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The South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide (Revised): The Complete and Easy Reference for All Your Favorite Foods

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This is a small book, and it's meant as something you can easily tote to the grocery store with you to help you buy the right things from week to week. The South Beach Diet's guidelines are simple enough that for the most part, with a little experience, you won't need a book, but for the first few weeks we found this guide invaluable. It also acts as a great quick-reference from time to time when you need info on corner-cases and little things you can't remember, and as a sort of summary of the diet.

The beginning of this guide answers a few frequently asked questions about the diet. For instance, do sugar alcohols (mannitol, xylitol, sorbitol) make viable sugar substitutes for the diet's purposes, or are you stuck with sucralose and the like? It also includes quick lists of good and bad foods for each of the diet's three phases. It serves as a good reminder that this is not a "carbs are evil!" diet, but rather a diet that encourages you to choose, as the title says, "good fats" and "good carbs."

The end of the book includes a quick supermarket cheat sheet about items you can easily grab that'll fit into the diet, as well as a brief guide to dining out.

The main attraction of the book, however, is its food listing. It contains extensive charts of foods, from beans and legumes to condiments, candy bars, fast food, sauces, nuts, pizza, poultry, meats, salad dressings, vegetables, and so on. Each of these comes with a handy set of check boxes for the various phases of the diet. A "G" in this box means that the food is good for you to eat during that phase. "L" is limited (once a week or so), "V" is very limited (once a month or so), and "A" is avoid. This makes it easy to tell at a glance whether it's okay to have something, and roughly how often, without having to get into all sorts of details. I found this contributed greatly over the first couple of weeks to my growing understanding of what I should and shouldn't eat.

This is a great book to carry with you all the time. It summarizes the diet and gives a handy reference to what foods you can eat for each phase of the diet. I keep this in my purse all the time. I'm now in the 4th week of the diet and have lost 12 pounds. I'm never hungry and feel better than I have for years. The book and diet are easy to follow.

This Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide is just the thing to leave on your kitchen counter. I do, and refer to it constantly! The first part of this little book describes the South Beach Diet. Next, an outline of how to use the Food Guide. Then the food guide itself. Easy to read, and use. This guide is a must for anyone on the South Beach Diet. And, even if you aren't, but watching your fats and carbs, it's amazingly useful. I am having greater success, and much less stress adapting to this healthy lifestyle, thanks to this guide.

I liked the fact that this book is small and a quick read. My favorite part is the tables in the back that show a listing of all foods and whether or not they are okay to eat in phase 1, 2 or 3. It's sort of an "in a nut shell" perspective and makes it really easy. I love the book and love the diet!

I am a big fan of the South Beach Diet. This book has much more information on foods to eat and which foods to avoid than the original SBD book. It's also a great size and can easily be carried in a purse for grocery shopping or dinig out.

I did find this bok very helpful whil on the south beach diet however I found descrepencies between the south beeah book, the cook book and the carb guide. It was a bit confusing.

I own both the older edition and the new edition and I find that the new edition is much easier to use. Not only is there an index for most items, but there is a breakdown of the foods by phase, which was lacking in the previous version. It is very helpful, however, I still feel that it is lacking in some food choices. I hope that the next edition has more foods listed.

I have the original South Beach Diet Book and thought this would be a more comprehensive list of what I could eat. There are 1200 foods listed in this book but close to half of them say to avoid them on all phases. I found a few foods to eat that I would not have known before buying the book but was disappointed that items such as pie, ice cream, french fries and other obviously off-limits foods were listed and like I said before, they took up a lot of the book.

Easy to read and understand. Opened my eyes to healthly eating and how to combined certain foods. I think twice now before putting a carb in my mouth and it helps me understand when and how to use the correct fats. You could really apply this information to any eating program.

The guide was very good. I was not sure I wanted to start the diet full blown so I got the guide and read over it. Even if you do not want to start the diet it is a good guide to foods that you should avoid or eat occasionally.