Pros: This program WORKS and will change your life!
Cons: This program is a real challenge, but totally worth it!

I can't say enough good things about the Body for Life fitness program outlined in Bill Phillips book, BODY FOR LIFE. If you want to lose weight, reshape your body, gain strength, feel GREAT, both mentally and physically, and have the body you have...

Pros: A healthy diet that won't leave you hungry or tired. Lots of motivation.
Cons: The pictures shown with the success stories may give people unrealistic expectations

OVERVIEW
Body For Life is a 12-week fitness plan. You eat a high protein diet and exercise regularly. It is not a very low calorie diet, so you do not feel deprived and you have plenty of energy. Overweight individuals can expect a gradual...

Pros: Works GREAT!!!
Cons: Like other diets, once you stop you will gain your weight back.

When I started on the diet I weighed 175lbs (size 16), I was borderline diabetic and my cholesterol ...

Pros: This diet plan is not complex and is great for all fitness levels.
Cons: It takes a lot of discipline to follow it.

Body for Life is the best diet plan that I firmly believe can work for anyone who decides to follow it. After my third child, I accepted the Body for Life 12-week challenge. I was nursing and couldn't restrict my calorie intake very much, but I lost 17...

Pros: The Program WORKS!
Cons: You must really deep down want to change!

My husband and I have always been active and conscious about our health. We have tried several methods of exercise and/or what we thought was ‘eating right.’ Last year, after our son was born, I was surfing the Internet and came across a link for a ‘Free...

Pros: Cheap, life changing, progressive, and even sorta fun.
Cons: Gotta work your butt off (literally)

Hmmm, it would seem that there are more diets in here than you can shake a stick at. Low carb diets, grapefruit diets, supplement diets, carnivore ketosis, and at least ten others that I do not feel deserve an honorable mention (or any mention...

Pros: If you follow this program, it works
Cons: Cost of the supplements

I'm in that rare position of needing to gain weight. I'm a 35 year old male, 5'10" tall, and before going on the Body for Life program, weighed only 138 pounds. My (then) wife, who was overweight, went on the program with me. She is 5'4" tall, and at...

Pros: Step by step, easy to follow, common sense
Cons: Requires dedication both in terms of exercise and eating

When I first met my husband, he had the Body for Life book and log/notebook in his living room and shakes in his refrigerator. He started telling me about the program. Me being ever the snob (translation: completely stupid) thought, "Yes, oh weak one, ...

Pros: Noticeable results in a relatively short time period
Cons: Requires a lot of willpower and hard work

Many weight loss programs make seemingly impossible claims of quick results. If you look at the before and after pictures of people who followed the program for 12 weeks, it may seem that this two is one of those programs that creates false hopes of...

Pros: Teaches you to make healthy changes you can learn to live with.
Cons: Hard work! But anything worthwhile involves hard work!

My husband and I are just like most aging baby boomers, busy, tired, out of shape. Maybe we're worse. My husband had a cardiac stent placement about a year ago and was told he may have to have another. We've been pretty bummed out about it. He was...

Pros: The right approach to a 'diet' Includes exercise and nutrition. Great motivation.
Cons: A little too light on the 'technical' side. Might have to dig for more info.

The program (not a diet) is accurate and encourages exercise and nutrition. You will have to work to get the transformation that you want, but you will be doing it in the right way. While he does advocate his companies products (who wouldn't) his...

Pros: It is based on sensible principles: exercise and a healthy diet -- and it works.
Cons: Cost of shakes (only way I found to get 6 meals a day)

This program works. In a nutshell, it combines aerobics, resistance work (to build muscles and speed up the metabolism) and six SMALL (but healthy) low-fat meals a day. This eating plan keeps you from being hungry while allowing your stomach to...

Pros: Healthy, realistic, produces long-term fat loss/muscle gain, and low cost
Cons: Follow exercise religiously (although not difficult to do) and remember to carry around snacks

I gained 50 pounds from my pregnancy and had not lost it until i started this program... I like the emphasis on the weight training as it produces sculpting effects and the 'tightness' feel from the work outs is very motivating. I recommend this...

Pros: A HEALTHY diet! You feel great and really lose weight!
Cons: Like any diet it's a little challenging to continually create variety in your meals.

I was trying to lose some weight for our wedding, and a friend recommended this book. She said there were about a dozen people at her church doing it and that their bodies looked like they had gone through a total transformation. That was all the ...

Pros: gaining a sensible and healthy approach to eating
Cons: nothing for me

I have always worked out but got to a certain plateau in my regime where I just wasn't losing anymore body fat or gaining muscle. My sister told me about this book and I decided to look into it. I like the fact that it isn't loaded with unreasonable ...