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Body For Life Review By Bill Phillips
Body for Life is an intense exercise and nutrition program based
on the goal to achieve quick results in order to keep you motivated
to continue. The program lasts 12 weeks. It involves weight training
for 3 days/week and aerobic exercise for 3 days/week. The diet consists
of six small meals/day, six days/week, consuming foods such as vegetables,
brown rice, poultry, and fish. You may eat as like and do no exercise
on the last day.
The Body for Life book is full of dramatic before-and-after photos,
which is a bit optimistic for the average person, but strenuous
exercise and healthy nutrition are the closest thing to guaranteed
success in weight loss. Try not to get overly seduced by photos
of the best case scenario. It's marketing.
The program requires you to eat six moderate-sized meals a day,
which is going to be a stark contrast to your average starvation
diet. Each meal consists of vegetables, significant protein, lean
meat, poultry, fish, egg whites, or cottage cheese, as well as carbohydrates
such as potatoes or brown rice. You must also drink 10 glasses of
water each day. Nutritional supplements, which Bill Phillips' company
is going to sell you, are encouraged, as well as healthy oils such
as flaxseed.
The diet breaks down to about 40%-50% protein, the same for carbohydrates,
and very little fat. The traditional food guide pyramid suggests
60% carbohydrates, 20-25% protein, and 20-25% fat.
Body-for-Life's program is effective if you follow it closely,
but that is really the obvious Catch-22 of any diet. The focus of
Body for Life is clearly to make people look better, from a muscular
standpoint. Gym fitness and higher protein diets are certainly effective
at achieving such a goal but often difficult to stick to. I prefer
more basic nutrition and exercise that is a bit more entertaining
such as hiking, cycling, tennis, running or swimming.
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