Oprah's Best Life Diet was created by Bob Greene, Oprah's personal trainer. Greene uses a progressive three-phase approach to eating and exercise to assist in weight-loss and living a healthy life. Unlike typical weight-loss plans or fad diets that promise quick results and restrict what you eat, this diet is meant to be sustainable for long-term success. The Best Life Diet focuses on healthy eating and exercise and offers various meal plans as well as online support on its website, TheBestLife.com.
Phase One
Bob Greene focuses on a three-phase approach to living a healthier life in The Best Life Diet. The first phase focuses on making gradual changes to your current eating and lifestyle habits. Making gradual changes to your lifestyle will set you up for long-term success and avoid feeling of deprivation which typically trigger poor habits such as over-eating. Recommendations in this phase include eating three daily meals and one snack; eating breakfast every day to rev your metabolism for increased calorie burning; increasing your activity level if you are currently not very active; and taking supplements such as multivitamins and calcium to maximize nutritional efforts.
Phase Two
In phase two of The Best Life Diet, Greene now provides more specific information and plans for weight-loss and healthier living. This phase offers a variety of specific menus and daily meal plans to meet your needs. This phase focuses on eliminating unhealthy foods from your diet that you are frequently consume. These may include caffeine, soda pop, chocolate bars, alcohol or high-sugar bakery treats.
Phase Three
The third phase of Oprah's Best Life Diet is referred to as a lifestyle phase. In this period, you should be focusing on maintaining your new habits and healthy lifestyle. It also goes further into more meal plan selections and supplemental fitness programs. Now that you have developed the necessary changes in how you eat, what you eat, your activity level and everyday habits, you are better able to focus on increasing these measures to ensure long-term success. A regular and structured physical activity program is encouraged as well as continued avoidance or reduction of unhealthy foods.
Best Life Diet Foods
The Best Life Diet has expanded to include its own Bestlife food products. These include Bestlife Buttery Spray, Buttery Spread and Baking Sticks. These products are low in calories and unhealthy saturated fats that contribute to the build-up of plaque in the arteries. This increases the risk of serious disease such as heart disease and stroke. According to the BestLifeDiet.com website, one serving of Bestlife Spreads contains 60 calories and 2 g of saturated fats in comparison to 100 calories and 7 g of saturated fats found in butter.
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