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

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Summary: ULTIMATE WEIGHT SOLUTIONS Worth a Glance
Review: The ULTIMATE WEIGHT SOLUTION is worth a glance because Phil McGraw does more than repeat the basic rules - eat less, move more. Dr. Phil gives his down-home Texas style twist to the wise adage, "It's not what you're eating, it's what's eating you."
Until you accept and love yourself and the body you have, you will make wrong choices about your health and diet.
Practicing Yoga is an excellent way to use movement and breath to bring your body into energetic balance and begin to accept and love it.
When you love your body with all its imperfections - scars, wrinkles, cellulite, stretch marks and all - you will feed it right, give it plenty of fresh water and air and make sure it has lots of joyous experiences.
My French Canadian grandmother Mimi taught us the secret of good health and beauty decades ago; eat delicious food lovingly prepared in moderation, work hard, be active and do something for others and your community, love and laugh heartily and fill your soul with the "joi de vivre." She lived to her 94th birthday. Mimi read thousands of books over her lifetime, but I never saw her pick up a diet book.

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Summary: Dr. Phil a.k.a. ........."Chubby"?
Review: FAT BOY? I DON'T THINK SO!
At 6'4 and 240lbs, Dr. Phil is a big, strong dude and looks more like an NFL tight end than a motivational speaker and author. He is probably in better shape than 80% of men in his age group. I would not want to mess with the guy!

Dr. Phil is a no nonsense kind of guy and his approach cuts through all the excuses that people make for non success in any undertaking. Most people just need a good kick in the butt. And thats what Dr. Phil does best!

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Summary: Oprah Cult Running Amok
Review: This guy is overweight, let's all buy his diet book. This guy is a divorcee, let's all buy his raising-a-great-family book. When this bald guy releases his eventual hair care book, let's all buy it! Why? Because Oprah says so! Yaayyyy!!!

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Summary: Memorize Chapter One and Chapter Nine
Review: You want to hear the most important idea this book conveyed (I'm a physician who treats people for obesity)? It's in Chapter 1. Before I tell you, let me tell you the erroneous idea that infects most overweight people: "I know what to do--I just need more will power." (I'm also going to tell you why I think Dr. Phil is over weight).

Over and over, I see people beat themselves up about lack of will power. Well, Dr. Phil got it right in chapter 1: Most people have plenty of "will power." Most over weight people are lacking in skill power. You say you just need to eat less and exercise more. But what exercise do you do? When do you find time? What do you do with your children and your boss when it's time to exercise. How much less do you need to eat and how do you eat less and not make yourself miserable (you won't do it for th rest of your life if you're miserable). Most people who are overweight don't have good answers to the questions. Most people of normal weight answer the questions properly with their lives. Read chapter 1 over and over again if you are over weight until you decide to learn how to increase skills so you need less will power.

Chapter 9 also makes the book worth buying. Good research (multiple studies) show that most people will be over weight until they get adequate exercise. Chapter 9 drives home this point and should be read over and over. Now...why I think Dr. Phil is mildly obese...

Though Chapter 9 should be read because it stresses the importance of exercise, it misses the degree to which most people need to exercise in order to keep their weight normal. Dr. Phil over estimates the calories burned in some exercises and some of the exercises recommended just don't result in significant weight loss. Good research shows that most Americans would not be over weight if they walked 20 or more miles per week (that's with NO change in diet). Some can make it on 15 per week. Some need 25. But, the vast majority need at least 20 miles per week. If you're saying that seems like a huge amount (about 3 miles on the average 365 days a year no matter what the weather), then you're demonstrating why around 70% of Americans are overweight (including Dr. Phil whom I estimate averages less than 15 miles a week most weeks of the year).

To try to break the 20 mile rule is like trying to figure out how to not be tired with less than 3 hours sleep most nights of the year.

But, for Chapter One and Chapter Nine alone, you should run or walk to buy this book (hopefully your store is about 3 miles away. Better yet, buy it from Amazon and also buy the CD's so you can listen to the book while you go for a walk).