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The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom

The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Tells It Like It Is!
Review: This book is exactly what people need to learn - it ain't about the food! It's about why we do what we do. If you're willing to get honest and have a willing spirit - mind you that doesn't mean you have to 'want' to do it - just that you do it anyway - I believe Dr. Phil gives you the keys to the freedom you're looking for!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Psychobabble and Weight Loss
Review: I was sorely disappointed in this book; it is an uninteresting read and to top it off, Dr. Phil is fat. His neck (on the book cover) looks like it has been airbrushed and the only reason you'd wear a dark suit is to cover up the adipose tissue hidden underneath. Plus, the endless psychobabble in the book was just boring.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: An "ok" but not a great book
Review: To the extent that his approach may help many people and change their lives, I will not rate this book lower than a "2"

It does indeed contain many brilliant ideas about how to change the way you think of yourself in order to lose weight.

However, I am continually disappointed by the appearance of "one size fits all" diets and weight loss books. Not all metabolisms are created equal and it is not always possible to lose by willpower alone. Dr. Phil is neither a medical doctor nor a nutritionist. His approach is very unhealthy for many people.

If I ever tried to eat the way this man suggests, I would gain and my cholesterol levels would be off the map. I know this because I used to eat this way--it is how I gained more than a hundred pounds. The reason: I have two metabolic conditions that impede any sort of weight loss. Phil continues to belittle people who do have medical issues causing weight gain and completely dismisses thyroid complaints as if they are some convienient excuse made up by people to keep from having to work and lose. (As someone who works out 7 days a week and eats light by Phil standards, I guarantee you I am not making excuses.)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is NOT a diet book!
Review: I chose this book because I heard about it on Dr. Phil's website and through a few different articles about him. I was surprised to know that Dr. Phil was writing a weight book but I never doubted that he could do it- I was just amazed. I was half afraid that it would be another South Beach Diet or Atkin's wannabe that would just tell you how to eat and eat and eat...until all you are doing is thinking about food.

The Ultimate Weight Solution is not about the food, it is about the person that is in charge of the food- YOU. I was so happy to find someone like Dr. Phil who has the guts to get down and dirty to show you the reasons that you need help, not with choosing certain foods but understanding your emotions and your inner self that you are letting dictate how you think about food.

As an avid reader of most of the diet books out there on the market, many claim to be changing you forever but none of them are truly plans that will leave you satisfied forever...they always leave you at the will of their food lists. Most are written by high-end nutritionist that may be able to tell you what you should eat and how but they can't tell you why you keep going back to the same bad habits and bad foods time and time again. You lack will power or you are not following the plan right or you are really stressed and so need the food...you will give yourself any excuse you can and the books seem to accuse you for your ultimate weakness. I don't know how many books or diets I have given up because I felt as though they were accusing me of being weak or worse when I failed. I could not say what was wrong.

Two minutes into the Ultimate Weight Solution you know that the person that wrote it was not going to tell you that you were weak or foolish- no he was going to some totally different and show you that sometimes the decisions we make are so ingrained in us that we have to reprogram the way we think. This approach takes away all the second guessing or defeating thoughts about yourself because it shows you that you are the one that ultimately has control and must seize that control. You are the one making your food decisions, you are the one that has to live with yourself everyday and, above all, you are the one that deserves to feel good and have a better life.

This doesn't sound like your ordinary diet book, does it? That's because it isn't. The Ultimate Weight Solution is in a class of its own. It is simply the Ultimate Book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Try it! All you have to lose is pounds!
Review: This is not just another weight loss diet! The Ultimate Weight Solution is a plan for the mind and body. You will lose weight but unlike all the other fad diets that proclaim they will work in ten days, Dr Phil admits that healthy weight loss takes time. The main goal of the book though is getting you to understand why you are overweight and how you can change your eating habits away from bingeing, crash dieting, or any other unhealthy quick solution that eventually becomes a quicker defeat. The book accomplishes its goal.

Above all I enjoyed reading this book. The language is candid and not boring like so many diet books that read more like car manuals than life changing works. Phil's voice rings true throughout the book. Buy it and you will lose.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Dr. Phil, although overweight himself, has good plan
Review: In addition to being the wise, down-home, plain spoken Okie psychologist who shoots from the hip and tells it like it is and never beats around the bush and lays it all out there and forces you to face the ugly truth, Dr. Phil also turns out to be a great weight loss expert. Although Dr.Phil is himself significantly overweight, as is obvious by the cover photo and by his daily tv appearances, he nonetheless has a great plan for others to lose weight. To summarize, you must want to lose the weight. It's all about wanting to lose that weight. Sure, smart eating and regular physical activity have their place, as all those other so-called weight-loss experts will tell you. But more important than low-calorie foods and excercise, as the brilliant doctor makes very clear - "you gotta wanna lose that thay-er weight. ....it aint comin' off, iffin you dont want it comin off." With the subtle Okie genius for which he has become world famous, he advises that "Mama aint gonna take them pounds off for ya. Them pounds aint goin' nowhere, lessen you set down with yorn own self and tell them pounds, hey pounds, hit that thay-er road. I is finished with you, and that goes for yorn kinfolk too."
So although he does suffer from obesity himself, I must say that the plain, down-home, midwest straight shootin', shoot from the hip technique here is just what the doctor ordered. I'm a gonna take them pounds off, cuz that's jest what I wanna do. Yeee-Haaaw. Thank you Oprah, for giving us Dr. Phil, this brilliant psychologist, dietary expert, beloved celebrity - this great Rennaisance man from Oklahoma.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: This is not another fad diet!!
Review: This is not another fad diet!! The Ultimate Weight Solution is not a diet the way that word is used today in the media...it is a way of eating that has to do with being better to yourself by acknowledging the foods that you do not need. This is a true DIET (what you should eat all the time, instead of what you should eat just to lose that last ten pounds).
The book is not only a food plan, that is actually the smallest part of the book, it is getting to know who you are and readying yourself to change your life forever.
There are self-tests, real life stories, and seven keys that will amaze you with their simplicity and make you wonder why you hadn't started doing them years ago.
For a true diet you only need one book, this one.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Build your Team today.
Review: Sometimes you just need someone to tell you what you already know in your heart. Body image makes up such a large part about how I feel about myself. I needed someone to help me see myself and what I put in my body as positive not negative. Dr. Phil has a way of making you take a second look in the mirror and being happy at what you see.

I found his advice about creating a Support Team around you most helpful. I already have my cheerleader, my husband- even though he doesn't like me calling him that- and now I am calling friends and family to help fill it out. If you have not already read it your team (or circle of support)is made up of people who are close to you that are willing and will help you to attain your goal weight. There are two types of people according to Dr. Phil: Saboteurs and supporters- you want supporters. Dr. Phil tells us that weight loss is not something we should do alone, but it has always been for me. I have heard others tell me to get friends to diet with me and stuff like that but that was too embarassing- like i was calling others fat. When Dr. Phil explained the teams and how you can build one i felt much better about asking people to support me, instead of join me. I was amazed at the responses that i got. it was really fabulous to find out i had so much support. I suggest that everyone try to find the the coach (my sister), the teammate, the cheerleader, and the umpire in your life.

Dr. Phil is so right about saying that the people you surround yourself with have as much to do with what you eat as you do. I need people around me who support my healthy choices instead of sabotaging my efforts. I like to think that Dr. Phil is in my corner on my road to weight loss as much as the rest of my team.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Miracle of a Book!
Review: Dr. Phil does not promise miracles or fast solutions,instead he shows you how to change yourself and the way you look at what you eat. Dr. Phil shows, or teaches might be a better word, you in each of his books Life Strategies, Relationship Rescue and my favorite Self Matters how to look at the world and your behavior in it in a whole new way. In the Ultimate Weight Solution" instead of telling yourself that I am denying myself of something to eat, Dr. Phil shows you what you are depriving yourself by eating. I needed that new prespective. Dr. Phil may not promise miracles, but I have a feeling this book will prove to be a miracle to many.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Buy this book!
Review: Great book! Great to share with girlfriends. You need lots of support when you're on the weight loss rollercoaster. I suggest buying or sharing "The Ultimate Weight Solution" with everyone on your buddy list!


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