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• Bob Greene

The Best Life Way

Bob Greene Bob Greene is an exercise physiologist and certified personal trainer specializing in fitness, metabolism, and weight loss. He is a frequent guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. He is also a contributing writer and editor for O Magazine, and writes on health and fitness for Oprah.com. Greene is the best-selling author of Total Body Makeover, Get With the Program!, The Get with the Program! Daily Journal, The Get With the Program! Guide to Good Eating and The Get With the Program! Guide to Fast Food & Family Restaurants. Bob's most recent book is The Best Life Diet. He first made a name for himself as the personal trainer for Oprah Winfrey and they co-wrote the bestseller entitled, Making the Connection: Ten Steps to a Better Body and a Better Life. His philosophy is to examine your life in a comprehensive manner. Lasting lifestyle change comes from within, not from outside programs, diets or specific exercise regimens. By making a personal commitment to yourself and focusing on diet and exercise equally, the individual can start a slow progression of steps that eventually leads to the personal power to control your own life. Program Topic   Bob Greene Your Best Life The Best Life Way The Best Life Way is about creating a winning way of life--- a personal life plan based upon your own tastes, lifestyles, and activity levels. What sets the The Best Life Way approach apart from others, who claim to have "diet" plans that work, is that Bob admits that weight loss is difficult! A healthy lifestyle is not simply a numbers game. To achieve ones best possible life, it is not simply a problem of weight loss. Bob communicates that we are "hardwired," usually at an early age and he gives practical tips on how to rewiring our thinking. Bob discusses those who are successful at long-term change and what techniques and behaviors they employ. Bob provides lessons that are not a short-lived, quick-fix formula, but a long-term program that accounts for the challenges and constraints of the real world. With seventeen years of watching people struggle to lose weight on a seemingly endless string of trendy crash diets, only to backslide and regain the pounds they've shed, has taught him some lessons about living one's best life. Acknowledging that it is difficult to stay motivated, especially when it comes to changing old habits, Bob engages the audiences in interactive experiences that shed light on the journey to change one's life in a positive meaningful direction.