Eating for Life by Bill Phillips Review

 

Eating for Life is the food portion of a healthy lifestyle change called Body for Life. It is an intense exercise and nutrition program based on the goal to achieve quick results in order to keep you motivated to continue. The program lasts 12 weeks. It involves weight training for 3 days/week and aerobic exercise for 3 days/week. The diet consists of six small meals/day, six days/week, consuming foods such as vegetables, brown rice, poultry, and fish. You may eat as like and do no exercise on the last day.

The Eating for Life program offered by eDiets requires you to eat six moderate-sized meals a day, which is going to be a stark contrast to your average starvation diet. Each meal consists of vegetables, significant protein, lean meat, poultry, fish, egg whites, or cottage cheese, as well as carbohydrates such as potatoes or brown rice. You must also drink 10 glasses of water each day. Nutritional supplements, which Bill Phillips' company is going to sell you, are encouraged, as well as healthy oils such as flaxseed. The diet breaks down to about 40%-50% protein, the same for carbohydrates, and very little fat. The traditional food guide pyramid suggests 60% carbohydrates, 20-25% protein, and 20-25% fat.

Eating for Life/Body for Life program is effective if you follow it closely, but that is really the obvious Catch-22 of any diet. The focus of Body for Life is clearly to make people look better, from a muscular standpoint. Gym fitness and higher protein diets are certainly effective at achieving such a goal but often difficult to stick to. I prefer more basic nutrition and exercise that is a bit more entertaining such as hiking, cycling, tennis, running or swimming. But Bill Phillips Eating for Life/Body for Life is clearly on the good side of the weight loss world.