Review of Eating For Life (Hardcover)

My fiance did the Body-for-Life challenge and lost 40 pounds in 12 weeks!Currently we are 2 weeks in to another Body-for-Life challenge and we've found the biggest problem for us is lack of interesting food to eat.We decided to pick up the Eating-for-Life book to hopefully get some better recipes and all I can say is WOW!Bill Phillips really outdid himself with this book.

This book starts with 70 pages describing many of the ideas about food he covered in his bestselling book, Body-for-Life.As he explains, diets are BAD.They are impossible to maintain, so 95% of people who go on diets end up gaining back everything they lost (and often MORE than they lost).His philosophy is to eat balanced, nutrient-rich meals six times a day.This keeps you full, so you never feel like you're starving, and also signals to your body that its getting the nutrients it needs and can stop storing all the fat.

This is the first time I've seriously done the Body-for-Life challenge and I've already lost 8 pounds of fat!The biggest problem for me, as I said, was how BORING I thought healthy foods were.This book has shown me how wrong I was!The first day I got it, I flipped through it and salivated at all the delicious recipes!There are over a hundred GOOD recipes in here, including shrimp scampi, chicken noodle soup, filet mignon, chicken fajitas and SO much more.There are even several healthy dessert recipes, including fruit crepes, cheesecake and walnut brownies!The recipes are not only healthy, but extremely easy to prepare and very delicious!

A lot of people have said that Bill Phillips plan takes a lot of dedication and hard work, and that's true.But there is no "easy" diet out there.I've tried some of the "fad" diets, including low carb diets and diet pills.While they sometimes work, I found them impossible to stick to and maintain weightloss on.With Body-for-Life, and especially now with this AMAZING cookbook, I can eat healthy, delicious meals AND lose weight.Plus, with Body-for-Life, you have a free day every single week (usually Sunday) where you can eat whatever you want in whatever quantities you want.

I highly recommend checking this book out, even if you aren't interested in the Body-for-Life program.The recipes are better than I've seen in most diet books.

Product Description
Did you truly enjoy the food you ate today? Do you reallylike the way you look and feel? Are you consistently enjoying greathealth and high energy?

Bill Phillips, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellerBody-for-LIFE, believes your answer to all of the above questionsshould be, "Yes!" He feels that food should be a source of purepleasure. A source of positive, abundant energy! A "sure thing" in aworld of much uncertainty.

Phillips, who's widely regarded as today's most successful fitnessauthor, has firm beliefs which go against the grain of today's popularweight-loss methods. "Diets, all of them, are potentially dangerous,most always dumb and ultimately a dead-end street!" heinsists. "Eventually, anyone and everyone who's at all concerned withtheir health must learn how to feed their body, not how to starve it."

Instead, Phillips encourages a safe and sound solution which includeseating balanced, nutrient-rich meals, frequently throughout theday. "This is what works in the long run," he explains.

Rich with common sense and science, Eating for Life has rhyme andreason. It is specific. There are very clear dos and don'ts which helppeople enjoy food and improve their overall fitness.

Bill's approach, which he calls the "Eating for Lifestyle," hasalready helped thousands of people break free from the dieting dilemmaand discover that, contrary to pop-culture belief, food is friend, notfoe. Used intelligently, it nourishes the body and mind, satisfies theappetite, calms cravings, renews health and lifts energy.

Like Bill Phillips' Body-for-LIFE, this is a tell-it-like-it-isbook. There's no promise of a quick fix. No metabolic tricks orso-called miracles. Just straightforward, clear, concise, practicaland appropriate principles for eating right... for life.

About the Author
Bill Phillips, 38, has helped hundreds of thousands of people, from all walks of life, build leaner, stronger bodies and enjoy healthier, happier lives. His Program for renewing physical and mental strength is shared in the #1 New York Times bestselling book Body-for-LIFE. With more than four million copies sold and over four years on the bestseller list, Body-for-LIFE has become the most popular and successful book of its kind.

Phillips has received many honors for his work including the Make-A-Wish Foundation's highest award. He was also honored by Paul Newman and the late John F. Kennedy, Jr., as one of America's most generous business leaders. The United States Junior Chamber of Commerce honored Phillips in January 2000 as one of Ten Outstanding Young Americans. Bill was also chosen to help carry the Olympic torch on its relay across America for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

And now, Bill Phillips has created Eating for Life to help inspire and guide even more people to improve their health and lift their quality of life to new heights.

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