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This is my uncensored review of what I really thought about Leigh Peele's The Fat Loss Troubleshooter.
Please keep in mind, this is a review, so if you're looking for The Fat Loss Troubleshooter website, then click here now.
Why am I writing this? When I first came across this ebook, I searched online for REAL reviews, and didn't find any! So I thought I'd save anyone the trouble if they're in the same position I was in. Let's face it: $77 is a lot of money to spend on an ebook, and although I've never had any problem getting a refund, knowing the nuts and bolts before purchasing is a big plus.
Below, I will show you a couple of my "before and after" photos. Keep in mind, that I am nowhere near done losing weight, but I have lost about 15-20 pounds within the last couple of months.
Ok, so upon purchasing this product, I unzipped the file to my desktop. My internet connection is the lowest available "high speed" and it didn't take but a few seconds to download completely.
In the folder, there's 12 pdf files! Here starts my first gripe: These files are arranged alphabetically, not in the order that they should be read. So I was left with a "Where do I start?" feeling. Twelve files is a lot to read when you want to lose weight NOW. I know you know how that feels. I don't want to spend 2 weeks reading through a crapload of pdf files to get to the good stuff! (Mini-gripe over.)
Thank goodness you have me to tell you what order to read them in, huh? :)
PDF #1: The Fat Loss Troubleshooter (152 pages) - This is the guide that's gonna give you more info than you want, but it's the best place to start. Specifically, if you want to skim, I'd suggest paying attention to Chapter 4: Food Counts, Chapter 5: Counting Calories, Chapter 7: Secret of Fat Loss, and Chapter 17: Putting It All Together For Fat Loss. This will give you the overall jist of the info, and you can skim or read the rest at your leisure. One thing that I liked: She stresses that you don't have to exercise to lose body fat! But, if you do, you'll like the end result much better.
PDF #2: The Metabolic Repair Manual (147 pages) - I have to be honest, I didn't read this one. It is recommended for those who have wrecked their metabolism with years of low calorie diets. I don't fall under that category, so I saved brain space by not reading it, ha ha.
PDF #3: OPT Fat Loss (31 pages) - This is your program right here, laid out with exactly how you need to eat and exactly what exercises you need to do (with pictures). This is the pdf that I printed out and have been using religiously for my big transformation. The exercises are really easy, but you will need a set of weights or something comparable (water jugs, food cans, etc.). I use 5, 8, and 10 pound free weights and a chair to do the step ups with.
PDF #4: Meal Plans (33 pages) - This is going to help you tremendously if you've never counted calories and macros before. She gives complete meal plans for a variety of different calorie targets, starting with 1200 calories. It helped me put together some meal plans when I didn't know where to start, but I really wish she would have included more meal variations.
PDF #5: The Maintenance Manual (8 pages) - This, I loved. Her philosphy is, that after you put in the work to lose the pounds, you can be a lot more relaxed while using the tips she gives. She details "starve day" which is creating a large calorie deficit. Basically, you choose a low activity day and eat as few calories as you can get by with and then you can be relatively relaxed the rest of the week. (Me, who loves food, LOVES this concept!)
The rest of the PDF's include an alternate OPT Fat Loss plan for bodybuilders/figure athletes, a water manual, training logs, and a troubleshoot checklist.
Whew, now that I have that out of the way, here's my second gripe: for those who are new to calorie counting, it's going to take a bit of work to create meal plans that are in the correct protein, fat, and carb ratios. It's not impossible, but you'll probably spend quite a bit of time creating your custom menu.
What I did was to take a few days before I started and created a spreadsheet on my computer that calculated my different meal ideas. Sheet 1 listed my recipes, such as chicken salad or turkey breast dinner, sheet 2 lists what I ate daily, and sheet 3 is my formula page that calulates the total calories and what percent of calories are coming from protein, fat, and carbs.
Again, all of this is explained in her reports clearly, but you may want to take a couple of days before you start to get a clear idea of what you want to eat on this plan.
Now here's the part where I show you my photos (sans head!). I started a couple of months ago. And I'm not perfect! I can follow a meal plan really well for a few weeks, and then I kind of fall off the wagon for a week (or two, if I'm being really bad). So, my pictures could be a lot better. But, I'm still really happy with the results.
I was fitting into a tight size 14, and now I'm back into my 12's (jeans size). Since I'm pear shaped, I tend to store a lot of extra fat in my butt and thighs. This means that as I lose weight, my shirt size will go down more quickly than my jeans size, but the bottom half of me should start to catch up here quickly.
I started off at 170 pounds. I'm 5'5" tall, so that's a lot on my frame. I now weigh in at 153. I wish I would have started keeping track of my measurements from the start, but I only started that a couple of weeks ago. I have lost inches consistently!
As I said, I'm not done yet in my weight loss journey, so come back soon to see a more dramatic before and after picture!
Leigh Peele's Fat Loss Troubleshoot can be found by clicking here. Check out the weight loss success stories on her webpage if you need a little motivation!
100 Days of Weight Loss: The Secret to Being Successful on Any Diet Plan is a book written by Linda Spangle. It first appeared in bookstores early 2006, but has made an impact worth mentioning.
100 Days of Weight Loss does not focus on any specific diet plan. Rather, it lets you choose the diet plan that fits for you. After you have chosen your diet, you will then commit to it for 100 days.
During your 100 day commitment, you'll read a short excerpt from this book each day. The book is intended to reaffirm your commitment to your health and diet, as well as to motivate you to continue on. Putting a time limit on it, 100 days, helps the user to think of this as an easier challenge than commiting to a healthy lifestyle for life. 100 days is easy; a lifetime is daunting.
While some people may think this approach to weight loss is too time consuming, others see it as a great tool for sticking with their weight loss program. Honestly, if you think that reading a couple of pages a day is too time consuming, then how much time are you really willing to put towards making your health a priority?
The writer's approach to weight loss is to provide you with daily tools to change your ingrained habits of emotional eating. Let's face it, most weight problems are an effect of emotional eating. If that were not true, we'd only eat when we are hungry, and we'd only eat what provided us with the best nutrients.
If you need that extra push to stick with your favorite diet plan, then 100 Days of Weight Loss may be the tool you're looking for. As long as you can provide the commitment to read a couple of pages of it everyday, you can successfully complete your 100 day journey to better health.
The Shangri La Diet: The No Hunger Eat Anything Weight-Loss Plan. Sounds brilliant, doesn't it? If we really could eat anything and lose weight, there wouldn't be a weight problem in the world. There would be no obesity to worry about, and no health problems related to being overweight.
Obviously, there's more than meets the eye in this popular book. The diet is based on "drinking fat to lose weight". Yes, you read that right. Although drinking oil does not sound appetizing, the author, Seth Roberts, does share a way to drink oil easily.
Dieters who follow this plan can eat nearly anything they want during their regular meals, while drinking bland sugar water or edible oil between meals. The idea behind this controversial plan is that it will affect the connection between the taste of foods and their calories. After a bit, someone who is consistently following the Shangri La Diet will lose weight as well as the desire to eat large amounts of high calorie foods.
While no diet will work for everyone, the reviews on Amazon are quite good for this diet book. If you decide to follow the Shangri La Diet, remember that there is no magic weight loss cure. You will still need to reduce you daily caloric intake to lose weight permanently.
Strip That Fat (or STF) is fastly becoming one of the most popular ebooks available on losing weight. If you want to lose some serious pounds permanently and gain more self-confidence, read on…
Upon visiting their website (which you can see by clicking here), you will notice a sign-up to receive a free guide to "learning the secrets that weight loss companies don't want you to know." (So, you put in your email, and you'll find out that weight loss companies don't want you to know that there are literally a zillion ways to lose weight!)
Go ahead and either sign up or close that box…
Now for the sales page. They start out with saying that most diets simply do not work. I don't agree completely with that statement. I think that it's more true to say that a few so-called "diets" are more dangerous for you than healthy, and that most diets do work, but one diet does not fit every person. (Let's face it: if you tell me to eat fish and veggies all day long, your diet will NOT work for me!)
STF then goes on to dispel some well-known diet myths: basically, low-carb, low fat, starving, pre-packaged diets, and Hollywood diets don't work. (Again, I disagree with the general assumption, but I digress…)
Now for a fact that I do believe: your weight is based upon 80% of what you eat and 20% of how much you exercise. For me, the more I exercise, the more I want to eat. If I'm not watching what I eat, then I will gain weight regardless of how often I'm sweating it out in the gym!
STF claims that you can lose up to 2 pounds of pure fat every week by following their plan for metabolism manipulation: eating 5 small meals a day of the "right" foods. So what are the "right" foods? Obviously, that is the secret. But, STF also claims that you can eat the foods you like. I like that out of a diet. As I am a picky eater, it's hard for me to follow strict diets with foods that make me gag.
In their guide, you will learn how to drop inches in the next 7 days, as well as how to drop 14 pounds in 14 days. They claim big results in 2 weeks using their diet generator. You eat the foods you like without restrictions as to how much you eat.
With purchase of STF you will receive:
The Strip That Fat Dieting Guide
STF Diet Generator (with printable shopping list and diet outline)
Any future updates that are available.
STF comes with 2 price points:
$47 Gold Membership which gives you the above mentioned items plus a 60 day full money back guarantee (which is priceless, just in case this diet does not work for you).
$57 Platinum Membership that comes with everything above plus a 2nd foolproof diet program, a calorie counting worksheet, and a Living Life Healthy Guide with 30 healthy recipes.
(Note that these are one time charges.)
The STF sales page finishes off with some compelling testimonials that you can read by clicking here.
With the offer of the 60 day money back guarantee, there's not much risk in trying out this diet program. What's intriguing to me is the diet generator. It kind of helps set this diet apart from others on the market. If you'd like to try it for yourself, click here now.
This is my honest Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle Review.
I purchased this ebook a few years back when I was into running. I knew running would help me to shed body fat, but I needed to know how to eat to keep up my energy and metabolism, while shedding my body fat quickly.
This is an extensive book - maybe almost too extensive. For those of you who want a quick 10 page tutorial, then this ebook is definitely not for you. For those of you who want the honest-to-goodness truth on exactly how to lose your body fat, then this ebook is all you’ll ever need.
It comes with a few bonus items, such as quick guides on foods to eat and foods to avoid, which is very useful if you’re not sure where to start.
What I personally took away from this ebook is how to figure out exactly how many calories I need per day to lose body fat quickly while keeping my muscles. This was invaluable to me as a runner. (And because I want to look GOOD! Not “skinny-fat” like some dieters end up looking.)
I also learned how to break up those calories into what I needed for protein, carbs, and fat. What I didn’t know going in was that 1 gram of protein is 4 calories, 1 gram of carbs is 4 calories, and 1 gram of fat is 9 calories. (You’ll use these numbers quite a bit when you’re figuring out your own meal plans.)
After I got the necessary numbers for me and my husband, I then worked on specific meal plans for each of us. This took me the good part of a Sunday to come up with foods we liked that fit. (We are picky eaters!) If you’re worried about this taking too long, think about this: most people only ever rotate between 10-15 meals, so it doesn’t really take that long.
So did it work in the longrun? I honestly wouldn’t be writing this “Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle Review” if it didn’t. I’d have scrapped that plan and been on to the next one a long time ago. Honestly, it’s the only plan I’ve found that’s not based on “hype”, that actually works like it says it does, and that is easy to follow, even for picky eaters. I was able to build up my mileage running without feeling lethargic from dieting. And I have great legs now…and that’s all I ever wanted!
If you want to check it out for yourself, you can click here now to see their sales page.
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