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Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover

Dieting

Bob Greene is a certified trainer, specializing in weight loss programs, metabolism and fitness. His popularity blossomed when he made a name for himself as Oprah Winfrey’s personal trainer.

The Total Body Makeover program is not a diet. It is an eating and exercise plan that focuses on eliminating emotional eating and making exercise as an important part of one’s life.

The program does not require drastic changes on eating patterns and food choices. It simply teaches an awareness of food choices and the reason why one prefers this food.

The Total Makeover Program focuses on healthy and sensible eating choices. It discusses useful decisions that are intended to be followed on long-term basis. This eating plan does not categorize and identify foods such as "good" or "bad" foods. However, it gives extra emphasis on making eating an organized process.

Although there are little restrictions on food choices, the program stresses eating only when the dieter is hungry. Emotional and random eating is strongly discouraged.

The eating approach is simple and is based on essential factors. As long as a dieter eat only when hungry, choose nutritious foods, and include lots of exercise daily, the program will be successful.

Before reducing the calorie intake, or changing eating patterns, the Total Body Makeover program recommends practicing a physical fitness routine. When an individual’s body shows positive changes from exercise, he or she will tend to eat healthier as well.

Bob Greene explains that when a dieter is pressured by counting his or her calorie intake, this leads to emotional eating. When the program initiates the proper proportioning of foods, the focus will be less on calorie counting. This approach will allow the dieter to relax and maintain exercise while eating healthy.

Since this program is not a diet, there no post diet maintenance to discuss. However, because the Total Body Makeover provides an overall improvement of nutritional living, it is suitable to almost anyone.