 A Woman's Transformation - How Dr. Peeke Changed My Life |
| Review Date: April 8, 2005 |
| Reviewer: Linda Ann, Arlington, VA |
I went to Dr. Peeke because of her incredible reputation, her academic credentials and because she is one of the most respected experts in women's health. As a wife, mother and full time professional I was always struggling with the classic problem shared by seemingly all women -trying to maintain a healthy weight and some level of fitness while managing my professional life, taking care of a family and maintaining a personal life.
Meeting Dr. Peeke was in and of itself a transformation - she spoke to me in a way that made the usual stresses and challenges of being a woman seem less insurmountable and she made me believe I could achieve my goal of a fit mind and body. She gave me the tools to make this program work and she explained why I have not been successful in the past.
I have followed Dr. Peeke's program for 5 years and it has worked for me. I am now a size 6, I have lost over 30 pounds and I have the strength, endurance and flexibility that I never dreamed was possible not because I wanted to be a body builder or fitness fanatic but because I wanted to just be healthy and fit. I transformed myself through finding the right formula and changing who I "was" into who I "am" now - a woman who has lost pounds, inches and the mental attitude that had kept me fat, unhealthy and unfit.
I love the Mind Mouth and Muscle Template and the 10 Power Mind Principles - they make sense and I use them every day. As a woman over 40 facing hormonal issues, stress, overeating and a woman's metabolism, I found that the programs that work for men just don't work for women.
If you are serious about changing your life and learning how to deal with all the obstacles that get in the way of a successful weight loss and exercise program - stress, hormones, family responsibilites, exhaustion, fear of failure, and lack of belief in yourself - please buy this book- read it- try it and I promise it will work for you.
I am a veteran of the Cabbage Soup diet, the Rice Diet, the Grapefruit Diet, Atkins, Sugar Busters, Weight Watchers - you name it - I tried it. I lost the weight and gained it back over and over again. I was miserable, deprived and angry with myself and resigned to a life of yo yo dieting and sporadic bursts of exercise. I needed a life plan. I needed a women's plan. I needed the right information and the right attitude and the tools to make the plan work for me. I found it and you can too.
Dr. Peeke helped me change my life. She can help you too.
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Hooray for Dr. Peeke
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| Review Date: April 12, 2005 |
| Reviewer: Victoria Segal, Maryland |
I'm a 45 year old woman who, like so many women out there, is constantly struggling to find some kind of balance in my life while I'm care giving the world. Since I turned 40, I've gained 30 pounds on top of the 20 I already had on board. I've tried everything. What else is new? I've just picked up Dr. Peeke's new book Body for Life for Women last week and it was like she was speaking to me. She totally gets it. Her Power Mind Principles nailed it with me. I found myself smiling as I read about how women are hard wired so differently than men when it comes to taking care of themselves. I see that I am a stress overeater and a ruminator. My husband doesn't do either. I have always been frustrated with how much easier it is for him to get in shape. It's always seemed like such a mission impossible for me. I love the power in her cover picture and the fact that she walks the talk. I can trust her since she is a doctor who is recognized as a leading authority on women's health. I'm tired of people witih no credentials telling me which way is up with my fitness and nutrition. I'm not a gym rat and with 50 pounds to drop, I'm sure not going into a gym and hitting it hard. I need a program that patiently phases me into the cardio and weights. I don't feel comfortable in a gym yet and so I use her exercises to get in shape at home. And it's working! I love her whole concept of Woman Food. I've been eating like a guy for too long. I really like the way she allows me to customize what I need as a woman who is well into my perimenopause. I have tried her shakes for my mid afternoon snack and they work like a charm to cut carb cravings and I am less prone to overeating in the evening. Finally, I was never built like an athlete and I have no goal of looking hugely muscular and parading around in a bathing suit. I just want to be as mentally and physically fit as I can be. That would be my gift to myself and my family. In my first week I have "removed" four pounds, feel energized, and happier with my life and have hope that I too can experience the transformation.
Victoria Segal |
Dr. Peeke Nails It
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| Review Date: April 15, 2005 |
| Reviewer: Eric Eckenrode, Maryland |
As a life long athlete and body builder I am well aware of the Body for Life program. I stepped down from competitive body building, and have since been a strength and fitness trainer. Over the years I have had the pleasure of training men and women who really want to get in shape and achieve some optimal level of wellness. The guys have always gotten the "go hard or go home" message and welcome the sweat and intensity and therefore resonate with the original program. My frustration has been finding a way to reach most of my women clients and get them to push the envelope, get intense and transform. Most are so motivated and then run into problems with how to balance their workouts with caring for so many others in their life, and then there's the ups and downs with self image and moods, tough times with eating right and finally what's up with their hormone status. I got Dr. Peeke's book Body for Life for Women and after scoping it out, there's no question I personally have a better understanding of how differently women are hard wired when it comes to approaching their transformation. As a trainer, I want to be there to guide each woman in a way that respects their unique needs. This book nails it. I now recommend all of my clients read it. I really think it gives women a blueprint that's reasonable and realistic. None of my women clients want to look ripped and pose in bathing suits. Instead they so want to achieve the best body composition they can and know that they have to have a healthy and focused attitude to make it all happen. I really like Dr. Peeke's phased in approach to the workouts. Many of the women I train are obese and very out of shape, and frequently with medical conditions, and there's no way they are attacking a high intensity workout to start. I like the 12 week Weight Removal segments. They make realistic sense. I see these women get hung up on feeling bad about themselves if they aren't perfect. Dr. Peeke's principles teach women it doesn't have to be that way. So, I say if you're a trainer out there this is the book to give your women clients who aren't natural athletes but wonderful people who just want a chance to achieve their dream of a mental and physical transformation in a patient and realistic matter, that doesn't end after 12 weeks, but is a program for a life time.
Eric Eckenrode
1991 IFBB Mr. North America-m/w
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Dr. Peeke's Program TRANSFORMED My Life!
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| Review Date: April 7, 2005 |
| Reviewer: H. Buckholtz, Washington DC |
I love the way Dr. Peeke's book speaks to women! I am 25 years old and reading "Body For Life For Women" was like sitting down with Dr. Peeke one on one. Who else could have written this book but a TRIPLE THREAT like Pamela Peeke? She's got the experience and the credentials -- she's a physician, scientist and accomplished athlete!
Dr. Peeke is the REAL DEAL.
When I met Pam Peeke I was thirteen years old and weighed nearly 300 pounds; other doctors, nutritionists and specialists had written me off as a lost cause, but not Dr. Peeke! She motivated and inspired me to follow her simple program. I listened to her wisdom and used her strategies and I have since removed (and maintained) a weight loss of 100 POUNDS for over 12 years!
Dr. Peeke completely transformed my life. She gave me the confidence to "get with the program." Peeke's KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM and SENSE OF HUMOR set her apart from the pack -- she wasn't just another questionable fitness professional. She understood my unique problems and she offered me SOLUTIONS THAT FIT!
Men have it made -- they don't have to deal with the issues that women are faced with. As a woman, I am grateful for the unique expertise Dr. Peeke brings to this book. As a woman, I grapple with body image insecurities and hormonal challenges. I especially love Peeke's MIND MOUTH MUSCLE template (it's my MANTRA!) It helps me get centered and focus on myself and my needs, and when I incorporate these principles into my life I see a DRASTIC difference in my attitude and outlook. I am more able to care for MYSELF and attend to my needs, rather than the needs of everyone else around me.
To this day I use Dr. Peeke's 10 Power Mind Principles to help guide me through times of increased stress and anxiety. I have learned how to focus on the process of self-care, manage my life and live my dreams! Her first book, "Fight Fat Over Forty" is also awesome -- it outlines how to break the cycle of emotional/stress overeating and under eating. It doesn't matter what age you are - it's an amazing read (I was 21 when I first read it!)
I would be lost without Dr. Peeke's program, and I know that when I feel lost, all I have to do is repeat the program for as long as it takes and the weight will be removed! This program means so much to me. This simple lifestyle program has dramatically transformed my life emotionally and physically - my mind and my body finally feel connected and I have been able to get through challenges like school, jobs,
love, loss, friendships, LIFE!
Dr. Peeke gave me a simple roadmap for how to live the life I always wanted - all I had to do put one foot in front of the other and follow her program -- and you can too!!
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Translates BFL in a Language ALL Women Will Understand!
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| Review Date: April 11, 2005 |
| Reviewer: Pamela Hickerson Akaka, Malibu, CA |
This book was written for all my women friends who did not get the original Bill Phillips Body For Life, gung-ho approach to working out till your muscles quiver to failure before you can transform. Many women thought BFL was just for body builders! Don't get me wrong, I loved the original BFL and became a Champion in the year 2000. But my frustration was trying to help all my girlfriends who did not "GET IT"...but wanted to.
Dr. Peeke's book explains why my approach was more like an engineer, analytical, using a spreadsheet to follow the BFL program exactly. But some women need more. Peek's BFL for Women does not replace the 1st one but translates the program into a language ALL women will truly relate to. Dr. Peeke is all about body comp not weight. This book promises to succeed where all others have failed. I would buy them both! |
Finally a program designed for women
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| Review Date: April 11, 2005 |
| Reviewer: Cindy MacRae, Springfield, VA |
I just finished Dr. Pam Peeke's book "Body for Life for Women" and I am excited about the information presented in her book. I began following Dr. Peeke's advice when her book "Fight Fat After Forty" came out. I had just turned 50, was overweight and felt terrible about myself. I was most intrigued with the notion that stress can cause fat. I did follow her plan and lost weight but then life happened and my self care went out the window. In Dr. Peeke's new book "Body for Life for Women" I love how she tells women to fight for our right to self-care. If we don't take care of ourselves, we won't be able to take care of our families. I also love how she discusses the changes that our bodies go through and how we need to adjust to those changes especially when it comes to eating and exercise. The 10 Power Mind Principles make so much sense and can easily be incorporated into anyone's life. Becoming a master regrouper has now become my mantra, as Plan A often doesn't work when you have 3 very active boys. I now feel that I can regroup and go after my goal again without feeling guilty or beating myself up.
One of the most helpful tools in her new book was the Motivational Bull's Eye. We all think that we have our reasons for wanting to change, but do we really know what will keep us motivated? This is a great exercise and a must for anyone wanting to lose weight or change anything in their life. Her winning formula of "Mind, Mouth and Muscle" helps to keep me focused and on track daily. I know as women we chase after that fictional "perfect body" but Dr. Peeke shows us how to achieve progress and not perfection. Her food table, portion size and training method are easy to follow. I like how she has expanded on the exercises from the original "Body for Life" book and made it easy to follow for women. These exercises can be done at home without worrying about having to find a gym with weight machines.
I applaud Dr. Peeke for having come out with a book specifically for women and sharing her expertise as a physician and an athlete. I am excited about participating in the 12-week program and continuing toward a healthier life. Because of Dr. Peeke, I am now training for a marathon in the fall. Thanks Dr. Peeke for changing my life. |
This M.D highly recommends this wonderful book!
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| Review Date: April 19, 2005 |
| Reviewer: Kathleen G. Albrecht, Chicago, Illinois |
As a physician I give this book my highest ratings. I discovered Dr. Peeke over two years ago by reading her first book, Fight Fat After Forty. I was so inspired by it personally that I started to recommend it to my patients. My patients themselves were just as inspired. Most importantly, the book led them to evaluate their health and lives differently.
This was to both our benefit, because I ended up having patients who took better care of themselves because they became more knowledgeable and more compassionate towards their own health issues. As a physician, if you can impart this to your patients you can then really begin to be a true healer.
Dr. Peeke was one of first doctors to make the stress fat/visceral fat connection with her ground-breaking research.But then she did what most researchers do not: she brought her research and passion for learning and teaching into her own clinical practice.
Her first book dealt with the stress fat connection that seems even more relevant to women in their caretaking and multi-tasking lives.Even more so, the book explained how Perimenopause creates food cravings and wreaks havoc in our energy levels by changing a women's hormone balance.
Her second book is based on her own clinical practice,incorporating the winning principles that she has spent years of treating patients to develop. It's really what makes this book so unique.
They really work and as a physician, I am in awe of how well she is able to understand and communicate motivational goal setting as well as inspire patients to understand their own bodies, both physically and mentally.
What I appreciate with this book is the empathy and compassion she brings to each page.
SHE HAS CREATED A WORKING HEALTH TEMPLATE FOR WOWEN OF ALL AGES.
This template is for women who not only want to "remove" weight but for women, who want to have increased energy, stress "resilience" and live more fulfilling, healthy lives.
She takes a no-nonsense attitude and speaks in her own inimitable voice exactly as she does to her each of her own patients to teach, motivate and inspire each reader to take on the exciting challenge of creating health, balance and joy in their lives.
Her first book explains the principles of the stress fat connection and I recommended the book to many of my female patients because I found it to be very readable and informative for the layperson.
Importantly it de-stigmatized for women the changes in energy, body mass changes and changes in response to stress that naturally come in the late thirties and forties. She made the changes understandable, but also treatable.
She removed the stigma of feeling overwhelmed or ashamed of feeling out-of-control with one's life, habits and cravings.
Every patient who read it was inspired by it- as I was myself when I read it.
I have since then met Dr. Pamela Peeke. She is an amazing individual who has dedicated her career to helping patients with weight gain, stress management and health issues related to both. She is wonderful teacher and mentor to many, many people. She is one of the few medical doctors I know who also has a degree in Nutrition and did years of research on fat cells and stress at the National Institute of Health- which is the nation's preeminent center for Medicine and Research.
You could not find a more well-informed and well-trained doctor in this field.
In her book one can just hear her own voice speaking. She lives by the principles she espouses, and her sense of humor, her compassion and her belief in the amazing power of self-renewal that we all have inside us is both inspiring and uplifting.
As a physician, I know exactly how difficult it is to explain healthy principles of the body and mind to patients who have ingrained habits or who feel overwhelmed by the medical terms and conventional doctor-speak that leaves them feeling frustrated and hopeless.
Dr. Peeke is a wonderful communicator and has learned how to motivate and teach in a way that makes patients feel both knowledgeable and empowered.
As a woman in my forties I also have many of the same issues that my female patients have with changing energy levels and insidious weight gain. Despite knowing all the science myself I still don't always treat my own time schedule and self with the same kindness, respect and compassion I do for family, friends and patients.
I think this is true of most women in their various caretaking roles.
Add to that Perimenopause, carbohydrate craving peculiar only to women, plummeting energy levels in the late afternoon, and taking care of oneself can seem like a hopeless task.
Dr. Peeke's book is a perfect health primer and a book one can refer back to for inspiration over and over again. Having read her first book several times I think her new book is the perfect companion to the first. It gives genuine principles to work by that are straight-forward, no-nonsense and actually really work.
I recommend her book both as a physician and as a woman- read her book, it's a joy to read and Dr. Peeke's philosophy of self-care and self-honor is in every word of this book. Her patient's stories are honest and inspiring. Her medical principles and science are cutting-edge, and her nutritional background plus her emphasis on weight training makes this book a perfect template and primer to get started on the road to better health and fitness.
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