Bill Phillips' Body for Life - Diet Plan Outline

Body for Life is an intense exercise and nutrition program based on the goal to achieve quick results in order to keep you motivated to continue. The program lasts 12 weeks. It involves weight training for 3 days/week and aerobic exercise for 3 days/week. The diet consists of six small meals/day, six days/week, consuming foods such as vegetables, brown rice, poultry, and fish. You may eat as like and do no exercise on the last day.

The Body for Life book is full of dramatic before-and-after photos, which is a bit optimistic for the average person, but strenuous exercise and healthy nutrition are the closest thing to guaranteed success in weight loss. Try not to get overly seduced by photos of the best case scenario. It's marketing.

The program requires you to eat six moderate-sized meals a day, which is going to be a stark contrast to your average starvation diet. Each meal consists of vegetables, significant protein, lean meat, poultry, fish, egg whites, or cottage cheese, as well as carbohydrates such as potatoes or brown rice. You must also drink 10 glasses of water each day. Nutritional supplements, which Bill Phillips' company is going to sell you, are encouraged, as well as healthy oils such as flaxseed.

The diet breaks down to about 40%-50% protein, the same for carbohydrates, and very little fat. The traditional food guide pyramid suggests 60% carbohydrates, 20-25% protein, and 20-25% fat.

Body-for-Life's program is effective if you follow it closely, but that is really the obvious Catch-22 of any diet. The focus of Body for Life is clearly to make people look better, from a muscular standpoint. Gym fitness and higher protein diets are certainly effective at achieving such a goal but often difficult to stick to. I prefer more basic nutrition and exercise that is a bit more entertaining such as hiking, cycling, tennis, running or swimming. But Bill Phillips Body for Life is clearly on the good side of the weight loss world. His program is offered in book form, as well as the online version called "Eating for Life" by eDiets. Learn more.