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THE MAN DIET

When it comes to dieting, some men cringe at the word "diet" alone. There is nothing macho about dining on salad, and most men wouldn’t be caught dead at a Weight Watcher’s meeting. Wouldn’t it be great to find a sensible diet for men… one that allowed a man to eat his favorite foods instead of soup and salad?

    But the Bob Green Diet is championed by many manly man celebrities such as LL cool J, Brad Pitt, and male model Brandon Mills Joe.

    Unlike other celebrity diets , Bob Greene's diet is a well document diet both in paper pack and as an online program. 

Bob Greene is an exercise physiologist, a certified personal trainer, a columnist, best selling author and a frequent guest at the Oprah Winfrey show. He is also an editor and contributing writer to the 'O' magazine and writes for Oprah.com on health and fitness. 

Though he recently came to light, Bob Greene has been writing on the subject of weight loss and health for some time now. With seven book titles to his name he is definitely no push over on the subject. His diet has even been picked by Ediets.com and is now also sold online. 

His books entail a series called 'Get with the Program!' They include a guide book on restaurant eating for the family 'Get with the program! Guide to fat food a family restaurant'. He notes that restaurants are not careful about fat and portion and when possible it is best to avoid them. The said book navigates you through your alternatives. Others in this series include

It is his latest book 'Bob Greene's Total Body Make Over' which is entailed in his online program presented by Ediets.com. Having helped Oprah to lose weight, the influence of Bob Greens diets can be seen all over Oprah's own Oprah weights loss plan. She based this diet on Greene's diet as well as he experience of what works. 

Bob Greene's Diet - the basics

As much as Bob Greene's diet is wide and captures effective weight loss fairly well. It is based mainly on two premises. The first is mitigating emotional eating and secondly increasing your metabolism through aerobic physical exercises. 

Greene reckons "aerobic physical exercises are the primary way that you will improve your cardio vascular (or aerobic) fitness, which in turn will increase your metabolism. 

Cardiovascular fitness refers to the ability of your heart lungs and arteries to deliver oxygen (which is carried in the blood) to working muscles and your muscles ability to use that oxygen to perform work over a particular period of time. 

By increasing the level of your cardio vascular fitness, you are increasing the rate that your body can burn calories. I can't stress how important this is!" 

Obviously as an exercise physiologist this is an area of expertise. Bob Green diet uses weight loss exsersize centrally to increase rate of fat burning. He particularly considers power walking, jogging, aerobic dances and stair climbing as the top four most effective exercises. 

Similarly Bob Greene's diet considers emotional eating as a great contributor to excess weight. He believes, "If you can eliminate emotional eating you will archive weight loss success." He covers in depth this issue and suggests tactics like keeping a journal to help pinpoint feeling attached to overeating. 

The diet is divided into four phase. The first phase is mainly introductory to excising including stretching and flexibility. It also sets your diet plan where one eats three meals and up to two snacks in a day. 

Phase two involves starting on cardios. These are further increased in intensity and quantity in phase 3. Strength training doesn't start until phase 4. At this last phase the diet estimates you will have a solid healthy eating plan and you can afford a full workout of strength training and cardio. Like many other diets it is wary of alcohol caffeine. 

Bob Green's diet does tackle an aspect of weight loss that is not often tackled by many diets; the aspect of weight loss psychology. The weight loss handbook principally approaches weight loss from the two weight loss sciences.