Make the Connection: Ten Steps to a Better Body and a Better Life
by Bob Greene, Oprah Winfrey
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Oprah Winfrey and Bob Greene tell you exactly what to do every day, physically and mentally, to start looking and feeling fantastic. Oprah shares personal stories of her own weight loss battles and together she and Bob provide loads of encouragement and advice as they walk you through their ten simple steps towards a healthier and happier existence.Tags
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Yeah, yeah...I read Oprah's fitness book. Quite an inspiring story, actually - and refreshing that a woman with her spheric influence tells the masses that there are no tricks - it takes balanced nutrition and consistent aerobic exercise to get in, and stay in, shape.
I go back to it now and then to inspire myself - especially moments like this summer, when I realize I've strayed from my goals and need to get back on track.
Oprah and Bob make you feel like you can do it. That goes a long way for me.
I go back to it now and then to inspire myself - especially moments like this summer, when I realize I've strayed from my goals and need to get back on track.
Oprah and Bob make you feel like you can do it. That goes a long way for me.
Interesting but I'd take some of the body fat information with a large pinch of salt. Also he uses the traditional food pyramid which some nutritionists say is unbalanced in reality.
Bob Greene is of the opinion that you Have to make time for fitness otherwise you suffer, and is very much a morning person. He advocates 5-7 days of exercise of 40-60 minutes duration, which I would find scary, and in ways that's a problem with the book, he doesn't advocate easing yourself into exercise but launching yourself into it which many people would find intimidating.
A book that would be better in the hands of someone who had already embarked on a fitness regime and had plateaued rather than a rank beginner like me.
Best done in conjunction with a show more nutritionist or doctor or both to check on the currency of some of the information about diet. show less
Bob Greene is of the opinion that you Have to make time for fitness otherwise you suffer, and is very much a morning person. He advocates 5-7 days of exercise of 40-60 minutes duration, which I would find scary, and in ways that's a problem with the book, he doesn't advocate easing yourself into exercise but launching yourself into it which many people would find intimidating.
A book that would be better in the hands of someone who had already embarked on a fitness regime and had plateaued rather than a rank beginner like me.
Best done in conjunction with a show more nutritionist or doctor or both to check on the currency of some of the information about diet. show less
Although this book is dated, it's still relevant and holds true to steps of a better body and better life.
I ran my first marathon by being inspired by this book. If Opera can do I must be able to do it.
I don't have the companion workbook that was printed with this. I have the yellow colored one. There are good photo history here. This is her diary. She came out with a red wagon of the fat she lost, and then regained it. How I know the yo-yo syndrome.
Tips from Bob and Oprah for a better body and better life.
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Bob Greene was born December 8, 1958 in Cherry Hill, N.J. He is a graduate of Cherry Hill High School East. He then studied physical education at The University of Delaware and earned his master's degree in exercise physiology from the University of Arizona. He is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine. Greene has authored over ten show more books concerning weight-loss, diet and health, including two books co-authored by Oprah Winfrey. He is a frequent guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, has a radio show on the "Oprah and Friends" satellite radio network and is a contributor to O magazine. His book entitled 20 Years Younger made the Publisher's Weekly best seller list for 2011. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Oprah Winfrey was born in 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi. At the age of 19, Winfrey landed her first broadcasting job as a reporter for radio station WVOL in Nashville. She enrolled in Tennessee State University to study speech and performing arts in 1970, and in 1971, she was named Nashville's Miss Fire Prevention, followed by being named Miss show more Black Tennessee in 1972. In her sophomore year at Tennessee State University, Winfrey switched to media and became the first African-American anchor at Nashville's WTVF-TV. In 1977 she moved to Baltimore to co-anchor the six o'clock news. Once there she was recruited to co-host Baltimore's WJZ-TV's local talk show, People Are Talking. In 1984 she relocated again, this time to Chicago to host WLS-TV's morning talk show, AM Chicago. AM Chicago becomes the number one talk show a mere month later. In less than a year, the show expanded to one hour and was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show. Winfrey had her feature film debut as "Sofia" in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple, based on the novel by Alice Walker, in 1985. She received nominations for a Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role. The Oprah Winfrey Show entered syndication 1986 and remained the number one talk show for fourteen consecutive seasons, receiving 34 Emmys throughout it's run, and Oprah is given the honor of hosting the 14th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in 1987. In 1988 Harpo Productions, Inc., Winfrey's production company is born, and in 1989, Winfrey produced and starred as "Mattie Michael" in the miniseries,The Women of Brewster Place, which recounts the lives of the female denizens of an inner-city brownstone. Again in 1990, she hosted the 17th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. Winfrey executive produced and performed in the TV Series, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, further promoting Harpo Productions. In 1991, she initiated the National Child Protection Act, testifying in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to establish a national database of convicted child abusers. In 1996 she received the George Foster Peabody Individual Achivement Award and the International Radio and Television Society's Gold Medal Award for all of her work in these mediums. She began Oprah's Book Club, an on-air reading club, of which all of the Book Club selections have become instant bestsellers. In 1997, she was named Newsweek's most important person in books and media, and a year later named TV Guide's Television Performer of the Year, as well as one of the 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century by Time Magazine. She went on to receive the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997 as well. That same year, she announced that she would join producers Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner (Cosby, Roseanne) and Geraldine Laybourne (Nickelodeon) to launch Oxygen Media, Inc., a cable channel and interactive network for women. She also joined Stedman Graham in teaching at Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. In 2000 she was presented with the National Book Foundation's 50th anniversary gold medal for all that Oprah's Book Club has done for books and authors. In 2014 Oprah released What I Know for Sure, a collection of essays that she had written for her monthly column of the same name in O, The Oprah Magazine. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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