"Burn the Fat" author Tom Venuto
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Now on to my Burn the Fat review!
Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle Review — Overview
The goal of Burn the Fat, feed the Muscle is to lose body fat while maintaining (or increasing) lean body mass. Like most good fitness programs, Burn the Fat is based on the fundamental principle that to lose fat, the calories you take in must be lower than the amount of calories you burn, i.e. “calories in” must be less than “calories out”. Unlike most diet plans which use the scale as the sole measure of success, the Burn the Fat system measures success through a combination of weight and, more importantly, body fat percentage. If you only weigh yourself to gauge your progress you can’t know if you’re losing fat, lean body mass or some combination thereof. This is one of the reasons I can’t watch “The Biggest Loser” since reading Tom’s book. The contestants on that show compete on weight loss alone, rewarding them for losing lean body mass — which is a very bad thing.
Burn the Fat teaches you how to measure your body fat percentage. It’s actually pretty easy, and only requires cheap body fat calipers that cost less than $6.00 at Amazon. It took me a few days to get comfortable taking consistent body fat measurements, but after that I could do them in my sleep.
Once you know your body fat percentage, you do some simple math to figure out how many calories you burn in a day (the book shows you how). To shed fat, you basically consume fewer calories than you burn — but not too few, or you’ll lose lean body mass or, worse, go into “starvation mode” and stop losing weight entirely. Don’t worry, though. Burn the Fat teaches you how many calories to eat for optimum fat loss, a number which changes as your body changes.
Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle Review — Nutrition is Emphasized
From looking at the cover of Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle, you’d think it was a book on body building, filled with exercise routines and weight lifting techniques. Actually, the book is mostly about nutrition. I learned more about food and its effects on the body from this book than I had in my entire life previously. It teaches you not only about the proper amount of calories to consume, but also the best proportion of macronutrients: carbs, proteins and fat, to lose body fat and gain lean muscle. Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle’s nutritional information alone is worth the price of the book. Tom discusses some common marketing deceptions by food manufacturers to trick you into think that bad food is healthy (“Fat Free”, anyone?). He also discourages the use of weight loss supplements — good food is your supplement. Also, Burn the Fat lets you eat normal food that you buy in the grocery store, unlike some highly advertised “diet plans” that force you to buy pre-packaged meals from them.
Burn the Fat’s chapters on nutrition explain all you need to know about the “calories in” side of the “calories in/calories out” equation. If you’re like I was when I started Burn the Fat and know nothing about healthy nutrition, this information can be a bit overwhelming at first. Once you get the hang of it, and start seeing your meals in terms of four things: (1) calories, (2) proteins, (3) carbs and (4) fat, it gets much easier. Plus, you only need to do the math for a meal once — just write it down for the next time. Before long, you’ll have a nice list of pre-calculated meals to choose from. So, while there is calorie counting involved (and carb, fat and protein counting), most of the work in figuring out “Burn the Fat” compatible meals will be done in a week or two, unless you never eat the same foods twice.
Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle Review — Yes, You Will Need to Exercise To Get The Best Results
In theory, you could focus all of your efforts on just the “calories in” side of the equation and still lose body fat following Burn the Fat. However, you’ll get much faster and nicer looking results if you incorporate the book’s exercise recommendations as well. Exercise is the only way to increase the number of “calories out,” so bite the bullet and just do it. Burn the Fat recommends a mix of cardio and weight training to maximize fat loss and preserve (or even increase) your lean body mass.
For you ladies out there, don’t freak out at this point and think that following the program will make you look like a female bodybuilder. It won’t. You’re not going to do nearly enough weight training to even approach that kind of physique. In theory, you could use the information in Burn the Fat to pursue that kind of goal, but it will never happen to you by accident.
Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle teaches you the proper mix of cardio and weight training to achieve the quickest results. If you don’t want to join a gym, you don’t have to — I didn’t. Buy your own set of weights and work out at home. I use a Nordic Track for my cardio. Do whatever makes it easy for you to follow the plan. It requires work, but any weight loss plan that promises you results without work is lying.
Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle Review — Works When Past Attempts Have Failed
For most people who are thinking about trying Burn the Fat, this isn’t their first attempt to lose weight. Maybe you’re thinking that because your last attempt(s) failed, this one will, too, so why bother? Most people quit dieting or exercising when they stop seeing results — most often from hitting plateaus. Burn the Fat not only prepares you for plateaus, but it teaches you why they happen and how to break them (and no, it’s not simply a matter of “eating less” or “exercising more”). Plus, the book is very motivational. Tom uses just the right amount of “tough love” to push you into holding yourself accountable and achieving your goals, despite any bumps along the way.
Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle Review — It Can Work for Anyone
I was 37 years old, and fat, when I started following the Burn the Fat program. It’s not just a young man’s game. Actually, it’s not a man’s game at all, as it will work equally well for women. It’s also not only for those who are already athletically gifted. I’d never played organized sports or exercised much before I started. I was very much a couch potato. There was just something very appealing about Burn the Fat which made me believe it was going to work. Belief in a weight loss plan is essential to following through on it. Tom does a really nice job of not only telling you what to do, but why you’re doing it. He lays out the science and the math of fat loss in a way anyone can understand. By selling me on the principles of Burn the Fat, he convinced me that following his instructions had to work. Fat loss was inevitable. And you know what? It just worked.
If you want to buy Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle, click the link below (warning: the homepage is incredibly long and busy, filled with testimonials and other stuff. I recommend just skipping all of that and scrolling directly to the bottom):
