Fit to Live: The 5-Point Plan to be Lean, Strong, and Fearless for Life [Hardcover]

Dr. Pamela Peeke M.D. M.P.H. F.A.C.P. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1594866600 | ISBN-13: 978-1594866609 | Edition: 1

New York Times best-selling author Dr. Pamela Peeke helps readers trim their waists, shed pounds, and lengthen their lives in her witty, tough-love functional fitness and lifestyle plan.

With more than 300,000 copies in print, Dr. Pamela Peeke's New York Times bestseller Body-for-LIFE for Women has helped scores of readers transform their bodies. Her newest book shines light on the heavy weight of the 21st century lifestyle, with its fake food, desk jobs, clutter, and endless stress, and asks readers, "If your life depended on it, could you run up four flights of stairs right now? Are you Fit to Live, not only to survive, but to enjoy life?" For most people, the answer is no and they don't know it.

Combining Peeke's trademark in-your-face wit with heart-stopping reality checks, Fit to Live offers readers an active health/lifestyle assessment: How many pushups can they do in 2 minutes? How many servings of processed foods did they eat today? Peeke translates those results into research-based predictions of readers' long-term prognoses and helps readers gauge just how much fat--mental, nutritional, physical, financial, environmental--to cut from their toxic lifestyles to become Fit to Live. Showing how these five core areas intertwine, Peeke offers bottom-line strategies to adapt and adjust to life's stresses; get a stronger, leaner body; enjoy greater financial security; and create a healthier living space. Readers will become Fit to Live and lead dynamic and exciting lives, both now and for the future.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books; 1 edition (May 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594866600
• ISBN-13: 978-1594866609
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #488,990 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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53 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great advice ;-), May 20, 2007

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Little Miss Cutey (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fit to Live: The 5-Point Plan to be Lean, Strong, and Fearless for Life (Hardcover)

I've seen Pamela Peeke interviewed on many shows over the years and she consistantly seems to make sense to me. She's very knowledgable and in another book of hers that I've read, she makes her subject matters very easy to understand and relate to.

The main theme inside this new book is the way our 'toxic' lifestyles can make us fat and how we can make some changes in order to be fit and healthy. She starts out by saying how she's there to save your life if you let her. She poses the question (one that made me really think) "If you had to suddenly leave your comfort zone and run for your life, hoist your body out of a broken elevator, run after a child headed toward a busy street, or grab a tree limb to stop from falling, could you do it? Are you Fit to Live?" Your answer will either shock you to your core or make you proud. Not many might be able to answer yes. She talks about toxic belly fat (this is very scary).

This fascinating book is a bit of a twist on weight loss and fat reduction books. It's well written and thought provoking and will almost surely change your outlook on your life as a whole - no matter what area (financial included). I found it really interesting and she offers great advice. I highly recommend this.

38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the real deal., May 27, 2007

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Ames (Washington DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fit to Live: The 5-Point Plan to be Lean, Strong, and Fearless for Life (Hardcover)

I read Dr. Peeke's new book in one sitting, and it's just as great as "Body for Life for Women," with a whole bunch of new meaty (and nutritional!) insight. She gets it; this book is the ultimate instruction manual for a good healthy lifestyle. It's about transformation and progress, not perfection. I'm one of Dr. Peeke's fans, and a patient, and I am in the midst of my own "Fit to Live" revolution; and this book is almost as good as a personal session with Dr. Peeke in the flesh. She is really as funny, honest, encouraging, visionary, and dedicated to making people's lives happier and healthier in print as she is in person. This book IS her, and her common sense and compassion are in every page. Dr. Peeke says that when you're ready for change, real transforming change, you need to own the process. In my opinion, you also need to own this book.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless, July 31, 2007

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This review is from: Fit to Live: The 5-Point Plan to be Lean, Strong, and Fearless for Life (Hardcover)

This is the best way I have found to keep up motivation. I'll listen to Dr. Peeke while walking and she is so inspiring that my resolve to lose weight and stay fit is constantly renewed.