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Belly Fat Breakthrough: Understand What It Is and Lose It Fast

Stephen Boutcher

2.84 · Rating details · 37 ratings · 15 reviews

What if one small adjustment to your workout could unlock the results you’ve been dreaming of? An easy and straightforward way to achieve healthy weight loss, this groundbreaking guide shows how just one hour of exercise a week can turn into a lifetime of wellbeing.

We’re all aware of the ways today’s modern lifestyle takes a toll on our health—not enough time means fast fo ...more

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Published September 30th 2014 by Gallery Books (first published July 1st 2014)

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Oct 09, 2014 Odette Cortés rated it liked it

I am still a little ambivalent about the Belly Fat Breakthrough. Half of me was very interested in the book, it has very up to date content on different studies on the subject. The other half of me was a little annoyed because Stephen Boutcher mentions all this discrepancies on different studies, and new and more informed ways on dealing with Belly Fat according to difference in genes and so on and so forth, and then the book goes back to the present the information of the old studies. Therefore ...more

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Sep 24, 2014 Ron rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: diet, medicine, exercise, netgalley, non-fiction

Belly Fat Breakthrough is not a bad book. It provides a number of small studies that show the effect of reducing belly fat through exercise. Stephen Boutcher does a nice job of presenting the studies, how they are conducted and what the results are. The problem I have is the overstating of what their recommended exercise program can do for the general population rather than the population studied. Their sample size is simply too small to generalize to the main population. But if you fit into one ...more

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Mar 09, 2017 RoarOutLoud rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, nf-health

The book is well-researched and provides you with the lots of information about belly fat. It first introduced to you the causes of belly fat, different types of belly fat, and the health risks of having too much belly fat. Then it later talks about different thing you can do to decrease or get rid of the belly fat, providing different techniques on diet and exercise. It's a good book. Quite straight to the point. ...more

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Jan 03, 2015 Connie rated it liked it

This is a very comprehensive and well-researched book that goes into detail about everything that will help with weight loss: exercise, diet, sleep, and stress reduction.

While I would have liked to see more meal plans and recipes, it only has a few, I feel that the information is very helpful and is definitely a book worth reading.

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Feb 16, 2015 Jacey rated it liked it

Shelves: non-fiction

I received a free copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I approach all diet books with caution. I am more than highly suspicious of anything that promises to work within six weeks, yet here it is. Chapters include 'The Interval Sprinting Belly Fat Loss Prigramme' and 'A Six Week Belly fat Loss Programme', especially when it immediately says it's following the Mediterranean Diet and includes a hefty exercise programme of intensive exercise.

Okay, let's set my personal v I received a free copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I approach all diet books with caution. I am more than highly suspicious of anything that promises to work within six weeks, yet here it is. Chapters include 'The Interval Sprinting Belly Fat Loss Prigramme' and 'A Six Week Belly fat Loss Programme', especially when it immediately says it's following the Mediterranean Diet and includes a hefty exercise programme of intensive exercise.

Okay, let's set my personal views on one side for a moment. The book contains an exercise programme, a healthy eating guide, a stress reduction guide.

It tells you everything you probably know already about the relationship between weight and health and exercise and throws in some scare statistics about the number of obese people in America and how visceral fat can lead to type 2 diabetes. It doesn't talk about body shape, i.e. the difference between apple-shape and pear-shape, but it does say that people with higher concentration of thigh fat tend not to get diabetes (perhaps someone would like to tell that to my pancreas). Depressingly it confirms that the number of fat cells in our bodies is established in our teen years - one of the reasons why fat adults have so much trouble losing weight once their body shape is locked in, I suspect.

It does have some interesting things to say about exercise, and recommends an interval sprinting programme with short bursts of intense exercise followed by light exercise or rest while the body recovers. This can be as short as 8 to 30 seconds with recovery of 12 seconds to 4 minutes, but you should then continue the sprint and recover exercise for 20 minutes in total with four to six 'sprints' in a session. This should be done three times a week. The whole regime takes far less time than aerobic exercise and according to the book is more effective at burning fat and building muscle mass and reducing appetite. Interesting.

Though it does get quite technical about the exercise programme it also gives you an easy access guide to the programme and suggests building up slowly. For a book that appears at first glance to be a diet book, it doesn't talk about food until halfway through. Again it gets quite technical, but basically recommends a Mediterranean olive-oil rather than animal fat diet, lots of fruit and veg, some pasta but very little animal protein or dairy. Nothing particularly new here. It's a diet very much not to my taste. Swiss chard, cooked turnip greens, raw kale and raw beetroot greens don't fill me with joy, especially when the sent sentence tells me to cut out salt. Yes this diet may make you live longer, but it will make life feel interminable.
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Jan 01, 2015 Paula rated it it was amazing

Well researched and written exercise and weight loss book. I enjoyed reading the book - it is very informative and educational but not dry in tone. I found the exercise information, especially about the high intensity interval training to be interesting and useful. I work out a lot, and I've started using some of the techniques presented in the book. They seem to be working.

As to the diet information in the book - my own thoughts are that the best diet differs for each individual. So much is dep ...more

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Nov 10, 2014 Shelley rated it liked it

ARC generously provided by publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Belly Fat is something that I think every women is either concerned of or aware of. This book contains several medical facts about belly fat, its causes, and the best way to target belly fat. I am a big believer that "targeting" a certain area when working out or dieting doesn't really work. However this book isn't just about belly fat but over all health. This book does give some good advice on which type of exe ...more

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May 29, 2015 Fanona rated it it was ok

very basic, somewhat dated, doesn't address to some of the key people who could benefit from the plan ie people with mobility limitations. sounds like a sales pitch most of the time tho I appreciated that he didn't go the route of anecdotal stories like so many self help books do. geared for people who are really at the beginning of health challenges and younger people. limited access to info unless you buy the book or CD as is constantly referring to other sources. ...more

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Oct 01, 2015 Lucretia scott rated it liked it

This book wasn't that helpful however it did give some tips that I tried to incorporate in my life. The author talked about some helpful things to do to replace certain types of foods that weren't as healthy with healthier choices. Sometimes I found myself putting the book down and picking it up days later. ...more

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Dec 07, 2016 Apryl Anderson rated it liked it

Okay, it's a diet book. I wish that I could point out something that I've not seen or heard elsewhere, because it all sounds legit, scientific, and logical. Why am I sitting around reading when I need to get off the couch? ...more

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Sep 23, 2014 Katarina rated it it was ok

I didn't think the book was that great. Hard to read, so I ended up skimming lots. It's basically a book about interval training and cites a lot of research of where belly fat comes from. ...more

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