Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.04244
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Rodale Books
Manufacturer: Rodale Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2005-04-16
Publisher: Rodale Books
Release Date: 2005-03-24
Studio: Rodale Books

The bestselling Body-for-Life™ program is now tailored just for women-to help them achieve dramatic weight loss and body-changing fitness in just 12 weeks!

The #1 New York Times bestseller Body-for-Life helped millions of people the world over to build stronger bodies and enjoy a higher quality of life. Now Pamela Peeke, M.D., M.P.H., bestselling author of Fight Fat After Forty, adapts the unique insights of the Body-for-Life program to the specific hormonal, metabolic, and physiological requirements of women so they can achieve the same life-transforming results.

Dr. Peeke draws on cutting-edge research as she fashions a 12-week eating, exercise, and emotional health program, specially tailored to women. Among the book's highlights: o Stunning new before-and-after photographs with testimonials o Over 100 black-and-white photographs demonstrating the exercises o A Q&A section that anticipates and answers questions the reader might have

Dr. Peeke's appearances on Oprah, Larry King Live, Dateline, Primetime, Today Show, CNN Headline News, and other shows illustrate how inspirational she can be-and never more than in this book, motivating and instructing readers to make the changes that will produce a lifetime of mind and body fitness.
It's not all about the jeans; flattening the tummy helps fight "Toxic Fat"--the disease-inducing weight Dr. Pamela Peeke teaches women how to conquer in Body-for-LIFE for Women. Her firm belief is, most women already know what they're supposed to do: eat a balanced diet, ditch junk food, exercise, think positively. Peeke strives to show her "girlfriends" how to accomplish these tasks, customizing plans for young and old. Clients' stories (including a 95-year-old who worked herself out of a wheelchair and into a martial arts class, and a 14-year old who replaced 90 lbs. of fat with a healthy load of self-confidence) lend credence to Peeke's 12-week weight reduction plan; so do the wowsie before-and-after pictures. Gender-specific scientific evidence supports Peeke's premise that women's bodies require different care than men's. But she doesn't stop there.

Amazon.com Interview Read our interview with Pam Peeke.

Peeke digs deeper for her audience, defining four hormonal milestones of a woman's life (menarche to beyond menopause) and customizing a physical and mental transformation plan to suit each. Easing off on strict calorie and weight guidelines, she focuses instead on serious fat reduction, muscle improvement, and practical suggestions for self-care. A handful of charts and formulae help readers assess their progress; sample exercises and fitness logs help, too. But for Peeke, weight reduction pales to bolstering a woman's self-worth through nurturing healthier habits. The only rough pill to swallow is Peeke's two-page list of smart foods: it lacks suggestions for turning acceptable proteins, carbohydrates and fats into palatable daily meals.--Liane Thomas

Customer Rating:
Summary: I LOVE the information in the book, but Kindle Edition is too difficult to read
Comment: I recommend that you buy the hardcover edition of this book. I give that version 5 stars! The Kindle edition is difficult to read because several of the side notes in the book interupts the actual chapters, so several paragraphs of a different topic is inserted in the middle of a sentence. She also refers to a lot of page numbers for charts and additional information, which page numbers don't exsist in the kindle edition. Several of the charts were also too difficult to read because of the size of the font(which you cannot enlarge in the charts). I found I had to continuously bookmark and highlight information so I could find it again. Once I finished reading the book on my kindle, I borrowed the hard cover from the library so I could get all the chart information.
I have read what seems like every piece of information I can find on this topic, including the original Body for Life by Bill Phillips. This is the book that finally put it all together for me and now I've "got it"!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Not Even Close to the Original
Comment: I'm sure this book will be useful for some people, but I was very disappointed. I love the original Body for Life book.

The women's version is a more confusing, complicated version of the original. I had hoped to learn something new or specific to me as a woman, but did not. The plan she lays out for nutrition is very complicated, impossible for real life. She doesn't give any specific information for exercise.

Basically, she took the original book and tried to mix it up a little to seem different and sell more books, but all she did was make it more confusing & less helpful.

My recommendation? Get the original book. Then get (or at least look at) the Journal to see good examples of the day-to-day exercise. Skip this one completely.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Poor service
Comment: I have yet to recieve the order. He has emailed me several times stating he would send ASAP and never does. I will never do business with this person again. I have requested a refund.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Positive Book
Comment: I bought this book for my sister, she read it in just a couple days. She said it was good, but not life altering as the reviews made it sound! My sister is 22, the book seemed to be geared more towards mid-life adults, so some of the lessons didn't really apply to her, and some did.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Not what I was expecting
Comment: I, like other reviewers, ordered this book because I thought there would be a detailed plan like the original BFL. But it didn't. While I learned about nutrition and a little bit more about women's bodies, it didn't give me the plan I was looking for. I also bought the DVD, thinking that the workout was on there: it wasn't, and will be returning both.

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