Books On Fastest Way To Lose Weight

The number of books dealing with the all time hot issue of fat loss and weight loss is certainly escalating. This isn't really such a bad thing; give or take a few exceptions, most books really have great input to the aspiring health enthusiast. Reading such books brings different insights, which fundamentally stem from the same science but then branch out according how the author thinks is the best way to tackle the situation. Here is a nice new book that caught my eye; Crack the fat loss code. Here's what I think of it.

Crack the Fat Loss Code by Wendy Chant:

This book goes into great detail about how the body responds to the diets we go on. It discusses one of the great issues of all dieters...plateaus. Plateaus are hit by almost every dieter; it's a stage of the diet where the body no longer loses weight.

Chant goes on to explain that our body is planned differently from the way we want it to act while we are trying t lose weight. While we want our body to grow smaller in size, our body is eternally planned towards survival. When we raise activity levels, the body responds well and increases its stamina. but when the body generates enough stamina to perform the activity, it then comes to a state of stagnation, what we call a plateau. The same thing happens when we try to bring about weight loss through diets. Our body doesn't focus on burning the maximum fat to keep us surviving, it actually tries to figure out how much calories we're likely to take and then starts putting away some of those calories as...guess what...fat! This is when we stop losing weight.

Chant also goes into details about how the food we eat affects our metabolism. She also discusses the importance and function of proteins, carbohydrates and fats in our diet. Chant makes a strong point about making lifestyles changes and the details she gives on the way food works in our body, gets you thinking about ways you can and should be eating better.

The book also dives a weight loss plan, which is quite good in theory, but is also of the genre diet plans that are going around. There's nothing bad about these diet plans, except that they don't really address a lifestyle change, they just help you lose weight in a specific period of time, and then your left figuring out how to make the healthy lifestyle changes the author advocated. Also the plan given in this book is rather complicated, so the reader tends to lose interest. It's an 8 week, 2 cycle, diet plan. The stages are;

The Carb-Deplete Cycle

The Macro-Patterning Cycle

The Accelerated Fat-Loss Cycle

The Maintenance Cycle

All in all, the book is a good reading; it gives great detailed insight into how the body works. How you can avoid plateaus in your diet and how you can help your metabolism stay on its toes. If anything, the book will have you looking at your eating habits in a whole new perspective.

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