Bob Green’s Best Life Diet Promotion - It Worked for Oprah!
Bob Greene is a personal trainer whose best known client is Oprah Winfrey. What is unique about his diet program is that it focuses on teaching people to get back into shape both emotionally and physically. Bob Greene says that emotional eating is a huge cause of weight gain for most people. Fitness guru Bob Greene introduces his Best Life diet to those seeking more than a quick-fix to their weight problems. The Best Life diet is explained in every detail in both book and web formats.
Membership for less than $5 per week (limited time offer).
- Online access to Bob Greene and his team of experts
- Daily/Weekly meal plans based on your lifestyle and preferences
- Extensive Best Life-approved recipe database
- Vast video library of exercise demos
- Real-time messageboard
- Newsletter and insider tips from Bob Greene
How Bob Greene’s Best Life Diet Works
The program is broken into 4 sections that focuses on slowly developing good lifelong food and exercise habits. Unlike other diets, there is no timeline and dieters take their time as they move to the next phase. Phase 1 starts you off with written exercises to help dieters get to the core of their weight loss questions and basic stretching and physical exercises to get you started slowly. After Phase 1, the other phases start to focus on specific behavior changes and more exercise and eating guidelines.
You stick with the regular meal schedule of 3 meals and day and 2 snacks. Workout regime starts at 50-75 minutes PER week and as you advance to the higher stages, the time increases. What dieters might find interesting is that strength training doesn’t start till the last phase after good eating habits and behaviors have changed.
Sample Meals
Phase 1 |
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| Breakfast | Best Life Cheerios Cereal Mix Topped with half a pear, sliced 2 tablespoons pecans or other unsalted nut of your choice 1 cup nonfat or 1% milk |
| Lunch | Nut Butter and Pear Sandwich 2 slices whole wheat bread 2 tablespoons almond or other nut butter of your choice half a pear, thinly sliced 1 teaspoon honey Serve with half cup carrot sticks |
| Dinner | Lemon and Herb Grilled Trout 5-inch ear of corn, grilled along with fish Sauteed Sugar Snap Peas with Ginger |
Phase 2 |
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| Breakfast | Chocolate-Strawberry Smoothie with oat bran bagel and cream cheese |
| Lunch | Strawberry-Peach Chicken Salad |
| Dinner | Soup and Steak salad and slice of whole grain bread |
Phase 3 |
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| Breakfast | Hot Oatmeal, oatbran or other whole grain cereal with Almonds and Apricots, 1 cup of nonfat or 1% milk |
| Lunch | Chicken Tabouleh Pitas, orange |
| Dinner | Fajitas with Guacamole |
Oprah’s Own Success Story
Excerpt from The Best Life Diet - by Oprah Winfrey
Another thing I know for sure now is that you’ve got to ask yourself, What kind of life do you want and how close are you to living it? You cannot ever live the life of your dreams without coming face to face with the truth. Every unwanted pound creates another layer of lies. It’s only when you peel back those layers that you will be set free: Free to work out, free to eat responsibly, free to live the life you want and deserve to live. Tell the truth and you’ll learn to eat to satisfy your physical hunger and stop burying your hopes and dreams beneath layers of fat.
A young woman on my show who had been struggling with her weight once said to me she’d learned to challenge the pain and not the peanut butter. I thought that was brilliant. Once you work on what’s eating you, you won’t want to eat so much.
The Best Life Diet plan on the following pages mirrors the way I eat and live now. There is no secret to losing weight. It’s simple physics; what you put in vs. what you put out.
I lost weight in stages. First I became active, and I still work out even though I really hate it, but I know if I don’t I will end up 200 pounds again. Then I started working on my eating. I stopped eating past 7:30 at night. When Bob told me it would make a big difference in my weight, I resisted. I thought it was going to be too hard. But I was surprised to find that it wasn’t; even more surprised when it turned out to be one of the most effective changes I made.
I’ve now taken most of the bad foods out of my diet and replaced them with good. I eat smaller portions and I eat healthy foods as a way of life, not a diet to go on and off. And I’m always working on getting better. My diet is a work in progress.