This is a great book for beginners and even for more experienced folks that haven't been very happy with their progress. It covers all the basics of nutrition, mindset, strength training and cardio, and also touches on higher life skils such as setting goals quite nicely. I followed the program about 3 years ago and had quite a remarkable transformation. I lost 40lbs of fat, dropping from a scale weight of 223lbs to 183lbs, so I can say from experince that the progarm definitely works.

A couple of things worth mentioning though: The first is that you do not need to use the supplements advertised throughout the book in order to acheive the results you are looking for. Not that supplements are bad, but they are expensive. The only supplement that you might want to consider is a whey protein powder, but even then you don't need to stick to one from the Myoplex or EAS brand(s). The second thing to realize is that this is an extremely difficult program to stick with after your first 90 days. Honestly, it's just a very tough program to stick to indefinitely. It really involves a big lifestyle change for most people not accustomed to the the health and fitness lifestyle. If you finish this program you'll find that, like me, you're going to have to modify certain aspects of it in order to keep your workouts enjoyable and to stay motivated to keep up with the nutrition and exercise. I'd recommend picking up the Food For Life cookbook. It really helps keep the nutritional side of things interesting.

The approach presented by Bill Phillips in "Body for Life" worked fine for me. However, the problem is that you have to have a real commitment and a really strong will power to follow the regime presented by the author. Also, in my opinion, there is too much focus on the looks and too little on the health. I think the latter is more important than the former. I have recently found a book that shifts the attention more towards health and overall wellbeing and it gives you no trouble whatsoever to follow simple rules for food combinations, body cleansing etc. Although I have a lot of respect for Bill Phillips as my first coach I think that "Can We Live 150 Year" is a superior book to "Body for Life". Sorry Bill.

Most people think of a diet as something that entails DEPRIVATION. This seems to be why diets such as Atkins don't work in the long-run. The Body-For-Life Diet works because it lays down the basics for you. This is a lifestyle, not a diet. It teaches you what to eat, how much to eat and when to eat it. The book also delves into a training regimen that will serve anyone's body well; incorporating weight-training and cardiovascular work.

I started this lifestyle plan about 6 months ago and I have transformed my physique. I was a few pounds overweight at the time. I weight-trained moderately, but never saw the muscle gains and fat loss that I've seen since beginning the Eating-For-Life. Feeding my body with the proper foods has made all the difference.

The ideals in this book are by no means new. Healthy people had been eating and living this way prior to the book's release. What this book did was lay it all out for people, without the health-industry jargon. I believe that has much to do with why Body-For-Life has been so successful.

This is a great book and you will get solid results if you follow the plan. Even if you don't follow the plan, or you have your own regimen, you will still come away with some helpful tips, feeling inspired and encouraged.

Thousands upon thousands of people have followed this program and it works. I have been following it for 3 weeks and I feel amazing, have lost weight and have better muscle definition already -and I have 9 weeks to go.

The book is written really clearly and is easy to read and follow. The exercise is fun, I look forward to my workouts. There is also an excellent section at the back of the book that shows you how to do each weightlifting exercise for maximum results, and so you don;t hurt yourself. perhaps the best thing about shi book is that you don't need to have a whole lot of fancy gym gear, a good set of dumbbells covers everything.

As someone who was not in horribly fantastic or horribly poor shape when I picked this book up, I found it extremely helpful and motivational, albeit filled with shameless sales pitches; , in the end, it was the best "diet" I've ever been on.

I was what some refer to as "skinny-fat"- at 31, I weighed 122 pounds, but I had no muscle tone and all my flesh was fat. My weight was concentrated at my hips. I'd eaten poorly for years and had limped my way through aerobics and the occasional visit to the gym.

What Body-for-life did for me I will never loose- it changed my perspective on my body, on eating, on health: you cannot change your body for the better without eating to keep your metabolism up. You cannot do it without regular cardio. You cannot transform your shape without lifting weights. Lifting is just as important, if not more so, than cardio. In the end, it helped me change habits, and that was the most important thing it did. In the first 12 weeks I lost over 10% body fat, 7 pounds, and 3 inches off my waist.

Does the book have sales pitches? Yes. Is it really easy to follow? No. Is it for the hardcore, muscly bodybuilder? No. But it's a great transformational tool for the average person.

You'll find that there are better, healthier options to myoplex and the BFL brand- don't turn this book down just because of its sales pitches. It works in spite of them. Buy the book, but don't buy anything more than that. Compare your protein bars, your protein shakes, and you'll be great. Is this program really "for life"? Not for me. It is too restrictive. But I have shaped it to fit my lifestyle and have kept a great figure for over 3 years when most of my friends are getting heavy around the middle.