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

It gives good advice, but it is like any other diet book after a while you don't follow it. Only way to loose weight is to eat varied and little, move more and count calories. We eat way to much for our life style anyway. For example I'm sedentary and only need ~1400 calories a day, 1200 if I want to loose weight. No diet told me this, nor made me cut my portions. It is only when you start counting the calories in and out that you do that.

I was playing around with losing my baby weight with no real direction so I finally decided to give South Beach a go. I did the first 2 weeks pretty solid, with only a couple cheats. I had about 20 pounds to lose and lost 5 in the first two weeks, then continued steadily for the following 6-8 weeks until it was gone. It is well written, easy to read, and gives a lot of good recipes, many of which I used for those first two weeks! I didn't feel too restricted because I ate a nice steak dinner a couple times and still enjoyed my diet cokes. I don't struggle too much with cravings, but I do like sweets a lot. When I'm on South Beach, I really don't crave much at all! One tip, be organised! Buy the ingredients for the recipes ahead of time so you have no excuse not to eat properly.

The SBD like many others being hyped at the moment promotes lean protein, fibrous green veg and unrefined carbs (so brown rice, noodles, bread etc). The first phase removes all carbs (sugars and starches) for 2 weeks. The result for me was quite surprising, it stabilized my energy levels and I didn't have huge hunger pangs between meals, so this was all great news. Phase 2 gradually re-introduces "good carbs", all in all within 4 weeks you are back to eating most foods (albeit alternative options for the carbs). Haven't got to Phase 3 (the last phase) but it really sounds like all it does is recommend you stay as close to the principles of phase 2 for life.In 4 weeks I've managed to drop 4 kgs (without the exercise routine and a couple of days that I gave myself off to celebrate major occassions). The diet itself is easy to follow and the reasoning makes sense.I originally tried the Dukan diet but realized fairly quickly it wasn't for me. Such large quantities of pure protein is both dull and difficult to manage for lengthy periods of time so I switched over to the SBD after reading a lot of reviews. The SBD may be a bit slower to lose weight, but it is definitely more sustainable and feels healthier.The only downside to the book is that it is very US centric, so ingredients and measures are a bit of pain to convert (I still can't figure out what some of them are such as 6g per oz??), but I bought some cup measures (since that's used a lot) and it makes things somewhat easier.

This diet is so easy to follow. You do really loose haft a stone in two weeks and loose the sweet cravings. I would recommend this diet to everyone because If I can loose weight on it any one can as I love my chocolate and biscuits and I do not miss them now

It's a good book and good meal plans for people in US.it's a bit more re-search if you want to stick to the meal plan here in UK. and yeah if you want to stick to exact meal plan prepare to spend some money, it's not cheap.

It is a good read and I tried it for a couple of months. This book has very small letters so if you like to try it, go for one with bigger letters. I lost weight but for all the dieters out there, I fell by the wayside and went back to my old habbits. (cookies with my coffee, sweet desserts after meals etc.)All in all - a good book and while I am writing this (xmas) I promise myself that I will give it another go in the new year!

This is good and up to date with small updates on the original book which were very useful made a of of sense and made the use of the plan more practical .A great way to begin a changed in one's approach to food.

I bought this book wanting to lose weight quickly as described, I guess if you have the willpower to stick to it (and the funds to support it, the food is by no means cheaper unless you don't mind eating alot of eggs) then great. Personally I downloaded the free iphone app 'My Fitness Pal' and have lost over a stone in 6 weeks.