Has Bob Greene’s Best Life Diet failed? I mean, since Oprah is now officially overweight, it seems logical to conclude that Bob Greene’s Best Life Diet does not work, or does it?
Some would argue that a better question is this: Has Oprah failed Bob Greene’s Best Life Diet? And here is another question: Is it even fair to blame Bob Greene’s Best Life Diet for Oprah’s weight problems?
I think that Bob Greene’s Best Life Diet does work, if you work it. But how do you make it work for you? To answer this question, we need to understand what The Best Life Diet is all about.
How Bob Greene’s Best Life Diet works The Best Life Diet works in three phases. In phase one, dieters adopt healthy habits, such as drinking more water and not eating close to bedtime.
In phase two of the Best Life Diet, soda, fried foods and high-fat dairy are switched out for whole-grains, fruits and veggies.
In phase three, banned foods are reintroduced. Here are examples of meals for each phase of Bob Greene’s Best Life Diet:
Phase 1: Breakfast – Best Life Cheerios cereal mix, topped with a half pear, sliced; 2 tbsp. pecans or other unsalted nut, 1 cup nonfat or 1% milk.
Lunch – Nut butter pear sandwich (2 slices whole-wheat bread; 2 tbsp. almond or other nut butter; half a pear, thinly sliced; 1 tbsp. honey). 1/2 cup carrot sticks.
Dinner РLemon and herb grilled trout. Grilled 5-inch ear of corn. Saut̩ed sugar snap peas with ginger.
Phase 2: Breakfast – Chocolate-strawberry smoothie. 1/2 oat-bran bagel and 2 tbsp. reduced-fat cream cheese.
Lunch – Strawberry-peach chicken salad.
Dinner – Curried squash soup. Steak salad. Slice crusty whole-grain bread.
Phase 3: Breakfast – Hot cereal with almonds and apricots. Cup of nonfat or 1% milk.
Lunch – Chicken taboulen pitas.
Dinner – Spicy beef fajitas with guacamole.
It is clear from the sample menu above that Bob Greene’s Best Life Diet is a good diet. The problem, as I see it, is that it is not a simple diet to follow, because you either need to spend a considerable amount of time in the kitchen preparing all this stuff, or you need to spend money on the Best Life’s pre-made meals. [via]