The Best Life Diet Revised and Updated
The Best Life Diet Revised and Updated
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.
User Ratings and Reviews
1 Stars I feel like he’s sold out to marketing!
First, I LOVED “Make the Connection”. It’s my all-time favorite health/fitness book and changed my life. I’ve recently packed on pounds and pulled out my old book then checked the library to see if Bob had any others out - I found this one. I began to wonder if I checked out a book or an infommercial! What’s with these approved foods? Is he saying that the generic equivalent at half the price won’t do? I don’t remember him saying that when Oprah first found him. And the suggestions to go to his site? BUYER BEWARE! [...] I’ve never seen a clunkier non-user friendly site in my life! [...] When I emailed customer service to cancel I received the rudest response I have ever received from a company in my life. I was literally shocked.
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5 Stars The Best Life Diet by Bob Greene
A life changing book. Everyone should read it and make it a point to apply it. It’s about being healthy and enjoying life in moderation. Absolutely Worth it!!
3 Stars Mixed Bag
This review is of the 2006 edition, I haven’t seen the newer one. I picked this book up out of curiosity after seeing the endorsement symbol on several of the products I buy.
Pluses: I really liked the focus on dealing with emotional eating, because that’s a huge struggle for many of us. I also liked the strong emphasis on exercise, something that many diet books downplay. The recipes I tried were tasty.
Minuses: As a number of other reviewers have mentioned, the excessive plugging of his paid website and of brand-name products were totally annoying. I also didn’t care for the way he chose to structure his lifestyle changes. I felt he waited too long to recommend important steps like cutting sweets, refined grains, and fatty meats.
1 Stars Will not support anybody endorsed by Oprah Winfrey
Sorry Bob. The only reason you are rich and famous is because you helped Oprah Winfrey lose the weight she has more than gained back. You need to learn to stand on your own two feet. After Oprah endorsed Barrack Obama solely on the color of his skin, she lost any credibility she ever could have had. And, after she snubbed Sarah Palin for no other reason but to promote her own political agenda, Oprah is now spoiled goods. Won’t support her, anything she peddles or anybody she peddles.
2 Stars The Best Life Diet
Disappointing book. Although the diet has solid information for losing weight, it really just seems to be a money ploy. And don’t think the web site is any better. There is no trial period, so when you discover on the first day how poorly the website is constructed, you’re stuck. You might as well throw money out your window.
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