If you are looking for body for life recipes, I donâ??t blame you! I did the body for life contest back in 2001, and although I lost a ton of weight and got in the best shape of my life, there was only so much egg whites, tuna and chicken breasts I could take.  Towards the end, my cravings were driving me crazy and as soon as I finished I pigged out and gained the weight back. I then spent the next 7 years trying to lose that fat again. Problem was I got to the point now that I couldnâ??t even stomach the Body For Life Authorised foods. I was literally dry reaching when I was chewing them! So I too began looking for body for life recipes. I came across Eating For Life, which had some great ones. What I noticed was that when following these body for life recipes, I was still losing fat just as fast eating â??chicken enchiladasâ? or his â??high protein cheesecakeâ? as I was when I was eating just tuna and an apple, or egg whites and oatmeal. Being a dieting tragic though I still found it too hard to stick to. So after 7 years, I looked exactly the same because I would go between short periods of dieting, to long periods of pigging out! Then one day I thought back to this time of Body For Life Recipes and realised that no matter what I ate, I lost fat at the same rate. It dawned on me that maybe I should just focus on HOW MUCH food I am eating as opposed to WHAT food I was eating. So I threw away all those rules like 6 meals a day, eating only lean protein, eating a protein and carb portion in every meal, eating only certain carbs...and instead focused solely on creating a calorie deficit. I lost 35 pounds of fat, 6.5 inches of flab off my waist and got a ripped six pack that was so ridiculously easy I have managed to maintain it quite comfortably. I did this all while eating my favourite cereals, breads, burgers, chips and pasta dishes whenever felt like it. And I didnâ??t have to turn down food, and I got to enj...