The South Beach Diet Shake
The South Beach Diet was made famous in 2003 after Dr. Arthur Agatston released a book detailing how the diet worked. The diet quickly became the most popular diet on the diet market. What makes the South Beach Diet different from the other popular diets is that it is inclusionary. While most of the other popular diets teach dieters to deal with less (fewer calories, the abandonment of entire food groups), the South Beach Diet acknowledges that people are going to eat what they want and instead focuses on portion control and the cravings for sugar. The South Beach Diet has inspired a variety of spin off books (including a cook book), and products including the ever popular South Beach Diet shake.
There are a wide variety of South Beach Diet shake recipes both in the cookbook and on the internet. A simple google search will turn up a wide variety of results. Because the diet has been out for so many years and so many people have worked with it, it is not uncommon for dieters to turn up forums full of recipe suggestions, not just for the South Beach shake but for other food as well.
Some people who don’t want to try the South Beach Diet shake turn to the Atkins meal replacement shakes, but this is frowned upon by Dr. Agatston. Agatston advocates eating some carbohydrates while Atkins is a carbohydrate free diet. The South Beach diet revolves around insulin processing, curbing the sugar cravings and learning portion control. You could build a South Beach Diet shake out of just about any ingredients you wanted. The trick is to teach you that a small South Beach Diet shake is just as satisfying as a large South Beach Diet shake.
Here are some background tips on the South Beach Diet, in case you were looking for more information on it:
