How to Quench Your Thirst in Phase 1
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How to Quench Your Thirst in Phase 1
| Fri, 10-13-2006 - 7:17am |
How to Quench Your Thirst in Phase 1
Making improvements to your current lifestyle involves a multipronged approach. For instance, selecting the right fats and carbs over saturated fats and highly processed carbs; choosing beverages without added sugar and other unhealthy fillers; and getting enough physical activity. Truly understanding these South Beach Diet® strategies will help you adopt them — and lose weight and become healthier in the process. Here is a crash course on Phase 1 beverage guidelines to get you started — or to refresh your memory if you are returning to Phase 1.
Phase 1-approved drinks:
Making improvements to your current lifestyle involves a multipronged approach. For instance, selecting the right fats and carbs over saturated fats and highly processed carbs; choosing beverages without added sugar and other unhealthy fillers; and getting enough physical activity. Truly understanding these South Beach Diet® strategies will help you adopt them — and lose weight and become healthier in the process. Here is a crash course on Phase 1 beverage guidelines to get you started — or to refresh your memory if you are returning to Phase 1.
Phase 1-approved drinks:
- Water
- 1 percent low-fat or fat-free milk or buttermilk
- Low-fat (4 grams of fat or less) plain soy milk or flavored soy milk containing sucralose
- Coffee and tea (limit beverages containing caffeine to 1-2 servings per day)
- Decaffeinated coffee and tea
- Herbal tea without added sugars (avoid any teas that promise to help you lose weight or boast any other unrealistic health claim)
- Sugar-free flavored waters (check labels carefully, as flavored waters often contain hidden sugars), soda, iced teas, powdered drinks, etc.
- Club soda or seltzer
- Tomato or vegetable juice cocktail
- Fruit juices
- Sodas with added sugar
- Whole or 2 percent reduced-fat milk
- Alcohol (up to 2 glasses a day of the following libations are allowed once you begin Phase 2: wine, vodka, gin, whiskey, scotch, bourbon, tequila, or rum)
- Flavored waters with added sugar


