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PHASE TWO

Phase two of the South Beach Diet involves maintaining most of the same techniques as phase one, but with the gradual reintroduction of some carbs and other foods. The goal here in this transition is that your body is working on a restricted group of foods, and the foods you are omitting are going to slow down and could even reverse your weight change if not controlled. Therefore the plan of action here is to slowly add small increments of the banned foods until you reach an amount that maintains the weight you were aiming for but does not exceed and amount that will be conductive to your weight goals. When you eat carbs, your bodies immediately turns to them for energy. When you stopped eating them in the first phase, your body became a fat burning metabolism which focused on other foods for energy. So as you reintroduce carbs back into your meals, you need to ensure that your body doesn't snap back into carbohydrate-burning mode.

Your body will eat up the calories from the newly-introduced carbs and continue turning to eating fat and protein like you began in phase one. In this way, you can continue to lose weight at a rate of what should be one or two pounds per week; and this should continue until you reach your ideal weight. Your ideal weight should be based on one or more influences, prefereably either your ideal Body Mass Index weight, or your Waist-to-Hip ratio, or just how you WANT to look, or the size of a dress you want to fit into; you should NOT base your ideal weight on magazines or societal norms, since these are not realistic or healthy at all. Once you have reached the shape and weight you desire for yourself, move on to phase three.