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This week I am going to review the internet’s all time best selling diet ebook. Is it really worth the hype? Or yet another example of slick marketing that doesn’t deliver the goods? Let’s check it out …
burn the fat Feed The Muscle, Or Burn The Cash Feed The Creator? I actually bought this ebook two years ago. It was a best seller back then and remains a best seller to this very day. In fact, it’s the best selling diet ebook in the internet’s history (apparently).
The book is called Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle and is written by a guy called Tom Venuto. Tom is a former body builder and he promises to reveal the secrets to shedding the pounds.
You may think to yourself why would a body builder need to lose weight? Well they go through a process called bulking up, when they eat like a hungry hippo, and this causes them to add both fat and muscle.
If they want to then get that ‘ripped’ look they need to lose the excess fat.
For me a bodybuilder is actually a very good person to learn this kind of thing from. Sometimes people sell diet programs and they are just genetically gifted, meaning they could shed the pounds regardless of which diet they are on. The same could be said for bodybuilders, however they HAVE to go through this process to get ‘ripped’ regardless of genetics. So they should, in theory, know their stuff.
Does Tom Venuto know his stuff? Well, yes actually. Maybe a bit too much!
Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle is not your average, useless rehashed rubbish you see in every ebook out there. For a start it’s big. Very big. At three hundred and forty one pages you’re not looking at something that can be printed off and read in twenty minutes. This is both a good thing, and a bad thing.
It’s a bad thing because many of us hate to read.
It’s a good thing because by the time you have read it, and the bonuses, you will know exactly what you need to do in order to gain the body you desire.
For example I have read a lot of books on dieting. None of them go into detail on your body type in the same way Burn The Fat does.
This is very, very important because it allows you to distinguish which body type you are, and therefore which diet program you should be on. If you start a diet program without knowing which type you are it could have the reverse effect and you could actually gain weight!
That’s scary isn’t it? That all of these diet courses you have looked into miss one of the most vital aspects in the long term body redesigning.
So What’s In The Book?
Along with deciding which body shape you are Tom explains why you gain weight. This is also very important.
You see once you understand why you put on the pounds you will then have a much more solid foundation in your dieting.
You probably think “I gain weight because I eat too much and don’t exercise”. Hmm. That makes sense doesn’t it?
Well then why is it (and we all know someone like this) that there are people out there who can eat nothing but pizza, drink tons of beer and never work out and they remain chiselled like a Greek God
(the lucky so-and-so)? Tom explains why that is in the book.
Another subject Tom talks about is the dreaded carbohydrates. There is so much conflicting information on this subject you never quite know what’s right and what’s wrong. Do you listen to Dr Atkins, or ignore him?
Tom explains what you should do with carbs and backs it up with scientific fact in chapter eleven.
Other topics covered are eating proteins, water intake, macronutrient ratios, body composition and much, much more. This is the most comprehensive and complete diet program I have seen as of yet (I will be researching and bringing you more of the good, the bad and the ugly over the next few weeks). If you want an A To Z roadmap you can follow this is it.
What About The Bad Points?
I thrive on being honest with my readers and subscribers. So let’s cut through the b.s. and talk real world dieting now.
If you’re looking for a course that will just magically get the weight off of you this isn’t it. It will take dedication and you’ll have to do a little exercise (shock, horror!)
Unfortunately as of yet there is no such thing as a magic pill that will turn you into who you want to be. It will take time and effort, like all things worthwhile in life. And nothing is more worthwhile than your look, self esteem and health.
Also it is long and a bit of a heavy read. This however is a good thing because it is so comprehensive, rather than programs that leave loads of loose ends.
I broke it down into twenty page chunks and read it over a period of two weeks taking notes. I suggest you do the same.
At less than forty dollars this is a snip. I suggest you check this out. Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle
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09
Oct
Oct
If you want to burn off fat and keep it off permanently, there are a few things you absolutely must do, and a new study from Wake Forest University has just uncovered another one.
Previous research has concluded without a shred of doubt that high levels of exercise are one of the keys to keeping fat off and maintaining your ideal weight.
In a new study published in the October issue of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, researchers found for the first time, proof that the drop in physical activity that happens automatically during calorie restriction is directly correlated to weight regain.
We’ve known for some time that when you restrict calories, your level of non exercise physical activity (non exercise activity thermogenesis or NEAT), drops spontaneously, even if you don’t realize it’s happening.
Your physical activity energy expenditure (PAEE) also tends to drop when you restrict calories.
Basically, when you cut calories, you get sluggish, you move your body less, you don’t feel like exercising and if you do exercise, you do it with with less “gusto.”
This means that unless you intentionally counter this tendency by pushing yourself to keep active and keep up the intensity, despite your low calorie intake, your weight loss will slow down automatically as you continue with caloric restriction. (can you say, “fat loss plateau?”)
The new twist to this story is that in this latest study the researchers followed up on the subjects through the maintenance period - with 6 month and 12 month checkups.
This is significant, because most fat loss “success stories” are reported immediately after the weight loss phase, but you never know what happened to them afterwards.
Not surprisingly, it wasn’t much of a “maintenance” period… almost everyone regained most of the weight.
The surprise was WHY they regained back the weight and WHO regained the most…
The drop in physical activity during the diet was directly related to the weight regain after the diet!
The researchers wrote,
“The greater the decrease in physical activity energy expenditure (PAEE) during the energy deficit, the greater the weight gain during the follow up.”
“That won’t happen to me,” you say? Think again. That drop in activity usually happens unconsciously. It’s part of the “starvation response” (or “weight-regulating mechanism” if you prefer). Your body tricks you in countless ways, in order to restore energy balance and stabilize your weight.
If you believe that diet alone is the answer or that you can skimp on the training, you are shooting yourself in the foot and thinking short-term.
When you extend out your time frame to a year or longer, you get a whole new perspective.
For years, I have been imploring my readers and subscribers to “burn the fat” with higher levels of exercise - strength training AND cardio training - while “feeding the muscle” with a higher intake of clean food, instead of simply “starving the fat” with low calorie diets and little or no exercise.
“Eat More, Burn More”… “burn the fat FEED the muscle.” those are the mottos you want to remember.
Can you lose weight without exercise? Of course. Just be sure you have a dietary-induced calorie deficit. Is it the best way? Not by a long shot.
Bottom line: If you want to maximize your fat loss, and keep fat off permanently, it is imperative not only to keep up a high level of energy expenditure (burn calories not just cut them), but also to make a conscious effort to make sure your activity level does not drop as you lose weight during the calorie deficit.
Tom Venuto
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/avoid-this-killer-weight-regain-mistake-745944.html
09
Oct
Oct
If you want to burn off fat and keep it off permanently, there are a few things you absolutely must do, and a new study from Wake Forest University has just uncovered another one.
Previous research has concluded without a shred of doubt that high levels of exercise are one of the keys to keeping fat off and maintaining your ideal weight.
In a new study published in the October issue of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, researchers found for the first time, proof that the drop in physical activity that happens automatically during calorie restriction is directly correlated to weight regain.
We’ve known for some time that when you restrict calories, your level of non exercise physical activity (non exercise activity thermogenesis or NEAT), drops spontaneously, even if you don’t realize it’s happening.
Your physical activity energy expenditure (PAEE) also tends to drop when you restrict calories.
Basically, when you cut calories, you get sluggish, you move your body less, you don’t feel like exercising and if you do exercise, you do it with with less “gusto.”
This means that unless you intentionally counter this tendency by pushing yourself to keep active and keep up the intensity, despite your low calorie intake, your weight loss will slow down automatically as you continue with caloric restriction. (can you say, “fat loss plateau?”)
The new twist to this story is that in this latest study the researchers followed up on the subjects through the maintenance period - with 6 month and 12 month checkups.
This is significant, because most fat loss “success stories” are reported immediately after the weight loss phase, but you never know what happened to them afterwards.
Not surprisingly, it wasn’t much of a “maintenance” period… almost everyone regained most of the weight.
The surprise was WHY they regained back the weight and WHO regained the most…
The drop in physical activity during the diet was directly related to the weight regain after the diet!
The researchers wrote,
“The greater the decrease in physical activity energy expenditure (PAEE) during the energy deficit, the greater the weight gain during the follow up.”
“That won’t happen to me,” you say? Think again. That drop in activity usually happens unconsciously. It’s part of the “starvation response” (or “weight-regulating mechanism” if you prefer). Your body tricks you in countless ways, in order to restore energy balance and stabilize your weight.
If you believe that diet alone is the answer or that you can skimp on the training, you are shooting yourself in the foot and thinking short-term.
When you extend out your time frame to a year or longer, you get a whole new perspective.
For years, I have been imploring my readers and subscribers to “burn the fat” with higher levels of exercise - strength training AND cardio training - while “feeding the muscle” with a higher intake of clean food, instead of simply “starving the fat” with low calorie diets and little or no exercise.
“Eat More, Burn More”… “burn the fat FEED the muscle.” those are the mottos you want to remember.
Can you lose weight without exercise? Of course. Just be sure you have a dietary-induced calorie deficit. Is it the best way? Not by a long shot.
Bottom line: If you want to maximize your fat loss, and keep fat off permanently, it is imperative not only to keep up a high level of energy expenditure (burn calories not just cut them), but also to make a conscious effort to make sure your activity level does not drop as you lose weight during the calorie deficit.
Tom Venuto
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/avoid-this-killer-weight-regain-mistake-745944.html
09
Oct
Oct
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