Pros: A healthy way of eating that allows one free day a week.
Cons: Phillips advocates 3 of his shakes a day!

Pros: A healthy diet that won't leave you hungry or tired. Lots of motivation.
Cons: The pictures shown with the success stories may give people unrealistic expectations

OVERVIEW
Body For Life is a 12-week fitness plan. You eat a high protein diet and exercise regularly. It is not a very low calorie diet, so you do not feel deprived and you have plenty of energy. Overweight individuals can expect a gradual...

Pros: The Program WORKS!
Cons: You must really deep down want to change!

My husband and I have always been active and conscious about our health. We have tried several methods of exercise and/or what we thought was ‘eating right.’ Last year, after our son was born, I was surfing the Internet and came across a link for a ‘Free...

Pros: Cheap, life changing, progressive, and even sorta fun.
Cons: Gotta work your butt off (literally)

Hmmm, it would seem that there are more diets in here than you can shake a stick at. Low carb diets, grapefruit diets, supplement diets, carnivore ketosis, and at least ten others that I do not feel deserve an honorable mention (or any mention...

Pros: A HEALTHY diet! You feel great and really lose weight!
Cons: Like any diet it's a little challenging to continually create variety in your meals.

I was trying to lose some weight for our wedding, and a friend recommended this book. She said there were about a dozen people at her church doing it and that their bodies looked like they had gone through a total transformation. That was all the ...

Pros: Step by step, easy to follow, common sense
Cons: Requires dedication both in terms of exercise and eating

When I first met my husband, he had the Body for Life book and log/notebook in his living room and shakes in his refrigerator. He started telling me about the program. Me being ever the snob (translation: completely stupid) thought, "Yes, oh weak one, ...

Pros: If you follow this program, it works
Cons: Cost of the supplements

I'm in that rare position of needing to gain weight. I'm a 35 year old male, 5'10" tall, and before going on the Body for Life program, weighed only 138 pounds. My (then) wife, who was overweight, went on the program with me. She is 5'4" tall, and at...

Pros: Noticeable results in a relatively short time period
Cons: Requires a lot of willpower and hard work

Many weight loss programs make seemingly impossible claims of quick results. If you look at the before and after pictures of people who followed the program for 12 weeks, it may seem that this two is one of those programs that creates false hopes of...

Pros: Healthy way to look good naked.
Cons: time during your day required, aspartame shakes.

Ok, I picked up this book very enthusiastically. I read some of the personal stories inside the book of tremendous weight loss. Very motivating!

basics of the diet
-in 12 weeks, you'll look and feel like a million bucks.
-you...

Pros: Teaches you to make healthy changes you can learn to live with.
Cons: Hard work! But anything worthwhile involves hard work!

My husband and I are just like most aging baby boomers, busy, tired, out of shape. Maybe we're worse. My husband had a cardiac stent placement about a year ago and was told he may have to have another. We've been pretty bummed out about it. He was...

Pros: Good results in a short amount of time if you can stick to it.
Cons: Very hard to be so disciplined forever. Excessive use of expensive supplements.

I think Bill Phillips is an extraordinary person. But the Body for Life plan he recommends is expensive and not realistic for most people in the long run. With Bill's eating program you will eat lots of protein, veggies etc. But how many of us can...

Pros: You will see results quickly and you will not be hungry
Cons: You really need the time and the place everyday

I picked up this book a couple of years ago when my place of employment had a fitness center. Someone had told me that they lost weight so I figured "why not?" Well, I am not a fitness center geek. I like computers. I felt a little out of place...ok.. ...

Pros: gaining a sensible and healthy approach to eating
Cons: nothing for me

I have always worked out but got to a certain plateau in my regime where I just wasn't losing anymore body fat or gaining muscle. My sister told me about this book and I decided to look into it. I like the fact that it isn't loaded with unreasonable ...

Pros: This program WORKS and will change your life!
Cons: This program is a real challenge, but totally worth it!

I can't say enough good things about the Body for Life fitness program outlined in Bill Phillips book, BODY FOR LIFE. If you want to lose weight, reshape your body, gain strength, feel GREAT, both mentally and physically, and have the body you have...

Pros: This diet plan is not complex and is great for all fitness levels.
Cons: It takes a lot of discipline to follow it.

Body for Life is the best diet plan that I firmly believe can work for anyone who decides to follow it. After my third child, I accepted the Body for Life 12-week challenge. I was nursing and couldn't restrict my calorie intake very much, but I lost 17...