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Body for Life for Women: A Woman’s Plan for Physical and Mental Transformation
Body for Life for Women: A Woman's Plan for Physical and Mental Transformation
The bestselling Body-for-Life™ program is now tailored just for women-to help them achieve dramatic weight loss and body-changing fitness in just 12 weeks!The #1 New York Times bestseller Body-for-Life helped millions of people the world over to build stronger bodies and enjoy a higher quality of life. Now Pamela Peeke, M.D., M.P.H., bestselling author of Fight Fat After Forty, adapts the unique insights of the Body-for-Life program to the specific hormonal, metabolic, and physiologica
November 8th, 2011 - 11:29
Not at all like the Original,
If you are looking for a great effective easy to follow program like in Body For Life, this isn’t it. She doesn’t outline a whole plan like Bill Phillips does. Pamela gives plenty of information, and many recommendations, but does not write up a complete easy to follow plan like Bill. To be honest, that is what I expect from a book named Body for Life for Women, so I had to take a star away from what is otherwise an outstanding book.
Overall, I find Bill’s original plan too limited for a lifetime, so in this way, Pamela’s book is better. But, his is so detailed that all you have to do is decide to commit and follow through. BFL for Women requires more input than that. You will need to research, figure out what exercise you prefer and plan accordingly. Determine what cardio you like and the level, etc. Weight work is also not all spelled out like his plan. She discusses yoga and Pilates, but again, doesn’t make it easy to fit all this in.
It’s a great book, but not what I had want in a BFL for Women. I want a plan of the same quality as the original BFL plan, that is guaranteed to work if followed. Not just a book full of great advice. Something I know will be worth the time because it has been proven by 100′s of people who have followed the same plan and have great results to show for it. This is closer to all the common sense advice we’ve all ignored time and time again. Wonderful book, but not at all like the BFL concept.
I’d recommend this to anyone wanting to learn more about fitness for women. But, not for anyone who loved the original BFL plan and wants one for women. Nor for anyone who wants a quick, easy to follow plan to blast their body into shape. This is a great book for the long haul.
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|November 8th, 2011 - 11:51
Not at all what I was looking for … Confusing and complicated,
I lost 48 lbs with the first Body for Life book that was written by Bill Phillips. The only thing I didn’t love about that book was all of the ‘manly’ exercise routines and instructions in the exercise and weight-lifting chapters. Although I loved the diet while I was on it, eventually I fell off the wagon and was inspired when I saw this book, thinking ah, this must be a woman’s approach to the same effective program.
It wasn’t.
There are several things that bother me about this book, the first being that it seems like this book was just an afterthought, a way to put a woman on the cover of a book to reach all of the dieters who didn’t pick up the Bill Phillips version because there was a big hunky man on the front.
This book had a lot of general information and advice we’ve all heard before. I thought the assembly of information was just kind of general – not pin-pointing – and it was confusing. I also felt like I was reading way too much ‘filler’ information when really all I wanted was the health plan. We all watch the news and hear the statistics, I was bored seeing them again.
Also, there are a few contradictions between this book and the original Body for Life book. If this is a different plan, why call it Body for Life? One small example is that in Bill Phillip’s book, low-fat yogurt is clearly explained as a carbohydrate. (And I lost almost 50 lbs eating it as one.) But in BFL for Women, it’s listed as a protein! This is confusing. Also, in this book it suggests you can follow the plan for a few days, then have a free day. In the original BFL, you had to go 6 days on the plan, with only one free day each week. I would have liked these changes (or differences perhaps for women) to be explained. Why was it one way in the first book, but a different way in the second? Dieter’s rules are like gospel when you’re following a particular plan, and I was left wondering what was what!
Body for Life publishing people, if you read this, there are other BFL’ers like myself who are looking for a part II to Bill’s first book (not just a recipe book like Eating for Life) but a continuation of the same inspiration, encouragement and enthusiasm, and a further in-depth explanation of the original program with new tips and tricks to help follow it. I’d also like to see an ‘extended Body for Life’ plan – one that tells you what to do after you’ve reached your goal weight and that goes into detail with a specific plan for how to maintain your weight loss.
I was really inspired by the first book, and would recommend anyone to get that one instead of this one. I just didn’t get the connection with the author that I got with the first. In Bill’s book, I felt like he actually wanted me to get healthy, like it was his vision to see people be well. I felt like this book was like all the other diet books I’ve read before.
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|November 8th, 2011 - 12:09
Too many excuses not to do it!,
I ordered both the original Body for Life (which I love) and this other “for Women” version when I was deciding to make a change in my life. While the original is short, succinct and very well organized, the “for women” version is too long, too involved and seems to list tons of reasons why women won’t be able to succeed at this plan! This is one time when simple is best – man or woman, go with the original Body for Life instead of this knockoff that tells us we’ll never really look that good and probably won’t get through the program because we’re too emotional, but all that’s ok because WE ARE WOMEN. It’s poopy!
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