Body for Life is the diet and exercise program created by noted fitness guru Bill Phillips, and is based upon the premise that you’re more likely to stick with a diet and workout program if you see results quickly. His program is quite challenging as it involves training with weights for 45 minutes three days a week, alternating with aerobic exercise for at least 20 minutes three days a week.

On the dieting side, you are required to eat six small meals of healthy foods such as vegetables, brown rice, poultry, and fish each day ( a common theme in many diets these days) for six days a week. On the seventh day, you are free to eat anything you like and to take a day off from the rigorous workouts.

In the best-selling Body for Life book and on the website you will see some before-and-after photos of people who went from flab to fab – they really do look terrific. Their chiseled muscles and six packs in the “after” photos are in stark contrast to the “before” pictures that look, well, like most of us. But to be honest, don’t expect to look like the “after” pictures in just 12 weeks, workout intensity like this will produce both functional and a cosmetic results, but very few people would be able to attain these bodybuilder muscles just by following the basic program for 12 weeks. This would take more advanced training over a longer period.

However, if you can stick to the 12 week program, you will definitely achieve noticeable improvements in your weight and musculature.

Costs and Fees

The Body for Life book retails for around $20.00, although you can manage to get it cheaper from various resellers. There is also another book published by Bill Phillips, namely “Eating for Life“, plus the Body for Life website, which is free to join.

Body for Life

Bill Phillips. William Morrow 1999,

Hardcover, 201 pages,

List Price: $29.99

Our Price: $3.98

Diet Features

The Body for Life program requires you to eat six moderate-sized meals a day, with each meal consisting of a fist-sized portion of protein – lean mean, poultry, fish, egg whites, or cottage cheese — and a fist-sized portion of carbohydrates such as potatoes or brown rice. You must eat two portions of vegetables at a minimum, drink 10 glasses of water each day and round off your daily diet with a tablespoon or two of healthy oil (such as flaxseed).

Shakes (as meal replacements) and other nutritional supplements (manufactured by a company originally started by Bill Phillips) are also recommended (plugged), but not essential.

The diet breaks down to about 45% protein, the same for carbohydrates, and around 10% of fat.

Body for Life provides you with a list of authorized foods to choose from:

Worksheets are provided so that you can monitor your daily calorie intake.

Fitness Features

Many would consider that the primary focus of Body for Life is the exercise program which appears to be quite rigorous or intense.

You train with weights for no more than 46 minutes, 3 times a week – Monday, Wednesday and Friday and perform 20 minutes of aerobic exercise 3 times per week, first thing in the morning on an empty stomach on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

You alternate the training of the major muscle groups from one day to the next and you perform 2 exercises for each major muscle group.

The majority of the weight training exercises can be performed with minimal equipment – a set of dumbbells and an adjustable dumbbell bench are all that would be required.

Once again, worksheets are provided for you to monitor your daily workouts.

Does Body for Life really work?

The foods allowed in the Body for Life program tend to be lower in calories than standard American fare, and by eating fist-sized portions, you should be consuming fewer calories, even if you are eating six meals a day. When you “graze” as opposed to eating large meals, you change how your body handles energy intake. When you eat a few large meals, you tend to use stored fat as energy when you “graze”; whereas eating many meals makes you more efficient and you tend to use the stored fat as energy.

Also, the intense weight lifting will increase your muscle mass, which will increase your metabolic rate for the entire day. So by exercising strenuously six days a week, you will certainly burn a lot more calories throughout the entire day.

Support

Community support is provided by way of the Body for Life website:

• Guestbook
• Blogs
• Events
• Recipes

For many years, Alt’s lifestyle as a professional model took a heavy toll on her health and wellbeing, with her suffering various ailments including acid indigestion, headaches, sinus issues, and etc.

When Carol learned about the health benefits from consuming raw food she changed her approach to eating and hasn’t looked back since. Her stunning transformation not only included the elimination of her existing health problems, but she also found that she had more energy, looked better than before, and no longer had to worry about how much she ate – as long as she ate raw.

“Eating in the Raw” begins with her story and then presents practical, how-to information on everything you need to know about the exciting raw food movement that’s been embraced by celebrities such as Demi Moore, Pierce Brosnan, Sting, Edward Norton, and legions of other health-minded people. You will learn:

• What exactly raw food is-and isn’t-and how to integrate it into your diet
• How to avoid the all-or-nothing pitfall: you can eat some cooked foods, you can eat some foods partially cooked, and you don’t have to deprive yourself
• Why raw food is not just for vegetarians or vegans-Carol eats meat, and so can you
• The differences between cooked and raw vitamins, minerals, and enzymes, and what they mean for you
• An ease-in approach to eating raw, and how to eat raw in restaurants

Eating in the Raw

Carol Alt. Clarkson Potter 2004,

Paperback, 192 pages,

List Price: $16.00

Our Price: $7.00

Carol also answers frequently asked questions and offers forty simple recipes for every meal, from light dishes such as Gazpacho and Lentil Salad to entrees including Tuna Tartare and Spaghetti al Pesto and even desserts like Pumpkin Pie and Apple Tart with Crème Anglaise, rounding out a thorough, accessible, and eminently compelling case why raw is the best way to eat.

Since most of her recipes are from renowned raw food chefs and high profile celebrities, its a pretty good book for someone who likes to read about the Raw Food Diet and lifestyle world as well.

The fact that Carol advocates the eating of raw fish and other raw animal products, gives the entire raw-food movement a stamp of legitimacy (because they do have their place in a healing diet ).

Changing to a raw food diet: Transition to raw diet

Don’t make any radical changes based on this book alone as you may suffer detox shock! It’s important to transition slowly! But so few raw food books bother to mention that! Read this one if you want to find out what the raw food craze is all about, but make sure you read plenty more (such as Natalia Rose’s “The Raw Food Detox Diet“) and educate yourself before you jump right in. It emphasizes the importance of transitioning (so you don’t shock your system and make yourself sick), and the importance of combining food groups properly for best results.

Does the raw food diet work

Just because the Raw Food Diet worked for Carol Alt and others doesn’t necessarily mean it will work for everyone. When you consider that Alt’s previous diet consisted of an excessive intake of refined carbohydrates and alcohol, then it is no surprise that she experienced a tremendous change in her health as a result of switching to the Raw Food Diet.

While may people have reported remarkable improvements in health and vitality, the jury is still out to a certain extent with studies showing both positive and negative effects from the Raw Food Diet add to that the fact that many people find it difficult to maintain the Raw Food Diet as a lifestyle eating plan.

So, if eating a bottomless bowl of cabbage soup, together with a few other low-calorie foods, for a solid week appeals to you, then the Cabbage Soup Diet is sure to lead to quick weight loss.

Different versions of this restrictive diet have appeared over the years and a few books have been published documenting different variations of this simple, anonymously written diet plan. However, since the food choices are so limited and the calories so low, boredom – and inadequate nutrition – are inevitable.

Diet Features – What You Can Eat

The 7-day Cabbage Soup Diet plan promises you all you can eat – as long as you stick to the small list of allowed foods on alternate days, together with two daily bowls of fat-free cabbage soup. Dieters are also advised to drink plenty of water and avoid alcohol.

Here is a sample 7-day Cabbage Soup Diet plan:

Day 1: Cabbage soup plus all the fruit you want, except for bananas. Drink unsweetened tea, black coffee, cranberry juice, or water.

Day 2: Cabbage soup, plus all the low-calorie vegetables you want (except for beans, peas, or corn), and a baked potato with butter.

Day 3: Cabbage soup plus a mixture of the above fruit and vegetables.

Day 4: Cabbage soup plus up to eight bananas, and two glasses of skim milk.

Day 5: Cabbage soup plus up to 20 ounces of beef, chicken or fish, up to six fresh tomatoes, and at least 6-8 glasses of water.

Day 6: Cabbage soup plus up to 3 beef steaks, and unlimited vegetables.

Day 7: Cabbage soup plus up to 2 cups of brown rice, unsweetened fruit juices, and unlimited vegetables.

The recipes for the cabbage soup will vary slightly with the different versions of the diet available, but they are all based on cabbage and an assortment of low-calorie vegetables such as onions and tomatoes, and are flavored with onion soup mix, bouillon, and tomato juice.

Here’s a typical recipe:

• 1 packet dry onion soup mix
• 2 bouillon cubes – chicken or beef
• 1 celery stick (not the whole stalk) – diced
• 1/2 head green cabbage – diced
• 3 carrots – sliced
• 2 bell peppers – sliced
• 6 large green onions, or 1 large yellow, white or purple onion – diced
• 2 cans of tomatoes – diced or whole
• Cooking spray
• Salt, pepper, parsley, garlic powder, soy sauce to taste (or any other seasoning you like)

The New Cabbage Soup Diet

Margaret Danbrot. St. Martin’s Paperbacks 2004,

Mass Market Paperback, 208 pages,

List Price: $6.99

Our Price: $3.00

Spray a large pot with cooking spray and saute all the vegetables (except for the cabbage and tomatoes) until tender. Add the cabbage and about 12 cups of water, toss in bouillon cubes, soup mix, and seasonings and cook the until soup reaches your desired tenderness; then add the tomatoes.

You are very likely to experience some gastrointestinal discomfort (especially wind) from the highly sulfurous cabbage and other gassy vegetables. Some people have also reported feeling lightheaded while on this plan.

The Cabbage Soup Diet plan is not individualized in any way individualized, and there are are no recommendations about exercise, behavioral tips, or advice on changing bad eating habits – just a strict list of what to eat each day of the week.

Does the Cabbage Soup Diet Work

The Cabbage Soup Diet plans promise a 10+ pound weight loss in one week, and you are restricted to one week at a time on the plan ( If you want to lose more weight, then you are advised to wait awhile before commencing another week on this super-low-calorie diet.). You may very well lose the promised 10+ pounds, but most of that weight loss will be primarily from fluids, not fat, and will most certainly return once you resume eating normally

The Cabbage Soup Diet is basically a modified fast, containing so few calories that dieters will definitely lose weight rapidly during the week-long plan. However, there is nothing magical or mystical about cabbage or cabbage soup that fosters the weight loss – it is simply the extremely low-calorie nature of the diet plan that does the trick.

Warning: Most experts agree that any diet under 1,200 calories per day is unsafe unless you’re under a doctor’s supervision, as it’s almost impossible to get all the nutrients you need and to satisfy your hunger in so few calories. Therefore, if you really do want to give this modified fast a try, please check with your doctor first.

He was also relying on simple kitchen appliances such as a blender and toaster oven for the mixing, blending, and cooking? Harley’s clients were eating five times a day, cutting the length of their workouts, and were able to transform their bodies! As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention.

The 5 Factor Diet was subsequently published in a book of the same name by celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak and has been used by stars such as Jessica Simpson, Mandy Moore, Eva Mendes, Alicia Keys, John Mayer, Kanye West, and more get their million-dollar bodies.

However, whenever you hear the words Diet and Hollywood in the same sentence, the first thing that comes to mind is “fad” or “gimmick – but is it unfair to label the 5 Factor Diet with the tag of being just another celebrity quick weight loss fix?

Let’s have a “look under the bonnet” and see if there is any real substance to the 5 Factor Diet and dispel any hoopla about it.

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Diet Features

What Exactly Is The 5 Factor Diet?
The “five” in the 5 Factor Diet really is the “operative factor” and comes not only from the number of components that each meal includes – a balanced mix of lean protein (like chicken, fish, or low-fat dairy); complex carbohydrates (like fruits and vegetables); fiber (like whole grains); healthy fats (like monounsaturated olive oil); and water or another sugar-free beverage – but also from the recommended five meals a day, with recipes that contain no more than five ingredients, and take no more than five minutes of preparation time and five minutes of cooking time.

The 5 Factor Diet

Harley Pasternak. Meredith Books 2006,

Hardcover, 256 pages,

List Price: $24.95

Our Price: $7.54

However, you are allowed a “cheat day” once a week, when you can eat anything you like. Harley believes that you shouldn’t feel like you are in a “diet jail” and that controlled cheating will actually help you reach your weight goals.

The emphasis is also on food choices that have a “low glycemic index.” The glycemic index is a method of rating foods according to their affect on blood sugar levels in the body after eating. Whether this makes a significant difference is open to debate, in the end, it’s just calories in and calories out that is importaqnt for weight loss.

A new study from Tufts University showed that what matters most in weight loss is reducing calories and that both foods high and low on the glycemic index have pretty much the same end result.

To summarise, the 5 Factor Diet  ‘Fat-loss’ keys are:

1. Metabolism – increased metabolism burns more calories, hence less fat.
2. Exercise – stay in the fat-burning zone and build lean muscle.
3. Right calories – consume foods with the right kind and amount of calories.
4. Glycemic Index – low GI foods help maintain your blood sugar levels steady.
5. Rest and recovery – promotes the production of growth hormone for muscle condition, and reduced cortisol (’stress’ hormone).

Fitness Features

Naturally there is also a five-day exercise program, which – not surprisingly consists of five exercises that you do for 5 minutes each. Workout 25 minutes a day, 5 days a week for a period of 5 weeks.

The exercise is a combination of both cardio and strength training, and you don’t need any expensive equipment to do it – just a simple set of dumbbells would suffice.

Support

The 5-Factor Diet website also provides the following support and weight loss tools:

• Daily Meal Planner
• Hundreds of Recipes
• Personal Recipe Box
• Shopping List Tool
• Food Log
• Cooking Shortcuts
• Eating Out Guide
• Custom Fitness Plan
• Activity Calculator
• Weight Tracker
• Online Journal
• Ideal Weight Calculator
• Daily Inspiration
• Message Boards

Its dedicated team of fitness and nutrition experts also provide their members with daily tips on how to achieve their goals. The eDiets.com support groups and members-only chat rooms give the site a very strong community feel and its unique, “Circle of Winners” feature (which allows members to easily create small, private groups of 2 to 25 members who share the same personal challenges and interests), is an excellent bonus feature.

Membership

$4.49 per week, which works out to be $19.96 per calendar month.

Your credit card will be charged $17.96 for your first 28 day membership at the time of registration. After the first 28 day billing cycle, your credit card will be billed $17.96 every 28 days until you cancel your membership.

Diet Features

Hundreds of Delicious Recipes – From the pickiest eaters to the fanciest gourmet, everyone will find something to please their taste buds. Simple recipes and easy-to-follow videos make healthy eating delicious… and painless!

Personalized Menus and “Print-n-Go” Shopping Lists – Customized meal plans designed around the foods YOU like to eat. Pick your plan from more than 20 different choices, then personalize your weekly menus from there!
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• eDiets Weight Loss Diet
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• Atkins Diet
• Winter Diet
• Glycemic Diet™
• Mediterranean Diet™
• Bill Phillips’ Eating for Life™
• Slim Fast Optima™ Diet

Healthy Living Plans

• Wheat-Free Meal Plan
• Low-Fat Plan
• Living with Diabetes Plan
• Heart Smart Plan
• Low-Sodium Plan
• Cholesterol Lowering Plan
• High-Fiber Plan
• Hypoglycemic/Low-Sugar Plan
• Healthy Soy Plan
• Vegetarian Plan
• Lactose-Free Plan

Fitness Features

Customized Fitness Plans – Whether you’re beginner or advanced, want to stay home or hit the gym, we’ll help design the perfect fitness plan to get you in your best shape. It’s like having your own personal trainer!

Animated Virtual Trainer – We’ve created easy-to-follow 3D animations of all the exercises you’ll find on your fitness plan. Simply watch and learn, and take the guesswork out of exercising!

The right workout for every body! Your online fitness plan is personalized to fit your lifestyle, to meet your personal fitness level and goals. Jump start your success, Start a FREE Fitness Profile.

• Specifically targeted exercises based on your goals
• 3D exercise demonstrations
• eTools to track your progress
• 1-to-1 fitness consultations
• Private at home workouts or gym workouts

3D exercises will show you exactly how to do each exercise. It’s like having your own personal trainer!

The right workout for you – You must burn 3,500 calories to lose just one pound!
Regular exercise will help accelerate weight loss and improve your overall health. We’ll design your weekly workouts to meet your fitness level, lifestyle and goals.

Support

More than 80 support boards, including Nutrition Support, New Members and Get Motivated. Our award-winning Community can help you every step of the way!
Live Support from Registered Dietitians
eDiets.com gives you one-on-one access to registered nutritionists and licensed dietitians, which could cost hundreds of dollars to hire on your own. Professional advice is only a phone call or email away!

Video Support Library – As an eDiets.com member, you’ll have unlimited access to tons of helpful videos. From short workouts and individual exercises to delicious recipes and motivational must-haves, all you have to do is tune in and turn up your weight loss!

Top 10 Reasons to Join eDiets.com:

• Meets your fitness level & goals
• Personalized to fit your lifestyle
• You pick the workout time
• No gyms or expensive equipment
• Private at-home workouts
• Exercises for specific body parts
• 3-D demonstrations of exercises
• Cardio, strength and stretching
• eTools help track your progress
• 1-on-1 fitness consultations

eDiets.com received Forbes magazine’s Best of the Web award for the diet & nutrition category in both 2004 and 2005, and also won PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice award in 2004 and 2005.

More recently, eDiets.com’s meal delivery service, Deliciously Yours, was acknowledged by the premier award-winning food website, Epicurious.com, as the best meal delivery service – judged on flavor, nutrition, portion size, convenience, variety, and customer service & support tools. Deliciously Yours earned 3 out of 4 stars and blew the competition away!

Get help losing weight with eDiets.com

DietWatch’s unique information, tools, and community support has made it a winner of numerous awards and recognitions including Best of the Web Award from Forbes Magazine and the winner of the Healthy People Objectives Award for the launch of Healthy People 2010. In December 2000, DietWatch acquired Cyberdiet.com, the #1 “Favorite” for the Diet and Nutrition category of Forbes Best of the Web 2003. Since its launch in 1999, over 1 million members have visited the DietWatch sites.

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The Dietwatch team works hard to ensure that your experience on the site goes above and beyond your expectations for achieving weight loss, weight maintenance and healthy living.

Membership Fees

Weekly Plan – Only $2.99/week
At the time of registration, your credit card will be billed $38.87 for the first 3 months (13 wks x $2.99). After the first 3 month billing cycle, your credit card will be billed $38.87 every 3 months until you cancel your membership. You may cancel at any time after the first 8 weeks, for any reason, and receive a full refund for the portion of your membership not used – see Terms.

Yearly Plan – Save 50% – Less than $1.49/week

At the time of registration, your credit card will be charged the annual membership fee of $77. At the end of each 12 month period, your annual membership will be automatically renewed unless you cancel your membership prior to this time. The annual membership offer is non-refundable, and no credit will be issued for early cancellation – see Terms.

Diet Features

• Personalized Meal Planner
• Customized Shopping Lists
• Nutrition Tracker
• Automatic Reminders and Alerts

Your personalized diet plan
Our program provides you with a personalized yet simple approach to weight loss, so you will shed those pounds and achieve a healthier body once and for all. You’ll choose from the following meal plans personalized for you.
I hope to see you on the site!

No Restrictions Plan – The No Restrictions meal plan is designed for any individual looking to maintain a healthy and balanced diet. No Restrictions is best suited for you if you do not have specific dietary concerns or preferences.

Reduced Carbs Plan – The Reduced Carbohydrate meal plan limits carbohydrate intake to 40% of total calories. This plan is not to be confused with low carbohydrate diets (e.g., Atkins, Protein Power, etc.) because the carbohydrate restriction does not put the body in a state of ketosis.

Heart Healthy – Mediterranean Plan – This meal plan is designed for individuals who are looking for a heart-healthy diet with Mediterranean characteristics. It focuses on incorporating healthy mono- and polyunsaturated fats while limiting intake of saturated and trans fat.

Vegetarian Plan – The Vegetarian meal plan is a lacto-ovo vegetarian plan, meaning that eggs and dairy are included. This plan is designed for individuals who do not consume meat, chicken, or fish, and the menus include a variety of soy foods and meat substitutes.

Fitness Features

• Personal Exercise Program
• Exercise Tracker

DietWatch offers several exercise plans, including aerobic, strength training and flexibility programs. Each of our plans has been designed by professionals.

Keep Track of Your Exercise – Losing weight isn’t just about cutting calories. Regular exercise is important, too. That’s why the DietWatch Planner includes an interactive exercise log. How does it work? Enter your activity and the length of your workout, and DietWatch will calculate the number of calories burned.

Daily Calorie Balance – Even better… our Daily Calorie Balance will factor your calories eaten and your calories burned and provide you with a net calorie balance for the day. You can see at a glance whether you’re on track for weight loss!

Dietwatch Nutrition Planner – Keeping a food diary has been proven to be one of the most effective weight loss methods. Use the award-winning DietWatch Planner to track your food intake-when you enter the foods that you eat. The Planner keeps a running total of your calories, fats, carbohydrates, protein, and other key nutrients

Support

• Body Image Help
• Managing Emotions
• Goal Setting
• Positive Thinking
• Chat Rooms
• Blogs
• Message Boards
• Find-A-Friend
• Expert Advice
• Daily Tips

Counting Carbs – Calories? – DietWatch Diet Planner® Can Help! Forbes Web Award Winner

Dr Kushner believes that our personality has a major impact on our attitudes towards food and exercise. This will come as no surprise to most of us! Every week another new fad or eating plan comes out, claiming weight loss miracles. Unfortunately most of us ‘fall off the rails’ for some reason or another.

What if we had insight into why we eat like we do? Or why every time we start exercising we give up? What if we could find those reasons and fix them?

Membership Fees

• All Diet.com plans begin with an initial fee of $19.95.
• Standard Monthly Plan: $4.99 per week ($19.95 per month, $39.90 for 1 month)
• 3 Month Savings Plan: $3.49 per week ($13.95 per month, $64.80 for 3 months)
• 6 Month Savings Plan: $2.54 per week ($10.15 per month, $85.65 for 6 months)
• 12 Month Savings Plan: $2.29 per week ($9.15 per month, $139.35 for 12 months)

Diet Features

As the program is built around the Personality Type Diet,  there is a 70-question survey that you must complete – designed to unearth all of your fears, feelings, and attitudes – not just to food, but to exercise, and other life skills.  You will then receive a diet profile based upon your answers together with a customized diet plan that includes, personalized nutritional and fitness guidelines, meal ideas that incorporate your favorite foods, a dining-out guide, weekly motivational emails and professional advice on exercise and well-being.

• Meal plans tailored to your personality and lifestyle.
• Daily Meal Tracker:
  • Record your daily food intake.
  • Use the Calorie Counter to find the food you ate from over 6000 food items listed.
  • Save details of favorite meals.
• Browse over 1,000 healthy recipes, arranged according to:
  • Meal (Appetizers, Snacks, Main Dishes, Dessert) ,
  • Cuisine (American Italian, Middle Eastern, Vegetarian), and
  • Nutrition (Calories Fat, Low Sodium, High Fiber)
• Substitution ideas for common food triggers (like peanuts, dairy, wheat, eggs) .
• If you still don’t lose weight within 6 months, Diet.com will give you the next 6 months for FREE!

Fitness Features

There are so many exercises and workouts out there today it can be difficult to figure out which is the best fit for you and your unique lifestyle.

Diet.com’s Workout Builder makes it easy for you to build your own custom workouts from our extensive library of exercise moves. You can also browse the database of exercises here in this easy index of workouts.

• Detailed animated workout demos (over 100) featuring Diet.com’s fitness experts.
• On-line, easy to use facility for tracking your weight, exercise activities and glucose levels.

Support

• Read helpful and informative product reviews written by other Diet.com members.
• Lots of opportunities to win substantial cash prizes by taking part in Diet.com challenges!
• Private consultation with Dr. Kushner via email and boards.
• Personal coaching and meal reviews by registered dietitians.
• Diet.com provides you with the latest diet, fitness, and lifestyle tips.

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Get tips from real people who have taken part in Jillian’s program and found major success. Whether they were aiming to lose 20 or 100 pounds, their experiences show that they have been in your shoes and know the ups and downs of finding a diet plan that works. Get inspired by their stories!

Jillian’s hand-picked experts write about physical and behavioral health, nutrition, beauty, and overall well-being. Check back regularly for more tips and advice that will help you look and feel your best!

Weight loss is all about creating healthy habits. Before you can do that, you have to let go of unreachable goals and replace them with real ones. Jillian will help you identify emotions that trigger bad behaviors like overeating, banish bad habits for good, and set up the support systems you need to succeed

Membership Fees

Currently just $4.00 per week (or around $17.33 per month)

Diet Features

You’ve seen Jillian on the Biggest Loser and now you’re ready to make a commitment to lose weight and get fit and you’re ready to go, right? Although exercise is the crucial (and the most obvious) component of Jillian’s program, it’s not the only piece of the puzzle.

But, it’s all so confusing! Low carb, low fat, high protein… It’s hard to know what to eat! Weight loss is all about “calories in” and “calories out.” Jillian will tell you how to calculate your calories, how to choose foods that will help you lose weight, and what to look for when shopping in your local grocery store.

With Jillian’s program, you will:

• Discover the right foods for your body type and metabolism.
• Find out how many calories you need to eat to lose weight successfully.
• Learn how to put together delicious meals with recipes customized for your body type.
• Get diet-friendly strategies for fine dining and fast-food restaurants.
• Calorie Calculator

Weight Tracker
This essential tool for tracking your success is easy to use — just submit your weight on any given date. Jillian will cheer you on as the weight comes off!

Meals and Recipes
100+ delicious and easy recipes and meal suggestions for breakfast, lunch, dinner — even snacks — customized for your metabolism and body type!

Fitness Features

As we’ve said, weight loss is all about calories in and calories out. Exercise is the best way to get those calories “out” and finally burn fat. Exercise, of course, is the cornerstone of Jillian’s online program. You ready to get fit and kick some butt, right? Jillian is ready to help you!

Jillian’s online program features:

• A weekly fitness planner based on your fitness level. For each exercise, we’ll tell you the muscles involved, how to start the exercise, and how to perform it, and offer training tips and progressions and variations for the exercise. This is a one-stop reference for all things exercise.
• A anatomical guide that walks you through which muscles to work out, when and why.
• Information about the best cardio exercises — which ones give you the most bang for your buck and burn the most calories!
• 120 Printable Exercises

You don’t need to be a contestant on the Biggest Loser! Jillian’s online program features tools that give you the support you need!
Fitness Planner
Get a weekly, customized schedule of your workouts. Each routine is based on your fitness level to help you reach your goals.

Fitness Diary
Write down everything — how you’re feeling physically and emotionally — and get inspired to work through your issues and toward your goals.

Support

As watching even one of Jillian’s team wins on the Biggest Loser demonstrates, weight loss is all about creating healthy habits. Before you can do that, you have to let go of unreachable goals and replace them with real ones. Your first step on the road to total health and your best life is simple: You can’t achieve success if you are not moving toward something, so before you do anything else, you have to establish a long-term goal. Sounds easy, right? Not so fast. It’s easy to say to yourself that you want to look like an ac­tion hero or a supermodel. It’s a little bit different to arrive at an ultimate goal that is at once ambitious and attainable.

Jillian’s program will help you:

• Find your true shape. Want to look like a movie star? Forget it. Even movie stars don’t look like themselves after they’ve been styled and airbrushed. Jillian help you discover your true body type and what you can and can’t expect from it.
• Establish healthy habits. Emotions often trigger the bad behaviors, like overeating. The key is to iden­tify the things that are making you feel pressured, sad, angry, or anxious. Once you have identified your emotional triggers, you can break the cycle and start getting back in control of when, why, and how you eat.
• Change attitude and change your life. A key element of changing your attitude is changing your negative self-talk. It’s this kind of useless negativity that is holding you back, keeping you from being the best you that you can be. Now is the time to turn it around once and for all.
• Set up the support systems you need to succeed. She — along with hundreds of members of the online community — will be there to support you every step of the way!

Jillian’s online program features tools that give you the support you need!

Weight-Loss Buddies
Find support and advice from members just like you! Search for buddies who are your age, live in your area, or are at the same fitness level as you!
Message Boards
Looking for weight-loss advice or new recipes? Connect with Jillian’s online community — jump into the inspirational conversations.

It’s all there – eating plans, nutrition, exercise and weight training programs, plus how to accurately measure and chart your progress and the importance of goal setting. Each covered in great detail with proven scientific evidence  and personal experiences.

eBook Cost

For a one time cost of $39.95 – you get the 340 page Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle eBook, all three bonus reports, the free E-zine subscription plus access to the E-zine archives, the FREE Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle updates for life AND a FREE copy of the new body fat eBook

Diet Features

With the information in this book, you will be able to:

• easily determine your own ideal protein, carb and fat ratios.
• analyze your body type (are you an endomorph, ectomorph, or mesomorph?)
• determine your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate, or the amount of “maintenance” calories your body requires every day), and
• find out whether you are carb tolerant or carb intolerant.

This personalized or individualized approach makes perfect sense because each and every one of us is a unique individual and no two people are exactly alike in terms of body physiology and personal goals.

Fitness Features

• Cardio secrets for maximum fat loss. Why it’s better to burn the fat rather than starve it.
• Weight training for fat loss. Why diet and cardio are not enough.

Support

For an additional $8.00 per month ($97.00 for 12 months) you can join Tom Venuto’s private “Burn the Fat Inner Circle” membership site, where Tom use his lifetime of knowledge and experience to continue helping people in an intimate, personal way, to help you take your body and your health to a whole new level.

With the expert Personal mentoring, motivational coaching, social support, and credible scientific information about what to eat and how to train, right at your fingertips, 24 hours a day, you can work near miracles on your body and your health…

Here are some of the privileges and Benefits You’ll Enjoy When you Become a Member of This Special Support Community, Master Mind group and Educational Resource Center… The Burn The Fat Inner Circle!

• Direct Access To Tom Venuto, author of Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle & The Body Fat Solution
• Community and Social Support
• Unbiased Supplement Reviews
• Burn The Fat Q & A
• MP3 and streaming audio interviews and podcasts
• An Entire LIBRARY crammed full of e-books and downloads
• Nutrition Calculators
• Delicious Fat-Burning Recipes
• Inspirational Fitness and Weight Loss Success Story Interviews
• Main Burn The Fat Forum

Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle eBook has been the bestselling downloadable health book every single year since its release in 2002! Tom’s hard cover book, The Body Fat Solution hit #1 on Amazon.com days after its release, and was a national besteller in just months.

Membership Fees

Special introductory price for just $3.50 a week and get 3 FREE BOOKS!

Diet Features

Daily meal plans, based on your lifestyle and preferences
Recipes and Shopping lists
Online journal

Fitness Features

• Diet & fitness program used on the TV show, but personalized to your goals
• Advice, tips and secrets from the trainers and cast
• Animated fitness demos
• Weight Tracker tool to monitor your progress.

Support

• Mobile Club Access at Home and on the Go
• Active message boards
• Personal Progress Journal making it easy for you to share your experiences and success with other Club members, Contestants, and Trainers.
• Connect With Bob Harper, Kim Lyons and the contestants: Use the message boards to learn their tips and secrets, find answers to your questions, and get motivated.
• Weekly newsletter and inside tips: Get inspiration, motivation, and the information you need to succeed on e-mail and online.