Eating For Life
by Bill Phillips
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Book Reviews of Eating For Life
Book Review: Great Book for "Eating for Life"
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband and I bought the first book in Feburary 2007. SInce then we have both lost 50 pounds to this date. We have more energy and feel better about ourselves. We love the plan and how it works. The recipes are very good, we have tried almost all of them. You are never hungry with this plan. It is very nutritious and healthly. When we told our Doctor about this plan, he went out and bought the book. I even bought a second book for my mother. It has become the book we look at and look in everyday. I have tried many, many diets in the past, this is the best. I can't wait to read the next book coming in August 2007.Book Review: Helped decrease sugar cravings!
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this book so I could start feeding my family more healthily. We have been VERY pleased with how these recipes have turned out! Especially the enchilidas, meatloaf and sante fe soup! Yummy! But, I give I did take away one star because it isn't totally all natural. However, since I have switched to eating 6 meals a day with portions recommended in the book I haven't had the intense sugar and chocolate cravings I normally battle with whenever I try to change the way we eat. So...that is an awesome benefit!Book Review: Good book! Realistic foods!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is wonderful! A diet with real foods. I am a vegetarian and I was able to substitute meat items to my "mock meats" and lost weight. When I first started this program, I lost 24lbs in 12 weeks and dropped two-dress size. Although it has been several years, and I have not kept up the working out program, but many of my eating habits are from this eating for life program and I really enjoy them.
Book Review: Great Tool
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is a great tool in the Body for Life program. It explains to BFL eating concept,then has many delicious recipes for implementing this portion of the program.Book Review: This is an Excellent Eating Plan!
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband and I were first introduced to Bill Phillips when we saw an infomercial for Body for Life several years ago. That was an excellent book, but we had a hard time following the eating plan because more room was devoted to the workout, and there weren't a lot of recipes. At the time my husband and I were both obese (I was morbidly obese) and we needed an eating plan foremost.
Fast forward several years....my husband is a 5 year veteran of the Police Department at this point, and I've lost 160 from a gastric bypass. It's been 5 years since my bypass, and my weightloss has really stuck in the mud, especially after giving birth to two children in that time. My husband's weight also ballooned from his shift work and all the fast food consumed while driving around in a car 8 hours a day. When my husband stopped wearing his body armor because he couldn't fit in it, I put my foot down and said enough is enough! But, who do we turn to?
I stumbled (literally!) on Eating for Life when I came to Amazon to research and search for dieting books and cookbooks. I ordered it without reading any reviews...without reading much about it at all because it seemed like the book we wish we had many years ago when we first tried to follow Body for Life.
Since we purchased this book 5 months ago, my husband has dropped 45 pounds, and I have lost 23 pounds. I find the meal plan incredibly easy to follow. We're never hungry, and the cheat day (which is really just a cheat meal for us at this point)has allowed us to stick to the plan because 6 days goes by fast, and on the seventh day, we know we can be bad.
One thing I will say...the recipes are excellent, and I've made almost all of them. I'm also a very fussy eater, and I haven't been disappointed at all! Some of the recipes were even a nice surprise because the picture didn't look all that great (sorry, Bill!)but the taste was fantastic! Even on our cheat days, we will often eat recipes from the book because we love them so much. Breakfast Burritos are a staple in our house and a great, healthy alternative to the eggs and bacon and hash browns we used to eat! We make fajita's all the time now, and can't believe we're "dieting" when we eat them! And Bill is correct...his Mom makes delicious enchilada's...again, we can't believe we're losing weight eating some of this stuff...but we are!
This book has also been helpful because, occasionally, I forget to make my husbands lunch, or I get too busy and he needs to buy dinner. Bill provided healthy alternatives for some well known fast food chains, and my husband has been able to stay on the program on those rare occasions, even while having to "eat out" with the guys.
We have coupled this book with the Abs Diet workout CD, and we feel better than we have in years. We are losing weight at a slower pace than some fad diets, but I really believe that we're doing it healthy and for keeps. I can't say enough wonderful things about this book.