Burn
the Fat, Feed the Muscle Review
Anyone who has done
extensive reading on many of the different diet and nutrition
books and articles out there will find Tom Venturo's "Burn
the Fat, Feed the Muscle" a breath of fresh air.
What made me willing to give Tom's book a try is that his website
gave me the impression that he and I have very much the same core
beliefs when it comes to losing weight. What I am referring
to is the belief that a successful weight loss program takes work.
Losing weight is not
difficult but at the same time it is not easy either. The
problem with losing weight effectively is that you have to work
for it and give up on the magic solutions (again my core belief).
The real problem is that you cannot be effective at losing weight
if you do not know what you are doing (no matter how hard you work
at it).
And that is where
Tom comes in. Tom excels at explaining how you should diet
to lose weight. I've worked hard at providing the
information I know on this site but Tom takes the same information
to another level. The book goes into detail on topics
like:
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Negative
calorie foods - takes more calories to
digest these foods then the amount of calories in the food itself.
Therefore eating these types of foods makes you burn calories.
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Goal
setting - don't over look this step it
is the first and probably most important chapter in the book.
You can apply this chapter to all aspects of life (not just
dieting)
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Understanding you body composition and how to chart your progress
- how do you know if you are making
progress if you do not chart it correctly?
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Understanding your body type - there is
no one diet that fits everybody and once you understand your body
you can map out a plan that will be successful to you.
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Good fats vs bad
fats, importance of water, weightraining
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Etc, etc, etc...
Tom's book is a little under 300
pages and a very easy read. Another thing that I like about
Tom's book is that you do not have to be a nutritionist or
biological chemist to understand what he is taking about.
Tom writes as if he was sitting down and having a conversation
with you verses giving you a bunch of technical mumbo jumbo.
It is really no surprise why Tom has the
number one book for his genre and I highly recommend this book to anyone
that has struggled with weight loss in the past. You do not have to
be a bodybuilder to gain from the information on this site and Tom's book.
In closing I would like to state that my wife has struggled with weight
loss her whole life and the pictures below are testimony on how anyone can
turn things around (no matter how many times they failed in the past)
I think a picture is more than worth a
thousand words in this case.
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