Re: [Body for Life Women's Club]Leanness Lifestyle

[Guest guest]

Does anyone have any imput on the Leanness Lifestyle. I signed up for the free

month, and really like the web site, although I wont keep it once I have to pay

$41 a month! It suggested that I do zig/zag days without a freeday. (ugh no free

day!) Also, when I put some of my BFL or ediets meals into, several of them came

up as " not ideal " or " splurge " . It seems similiar to BFL, but more restrictive.

[Guest guest]

Leanness Lifestyle is similar to BFL in that it's intense exercise and

clean bodybuilding nutrition. It's a lot more involved though -

counting calories, weighing and measuring food, zig-zagging high and

low calorie days, quite a bit of cardio, no free day, more aggressive

calorie restriction. It definitely works if you can take it. Some

people thrive on that level of detail and some people completely wig

out.

I see an awful lot of people coming away from the whole LL experience

with more extreme expectations, lower self-esteem, and a lot of shiny

new obsessive tendencies. Like maybe they went into it wanting to get

below 20% body fat for a vacation, but they come away from it feeling

like they're a big hopeless cow unless they're under 12% and

stage-ready.

It can lead to that thing where you're either doing everything

perfectly, or you're rebound bingeing out of control. I'm not saying

LL is bad or that it doesn't work. It can definitely get you really

lean really quickly and give you the skills to stay that way. I'm just

saying that if you're somebody who's struggled with

food/emotion/self-esteem issues in the past, approach LL with a little

caution and common sense. If all of your alarm bells start going off,

put the food scale down and back away slowly. :-)

> Does anyone have any imput on the Leanness Lifestyle. I signed up for the free

month, and really like the web site, although I wont keep it once I have to pay

$41 a month! It suggested that I do zig/zag days without a freeday. (ugh no free

day!) Also, when I put some of my BFL or ediets meals into, several of them came

up as " not ideal " or " splurge " . It seems similiar to BFL, but more restrictive.

[Guest guest]

I agree with . It is very detailed and you must eat a 40/20/20

ratio. That does not work for everyone. Also it can make you over

obssess about food. And once you've hit your " goal " you kind of feel

lost because you are maintaining. I think it really depends on each

person individually. I do not want to be that restrictive with my food.

> > Does anyone have any imput on the Leanness Lifestyle. I signed up

for the free month, and really like the web site, although I wont keep

it once I have to pay $41 a month! It suggested that I do zig/zag days

without a freeday. (ugh no free day!) Also, when I put some of my BFL

or ediets meals into, several of them came up as " not ideal " or

" splurge " . It seems similiar to BFL, but more restrictive.

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[Guest guest]

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Thanks for the insight - im definitly someone with food/self esteem issues. Im

going to check it out for a month, but not follow it as rigorously and just hope

to come away gaining some knowledge.

[Guest guest]

I did the free month too. I personally think he¹d have more clients if the

monthly price were lower - <my inner marketing person speaking, but then he

didn¹t hire me>. The food tracker may tell you that it¹s a splurge but it if

fits for you then you can enter whatever you want. I remember putting my

chocolate protein and oatmeal standard breakfast in there and it told me it

was a splurge. If I lowered the amount of oatmeal from 1/2 cup to 1/3 cup,

it approved. Still to this day I use 1/3 because of that - which is silly I

know, but then I¹m easily influenced. It is more restrictive calorie wise

and very specific about how long to exercise, which was one of the best

things I learned from it that helped me. If you¹re not getting the results

you¹d hoped for then it¹s a good way to raise awareness and adjust things. I

found it was a helpful learning tool. I¹ve also learned that we can have too

many helpful learning tools and forget which info came from where when

you¹re mixing and matching! At one point I thought my head would explode and

I¹ve simplified since then.

Laurie

> Does anyone have any imput on the Leanness Lifestyle. I signed up for the free

> month, and really like the web site, although I wont keep it once I have to

> pay $41 a month! It suggested that I do zig/zag days without a freeday. (ugh

> no free day!) Also, when I put some of my BFL or ediets meals into, several of

> them came up as " not ideal " or " splurge " . It seems similiar to BFL, but more

> restrictive.

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[Guest guest]

That's a good plan. It does have a lot of good info and helpful tools.

Learn everything you can. Run all of your meals through the

calculators. Plan a bunch of workouts. Gather all of the concepts that

fit with your approach, but disregard or modify anything that feels

like it would set you up for obsession and misery. You want to be able

to KEEP whatever changes you make. Somebody once told me (regarding

diet/nutrition) not to start anything that I wasn't willing to keep

doing for the rest of my life. That was good advice. It kept me from a

lot of extreme diets and twice-a-day gym routines. Instead, I made

permanent lifestyle changes.

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> Thanks for the insight - im definitly someone with food/self esteem issues. Im

going to check it out for a month, but not follow it as rigorously and just hope

to come away gaining some knowledge.

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