[Ian]

What is the Body for Life Diet and what are it’s drawbacks and what are its benefits? The Body for Life diet is the creation of world-renowned trainer and and founder of the nutritional company, EAS. The Body for Life plan is an intensive 12 week program of dieting and exercise that is intended to be quick and safe way to lose ample weight. As far as macronutrients are concerned, the diet asks for about 40-50% of calories to come from protein and and carbs as well. This leaves virtually no space for fats which serves a higher calling than people think. Eliminating fats will simply leave one more vulnerable to arthritis, tendinitis and even some types of cancer. One factor that helps differentiate this approach from the rest of the pack is its aversion to food/caloric restriction. The Body for Life diet requires one to eat 6 small meals a day every few hours or so. Carbohyrdates can come from potatoes, brown rice, fruit and plenty of others and need to be served in a portion no larger than a fist. Even vegetables can be eaten in large quantities since they happen to be low in calories. Protein servings should consist of lean cuts of beef, chicken, pork, or fish and each serving should be proportional to one’s own palm. In order to help kick-start the metabolism in the morning, Phillips recommends eating a meal especially rich in carbohydrates. While some may think this sounds like too much food blended with all the “wrong” dieting principles, it’s actually soundly rooted in science. With smaller meals eaten throughout the day, one will ensure that blood glucose levels are stable as opposed to the common phenomenon that follows a large meal: a spike in insulin. Too many of these spikes can permanently ruin one’s metabolism leading one to gain weight much more rapidly than ever before. Secondly, by learning to eat this many meals, one also learns not to let the body dictate when it is time to eat. By allowing the body to become hungry, one is feeding suspicions that the body is retreating into “starvation mode” and must hoard fat and burn perfectly good muscle tissue instead in order to fuel the body. By eating more, one can actually lose more, as odd as that may sound.

Another concept that helps to separate it from all of the other competing diet fads out there is its requirement for daily exercise. There must be 3 days of weight training allowed, as well as 3 cardio days. The weight training days last 45 minutes while the cardio training days last only 20 minutes. On the seventh day, one can rest and actually eat whatever it is they so desire. Regular exercise with a proper diet will produce results and other than the fact that some more unsaturated fat needs to be included, maybe even in place of some of the protein, Bill Phillip’s Body for Life diet is definitely a recommended path to take.

[mocha120]

I'm having a lil bit difficulty signing up for Body for life. I thought it will come with nutrition, diet sample plans, and excercise plans. like on e-diets

[susanpesek]

Several years back our son and my husband took the challenge of this plan. It was expensive for us to buy all the protein because we had 2 in college, but it worked and got them into the gym every night. They still eat the protein bars every now and again.:p

[Josephine]

Hey - The book BODY FOR LIFE FOR WOMAN by Dr. Pamela Peeke is awesome! My husband is a personal trainer and he uses this program for many of his female clients with great results, the nutritionists that he works with agree that it is not only safe but very healthy! The book has great motivational true life stories of woman who have had great results on the program. It also addresses "woman's needs" - You definetly should check it out it is not just a fad diet and quick fix though. -

[nightdreamer13]

I have done this program before. I really liked it. I requires short but very intense workouts. I went from a size 13/14 to a very comfortable 9/10 and I could even get in some 7/8s in the 12 weeks. I didn't buy a lot of their products. Just the bars and shakes that my grocer would regularly have on sale for 50% off. I really loved the very intense weight training in this diet. It was so intense that I would have the shakes if I didn't eat every 3 hrs.
Then I moved and joined a new gym that I hated and lost my motivation to go. The problem was that I continued to eat like a bodybuilder without the high intensity workouts. So I did slowly gain a good bit of the weight back.

I was thinking of doing this diet again. I have joined a better gym and I do no gym workouts too. Another good thing that worked for me about this plan was the free day once a week that you could eat the things that you've been craving.

I wonder if anyone has done this program with phen?