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Summary: Big Fat Disappointment!!!
Review: This book is trashier than junk food! Sorry, Dr. Phil but your venture into the weightloss megabuck industry with this nonsensical book is nothing more than a cheap attempt to again capitalize on desparate people seeking an answer to this highly complex issue! Please don't waste any money on this book, it really doesn't provide any lasting help or even realistic insight. Dr. Phil should also look at his own current weight and if he is following his own advice than this should send up a warning flag to potential buyers.
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Summary: Good book by Dr. Phil
Review: Let me start off by stating that I am a weight-control consultant and have also worked as an exercise instructor. Wha has always baffled me is why some people get such great results while others, on the same program go nowhere!I sincerely believe that Dr. Phil has captured the answer. As with Dr. Phils other books, his concept is to create yourself from the inside out. Many people would like to be trim and fit but many times lack the mental toughness to get the job done.Dr. Phil has the answers. In this new book by Dr. Phil you can develop the mental attitude of a thin person, that is, a formerly overweight person who became thin.As for the allegations that Dr. Phil is not a medical Dr., so what? If medical Dr's had the answers why are their patients still so fat?Weight loss requires a total approach and Dr. Phil in his Ultimate Weight-Loss Solution.Regarding the allegations that Dr. Phil is capitalizing on weight-loss with his book and various products, again I say so what? Would it make you feel better if Dr. Phil recommended a particular weight-loss center or health club chain? Then you guys would accuse him of being a shill for other companies! C'mon!!!!Besides, there are a lot of products out there in the diet market place that are absolute junk; low fat, low calorie but high sugar and low nutrition stuff endorsed by celebrities who will hype anything they get paid for.Getting back to my experience as a weight loss consultant and fitness trainer, I have found that those who got the best results did so by following a program that included diet and exercise and also did some mental programming such as setting goals, reciting affirmations and most importantly, believing they could and would get results.Those who failed seemed to think it was okay to be overweight and also lacked the necessary discipline. They couldn't visualize themselves as being thinner and fitter. They also thought it was okay to be as they were (after awhile) and pretty much went back to their passive lifestyle and poor eating habits.Dr. Phil has something here. It can make a difference for you.
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Summary: What a lot of hogwash!
Review: This book is a total waste of money compared to his other books.It is no different to any other weight-loss book.There is just nothing to it and does not inspire me even slightly.
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Summary: The Ultimate Guide to a Thin Wallet
Review: Dr. Phil is a disgrace to his profession. This book is just another way for a TV personality to make a buck. It's a way for Dr. McGraw to grab a piece of the billion dollar diet industry hoax...you think you know what it's like Dr. Phil to be really fat?...guess again. Your book has been written before many times and in many different versions by many different people. Maybe you just packaged it differently or perhaps on the laurels of your recent TV exposure you will sell a million copies!
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Summary: Fear, fear and more fear
Review: What a huge, HUGE disappointment! Here we have yet another diet book written by someone who's NEVER been there! He reminds us immediately that one of the biggest reasons we have failed in past weight loss attempts is because we put all this pressure on ourselves, by telling ourselves that we HAVE to lose this weight by (so and so date) or by (so and so birthday, wedding, etc.). Then one of the first things he says to do is to set weight loss goal dates for yourself! Hello! Is it just me or is this PRESSURE?
He then goes on to say that you need to clean out your kitchen of all bad food choices. That would pretty much leave my kitchen with nothing but a sack of whole wheat flour! Dr. Phil, I want to learn how to live in the REAL world where I'm surrounded with food choices all the time. I want you to teach me how to live in peace with it! Telling me to fear and avoid food is JUST ANOTHER DIET.
I'm so afraid that Dr. Phil fans are going to be lead down the diet path to failure once again. For me, this book did way more damage than good. I don't think Phil McGraw is a bad person but unless you've "been there" I'm not sure a person can truly understand this struggle and it's clear that he does not.
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Summary: Don't waste your $$$ and time
Review: Why would you take diet advice from a fat guy?It's like listening to Richard Simmons for exercise advice. You don't want to look like him, so why would you buy his workout tapes?
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Summary: Ho Hum. Nothing New.
Review: Dr.Phil's book holds nothing new for someone struggling with a weight problem. It's all behavioral and we have heard it all before. Ho hum. Anyone who's been struggling with weight knows this stuff but has difficulty implementing it. Unfortunately, Dr. Phil doesn't take it to the next level. Fortunately and gratefully, someone has taken it to the next level: Laurel Mellin in her book THE PATHWAY!
In this wonderful book, Laurel identifies why we struggle and provides a skill set to end the struggle with all those excesses (not just overeating)that interfere with our having the quality of life we want for ourselves. Good bye Dr. Phil. Hello Laurel. Thank you for The Pathway!
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Summary: Too many keys
Review: Since starting this diet, I have only gotten fatter and fatter. I blame Dr. Phil. He made this diet too complicated. He should have only made one key. That would be easier to follow. Then I wouldn't be so fat.
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Summary: Puh-LEEZ!!!
Review: Sorry I had to give this book one star. There wasn't an option to give the zero it deserves. I don't have a weight problem, but I just had to read Dr. Phil's
new book, if only for the unintentional humor of it all. No doubt, he'll be working the phrase "7 Keys" into his TV show diatribes every two or three sentences, in between sneaking in not-too-subtle plugs for "Self Matters" over and over again. Make no mistake about it: Dr. Phil is out to make a buck. It's particularly bothersome that this book (and Dr. Phil's diet products) are deliberately formulated to prey upon our diet-obsessed culture. And what is more astounding is Doctor Phil's own particular physique, hardly what I would call buff or even close to slender. Doesn't this guy have any mirrors in his house? I can't imagine who would buy into his diet plan with a photo of its author bulging out of his suit on the cover. Thanks a lot, Oprah, for unleashing this guy into the media. Just what we need: another person who lost the battle of the bulge, preaching to us about how to trim down. Oh, the irony of it!!!
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Summary: Dr. Phil has it right on the mark...
Review: Weight is multi-factorial... but many things must be addressed before you can *successfully* change the scale forever. There are sensable dietary suggestion in this book but they are way into the book... Much of the beginning of this book is about working on yourself and how you got into the shape your in. How you *made it okay to look like you do*...how you *made it okay*... yes... that was a new concept for me to consider and a very important one. There are a number of self tests intended to give you insight and I must admit I learned a few things about myself (which I wasnt expecting). Currently I am actually successfully dieting but was quite nervous about putting it back on or lapsing on the plan I am on. Dr Phil is correct. A *diet plan* will not solve my problems... the problems are separate. It's how I got here... And there is work to do before I am ready to be thinner... I respond to Dr Phils style altho I am aware that some do not. If you are someone that does this is an excellent book. If you are ready...and you may not be... for some exploration about why you have the weight this book is wonderful. Give it, and yourslef a chance.
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