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| Crack the Fat-Loss Code: Outsmart Your Metabolism and Conquer the Diet Plateau | 
 enlarge | Author: Wendy Chant
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  69 reviews
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 007154691X
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
EAN: 9780071546911
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Publication Date: February 4, 2008
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 This really WORKS! February 25, 2008
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I too have tried MANY "diets" or plans. This is a lifestyle change and it works. You'll have more energy, steady weight loss and feel GREAT! Plus you're using food you can get anywhere or eat out. In 12 weeks on this plan, I lost 22.3 lbs! So excited Wendy got this book published to touch many lives! Stop the yo-yo dieting, this lifestyle works and you'll feel great to boot!
Do this as a gift to your body February 28, 2008
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I've been fat since I was 3 and morbidly obese for as long as I can remember. As every overweight person has, I've gone the route of Weight Watchers, TOPS, LA Weight Loss, Overeaters Anonymous, support groups, therapy, hypnosis, shots and pills (over the counter and prescribed), and whatever else made sense at the moment. I always hit a plateau and quit.
My background is in nutrition, serving in many healthcare facilities, so I figured that Wendy wouldn't have anything to offer that I didn't already know. Wendy's nutritional & medical science information blew me away. My college education and years of experience taught me about the nutritional values of food. Wendy taught me how the body actually uses nutrition and how to "train" the body to find the fat and get rid of it.
I started the program in May 2007 and have lost 65 pounds so far. Wendy inspires me and I was excited when I read her book. It is written exactly how she teaches her course, in plain language with fascinating facts and a little bit of fun thrown in. It all makes sense and it is doable. I'm not going to lie and say that you can eat whatever you want, whenever you want. There is no "miracle diet". Wendy works her patterns so that you can enjoy your life. There was no suffering during the holidays or even on my 15 night cruise. I have no regrets with what I ate or didn't eat.
The people in the book are real; I know some of them. The pictures are not the fake stick the belly out and look miserable "before" pictures with suck the belly in and look thrilled "after" pictures. I'm a "between" now and looking forward to being slim and Forever Fit.
Yes, it works! Really well!! April 20, 2008
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is my fourth copy of the book. Why so many? Because whenever someone starts asking me what I've been doing, they get so excited, that they end up wanting the book. I believe in this so strongly, that I give my copy away so they can start reading that day....
I've been following the Crack the Fat Loss Code plan since January 9th, 2008. I've lost 41 lbs and haven't felt like I've been dieting at all. A few reviewers feel that the plan promotes cottage cheese and protein shakes too much... but it really doesn't. The food plans are guidelines. There are substitution options that allow you to customize your day's food intake within the framework of the patterning.
This is also the first time I've been told WHY to change my habits because of how foods interact with my body. Diets I have tried in the past just tell me to do something, but don't explain why. Understanding why helps in my motivation and in making this a lifestyle change, not a diet.
Exercise.... I exercise, but I apply exercise to the food plan. There is no exercise in the book because you need to change food intake habits first. Once you've developed your new habits through several weeks of the program, exercise should be added. Don't worry that there isn't a whole section of recommended exercises... when the time comes, just get out there an move. As your body improves, you'll want to add intensity, weight training etc.
 The "Code" works, but the meal plans are not good April 8, 2008
12 out of 17 found this review helpful
I am currently five weeks through the plan. In five weeks, I have lost 10 pounds. I am not the kind of person who loses weight easily. I have had insulin resistance, and may still have it to some degree. I lost 10 pounds prior to starting this diet and it took me a year. I do not "diet" well and find that sticking to planned meals is very difficult. At the beginning of this I was at the very top of my "acceptable weight range," and I want to lose another 20 pounds or so. Despite my difficulty with general dieting, I have found that sticking to the carb counts listed has been pretty easy. I have only gone slightly over a few times. The "carb cycling" part of the diet gets five stars.
The actual meal plans and details of this book get one star. This book was tedious to read and the nutritional information is sketchy at best. The plans are not laid out in a clear manner, and they are very restrictive. There are little mandatory commands of the diet, like "you must eat a cup of broccoli every day," which are mentioned one time in the whole book, and not included in the meal plans themselves. Was it too much trouble to just lay everything out in weekly plans, like in other diet books? I've read MANY diet books, and this is by far the least clear plan I've ever read.
The limited plans that are given are not realistic for someone wanting to learn life-long eating habits. Nor are they nutritionally sound according to the most recent research coming from people who are learning to be skeptical of the whole "lipid hypothesis." The author is fat-phobic and the meal plans feature protein shakes at least once a day. Who wants to eat shakes for the rest of their lives? Who even has access to a blender throughout the day? The meal plans also have a lot of egg whites, instead of just using whole eggs. This is like what body-builders would eat, and I do NOT want to look like a body builder. Toned and slim is far different from that look. Oddly, the book does not include anything about exercise recommendations other than vague references.
I ignored the meal plans and recipes and just kept to the carb counts listed. I have even been very bad, and on the "unlimited carb days," I've been eating more like you could eat on a "cheat day." It's kept me motivated, and since I've still been losing about two pounds a week that way, without being hungry, I'm very happy.
Since the carb-cyling has worked for me, I really wanted to give the book five stars...but since I'm only following about three pages of the book, I have to attribute my success to my own plan that I made using the carb recommendations, and not to a bizarre eating plan that involves a lot of eggs whites and protein shakes. Yech.
Excellent explanation of metabolic process; overly complicated diet June 2, 2008
12 out of 18 found this review helpful
Wendy does an excellent and far better than average job with explaining the metabolic processes, and the book is definitely worth a read just for that part. She's absolutely on the money, for the most part, about the nutrition needs of our bodies.
However, I find her nutritional plan, the basic method called 'carbcycling', to be way over-rated and far too complicated for the average person. Her fitness plan as well. There is another book which will teach you how to retrain your body to burn fat rather than store it without doing mental yoga to carb cycle. I'll get to that book in a minute.
Here is what I would suggest: borrow Wendy's book from your library to read about how the metabolic processes work, and if you are convinced that you want to follow a carb cycling plan such as she suggests, then Google 'carb cycling' and you will find plenty of free resources out there.
A better plan for nutrition, in my opinion, is following something like the Weight Watchers Core Program (NOT the Flex plan!), which, again, the basics can be found via a Google search. (Trust me, you will be surprised at the guidelines for their CORE Plan, NOT the Flex plan!)
A far more excellent fitness plan is to purchase the book The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution: The Slow Motion Exercise That Will Change Your Body in 30 Minutes a Week 'The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution: The Slow Motion Exercise That Will Change Your Body in 30 Minutes a Week" by Frederick Hahn. Hahn's book wins hands down on the fitness plan!!
However, I do disagree with the nutritional plan in the back of Hahn's book, a very low carb plan by the authors of the book 'Protein Power,' Drs. Eades. But the fitness plan cannot be beat, AND YES YOU GET FAR BETTER FITNESS FOLLOWING HAHN'S FITNESS PLAN 30 MINUTES ~~PER WEEK~~ (NOT day!) than Wendy's fitness recommendations, which is basically the over-preached "exercise your brains out" approach. As Hahn explains so well, 2 hours a day of aerobic exercise increases your ~~endurance~~ but not necessarily your FITNESS level.
And Hahn's explanation in the beginning of his book flows nicely with what you learn in Wendy's book about metabolism and how to retrain the body to burn fat and not store it! Wendy's explanation of the metabolic processes goes hand in hand with Hahn's brief review of it, and forms the basis of Hahn's fitness plan. Both of these two books fall short on the nutritional aspect, however, in my opinion. Any nutritional plan that relies on protein powders (both plans), cheeseburgers (in the Eades' plan), fake sugar (in Wendy's plan), and other "frankenfoods", and eliminates some of the greatest nutrition in the world, such as legumes, in my opinion, falls far short of the mark!
So, read Wendy's book (the first part) for the best and most clearly written and easily understandable explanation of the metabolic processes and what needs to happen to switch on your fat burning, buy Hahn's book for the fitness and the HOW to switch on your fat burning, and follow a sound, balanced nutritional plan such as the WW Core Plan, and you will be well on your way to fabulous health and fitness!
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