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The Best Life Diet
Price:$8.24
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Simon & Schuster |
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Product Description
From the bestselling author of Get With the Program! and Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover comes The Best Life Diet, a lifetime plan for losing weight and keeping it off. Bob Greene helped Oprah achieve her dramatic weight loss, and he can help you too. You'll eat the same delicious food that Oprah enjoys, and, just like Oprah, you'll have Bob to encourage you at every step. Unlike a celebrity, however, you don't need to hire a staff of experts to aid and advise you, because Bob's plan, easily tailored to an array of tastes, lifestyles, and activity levels, acts as your personal trainer and private nutritionist. Just open the book and let Bob help you get started down the path toward your best possible life. What sets Bob apart from all the other experts who claim to have plans that work is that he admits that weight loss is difficult: seventeen years of watching people struggle to lose weight on a seemingly endless string of trendy crash diets, only to backslide and regain the pounds they've shed, have taught him that dropping pounds is not simply a numbers game. By acknowledging that it is not simple laziness but a complicated web of social rituals, cultural expectations, and habits that drives people to gain weight, Greene is able to attack the problem of weight loss realistically and offer not a short-lived, quick-fix formula, but a long-term program that accounts for the challenges and constraints of the real world. Divided into three phases, The Best Life Diet gives you the tools you need to change your life. In each phase, you'll be asked to reexamine the decisions you make on a daily basis and gradually alter your habits to achieve lasting results. The book also includes easy-to-follow meal plans that make it simple to meet your daily energy and nutrient requirements, whether you are on the run and breakfast means a quick smoothie or you have time to shop for fresh produce and make something special. You'll watch the weight disappear as you learn to prepare festive and flavorful dishes like Fire-Roasted Tomato-Shrimp Veracruz, Chicken Sausage Jambalaya, or Flank Steak with Chimichurri Topping and indulge in desserts like Roasted Peaches with Ricotta and Almonds or Apple Rhubarb Walnut Crisp. And for each delicious recipe, there is a detailed nutritional analysis, so you know exactly what you are eating and how it fits into your personal eating plan. Most important, Bob's plan doesn't end once you've lost the weight. Instead, it gives you the tools you need to make living your best life second nature, because for Greene, a diet is not something you go "on" or "off" but a set of guidelines that will help you claim the life you deserve. |
Customers Reviews
2008-08-30
Practical advice
Easy read. Great practical advice for changing how you eat and how you live. Some of the recipes are a little strange for my taste, but many look worth a try.
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2008-08-26
IT WORKS!
I LOVE THIS BOOK!
Here's why:
1. It works (I have multiple people in my life that can prove it)
2. You can do it any any fitness level
3. You can lose as little or as much as you want
4. NO CALORIE COUNTING
5. You can do any exercise you want, in any distribution you want, to any level you want and have it fit your lifestyle
6. No excess hunger
7. It's simple
8. It's permanent
9. Your energy level increases
10. Your body is healthier
11. You can still eat the foods you love (including ice-cream, chocolate, cake)
Ok, it may not be wonderfully written, the recipes are moderate but in the end IT WORKS! I had been trying for about 6 months to lose only 7 pounds - not only did I not lose weight, I started to GAIN - double ugg. I was already fairly fit and my eating habits were actually quite good - but I was stuck. I was exercising, cutting portions and still no lost pounds. This book fixed my problem and I actually lost more weight than I had planned. - It all boiled down to the hunger scale (well, for me anyway).
I followed the book week by week as it suggested. The first 4 weeks I didn't change much of my lifestyle at all and I didn't lose any weight (but you're not necessarily supposed to). The second 4 weeks I started to lose weight - it was the hunger scale. As long as I stop at the recommended "level 5", I lose weight. ( Actually despite my activity level. ) This prevents the rigorous and mundane calorie counting. I am still eating all of the foods I enjoy and am still losing! I'm not hungry during the day and snack 2 or more times daily (as recommended).
This also works for a completely different lifestyle than mine. I also bought this for my father who was not active, did not have great eating habits and needed to lose about 40 lbs. He too had wonderful success 35 down so far and still counting.
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2008-07-26
A new Beginning
My wife and I are enjoying this book and it has given us a great headstart on a healthier way to live..
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2008-07-14
Bob Greene's book on Healthy Life
Love the book and it was soooo easy to shop on Amazon.com. I will be doing much more, in fact I am looking for another book right now.
Thanks for being awesome to do business with!
Valinda Van Komen
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2008-07-10
dieting
Best Life was the most realistic book I have read regarding life long eating habits.
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Find Out About The Dangers Associated With Dieting Dieting should have sensible basis otherwise it may do nothing but undermine and ruin your health. There are some dangers associated with dieting.
Danger 1 - on my own
The habit always to rely upon oneself is not the appropriate tactics in dieting. Fattiness like any other diseases should be treated under the strict doctor’s control. Every one is unique and needs certain and specific approach. Someone may be stout but have a good health someone may have few “extra kilos” which will intermix with serious diseases. So you should be completely aware of your current state. Work, life style, surroundings, living conditions and even climate should be taken in account when choosing a diet.
Danger 2 - on the buckwheat
There are several dieting myths: you should eat meat, you should eat once or twice a day, it’s useful to eat only buckwheat or apple pines for example. Each product is wholesome for sure but only in the combination with other useful products. And if you decided to keep to a “one-side” diet you merely deprive yourself of necessary and vital elements.
The greatest problems may cause incredible protein decrease, especially animal protein which can not be substituted by soy or legumes protein. Animal protein is the base for ferments and hormones production. In case you reduce protein consumption the reproductive function gets worse and the blood formula changes.
Another danger is the lack of calcium which we usually get of the diary products. This element is absolutely necessary especially for the young organism which bones are still in the process of formation.
The variety of food is the main point of the right diet. Remember you may eat everything but with the sense of measure. Fish, vegetables and fruits are irreplaceable products and should “find place” in your diet however.
Danger 3 – only diet
If you really want to loose weight and not to regain it you’d better thing about dieting and physical loading as separate things but work out the plan of healthy life style. It may include the food we eat, the way we spend our free time, sleep and whatever. The main tendency today is square meals and minimum of physical exercise. The quantity of energy we receive should not exceed the quantity we consume.
The simplest recommendations are to eat divisionally – every 3 or 4 hours in little quantities, not to eat before going to bed.
Danger 4- food is my best friend
The other stumbling block is to compensate stress depression by eating sweets and chocolates. Some times in such situations a person may eat even when he is not hungry.
Remember everything is in your own hands. |
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