Crack the Fat-Loss Code: Outsmart Your Metabolism and Conquer the Diet Plateau
Crack the Fat-Loss Code: Outsmart Your Metabolism and Conquer the Diet Plateau
The New York Times Bestseller!
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LOSE UP TO 25 POUNDS IN 8 WEEKS AND KEEP IT OFF!
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The human body evolved to resist starvation by holding on to fat. No wonder it’s so difficult to lose weight! Now a revolutionary lifestyle plan finally cracks the code for efficient fat loss. Developed by leading nutrition specialist Wendy Chant, the plan is scientifically designed to help you “outsmart” your body’s natural cycles for storing and burning calories.
Crack the Fat Loss Code teaches you how to boost your metabolism through “macro-patterning”–a simple routine of alternating carb-up, carb-down, and baseline days. There are even built-in cheat days, so you can enjoy the foods you love. Once you get your eating habits on schedule, you’ll find that you can lose weight . . . for good.
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In just eight short weeks, you’ll be able to:
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- REPROGRAM YOUR BODY–to burn the fat and keep it off.
- . FEEL HEALTHY, NOT HUNGRY–with limitless food options.
- . CONQUER THAT DIET PLATEAU–once and for all..
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“Crack the Fat-Loss Code brings you the most sensible solution to permanent weight management I have seen.”
–Frederick C. Hatfield, Ph.D., bestselling author of Bodybuilding: A Scientific Approach, Hardcore Bodybuilding, and Ultimate Sports Nutrition
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User Ratings and Reviews
1 Stars Complexity is part of the problem
All diets work - short term. Unfortunately emotions are the reason why 95% of people can’t sustain weight loss. Dr. Maxwell Maltz and Dr. Norton L. Williams found the only way to sustain weight loss is to change your habits…one at a time (also see Robert Mikkelsen’s book The Story of Big Belly Bob). Funny how this research gets brushed under the carpet.
Below is some additional info:
Dr. Norton L. Williams, psychiatrist, said recently that modern man’s anxiety and insecurity stemmed from a lack of “self-realization,” and that inner security can only be found “in finding in oneself an individuality, uniqueness and distinctiveness. Our currently held beliefs, whether good or bad, true or false, were formed without effort, with no sense of strain, and without the exercise of “will power.” Our habits, whether good or bad. were formed in the same way. It follows that we must employ the same process in forming new beliefs, or new habits, that is, in a relaxed condition. It has been amply demonstrated that attempting to use effort or will power to cure bad habits has an adverse rather than a beneficial effect.
Emile Coue` The little French pharmacist who astonished the world around 1920 with the results he obtained with “the power of suggestion,” insisted that effort was the one big reason most people failed to utilize their inner powers. “Your suggestions (ideal goals) must be made without effort if they are to be effective,” he said. Another famous Coue` saying was his “Law of Reversed Effort”: “When the will and the imagination are in conflict, the imagination invariably will win.”
http://www.durbinhypnosis.com/maltz.htm
3 Stars After one week on the program…
I’ve lost 5 pounds. I came to this diet from another lower carb plan, so didn’t have a lot of water weight to lose.
Yes, the sample foods in the meal plans are boring and unimaginative and were never going to happen for me. But instead, I took the allowed foods and created my own Week 1 meal plan. Most of us eat the same things from week to week, so I picked a couple of breakfasts, a snack list to choose from on the spur, a lunch & dinner basic plan (only the protein varied) and so on. My days included no cottage cheese meals and no protein shakes - and even so I was following the program.
A typical week 1 day looked like this for me -
Meal 1 - egg & egg white omelet with sauteed mushrooms & spinach in olive oil, topped with some very sharp cheddar cheese, coffee with cream
Meal 2 - about 12 almonds
Meal 3 - a big romaine leaf lettuce salad with a combo of olive oil/ranch dressing (I’m not an olive oil/vinagrette girl so kept 1 TBSP ranch) with diced cucumbers, spinach, and topped with delicious buffalo chicken breast strips (homemade w/o breading and browned in skillet sprayed with olive oil),
Meal 4 - celery with homemade ranch dip OR cheese & sliced turkey wrapped in romaine lettuce leaf and stuffed with other veggies
Meal 5 - coated fish with ground flaxseed and browned in 1-2 tsp canola, brocc or asparagus or the like topped with a tsp of butter and a pinch of cheese, and a green salad topped with the above dressing
Meal 6 - low fat cheese stick or my fave sunflower seeds (3 carbs worth).
I kept my carbs well within her limits for the first week (no carb counting after week 1) and my average intakes were 103 gm protein, 12 gms net carbs, 85 gms fat. Yes, it’s VERY high in fat the first week but that’s normal for a very low carb program - too much protein will overwhelm the body so the difference has to come from somewhere. The fat intake gets scaled back after week 1 when carbs get reintroduced.
I can’t review the program past week 1, but will try to come back and update. The meal plans and recipes don’t concern me at all because I enjoy making up my own meals, but if you are a person who wants a detailed plan to follow exactly, you’ll be disappointed.
4 Stars Very good diet book
I thought this was a very good diet book. I used it to lose 15 pounds and keep them off. I like the fact that the meal plans are very specific, and personally I love the shakes. I used to eat ice cream almost every day, and when I was following the diet I was able to cut it out completely because the shakes were a nice substitute. Even now, I only eat ice cream once a week, and I have shakes for the rest of the week. My only problems are that it’s not quite as easy as Wendy says–you have to read it very carefully–and there are a couple of proofreading mistakes in the text!
5 Stars Crack The Fat Book
The book is very good. Ordering, processing of order, and receipt of this book were all handled in an excellent manner.
5 Stars Awesome!
I would like to say Wendy’s diet is amazing and would definitely recommend it to anyone trying to lose weight or becoming a better eater. I have lost a total of 17lbs! And I have become more conscious of the way I eat and what I eat! I do have my cheat days when they come back and haunt me but I get right back on Wendy and it all works out again!!
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