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Summary: A diet without a plan!
Review: When asked to review this book by my colleagues, I dove deep into the heart of this book and looked at the content and the clarity for which it delivers to the dieter. The conclusion? While the content brings to life the social and mental aspects that we face when dieting, it falls short of the practical advice needed for the real world. Any doctor can come up with a few most likely diagnosis to a problem, but it takes a real healer with real experience to understand what the patient (dieter) is going through in order to provide an effective treatment (weight-loss) plan. Bottom line: more of Dr Phil's psycho-babble written for his personal and financial gain. If it's an "Ultimate Solution", why the shakes and all the supplements that he is coming out with? Doesn't the name of this book already suggest that we don't need anything else? Grade: D-.
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Summary: Of Course...... Dr. Phil Tells it Like it Is!
Review: I expect nothing but the best from the one and only Dr. Phil and once again, he exceeds my expectations. If you need or want a swift kick in the rear-end to assist you with your weight loss issues than this book is for you.
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Summary: I am a big fan
Review: I am a big Dr. Phil fan and my two teen daughters are huge fans of his
son Jay. My husband on the other hand could care less.
After watching Dr. Phil's show Monday, I went out and bought this book
. I am very excited! My husband and I are going to do this together. He
does not watch the show but he really thinks this book is the ticket.
We have tried EVERY diet book out there and we both agree this one is
the one!Wish us luck. Thanks!
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Summary: Buy it today and change forever!
Review: You just have to buy this book. I loved it. My girlfriends loved it. Now we have a new reason to get together on the weekend- to support each other and to find out everything everyone has done all week. It is great. And the journal that Dr. Phil advises you to have really works! You really start to think about all the decisions you are making because it like you have a drill sergeant to answer to, even though it is in truth only your own conscious. I really recommend this book.
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Summary: I Like this book!
Review: If you read this whole book,I think this book will help you. Of course
,with anything you must go in with a positive attitude. Nothing will
ever work unless you really believe it will. This book has all the
information you need to be successful and with Dr. Phil's no frills
,tell-it-like-it-is style it is easy to follow.I have lost and gained weight so
many times I can't count anymore. I think finally this book can take me
where I want to go. Good luck to everyone! For all the negative
responses to this book ,why don't you wait a few months and try it and then if
you don't like it you can tell people. Until then why don't you keep it
to yourself and let the rest of us enjoy this wonderful book!
Thanks Dr. Phil.
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Summary: This is the best choice out there.
Review: This is the best choice out there. This book helped me and I know that I will go from my size 24 down to a 16 or 14, which is my goal. I know that it will be difficult to give up so much of the junk food that has become a part of my daily diet but I am willing to try. The hardest part will be not stopping at fast food restaurants that are my biggest weakness. I know that if I follow Dr. Phil's plan I will live a healthier life with my kids and my husband who deserve to have me here for a very long time.
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Summary: Try Dr. Phil it works!
Review: To all the naysayers I gave this book five stars because I think that any book that will help so many and is so well informed should be given the recognition that it is do. All those out there that gave it a "one star" rating probably have not even read the book or did not read it with an open mind. It is hard to accept anything, especially the truth, when your mind is closed. The information in this book is excellent. It gave me the information I needed to go to the doctor and finally get tested to see whether or not I might not have something wrong which may make it impossible for me to lose weight. I know now how to look at the results and how to ask all the right questions. I owe my new found confidence at my doctors to Dr. Phil. I have always been a bit timid because I usually just do not know what to ask- now I know and that makes all the difference. Many people are misinformed I believe about Dr. Phil's book because they seem to think that it is just like any other portion controlled diet out there- which, by the way, is not an unhealthy diet by any means. Dr. Phil advocates moderation in all things. Not a new concept and one that everyone from most of America's doctors, major fitness magazines and the American Heart Association agree with. My two favorite fitness gurus Jorge Cruise and Denise Austin also advocate such a diet with regular exercise. I do not see anything radical or unhealthy about this diet. The typical America diet is made up of highly processed foods, fast foods, junk food and lots of sugar products. Dr. Phil says that you will make a difference in your weight just by cutting one of these things- you may reach your goal but you will lose weight. I know that this works because I gave up soft drinks last year and dropped about 7 pounds. Dr. Phil just wants you to have a healthy, well-balanced diet with regular exercise- weight training if possible.
I have read The Ultimate Weight Solution all the way through and my doctor also said that this diet was not at all harmful and that I would do myself a world of good getting on a diet that would not make me fix my own food instead of buying it packaged and one that was so well-balanced. He said that pre-packaged, highly processed foods were a big part of the reason that American are so overweight and I agree. I have eaten that way most of my life and except for my dad, who seems to have an extraordinary metabolism, all the women in my family are overweight.
There is another thing that makes this not a just another fad diet. Dr. Phil is not asking you to go on it for one week, or three weeks, or even six months; he is telling you that you have to be on this eating plan for the rest of your life. That means that you will cheat and you will have depressed days and you will slack off at times on your exercising but you have to have the determination and the acceptance to understand that these things will happen but you have to get right back up on that horse and eating the way you know will benefit you. This is not a rollercoaster, this is more like a steady road that you are going to have to drive down for the rest of your life if you wish to ever see those blue mountains in the distance. I think that this makes the diet a little scary because so many people are so used to thinking that in time they will be able to go back to the way they have always lived. This is not what is going to happen if you follow Phil- this is forever.
I wrote this e-mail hoping to allay fears about the Ultimate Weight Solution and hopefully to better inform people who are still on the fence about trying it (I am most likely preaching to the choir but anything that helps is well worth the effort).
I think it would be in your best interest and the interest of your friends and family to read and try Dr. Phil's Ultimate Weight Solution. Dr. Phil is really a great doctor and he understands human behavior, which he will help you to understand and change. The Weight Solution works- try it!
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Summary: The Ultimate Weight Solution¿and its true!
Review: The bad reviews seem to only be able to say a very few things: Phil is fat, Phil is not qualified or this diet plan does not work.
People who have read this book and liked it though seem to have more down to earth commentary in comparison. They talk about the ways in which this book has changed their lives, not about how much they hate someone else. I have been working for a professional counseling service for the past 3 years and I have seen a lot of people in the office with real problems. The people who seem to actually get better and take steps in their life to improve it seem to be the ones that begin the counseling with a more positive attitude. They are the ones that no matter what their problem is they are not mean and seem to try to take an active part in their recovery. Meanness, and calling someone obese fat or whatever else is very mean when the person works so hard to keep their weight down, seems to produce more problems than it solves.
We acquired a copy of Phil's new book for our office and I have read it cover to cover during my lunch breaks. I think that the Ultimate Weight Solution tries to get people into the positive, no holds barred attitude that gets results when you are counseling. Phil doesn't take no for an answer. Yes, you are going to change your life.
Yes, you can change your habits.
Yes, you are a good person. I believe that this approach works, maybe not for everyone but it will for the millions out there that read Dr. Phil and watch him or simply listen every once in a while to his advice.
Meanness breeds meanness- hope breeds hope. I think that if you are someone who believes deeply in hope and the power of positive thought than you are the right person for this book.
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Summary: You have a decision to make!
Review: With this line Dr. Phil begins his newest, ingenious work into the mind and behavior of humans. His last few books have dealt with people in relationships, people in general (and how they must focus on the person within to express and live the life they were meant to), but now he has focused on a group of people very close to his heart- people who are overweight. For anyone who doesn't know obesity, as Dr. Phil has explained a number of times, runs in his family and was the main cause of his father's death. I believe that the subject for these reasons is one that he takes very seriously. He is not doing it for money. It is so easy to look at the hard façade that he expresses and see that Dr. Phil truly does care about this subject. I found that the book better expressed his tenderness toward this subject- on the show I find that he is usually quite guarded when it comes to personal feelings. As someone who has fought my weight my entire life I understand what it is like to have people in your family that you watch struggle everyday as well. It begins to break down your will power and it breaks down your belief that you will ever be able to be any thinner or live any better than them. You lose confidence in yourself when you see what obesity does to others around you who seem to be fighting it. My mother was always on a diet- always gaining instead of losing in the end. I watched as fad after fad caught her and my attention as well as I watched us get bigger and bigger. This up and down and up and down begins to make you feel like a lesser person. When I picked up the Ultimate Weight Solution I will admit that I was just looking for another quick fix; it doesn't matter how many times he said it wasn't that is what I am always looking for really. But the first page struck me so hard that I put down the book and called my mother, because in that first page I felt as though he was talking to me. He was telling me about my life and he was about to help me change. I made the decision right then that this plan was the one for me and so far I have not been disappointed. It will take me time but day by day I am preparing myself and my home and I am trying to make the decisions that I believe will help rather than hinder me from having a better, thinner life. The Ultimate Weight Solution gave me hope and I a life to look forward to- I hope it does the same for you.
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Summary: Re-packaged Hype!
Review: This book is a complete waste of time and effort, it's all been documented many times before "Dr." Phil decided to jump on the diet bandwagon. This is a "whats eating you, not what are you eating" book and too have Phil say he has been working with Obese people for over 30 years??? P.S 7 Keys sure sounds familiar, maybe Stephen Covey's 7 Habits?? If Phil has been working with obese people for so long, why did he have 3 other unknown doctors actually write the book for him, and about 2 months ago come out with diet knock off products? All diet books are a life style change and you must change what you put in your mouth to help make the difference in your body, Phil seems to think if you change your emotions around and get new friends and family members because they don't follow your diet needs then you will succeed with losing weight. And heres a NewsFlash (Phil is overweight) After reading all 320+ pages I have come to realize that this book is just re-packaged hype, I have lost 93lbs just by changing food intake and food variety, and not once did I glare at what was eating me! Pure Drivel
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