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Summary: It is Working for Me
Review: "Get with the Program" is the first book that really helps someone figure out the reasons behind their eating problems. We all know the formula: to eat less and work out more. Bob takes it to the next level to help people understand why they are fueling the void within themselves and not their bodies. Everyone emotionally eats, this book can help someone understand why as well as begin a safe long-term workout program. This book clicked for me...I am down 13 pound since I read it and feel like I have conquered my non-necessary eating.
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Summary: A January AND July Book
Review: "Get With the Program" is the perfect January book. Buy it, though, not because of a New Year's resolution, but because you want to lose weight. Buy it as if you would have bought it in July. Greene's phased approach keeps things realistic. While it is true that your lifestyle must change, it is also true that even if only phase one is complete, you'll be better off. However, each phase not only adds to the previous phase, but multiplies the effect. Intensity increases, and the quality of fitness will increase. Starting is easy. Finishing is hard. Greene is positive and honest, and recognizes that there is more to fitness than eating right and exercise. He avoids the self-help mantras that most of us have mumbled in futility. His system of tracking results will encourage you as you see things improve. I fully recommend "Get With the Program." And when you buy it, follow-through. In July, you'll be recommending the book! Anthony Trendl
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Summary: A good start...but as a trainer myself, there is more!
Review: As a personal trainer I agree with what Bob shares. If you want change, Bob's book is a good, basic starting point, touching the mental aspect important to fitness success. However, many of my clients need to go further--to FIRST make an internal, spiritual connection that measures their worth outside of what we eat, how we look, who our spouse is, or how much money we make, etc. If you love OPRAH, and you really want a complete, easy to follow spiritual, mental and physical plan to lose weight for life, read DEBORAH LOW's, The QUEST for PEACE, LOVE and a 24-INCH WAIST. Her website (by her name) reminded me of Oprah's message to "remember your spirit". My clients are using it with incredible success, which makes my job a lot easier!
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Summary: Motivating
Review: Bob Greene's book should not be labeled a diet book, so much as a book about changing one's lifestyle. Using his four-step process, I was able to rejuvenate my exercise and diet regimen and managed to lose about 20 pounds. Much of this was fat, as the fourth phase of Greene's plan emphasizes muscle building. This book is probably best suited for beginners. Greene's message addresses losing weight, improving cardiovascular health, understanding why you eat (emotional eating, ala Dr. Phil), and improving self-esteem. Greene also advises people not to eat after 7pm, which I believe may be based on the false premise that a person's metabolism shuts off during sleep. According to Greene's plan, you should change your lifestyle in fours phases: 1) find out where you are at, what got you there, and what you want to achieve; 2) implement an aerobic exercise routine; 3) get to know what emotions are working to cause you to eat in excess of your body's needs; and, 4) build muscle with anerobic exercise. If you already exercise regularly and are knowledgeable of sound nutrition concepts, you may not need this book. However, if you're like me, you may find Greene's book motivational and thus worth the money and time.
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Summary: Knows His Stuff
Review: Bob reminds me a little of Covert Bailey who wrote the FIT OR FAT books. He (Bob) is not so obviously focused on weight loss as Covert was. Bob is at his best when he writes about exercise and working out. He does, I think, less well dealing with the mental part of fitness. I can and have recommended this book to others.
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Summary: Get With the Program
Review: Common sense, no gimmicks and a way to make healthy eating and exercise into habits! This is one of those "he's talking to me!" books. I read the book, THEN the reviews to see if I agreed. And I did...with the 5 star ones. The written exercises helped me to think, and think through, what has caused me to overeat and what makes me sabotage myself when losing weight. One reader said "Who wants to write down dress sizes and weight loss?" I do! When I see it in black and white, I can't avoid it anymore. Great way to face your problems head-on! Great, great book. I carry it with me all the time and am starting Phase 2.
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Summary: Daily goals work
Review: Daily goals work. The author lets us know upfront that each day counts. It doesn't matter how small the accomplishmnet might be, it's still a goal. Each day matters and he shows us how to build on that day and move forward with four steps. We work out of our home in a family owned business. With small children underfoot, it gets crazy. We have to make ourselves take breaks to keep our sanity and to help keep the children's self esteem moving and growing as well. One of the children is a little chubby for his age. I am chubby for my height. My husband is in between but has had remarkable success with this book and learned new thought patterns. I have only begun to realize that work, family, home and exercise is all related to health and our body. Quality and quanity of food and exercise is very important. For almost everyone in our family, this book has been a huge change even in small steps. If you are like us and work out of your home, you know it's still hard to maintain an exercise ritual and plan healthy smaller portions of food for a better quality of life. We have just bought The Entrepreneurial Parent, by Paul and Sarah Edwards. Inside this book are words of wisdom from a ton of successful people. Many of those people stress eating better and exercising for a healthy life. Actually, even in some of the books that are recommended in Paul and Sarah's book, like Mommy-CEO (Constantly Evaluating Others) 5 Golden Rules, Revised Edition, by Jodie Lynn, also teaches parents how to begin taking time out for yourself with exercise and better food. Mrs. Lynn suggests moms to take out time to exercise three to four times a week and to follow a healthy life plan in diet and food to become a better parent. She and Bob are right to say it fuels your whole life plan and home life not to mention work. The food and exercise plan is right here in Bob's book and now the secret is out for all of us, even if you're like me and hate exercise and weights. If we can do it and stop with the excuses, believe me, everyone else can do it. I am the queen of fast foods and quick trips to the frig. I was the challenge in our house and in our business. Now, my daily goals are meaningful and doable for me, myself and I. It makes me a better parent and better person.
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Summary: Disappointment
Review: Despite Bob Greene's ambitious endeavor, I found this book to be very disappointing. Perhaps I was expecting a more diverse program. This book really seems to be an "exercise manual" with far too many charts and written activities. Although Bob Greene is probably an excellent personal trainer, I do not have the confidence in his emotional counseling as presented in this book. It might be a helpful book for some people, but a bit overwhelming for me.
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Summary: Broader Benefits than Other Diet-Exercise Programs
Review: Excellent book. Practical advice that moves beyond just eating recommendations and exercise recommendations. Covers emotional eating, dealing with needs. Very well rounded and more practical and reasonable than a lot of ther programs. There are nice journal pages also. To improve wellness even more, and to help make good authentic changes--like weight loss, one of the best book I have seen in a long long time is "Effortless Wellbeing: The Missing Ingredients for Authentic Wellness" by Evan Finer. Get with the Program and Effortless Wellbeing combined can really help as a combination. HIGHLY recommended!!
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Summary: great start but kind of simplistic
Review: For the longest time I couldn't understand why people felt unhappy as they seemed to have everything going for them in life: a great job, spouse, house, etc. Then I realized that they didn't exercise and that this book was the answer. Physical Education was required in high school, and many people stop doing it after they graduate. They go to college and graduate and get their job but for whatever stop exercising. Well, is it any big surprise that your emotional health will go [down the drain] if you do? One's emotional health is related to healthy exercise.
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