficient to get you where you want to go.

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