The South Beach Diet
Arthur Agatson
"The South Beach Diet. I found out about it through reviews, and I wanted to read it because everybody's got that last ten pounds to lose. It's by a doctor, I believe he's in Florida, who had great success with it. It's sort of Atkins-light.
I liked that it wasn't so extreme, that you sort of started on a lower phase and sort of - well, you started on a - on a strict diet and then that led to initial weight loss. I suppose it was successful in getting people to think about their eating habits, and I didn't particularly like the diet itself. I couldn't live that way. I think it was kind of a quick fix, and I think that the merits of the diet are controversial. But it seems to work really well for some people. It didn't work really well for me."