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Summary: 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom
Review: While there have been a lot of books written on weight loss, how many of them actually work? There are also tons of fad diets. How many work?Dr. Phil has put together a complete program for weight loss that really works. It all boils down to 7 steps or Keys. Key 1 Right Thinking Many people are beaten before they even start due to negative or wrong thinking. People tell themselves like "I can't lose weight", "Nothing ever works for me", etc. You need to regain control over your thoughts and that is why Key #1 is so important. Right thinking unlocks the door to self control and helps you get right with yourself from the inside out. Key 2 Healing Feelings This key helps you unlock the door to Emotional Control and teaches you how to break the cycle of overeating in response to emotional triggers and stress. Key 3 A No Fail Enviroment This key unlocks the door to External Control, the ability to shape, design, and manage your enviroment so that it is virtually impossible for you to fail at weight control. This key is amazing in that it will create immediate changes in how you act, think, live and feel. With this key you will make your life look different, feel different and be different. Key 4 Mastery Over Food And Impulse Eating With this key you will unlock the door to habit control. Here you will learn how to control and reshape your behavior, first by identifying why you persist in these bad habits, and second, by replacing them with actions design to weaken their hold on you. Key 5 High Response Cost, High Yield Nutrition This key unlocks the door to food control: an approach to nutritional balance that is nothing short of revolutionary, and amazingly powerful in it's simplicity. You won't find counting calories or grams, no measuring, no memorizing exhaustive food lists or exchanges. With this key you will not only take the weight off but keep it off for a lifetime. Key 6 Intentional Exercise Most people hate to exercise and many who start typically quit. That's the bad news. The good news is that most of us have been taught wrong about how to exercise for weight control. With the sixth key, you willunlock the door to Body Control, the power to keep pounds at bay with a maximum-results workout strategy that you can start slowly and continue at your own pace. You will learn specific motivational tools and discover how to make exercise a focus of your energies---a permanent fixture in your life. Key 7 Your Circle of Support With this key you will unlock the door to Social Control, with which you assemble a support circle of people who will encourage you and provide the accountability you need to achieve your goals. To reach your weight loss goals, you must surround yourself with a group of like-minded people who want you to di it too. This greatly enhances your success. These seven keys are designed to get you into an action mode and even more importantly, to keep you going, even when you don't feel like doing so---and that is why this system works while other programs have failed. With The Ultimate Weight Loss Solution you will learn new behaviors while eradicating yourself of common, fattening behaviors. The Ultimate Weight Loss Solution is the result of Dr. Phil's thirty years of working with overweight patients and figuring out what really works---and it does. Permanent weight loss is about changing many things in your life, and in The Ultimate Weight Loss Solution, you will do just that--change yourself, change the way you think about dieting, change the way you think about food and change the way you think about yyour health.
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Summary: Dangerous
Review: If you can buy the premise that you should take diet advice from the heavy guy, that's fine, but you should always question the quality of the advice. This book is dangerous in its lack of emphasis on exercise. If you don't exercise, a diet won't work. Another even more serious problem with this book is the failure to encourage people to educate themselves about medical conditions that can lead to weight gain and weight loss such as hormone imbalances or true thyroid problems which should be corrected before launching into a diet or exercise program. The lack of science in this book can be very dangerous. Perhaps Dr. Phil should consider going back to school to get an M.D. and stop practicing pseudo medicine.
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Summary: What you need to take it off!
Review: I have been following this book since September and I have to say that while the change in my appearance is apparent (to almost everyone I know and myself), more people have commented on how much more content I seem. I am the kind of person that is always stressing out on a diet but lately I don't feel like I am on a diet at all, and I don't act like it according to my family, but I am. I am on the best nutrition plan out there...the healthy mind kind.
Dr. Phil does not promise a whole new you in 24 hours, and I appreciate how honest he is about not only how you will not immediately lose everything but also that you may not make it on the first try. but that is ok because you have an infinite amount of chances as long as you are willing to take them. this is a life change, not a diet and you will fail sometimes- most certainly if you think that it is a "diet". I think any body reading this book and looking for a specialized food diet like Atkin's or South Beach will be disappointed because that is not what Dr. Phil is about. He does not tell you exactly what to eat because he has the confidence that you probably already know what you "truly" should be eating- healthy food. He does help you out with lists and I heard that he is coming out with a food guide, but for the most part the book is more about why we eat and how to stop eating what we already know is "bad". it is about learning how to read yourself and your body before stuffing your face. it even helps to eleviate the problems both mental or physical that come with being genetically not able to lose weight. there is an acytion plan for that as well.
In the end though it was the flexibility and almost complete lack of an exact food plan (every meal picked out for you so that you find yourself thinking about food 24/7 is not a healthy way to live). And I don't care what anyone says, it is near impossible to stay to a plan like South beach, Atkins, etc. for the rest of your life. it is hard enough trying to stay on any food plan (even one you make up). For this reason I would recommend The Ultimate Weight Solution, but only if you are truly ready to make a change that "is" be possible to follow for the rest of your life because it allows for human nature and thinks of you not as a mouth but as a whole person with heart, mind, body and soul. The Ultimate Weight Solution talks to you as a person which makes people think that it is not as good as other diet books, or isn't really a diet book because it talks to the heart, not the mouth.
I would recommend this book for anyone who is ready to stopped being talked at and ready to take a partcipating role in the fight for health and fitness.
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Summary: Right in Time for the Holidays!!
Review: It's almost as if you need reserves of willpower to make it through the holidays- and the amount of food that travels through your kitchen. (I am a chronic baker during the holidays.) This year I have help. Falling off the wagon this year and allowing myself to emotionally eat through pies, turkey, yams, stuffing, cookies, etc. is simply not going to happen. With the first round of in-laws in now I have already been put to the test. The guidance and help I have found in Dr. Phil's The Ultimate Weight Solution has given me reasons I want to eat and eat and eat (even after I am satisfied) and the reasoning to stop before I go right back to where I started before the holidays.
It has nothing to do with willpower, just like Dr. Phil says. The Ultimate Weight Solution teaches you to look beyond your normal reasons to over eat- it teaches you how to break the patterns of over eating by changing the way you look at food and the way you look at yourself.
That means that even when all that tantalizing food is set before you during the holidays you won't look at it the same way that you have before. You can turn away because you know that you are worth more than the momentary satisfaction you will get from eating something fattening.
You can conquer the holiday pounds with Dr. Phil's Ultimate Weight Solution.
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Summary: Made all the difference!
Review: The Ultimate Weight Solution was all I needed to take the next step that I have been so worried about taking. I have been chronically overweight since I was a kid but until recently I have been degrading myself instead of trying to change myself. I always thought that there must be something wrong with me. Well, I was right. With the help of Dr.Phil's advice I went to my doctor and started asking for tests that would tell me whether I was genetically prone to being overweight and I am. If it hadn't been for Dr. Phil I would still be trying diets that were unhealthy for me. The Ultimate Weight Solution is not about losing but understanding the myths around weight loss and what you can do to clear the air. I am much happier and I have started eating better. "The Ultimate Weight Solution" made all the difference.
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Summary: Practical, honest and workable guidance...
Review: I have completed reading and working on 3 of the 7 keys. The conscious choices I am somehow able to make more easily now, the balance and control, is proof enough to me that it works. I can hardly wait to see where I am by the end of the book! I have struggled with the same 50 lbs for a while now, and am coming to grips with the fact that yes, our choices define our reality. I am working now on my fear of success; after all, failure is what I am most familiar with, and therefore most comfortable with. But the little victories and successes I'm starting to see taste good already. Genetics and environment can be a factor in obesity, it's true. They're also a factor in alcoholism, drug addiction and child abuse. So people struggling with hereditary issues may have to work a little harder at being successful and productive adults, but ultimately they are still responsible for their own choices and conduct. We're not let off the hook just cuz the deck is stacked against us, not in society and certainly not with our health. As a compulsive eater, I welcome the empowerment I am finding in this book and its tools. If you're ready to choose success, learn to take control, and re-define your life (instead of letting food issues define your life), this book is for you. If you'd rather curl up on the sofa with a poor-me attitude, waiting for someone else to come fix your life and your health, I tried it...it doesn't work LOL! As far as pushing pills or whatever, I'm halfway through the book and haven't found a reference to this yet, so he can't be pushing too hard. He's really on to something here...and has implemented it in his own life by the way. As the book notes, he has changed many of his habits as he discovered their negative impact, and also overcome a cultural tendency in his own family of heavy eating while growing up. More to the point, the success of people he's helped along the way proves he's on the right track to a long-term solution. This book really peels back the layers and gets to the fundamentals of weight loss success and failure. Early on, he notes how only 5% of people who embark on a program lose weight and keep it off permanently...5%! The other 95% might want to take a look at this book before dismissing it as ineffectual. I'm so glad I did!
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Summary: Ultimate Weight Solution
Review: This one of the best selling self help books of all time. Phil lays it all out in no-nonsense manner. be ready when you read this, b/c Phil is asking you to change your life--for the better.
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Summary: it is all about the buck!
Review: this book might be helpfull if dr phil published it on his web site for free (and did not spend page after page marketing his brand of pills and foods) because isn't it all about helping people??? well, that is what he preaches! good, old fashioned common sense that folksy "awe shucks" dr phil likes to give away on his tv program... and i would buy it except, this book is all about selling his pills and foods (available at your local grocery store). it is all about the buck... call a spade a spade dr phil. it is you getting richer on the backs of overweight people looking for help. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME on you.
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Summary: It's easy to preach when you aren't abiding by your religion
Review: I can't believe we must once again edure another media enduced circus of Dr. Phil. He was fine on Oprah with his witty one-liners, too much starring in his own show, but now we have to listen to him preach to us on how to lose weight. "Dr." Phil himself needs to look into this topic a little more carefully before helping us with "The Ultimate Weight Solution." I cannot take advise from a man who by today's standard would be considered overweight. If we really does have the solution and it is so easy, then why is he not using it himself. Seems logical. He created it. He says its easy. If Phil McGraw were to lose thirty pounds and keep it off, I would think about listening to him again. It just seems to be another way to make money for the McGraw Industry. Take a look at the supplements he recommends and find out for yourself if Dr. Phil gets a cut of the revenue. You'll see this is all big business working against us.
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Summary: The best
Review: I have read the book through real thoroughly. Now I am reading it a second time to really remember what is says. From the moment Dr Phil says I have to start living a healthier life NOW I started to do so. For over a month now, I - a huge sugar addict and couch potato - have not eaten any sugar and exercised every day. Dr Phil gives the tools to handle every situation that occurs in this process. For example, if I raid my cupboards at night there is nothing there anymore and the impulse goes away. That is programming yourself for success. For the first time in my life I feel that I am in control over what I eat. For the first time in my life I feel how great it is to exercise. I am NOT on a diet. I have changed my lifestyle and I want to live this way my whole life. Dr Phil has managed to help me in a way that an endless number of doctors over the years have not been able to.
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