The Best Life Diet

Lifestyle changes are the key to successful weight loss

Review of the Best Life diet. The problem many people have, myself included, is they have difficulty finding a diet program that addresses all of the many issues that caused weight gain in the first place.

Certainly you can lose weight, and you may even keep it off for a short time, but the key to successful weight loss is making lifestyle changes as outlined in the Best Life Diet. It’s essential to not only lose weight but look at eating in a different way. Many of us see eating as a social event, so when we go out we think we have to eat in order to be sociable.

I’m not going to lie to you - I was one of those who thought socializing with friends included a five course meal with drinks. Many of us have gotten away from the idea of eating being a means of nutrition and as a result the obesity rate worldwide is increasing dramatically.

Both mine and my husband’s family believe in huge holiday meals and expect you to eat everything on the table. Needless to say, we had to stop as it began to take a toll on the bathroom scale! When we began looking for a diet to get rid of the weight we had gained, we weren’t sure what we wanted, but we knew we wanted something that would help us make lifestyle changes.

During an Internet search one night I came across The Best Life Diet and decided to try it. The diet includes four separate phases as follows:

• Phase One lasts no more than four weeks and focuses on the gradual increase of activity and changing the way you previously ate. Some of the things it recommends is no food consumption within two hours of bedtime, consuming three meals and one snack every day, temporarily avoiding all alcohol, drinking plenty of water, and taking a complete regiment of multivitamins, minerals, Omega-3 fatty acids and calcium.

• Phase Two lasts at least four weeks and takes a more aggressive approach to weight loss through healthy eating and increasing your physical activity. In this phase the emphasis is on controlling both physical and emotional eating, removing the six problem foods, weighing in weekly, and learning about portion control.

• Phase Three is the maintenance phase of the diet, and the one where you will remain for the rest of your life. You learn to eliminate unhealthy foods and replace them with healthy foods. It also teaches how to enjoy your favourite foods in small portions to avoid gaining back the weight you lost.

You can learn how to control what you eat and to increase your activity level in order to eat larger portions of your favourite foods. You will also learn how to separate real hunger from emotional hunger. The Best Life Diet is not a fast weight loss program, which makes it easier to keep the weight off.

It has been about six months since I reached my goal weight using the Best Life Diet, and I have kept it off with little effort. I won’t say I haven’t gained a pound or two here and there, but I have gone back to Phase One or Phase Two and taken it right back off again.

Review by Gina Rossi