Body for Life Program

I've been doing it (at least the food list) for about three weeks and have been consistently losing 2 lbs a week. I've also been doing some cardio and strength stuff at the gym almost every day for about an hour, but not exactly what's in the BFL book. The main thing about the list of foods is that you don't eat white bread or rice, or sweets with sugar, or bacon, etc. www.bodyforlife.com/library/food-list. Also, you get one day a week to eat basically whatever and however much you want. I did this before and lost about 7 lbs the first week. I certainly didn't buy any supplements or meals, nor did I end up looking like some of those folks in the gallery. But that wasn't my objective. I think it's a very doable program that can give great results.

i did it back in 2001, and i lost 18 lbs in 6 weeks. went down a couple sizes. ended up preggo and so i stopped.

i found it SOOOOO easy to do. the work outs are short and effective and the meal plan was super duper easy!!

i finished p90x a couple weeks ago and i want to keep lifting, but i don't want to dedicate 1 hr to each work out right now. so, i started body for life on monday. i was hoping there was someone else here doing it too!!

instead of doing the ab work out i start the new rules of lifting for abs last night. did the lower body work out in the morning and the abs in the evening. my gluts hurt today!!!

for the cardio interval days i'm doing couch to 5K, it's about 20 min of walk/ run and i just push myself with each change :-)

i'm glad to see there are others doing it too!

I also did BFL 7 years ago and got great results. Then I got preggers I have just started it again 3 weeks ago because I concentrated on running for a while, did two half-marathons, but am in the 'off-season' and want to build muscle plus lose a little more. You don't have to do the supplements and such. I do protein shakes to make sure I get enough protein to build those muscles I want since I don't eat a lot of meat typically, but that's it and it's not even EAS brand. There are a lot of recipes on the website as well. What I like is that while some get bored with it, I like that it's simple with very few ingredients in most recipes. Plus the day off - awesome (although I try to just do a 'meal off' instead.) It's a nice change from the long runs/workouts I was doing for distance running.

I'm actually 8 days into BFL right now. I couldn't resist weighing in on Sunday morning and discovered I had lost 4lbs and 2% body fat. I'm really enjoying it so far. I've not long been out of hospital with a serious illness, but this is helping me get my body back on track. Highly recommended.