South Beach Diet™: Get ready to look fabulous! (online)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: 3 (After The Da Vinci Code and The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Press quotes:

"...the real value of the book is its sound nutritional advice. It retains the best part of the Atkins regime—meat—while losing the tenet that all carbs should be avoided. Instead, Agatston encourages a well-balanced diet that includes plenty of fruit, vegetables and whole grains, plus nuts and healthy oils." — Newsweek

"Agatston's no—exercise-needed approach to weight loss and nutrition boasts up to 13 pounds lost in the first two weeks." — New York Daily News

"It started out simply enough. Arthur Agatston, MD, a cardiologist, decided to develop an eating plan that would improve the cholesterol and insulin levels of his patients with heart disease. Now, the south Beach diet has grown into something much bigger. That's because the plan Agatston created no only improves cholesterol and insulin levels, but it also has helped many people lose weight." — MSN Health

"Unlike the Atkins diet, Agatston's plan steers dieters away from saturated fat found in butter and fatty meats like hamburger and bacon and encourages the consumption of monounsaturated fats like olive oil and omega-3 fatty acids found in fish." — USA Today

"Sources tells us that Bill and Hillary [Clinton] are on the South Beach Diet, the weight-loss program that's become all the rage among the body-conscious. One of our spies overheard Bill crediting the diet when someone complimented him on looking so good at Hillary's book party at The Four Seasons. "He also said all his friends in Hollywood are on it," the spy reports." — New York Magazine

"The South Beach Diet requires no calorie cutting or counting." — Women's World

South Beach Diet™: Get ready to look fabulous! (online)

Dieters' quotes:

Average Customer Review: Based on 270 reviews

examples:

"I lost 8 lbs. my first week and noticed skin belemishes went away. So far, am down 20 lbs. in three weeks and feel great!"

"I lost 20 lbs in 3 weeks and it was easy!"

"The Phase 1 Plan was so easy to stay on. I was never hungry and my energy soared!"

"All in all, I am very pleased with the South Beach Diet. I look better, feel better and am healthier than I have been in years (I am 55 years young--prior to This program, Iwas 55 years old and felt like I was in my 70's)"

"My eighteen year old son who was 30 pounds overweight could not stick to a diet before this one. He has lost 27 pounds and says it was easy."

"I'm achieving amazing results with this book. All my pants were loose on my after the first four days - it's like after all this time my body is saying "thank you!" for eating right and is rewarding me with rapid weight loss"

" I lost 30 pounds in 8 weeks, never starved, have kept it off and cut my cholesterol by two-thirds"

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"After 3 weeks, I lost around 15 pounds, but I really didn't feel right. I was really tired while I was on the plan. In addition, my thought process seemed to become sluggish."

"I don't crave garbage foods any more. Sure I would love that piece of dark chocolate cake, but it doesn't keep calling me like it used to. Drawbacks includes recipes that are too time consuming and difficult with too many ingredients."

"So far, in just ten days, I've shed 12 pounds and about two inches from my midrift."

"If nothing else, this book made me rethink the way I eat and change my eating habits. This book, unlike the other trendy "low-carb" diet books, has a sensible eating plan."

examples:

"I found it very annoying that the recipes for the first weeks included ingredients that were not on the okay-to-eat list."

"Unfortunately, knowing the information contained in this book doesn't make it any easier to stick to your diet."

"In order to follow this plan, one must have a pretty good foundation in nutrition, love to cook, and be creative in making the right substitutions for impossible to get ingredients."

examples:

"You have to follow a daily menu based on complicated, time-consuming recipes and expensive ingredients."

"I know the basic idea works (tried it under a few different names), but I don't think this book is the best version. Too many foods are labelled "bad" to enable the reader to make rational decisions."

" The South Beach diet sounds suspiciously like Adele Puhn's "5 Day Miracle Diet," published in 1996."

examples:

"The South Beach Diet is simply the Montignac diet renamed and repackaged: Same operating principles, same philosophy, same indexes, and same results."

"I liked this book the first time I read it. When it was called 'The Atkins Diet' "

"My husband and I tried this for 2 days then quit; we were starving all day, tired, and miserable."

South Beach Diet™: Get ready to look fabulous! (online)