Fatloss for Idiots review [page 3]
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Sound too good to be true, right? Well, they’ve hit on something about eating more. Eating three times a day is so 2009… What I mean is eating at those kinds of intervals per day is an effective way to rev up the metabolism, and if we’ve learned anything from the bombardment of TV ads about metabolism, that’s how we burn fat. I’ve personally used a program like that maintain my own body, eating about six times a day – same food types, probably same portions. The difference is, I used T.O.’s Finding Fitness, and I got it for free at my public library. And he’s a professional athlete. What’s in Fatloss that I need to pay forty dollars for?
It might be in this notion of Calorie Shifting. It might be that no one has heard of T.O.’s book, if they even know who T.O. is (Terrell Owens, football player). It might be the exclamation that nine pounds will vanish from my body in only eleven days. But that doesn’t matter. What matters is your choice, and I’ve racked up the pros and cons below to help you make an informed one.
If one does decide to buy the book, then all the earlier cons of the website setup start to diminish. The book itself, called “The Diet Handbook”, contains a lot of valuable information. It starts off by outlining ten rules that are important to follow and in a way that “idiots” can understand.
The first rule focuses on which types of meals to target – protein meals and carbohydrate meals – and which foods compose these two groups. Then it talks about how one should eat more meals in a day with less calories each meal rather than fewer meals and fewer total calories in a day. This notion is true and universal and often missed in other diet plans. Even body builders consume five to eight meals a day and lose weight simply by avoiding their bodies from “shutting down the system” of calorie burning. That is, starvation can cause the body to think, ‘Wait! I can’t keep burning calories because I might not get any tomorrow.’ But by eating more often and in the right way, the body attempts to burn more calories in an effort to maintain an average calorie burn, and that is exactly the “secret” behind the diet plan.
The rest of the book contains many helpful nutrition secrets that some other diet methods neglect to mention. For example, as any good nutritionist would tell you, it is important to self-prepare meals at home rather than eating out or having others prepare meals for you. Furthermore, one should always avoid or sparingly use condiments. Things like ketchup and miracle whip contain unwanted fats and sugary carbohydrates that can pollute the body and slow the metabolic system (that is, the rate at which one’s body burns calories). It would have been nice though if the book mentioned appropriate condiment substitutes like certain spices or fat free mayos that contain the same great taste without all of the unwanted calories.
Other important topics discussed include knowing when to stop eating. A lot of people have a tendency to eat until they feel overly full. That is unnecessary. The book neglects to mention how it takes 15 minutes to realize that one is full and that eating slower and drinking more liquids such as water can produce fullness at a quicker rate. However, the book does spend a while stressing the importance of water. One bit of useful and usually never heard facts is that drinking more water actually causes our bodies to retain less of it. Many people tend to under-drink to avoid “bloating” and “puffiness”, but it appears that over-drinking is the solution.
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