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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Belly Fat Weight Loss
Includes more than 100 nutritious recipes and features flexible menu plans. Offers easy, but effective exercises with an emphasis on Pilates core conditioning.
368 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2012
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June 25, 2015
An easy summary of current research into what causes abdominal fat, especially visceral fat, and what one can realistically do about it. The author has helpful tips on how to know if your weight and/or shape put you at risk for diseases like diabetes and arteriosclerosis and what steps you can take to minimize those risks. This is not a "fad" diet book, but a light take on more serious science behind aging, weight gain, and disease and their relationships to diet and lifestyle as well as heredity. There is information on how to calculate BMI, but also a discussion of why BMI really is not a good indicator of visceral abdominal fat, along with a brief discussion of how one can estimate one's visceral fat, which is the really the type most dangerous from a health perspective. There are some good, easy recipes in the back with nutritional information included, too.
June 20, 2013
Such an easy read. Many interesting and informative facts. The recipes at the end of the book are incredibly helpful. Probably the best part of the book. I made the tomato soup + chicken dish -- delicious. I don't need to lose weight but just trying to stay healthy, and this book really helped me transform my life stye into a more health conscious one.
September 13, 2019
There are so many books out there about belly fat that I decided to go with "The Complete Idiot's Guide...." Why? Because I did not want a book requiring a degree in organic chemistry to understand. This book, as it turns out, was written for me. I have not read a single thing in it that I did not understand.
The book contains a wealth of knowledge. It discusses everything I can think of that equates to gaining and shedding belly fat. While it covers much more than this, it focuses on three essential paths to the shedding part -- diet, exercise and controlling stress. The diet part is nothing extreme. It describes the good and bad in foods and lists many foods that contain more good than bad. There is nothing extreme about the approach to food suggested by the book. While I have a pantry full of things that are on the bad side, my refrigerator and a cupboard are now full of the good. I have gone through my pantry and weeded out the worse, packing these into a box (well, two boxes) for a food drive for the needy. What remains will be consumed over a protracted period so as to minimize their damage.
My salvation was a good discussion on snacks. You CAN snack and lose belly fat in the process. About a quarter of the book contains recipes for full-blown healthy meals designed to reduce belly fat.
The exercise portions were a welcome relief. Essentially a yoga-style program, there weren't any exercises I felt strained or silly doing. They combine exercise with stress management and that is good. But there is also emphasis on muscle building and metabolic challenge and endurance (cardio workouts). There is nothing life-changing about this approach except that you have to do it to reap the benefits
The book contains a wealth of knowledge. It discusses everything I can think of that equates to gaining and shedding belly fat. While it covers much more than this, it focuses on three essential paths to the shedding part -- diet, exercise and controlling stress. The diet part is nothing extreme. It describes the good and bad in foods and lists many foods that contain more good than bad. There is nothing extreme about the approach to food suggested by the book. While I have a pantry full of things that are on the bad side, my refrigerator and a cupboard are now full of the good. I have gone through my pantry and weeded out the worse, packing these into a box (well, two boxes) for a food drive for the needy. What remains will be consumed over a protracted period so as to minimize their damage.
My salvation was a good discussion on snacks. You CAN snack and lose belly fat in the process. About a quarter of the book contains recipes for full-blown healthy meals designed to reduce belly fat.
The exercise portions were a welcome relief. Essentially a yoga-style program, there weren't any exercises I felt strained or silly doing. They combine exercise with stress management and that is good. But there is also emphasis on muscle building and metabolic challenge and endurance (cardio workouts). There is nothing life-changing about this approach except that you have to do it to reap the benefits
April 20, 2023
I'm surprised this book didn't get much recognition but looking back on it, it was actually an amazing book. It explains and shares tons of details about all the macronutrients and how it impacts your body. It also talks about different exercises and how exercise plays a big part in your life and health span.
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