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Summary: finally!
Review: Finally, a healthy way of eating that I can follow throughout my lifetime. I've been searching for a program that would allow me to eat nutritional, good tasting food and still lose weight. I've never had a serious weight problem but after a long-term illness I gained about 15 lbs and was really in bad shape physically. I have tried every diet imaginable and still after a whole lot of suffering still didn't lose all the weight or "feel" healthy at all. This diet provides a basic, easy to follow plan that will allow anyone to not only lose weight but start to feel good again. My energy level is skyrocketing! The book recipes are simple, with basic ingredients that you can find at most grocery stores (no special nutrition house trips for some odd form of home-grown barley). The recipes are also very good, my husband can't believe we are eating diet food and who can blame him when we are eating shrimp scampi, spaghetti and meatballs, turkey burgers, french toast, quesadillas, etc... There has been some criticizing of the brand names, but I think that the wonderful addition of actually showing pictures of brand items at the bottom of a lot of the recipes makes shopping for items easier. I just take my book to the store when I'm feeling too lazy to write a list and plan my menus right there.
My husband is losing weight, 6 lbs the first week! I'm losing lbs. and gaining muscle. My daughter is even losing and she was a nutritional nut before starting this program with us. She was already slim but couldn't lose a small amount of fat around her middle and in one week she lost 3 lbs and that middle fat is gone. The best part is that she is eating so much more than she was before and she is feeling good about food again instead of reguarding it as her enemy.
Try the shakes. I usually loathe protein shakes, but these are really good and make me feel full of energy.
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Summary: A true lifestyle that works
Review: Hail Bill Phillips. I began a year ago with his best-seller, Body for Life, which is incredible in itself. His new cook book is an amazing supplement to that program and truly supports a manageable lifestyle, not a fad diet.Bill's philosophies are realistic, pragmatic, most of all effective. Being single, in Manhattan, I don't have the time or the patience for complicated, time consuming food preparations, that's why this program has been so effective for me, it's the exact opposite. I've lost almost 30 lbs and managed to keep the weight off now for almost a year. This book is filled with great recipes and the simple program is explained in an easy to read format. No gimmicks, just balanced meals with real food, that promote a healthy, active lifestyle.
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Summary: Even my children love the meals!
Review: I absolutely enjoy the style in which Bill Phillips writes his books! There is a feeling of passion and excitement (not to mention good humor) that motivates me to do more for myself. The recipes are very easy to make, the ingredients are easily purchased at any store and the food really is delicious. Both my children really enjoy these meals and look forward to making new recipes. The book is broken down into sections, with only about 70 pages of reading. After that you have a section for dinner, breakfast, lunch, snacks and desserts. Plus a meal planning section. What more could you need to get started on a life of enjoying good healthy food, and making food a friend not foe.
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Summary: Love this Book!
Review: I always end up buying books on diet/nutrition and usually hate the food listed (who wants to eat plain grilled check and egg whites forever). This book was different. The first few meals that I cooked, I had the thought in my mind "how horrible is this going to taste". To my surpise, each one tasted great! This is something that I can stick with because the food tastes great, it's easy to make and doesn't take a lot of time. Even better, my family eats it too!
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Summary: Pure Commercialism - by a disappointed Body For Life success
Review: I am a Body For Life success story. I didn't enter their competition, I did it just for me. I lost 55 lbs in 12 weeks, following the Body-For-Life book to the letter. Because of my success, I have promoted the book and program at every opportunity! So, when I saw Eating For Life, I was excited until I picked it up. It smacks of pure commercialism. The photographs of the recipes all include pictures of the specific brand name items called for. It's just an advertisement book. There is not one bit of nutrition information... which makes sense when you see things in it like French Toast and syrup. The book is full of recipes that the Body For Life program would never recommend. In comparison, I checked half a dozen nearby recipe books when I looked at Eating For Life. Every other book I looked at, whether it was succulent chocolate desserts all the way to low-fat diet books, had complete nutrition information. So why not this one? Because Bill Phillips knew that these recipes would not withstand public scrutiny of the nutrition information. Get Better Homes and Gardens New Dieter's Cookbook instead. I did. It is full of great recipes, beautiful presentation photos, and complete nutrition information. And along with the BHG book. Get Body For Life. Skip Eating For Life.
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Summary: Fabulous food!
Review: I bought this book along with the Body for Life book when I started the program. I would definitely recommend it. I've tried several of the recipes and they've all gotten a thumbs up from me. I particularly like the Baked Chicken Parmesean and Sesame Beef Stir-Fry. This book makes it easy to watch what I eat without feeling deprived.
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Summary: good, but...
Review: I feel this book has some value, although it is much theory.
For a practical way to lose weight and one that my friends and i have used and have gotten results from I would use www.lowfatmealplans.com. it is much better. It really did work for us and its easy, fast and healthy. Check it out.
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Summary: Great book (plus a response to a negative review)
Review: I got this book for my birthday from my family, since they knew that I occasionally dabbled in the Body-for-Life stuff (not too much to show for it yet, but that's mostly my fault -- not eating 6 times a day, having to miss a week of workouts, not enjoying Myoplex, etc.) This book helps eliminate one of my excuses...the food. To help motivate me to get back in the routine, I started making some of the recipes...and haven't hit a bad one yet! Now, this is not super-gourmet stuff, but that's all the better...they're relatively quick meals, very nutritious (your body can feel it) but still very tasty! To respond to dalepres' review ("Pure Commercialism..."), I HIGHLY doubt that Philips went to every food manufacturer that he has a picture of in the book to strike up some "advertising" deal. The purpose of the pictures, in my opinion, is to prove to the reader how simple and easily obtainable the ingredients are. And they work...when a recipe lists 8 ingredients, and samples are pictured, I can't usually say "I couldn't find it" in the grocery store.
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Summary: The Book Makes it Easy to Eat More Than Chicken
Review: I had my doubts for $35 to buy this book. Yet when all is said and done it is a great cook-book. I have started using the reciepies. They are good, but some of the reciepies are a bit bland for me and doctoring has helped...yet I think it is a book that guides and is not set in stone. There is ample room for me to write myself notes on the recipies I don't mind the product placement, it uses recognized brands that the average JOE-Sephine who doesn't know how to cook or shop feel comfortable to undertake this new adventure in cooking. Ideally, this could be your only needed cookbook only because people on a whole cook 10-15 different recipies consistantly for their meals, and with 150 recipies, I think you can come up your standard meal grouping.
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Summary: Should You Buy This Book???
Review: I have (a very few) negative feelings about this book like others do, but overall I think that it's a valuable and UNIQUE book that's well worth having (that is, if you're REALLY serious about making meaningful changes in your health). I own the 3 VHS tapes - "Body of Work" and "Success Stories" 1 & 2 (all free except the last one), BfL on CD, BfL Hardcover, and now "Eating for Life" Hardcover. Does Bill know how to market??? Oh yeah!!! But what he's selling IS a quality product and not some fad Diet/Exercise of the Week drivel. He's very good at finding out what works and putting it all together in a simple to use & understand package. Okay, So I'm VERY jealous of anybody who can wake up in Maui everyday (if he wants to) and count all his money, in between workouts & Myoplex shakes (just kidding). BUT HE EARNED IT!!! He's worked very hard for his success and he has the courage to pursue his dreams unlike 95% of the population (including myself). And NO I don't belong to his Official Fan Club, but I'd probably join it, if he had one. As for Bill being cocky??? I've never felt that he was anything but self-confident. I wouldn't want to follow anybody who's projecting massive self-doubt and insecurity. Would you??? As for the price of this book? This is a COOKBOOK!!! Cookbooks with lots of color pictures cost a fortune!!! Check around! Even my cookbook club charges an arm & a leg, so the price is very reasonable. I wouldn't mind a smaller (easier to handle) quality paperback version of the recipes in this book, but that's okay. It's beautifully photographed and "Food Styled" if that's the right term, and I couldn't have come up with 150 easy-to-follow recipes to save my life. You can make several meals at a time, if you want to, which will save alot of time. And yes, 6 meals a day is a little hard to do, and I'm sure there must be myoplex bars (or should be) because the blender thing is a minor problem. So make them at home and haul that ice chest full of food to work with you and quit complaining!!! : ) Thanks Bill.
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