The Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle book is the #1 selling fat loss e-book in history. I've had great personal success with the book, losing nearly 80 pounds of fat in 10 months.
Here is my chapter-by-chapter review of exactly what you'll find in the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle book! I decided to make it a chapter review, because most book reviews are too vague and don't say much about what information you will receive.
Chapter 1: How to Set Powerful, Compelling Goals That Will Propel You Forward and Charge You Up With Unstoppable Motivation
Considered to be perhaps the most important chapter of the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle book! Tom tells you why setting goals is CRUCIAL to your fat loss/muscle building journey. He also explains exactly how to set your goals so that you influence your mind to stay determined throughout your journey.
Chapter 2: Why 95% Of All Conventional Diets Fail - And The 8 Most Powerful Strategies to Permanently Lose Fat Without Diets or Deprivation
In this chapter, Tom thoroughly explains why conventional diets almost never work. He begins the chapter with explanation of your body's starvation response, and why eating less does not always work. He then gives 7 detailed reasons why low calorie diets aren't the answer, and 8 detailed strategies on how to permanently lose the fat!
Chapter 3: Body Composition: How to determine your fat to muscle ratio
Tom begins chapter 3 by comparing muscle to fat, and explains why "weight" loss is not the key. He then tells you why measuring your body fat is the best way to chart your progress. Included is a body fat chart and the most accurate ways to measure your own body fat.
Chapter 4: Charting Your Progress: How to Use Performance Feedback to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want To Be
This chapter provides a great system on how to measure your progress and analyze your results to ensure you are making progress. It includes 10 ways to measure your progress, 10 very thorough ways to break progress plateaus, and how to interpret your results so that you do not stray off track!
Chapter 5: Metabolic Individuality and Your Body Type: Doing Your Best With What You've Got
This chapter is one of the reasons why the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle book is such a success. Let's face it...everyone is different. Some people can eat all day and not gain a pound, and others can gain fat from just about anything they eat. This chapter teaches you how to use YOUR body type, characteristics, and goals to develop your own custom program.
Chapter 6: The Law of Calorie Balance: The Mathematics of Losing Body Fat
Absolutely amazing chapter. This section teaches you exactly why calories should be kept track of. It then provides you with the best, most efficient formulas to help you determine your OWN daily calorie needs based on how many calories YOUR body burns, your activity level, and your goals. It also gives examples of how to plug your own numbers into the simple mathematic formulas. This information could take a long time to gather from many different sources, but it's all here in this chapter of the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle book.
Chapter 7: Secrets of Meal Frequency & Timing: How to Turbo-Charge Your Metabolism and Turn Your Body Into a Fat Burning Machine!
The title says it all! Included are 7 very detailed facts about frequent eating, how to determine the perfect-sized meal, how to taper your calories, and much more!
Chapter 8: Macronutrient Ratios - The Optimal Combination of Proteins, Carbohydrates and Fats For Improving Your Muscle-to-Fat Ratio
This chapter helps you to determine exactly how many grams of protein, carbs, and fats you should be eating per day based on your body's characteristics and the metabolic information that you learned about in chapter 5. It also bases these proportions on your current goals (building muscle? losing fat?), and teaches you when to change your ratios to break plateaus and reach the next level!
Chapter 9: Good Fats Vs. Bad Fats: How to Speed Up Fat Loss, Boost Muscle Growth, Increase Your Energy and Rev Up Your Metabolism By Eating The Right Fats in the Right Amounts at the Right Times
For years people have been scared of fats when dieting. The truth is, certain fats are extremely important and even vital to our success! Find out exactly what kinds of fats you should be eating, when to eat them, and how much to eat. Before reading the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle book, I was dead wrong about my assumption of fats. This chapter has cleared it all up for me.
Chapter 10: Protein - The Muscle Builder and Metabolic Stimulator
It's no secret that protein is essential for muscle growth. But how much is needed? And how often? This chapter teaches you everything you'll ever need to know about protein, how often you should eat it, how much you should consume based on your body and goals, a list of the best kinds of proteins for muscle growth and fat loss, and a lot more!
Chapter 11: Clearing up Carbohydrate Confusion: Are Carbohydrates Fat Loss Friends or Fat Loss Foes?
Every single thing you'll ever need to know about carbohydrates. Which ones are good? Which are bad and can lead to fat storage? When should you eat what kind of carbs for the best results based on your goal? What kind of carbs are best suitable for your own body type? Everything carb-related is addressed in this chapter.
Chapter 12: How to Get as Lean as a Bodybuilder or Fitness Model Using A New Twist on the Old Low Carbohydrate Diet
An extremely powerful fat-loss secret is revealed and explained in detail in this chapter. I personally have used this technique to help me break through plateaus and it works incredibly! These bodybuilding secrets are just one thing that separates the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle book from all other books.
Chapter 13: Why water is essential for fat loss, how much you need, and what else you should (and shouldn't) Drink
Before even reading the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle book, we probably already knew that we should drink more water. But why? And how much of it do we need every day? Also included in this chapter is a list of drinks that we should avoid, and why we should avoid them.
Chapter 14: The BFFM Eating Plan: How to Choose Fat-Burning Foods, Avoid Fat Storing Foods and Easily Design Your Own Effective and Result-Producing Meals and Menu Plans
The chapter title explains it all! Included are "The top twelve worst junk foods that you should NEVER eat" and "The top twelve best foods you should eat regularly." Also included is an example menu template to help you set your own diet up. Much more info too!
Chapter 15: Supplements: What the Weight Loss and Supplement Companies Hope You Never Find Out!
There are so many supplements out now which promise great results with minimal effort. Do they live up to their claims? Also, a group of supplements that can be very beneficial to your success, and explanations of what they do!
Chapter 16: Cardio Training Secrets For Maximum Fat Loss: Why it's Better to Burn the Fat Than to Starve the Fat
Up until now, the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle book has been based primarily on nutrition. So to lose fat you just have to eat healty, right? Wrong! Cardio training is vital to efficient and consistent fat loss. There are a TON of cardio programs out there. This chapter will educate you on which types of cardio are most effective, the intensity, duration, and frequencies that you should do them, different kinds of exercises that you can use for cardio, and more!
Chapter 17: Weight Training For Fat Loss - Why Diet and Cardio Are Not Enough
Weight training is an ESSENTIAL part of a fitness program - whether you want to lose fat, build muscle, or both. This chapter provides you with everything you'll need to set up a weight training program. There are specific programs for beginners, intermediate, and advanced weight trainers. Also included are the most effective exercises for each muscle group, and an extensive FAQ that answers just about every question you've ever wondered.
Thanks for reading my review. I hope it is helpful to you!
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