Bob Greene’s Bestlife

The Best Life Challenge launched by Bob Greene and Oprah Winfrey in January 2008, claims to be all about changing your lifestyle for the better and ending your struggle with weight loss and fad diets.

This diet plan encourages people to enrol with the aim of making a commitment to themselves to begin leading a healthier life and getting rid of bad habits for good.

According to founder Bob Greene, Oprah’s fitness guru, his Best Life program is designed for people who don’t want a temporary solution to their weight problems, but a long-lasting permanent one.

Overview:

Those that have the courage to commit to a life-long journey of turning their backs to their bad habits, are welcome at Bob Greene's Best Life diet, which has produced plenty success stories so far.

The plan's goals are attainable, and, more important, sustainable. There are a number of tools, tips, recipes and helpful resources on the web site that provide support, including the online Best Life Diet message board.

The Best Life Diet offers some honest insights about nutrition and exercise that some dieters may not want to hear because there's no spin attached. However, those insights are the foundation of any successful and permanent weight loss.

The Best Life Challenge program opened for the first time in 2007 on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Both book and web formats ( www.thebestlife.com ) give detailed explanation of the Best Life diet itself, which can be described as a habit and lifestyle overall makeover and not a quick-lived fad.

The website offers tools that will help you be successful like: a web community offering support and discussions on topics like emotional eating, eating out or staying active. In addition, members have access to recipes, a diet profile, meal and exercise plans, and shopping lists.

About the founders:

Author Bob Greene has published his first book in 1996 together with Oprah Winfrey entitled "Ten Steps To A Better Body -- And A Better Life" which has become #1 on The New York Times Best Sellers list, followed by another book, "A Journal of Daily Renewal: The Companion to Make the Connection". More recently he is also a regular contributor to O Magazine.

Food & Recipes:

The website contains and array of recipes for filling and tasty meals that are made of natural foods found at most supermarkets. When shopping for food, look for the Best Life seal of approval to simplify the process. Bob Greene worked closely with food manufacturers to find the most nutritious foods available, like Flat-Out wraps, Yoplait Yogurt, Cascadian Farm breakfast cereals and Barilla omega-3 pasta.

You'll find detailed recipes for each daily meal such as: Nut Butter and Pear Sandwich, Florida Grapefruit Salad with Seared Shrimp, chicken sausage jambalaya, Fajitas with Guac, Hot Cereal with Almonds and Apricots and Chocolate Smoothie or strawberry-orange smoothie etc.

Exercise:

According to nutritionists, doctors and exercise experts the healthiest approach for losing weight is a combination of eating the right foods and exercising often. This is also what the Best Life Diet offers.

For Bob Greene, exercise is “the gift that keeps on giving.” An active lifestyle keeps your metabolism at a higher level at all times, even when resting. Members are provided with plenty of features such as: sample exercises that are explained in detail, an exercise log, and videos.

Pro:

Bob Greene is a well known respected expert and you can entrust your health in his hands. Joining the Best Life website can be regarded as good investment on the way to better health, slimmer body and long-lasting fitness.

Con:

You won’t get detailed information from the site until you’ve signed up, although plenty of examples and real-life results are presented plus you feel you can trust something that has Bob Greene’s name on it.

Under $5 a week for 3-month subscription plan.