Eating For Life by Bill Phillips
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Book Reviews of Eating For Life
Book Review: The Icing on the Cake
Summary: 5 Stars
To begin with, I am not one to rush onto Amazon to throw around 5 stars here and 5 stars there. To be honest I usually couldn't be bothered, but based on my experience with Eating for Life I felt it my duty.
Put aside ANY negative comments you have read from previous raters. Fine, people are entitled to their own opinions, but I just can not pick a hole in Eating for Life. It truly bordered on me looking for the catch (I am one of those people who searches for the catch) but couldn't find one
In a sentence, Eating for Life is a book full of tasty recipies that you want to eat.
I did the South Beach Diet, and have a lot of good to say about the Glycemic Index, however, the recipie book always left you feeling slightly deprived. Yes I was feeling good on it, but with Eating for Life you don't have that gut feeling telling you that you are missing out. The meals are very simple, and I admire the way pictures of the different ingredients are printed on the bottom of each page. It's handy for people who are in a hurry and want to scoot around the shopping centre to grab whatever ingredients are required for a particular meal of choice. So you have the ingredient visually in your head rather than having to read the names of each ingredient in the hope that you'll know what it is by it's description.
There are no phases in the book like many other diet books. Why am I even using the word diet ? Eating for Life isn't even a diet book. Like many have said above, it is a book packed with recipies for meals you enjoy eating. It's not even a sacrifice.
When I started the Body for Life 12 week challenge I was running out of ideas for foods, and to be honest, I was thinking in a conditioned way regarding food. Yes I had read the book, but it's easy to forget, and you can often find yourself slipping back into old habits of restriction. When I took a brief look through the book I was surprised to see Potato on the list. It's all about portion sizes, and before I wrote this review I had just finished a lovely Chicken and Potato dish. I'm not stuffed, I'm just right.
So.....if you are starting Body for Life, or you are looking to loose bodyfat and eat right; while Eating for Life is not a matter of life and death, it is a MAJOR MAJOR help; and lets be honest, when you're starting out on a training plan, you can do with all the help and support you can get.
Go for it !
Book Review: WOW! Solves my bland food problem!
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Book Review: Should You Buy This Book???
Summary: 5 Stars
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.Book Review: This Is THE BEST "Diet" Cookbook Out There!
Summary: 5 Stars
Although I haven't really cooked much in recent years, I have collected cookbooks since I was young. I own at least 200 of them. In recent years, many of them have been "Diet Cookbooks." In virtually all of them, I have only liked maybe 1/10th of the recipes.
That said, this is one of the VERY BEST COOKBOOKS out there! I almost didn't purchase this, because so many of the diet plans out there always do a half-hearted cookbook following their best sellers...almost like an afterthought. Also, I had been so disappointed with what I felt I would be able to eat while on the BFL program. WRONG!
If you are looking for nutritious (but GOOD!) recipes that your WHOLE family can eat or you need to lose a few pounds or are even on another diet program, or if you are even THINKING of going on the BFL Challenge, I URGE you to buy this book!
"Eating for Life" is AMAZING! It is a quality hardcover book and each recipe features a full page picture. But what floored me was that ALL of the recipes are GREAT! Most do not take a great deal of time to prepare either! (I have actually started COOKING again!)
The ONE feature that could have been included was that the nutritional info is not included with the recipes. I have an online program that quickly converts this information for me, but it would have been nice to have this included.
However, something that was included that I thought was so terrific - and am surprised that most cookbooks haven't done this before - is that for most of the recipes, it includes a little "cameo" picture of the specific brands of products that they used to make the recipe! I loved this feature because I have made many recipes before that because I used a different brand -- just didn't quite taste like the original. Most cookbooks don't feature this because I guess it is like "free advertising" for these products...but hey, if they are good enough to use, they deserve the exposure.
Bill Phillips: You outdid yourself with this terrific cookbook!
Book Review: It Works!
Summary: 5 Stars
The book is divided into two sections: Chapter 1-10 features the concepts for "Eating For Life" (includes Myths vs. Fact, Questions and Answers). Then the second section features recipes for each meal, mid snack, and dessert. This will aid beginners on how to prepare food accordingly until the basic idea is understood then one can venture out into their own creative desire.
The book is not esoteric. It is written in a block head manner, so watch out for un-Christian expletives.
The main concept: The Right Foods, The Right Amounts, The Right Combos, The Right Times. Water is also vital. You may drink coffee (decaf is better), diet pop, but more quantity of water.
1. The Right Foods - Nutrient rich foods while avoiding empty calories.
Proteins - chicken breast, turkey breast, lean beef, swordfish, orange roughy, salmon, tuna, crab, lobster, shrimp, lean ground beef, buffalo, eggs, cottage cheese, low fat cheese, nutrition shakes and protein powders.
Carbs - brown rice, oatmeal, potatoes, yams, pasta, barley, apples, berries, oranges, whole grain breads and pitas.
Essential Fats - vegetable oils (canola, olive, sunflower), fish oils (found in salmon, tuna, halibut etc.) BAD FATS: Trans-Fat (cookies, crackers), Saturated Fats (fast food, margarines, burgers).
Vitamins and Minerals - Fruits and vegetables.
2. The Right Amounts -
Protien (meat) size of your palm. Generally 4 ounces.
Carb (potato, wheat bread, corn) the size of your fist. (baked potato).
Veg. the size of your hand (scoop) at minimum. You may eat as much veg. as you want per meal.
3. The Right Combos - This is where the recipe section will help the most. Most of the suggested recipes combine Proteins and Carb and Veg. well.
4. The Right Times - 8:30 Breakfast, 10:30 mid-snack, 12:30 Lunch, 3:30 mid snack, 5:30 Dinner, 8:00 dessert. (just an example).