The Best Life Diet: Oprah's Secret to Finally Achieving Dramatic Weight Loss

Every few months there is a new celebrity endorsing the latest and greatest weight loss program that helped them lose weight and the latest is an endorsement by Oprah Winfrey for Bob Greene's Best Life Diet. While Oprah has hosted a myriad of weight loss experts on her show, Bob Greene is the one who helped her achieve her own dramatic weight loss. From allowing foods that others consider to be forbidden, to addressing emotional and motivational issues behind eating, this diet is definitely turning some heads with its unique approach. This article will examine some of these unique features, as well as the positives and negatives of The Best Life Diet.

This diet targets a three phase plan. The first phase which lasts 4 weeks is just focused on developing good habits like eating 3 regular meals, taking vitamins, and increasing exercise activity. Bob claims that building a routine in this phase helps set the foundation for success in the last two phases. The second phase guides you towards making healthier food choices, dealing with hunger, and losing weight more aggressively than the first phase. The last phase of the Best Life Diet is a lifestyle phase that is meant to provide eating and exercise ideas for the rest of your life.

Bob Greene takes a more gentle approach with the dieters and rather than imposing a strict regimen, he focuses more on the habits that will stay with you for life. There are no lists of forbidden foods. The focus is all on moderation and you will even find ingredients like white flour in some of the meal plan recipes. This makes the Best Life Diet more realistic to follow and has more chances of success since the reason why most dieters fail is that the diets are too restrictive.

While the Best Life Diet does not claim to melt pounds overnight like some fad diets do, it does promise gradual, but lasting success. Anecdotal evidence seems to agree. Since one of the major factors behind diet failure is lack of motivation, the inspiration and motivation provided in this book appears to be the missing link in many of the other diets. Most people like the fact that Bob Greene doesn't just ask you to change, but also delves into why you should be changing. The success rate is most probably due to this and the fact that changes are small and do-able.

When you are looking for a single, effective weight loss solution amongst the sea of "solutions" out there, it can be a difficult choice no matter how many claims of success and endorsements there are. However, common sense says that healthy weight loss is not a magic pill but simple foundational rules. The Best Life Diet works with these simple rules and intertwines them with motivational support and deeper meaning promising you not only weight loss, but a better lifestyle.