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Summary: THe book is very good.
Review: Doctr Phil has written a book That is very informative about how to lose the weight off. Although himself he is not thin of stature, advice is from him like on the TV about how to lead a live where you do the thing that is smart and avoid harmful activities. You will learn to eat food that fills you up and then you will be healthy like The Dr. And Oprah was right. Dr. Phil is the best at telling you how tomorrow can be better than before tomorrow, and with your diet he is no exception. Get this book now!!!!
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Summary: Getting Real is not pleasant
Review: Thank you, Dr. Phil, for your honesty. Looking at the truth of my weight, my negative attitude, and my critical self-talk are issues that you touched on in this article. Getting real with myself means taking responsibility for my over all well-being. I ordered the book and plan to start applying the principles from this article today. I am going to set a realistic weight goal for myself. I am going to take responsibility for my health. Thank you for the reasonable and generous price of these books, which helps everyone, who is ready to get real about their problem, to own these books. I weigh 205 pounds. This is not healthy for me. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with others. Sincerely yours, Ruth Landis
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Summary: Yesss!
Review: It works! I have lost 15 pounds and I did not gain anything over the Thanksgiving Holiday. The Ultimate Weight Solution works. I don't have the wild cravings that I usually have and this year I made sure my environment reflected my goals not to gain weight and it worked. Try it and you won't regret it!
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Summary: Picture of Health??
Review: This book is clearly a play for the almighty dollar. Dr. Phil should be ashamed of his blatant leverage of his " Oprah blessing ". On the day that the book came out my local Sam's Club had pallets of his diet foods ready for the masses that so diligently tune in to Oprah and Dr. Phil. The diet is not the worst to hit the market but it certainly didn't earn it's sales ranking as the South Beach Diet or the Atkins Diet have.Doctor Phil asks if us if we are " apples or pears ". Dr. Phil should have looked closer at what fruit he represents and gone to the gym for a year before posing for the cover of this book.
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Summary: Flimsy
Review: Phil McGraw is not a medical doctor, and it seems he couldn't be bothered to research the topic of weight control and vitality. He's promoting foods that are counterproductive to his own recommendations just to make money off the misery of others. For effective and well researched advice, I recommend "Biomarkers" by William J. Evans PhD. (research in physiology) and Irwin H. Rosenberg, M.D. (Director of the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University). This book discusses a sensible diet (not dieting) and the importance of weight work and aerobics for maintaining vitality well into what we used to consider old age.
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Summary: Flim Flam
Review: Skip this book of flim flam and self-promotion for Phil McGraw. Shame on "Dr." Phil. I hope readers realize he is not an M.D. It seems he couldn't be bothered to research the topic of weight control and vitality. In addition he's promoting foods that are counterproductive to his own recommendations just to make money off the misery of others. For effective and well researched advice, I recommend "Biomarkers" by William J. Evans PhD. (research in physiology) and Irwin H. Rosenberg, M.D. (Director of the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University). This book discusses a sensible diet (not dieting) and the importance of weight work and aerobics for maintaining vitality well into what we used to consider old age.
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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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