I recently bought this book, Body for Life for Women. It's a book that covers diet, exercise, and the mental aspects of dieting and weightloss. I was wondering if anyone had tried that diet program and if they thought it worked

I tried the BFL mens program several years ago. My personal experience was I was not eating enough during the week and overate like a champ on Sundays. Also, the workouts just seemed painful. I think since it is not a lifestyle change and a 12 week program I was not focused enough (or was not ready).

YMMV

This book put the diet a little differently.

If you exercise for (I think) 60 minutes or more a day your diet is as follows:

5 servings "Smart" protiens, 5 servies "Smart" Carbohydrates, 2 Servings Smart fats.

An an unlimited amount of non-starchy veggies throughout the day

If you were not exercising that much, you were to eat on less serving of the Smart carbohydrates.

The book then included a list of the smart foods. The list made sense. It consisted of lean meats, low-fat or skim dairy, whole grain foods, fruits and veggies.

Maybe it has been changed, my book was published in 1999.

One a week, on your free day, eat whatever you want.

Oh, I also remember there was a lot of marketing eas products with it too.

The exercise was three days of strength training, no more than 46 minutes (They suggested MWF) then 3 days of 20 minutes of aerobics (TTS) with Sunday as your free day with no workout.

They give you a lot of information for free on their website, bodyforlife.com. You can also sign up for the 12-week challenge. I signed up, but I don't know how closely I'll stick to their recommendations.

I did BFL...I only made it six weeks, but I did have an amazing transformation. I really didn't lose very much weight. I only lost like 8 lbs., But I gained tons of muscle, lost my belly, it was awsome. I have pics....

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I made some good visual progress, if I would have done it another 6 weeks, I would have been smoking. To be honest though, I got a little board of the food, but I did like only having to exercise 20 mins of cardio and 30 min. of UBWO or LBWO.