Weight Loss Tips

Diet theories abound in the fat loss world and every “expert” insists that his/her method is the only one that really works. “The Fat Loss Bible” isn’t any different in this respect, as author Anthony Colpo advocates strongly that the only way to lose weight and keep it off is to consume fewer calories than you expend, and he backs up his claims with scientific studies.

Anthony Colpo is a Certified Personal Fitness Trainer from Melbourne, Australia. He’s been helping people get into shape and lose weight since 1991. He has a reputation as a “no-nonsense” trainer who gets great results for the people he helps, and people have come to respect his knowledge and sincerely believe that he knows what he’s talking about.

The Fat Loss Bible sets out to destroy the myths about fat loss that have been causing people failure for years and explains exactly how to finally shed every ounce of excess body fat from your body.

Here are some of the topics he covers:

* The one thing you MUST do to lose weight that most popular diets tell you isn’t necessary.

* Why one person can seemingly have success on one of the popular diet plans while another fails miserably on the same diet.

* Why the authors of most popular diet routines don’t know how to prevent long-term failure.

* How scientific evidence proves that eating a low carb diet won’t speed up your metabolism.

* What is wrong with the theory that you will lose more weight, eating the same amount of calories, if you are eating a low carb diet.

* How low-fat dieting can lead to diabetes.

* How you lose muscle tissue as well as fat on most popular diets.

* Why it’s wrong to eat your largest meal in the morning.

* Why eating a lot of carbs in the morning and less at night is utter nonsense.

* Why there is no advantage to eating several small meals a day.

* Why ketosis is not as good as they say it is.

Then, he gets down to business and shows you exactly what to do:

* How you can easily create the best weight loss diet for yourself.

* How much protein, carb, and fat you really need.

* Super foods to keep your body running efficiently.

* How to determine your perfect daily calorie intake.

* Little changes and fine-tuning you can make to make your diet more efficient.

* How to handle a weight-loss plateau.

* What to do about cravings.

* How to get the lean, athletic look you see in the media.

* Exercises to help you maximize losing fat and build great muscles.

PROS: There is a reference in the book that lists all of the studies he cites so you can read them for yourself.

CONS: He tends to be a little technical at times and actually could probably have cited fewer studies.

When you order “The Fat Loss Bible”, you get a 100% money-back guarantee and two bonus books:

“The Truth About Weight Loss Supplements”

“They’re All MAD” – which takes to task the “metabolic advantage dogma” – that people who eat a low carb diet have a metabolic advantage over people who eat a high carb diet.

If you really think about it, it makes sense that you will lose weight if you take in fewer calories than you use each day. The Fat Loss Bible will show you, with scientific evidence, why this is true and will give you a lifestyle plan you can use to have the perfect body and good health you deserve.

If you type the keyword phrase “diet for weight loss” in the Google search box it will return over 1,000,000 results. Since probably about half of all Americans are on a diet at any given time, it makes sense that there would be so many results for weight loss diets.

There are so many diets out there – low fat, low carb, low calorie, raw food, protein, cleanse, Weight Watchers, Over-eaters Anonymous, Atkins, Jenny Craig, Slim Fast… the list goes on and on and on. And each diet plan is adamant that their program is the only one that will work and give you lasting, lifestyle-changing, results.

You can buy book after book, program after program. If you visit your local bookstore, odds are that you will find a new batch of “diet” books on the shelves each month, if not more often.

Dr. Frank B. Smoot has a different point of view. He maintains that the ultimate weight loss book is the Bible.

Dr. Smoot’s program doesn’t focus specifically on what to eat, how much to eat, or when to eat. He proposes that you have to change your mindset, and get rid of, once and for all, your “limiting” beliefs. These are holding you back from making your body a perfect “temple”, as God intended it to be.

Having been a student of limiting beliefs and how they affect our lives, I can understand why this would be a very important element in weight loss, as well as in developing a positive self-image.

Limiting beliefs are “programs” that run through our minds in a loop. These can be from words we were told as a child by parents, teachers, the government, and other figures we perceived as “authority.” After hearing these things enough times, we incorporate them into our subconscious and they become truths for us. An example would be, if your Mother told you, “All of the people in our family are chubby.” If you heard this enough, you would believe that you were “destined” to be chubby and no amount of dieting would succeed if you could not let go of this limiting core belief.

You can find out all the information for Dr. Smoot’s program at Weight Loss Gods Ways.

He teaches you that by renewing your mind you will gain the power to change your life, and your body, for once and for all.

In addition to his program, he offers a free mini-ebook called “Christian Weight Loss Fundamentals” to explain to you the tremendous power of God’s solution for weight loss.

His 7-week program includes a 208 page ebook with 87 custom exercises (not physical)that you read and follow each day, as well as over 200 scriptures. The best method is to do one day at a time… don’t skip ahead! Work the exercises and then move on.

The following bonuses are free with your purchase for $39.97 of the “Weight Loss God’s Way” success system:

Bonus #1: “The Hidden Secrets Of Lifelong Fitness”, 166 pages with Dr. Smoot’s personal fat loss and fitness secrets.

Bonus #2: The “Real Client E-mails”, 100 pages of emails between Dr. Smoot and his clients.

Bonus #3: “Life-And-Love Self-Assessment” to discover your weak points, put love in the place of fear, and be receptive to God’s blessings.

Bonus #4: “21 Hidden Keys To Success God’s Way”, powerful principles from the Bible to help you create a life of success.

Bonus #5: “10 Power Steps To Positive Life Change.”

PROS: Dr. Smoot is very accessible via email to answer all of your concerns and questions, and includes his address and phone number on the website for your use. He offers a 100% LIFETIME money-back guarantee.

CONS: The only thing that would make this program better would be a forum for users to interact with each other.

Weight loss tips and programs come a dime a dozen but this one is more unique than most.

If you’re like most people trying to lose weight, you have tried a wide variety of diets. At a minimum, you’re probably tried the Atkins Diet. You may have also tried the South Beach Diet; or any number of generic fat-cutting, carb-cutting, or calorie-cutting diets.

You may have also attempted diets that claimed to do something new. Realizing that the masses had grown weary of carb-cutting and fat-cutting approaches, perhaps they suggested that you only eat a number of really strange and specific foods. These miracle foods, they claim, will do all of the hard-work, so that you don’t have to.

Of course, you’ve probably also done exercise routines. You’ve gone to the gym, you’ve purchased in-home fitness machines, you’ve tried weight lifting, and you’ve tried jogging.

And, not surprisingly, none of these techniques worked for you in the long run. Either the technique was too difficult to sustain; or you simply didn’t see the results within a reasonable amount of time.

Well, if you’re feed up with everything you’ve tried so far, then you may want to consider “Fat Loss 4 Idiots” (FL4I). In brief, this diet has three goals: 1) to be simple; 2) to generate results fast; and 3) to be sustainable in the long run.

For starters, it makes a big claim: that you can lose 9 pounds in only 11 days. And while it doesn’t argue that other weight loss programs, such as Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig don’t work, it claims that its regimen gets faster results and is equally-sustainable.

So what does FL4I claim you’re doing wrong? Not surprisingly, it wants you to eschew low-carb, low-fat, and low-calorie approaches to weight loss. In fact, it claims that the amount of calories you eat will make no difference at all, since your metabolism will simply shift to burn fewer calories per day if you cut down on your intake.

Additionally, FL4I claims that no exercise is required whatsoever. In fact, it blatantly says that people don’t get fat because they don’t exercise. Rather, they get fat because they don’t consume the right amounts of food at the right times.

What fat loss for idiots claims you should do is simple. First, they start by explaining that your body releases fat-burning and fat-storing hormones after you eat. And if you can only decrease the amount of fat-storing hormones released and increase the amount of fat-burning hormones released, then you can lose weight-and fast.

Apparently, the entire diet program is based around this premise. From there, they go on to claim that massive fat loss can be achieved in two steps. First, you need to increase the amount of meals you eat above 3 per day. And next, you need to be sure that you ensure that the composition and timing of those meals is carefully-crafted according to their “calorie shifting” method, which is designed to trick your body into burning more fat.

Now, at a first glance, the story sounds plausible. However, if you try to learn more about the product creator, things begin to look fishy. No matter where you look, you will not be able to find out who created the diet and whether or not that person has any credentials or even a weight loss story of his own.

Additionally, the company was given a very poor rating at the Better Business Bureau as the result of unresolved customer complaints. And furthermore, the site makes numerous claims that either aren’t true or are simply unverifiable. For instance, they claim that their own careful testing lead resulted in this “calorie shifting” method; however, the method existed prior to the product and it is not clear that the company has any means to perform such tests.

Overall, this product pitch is a tough sell. It makes some interesting and generally true claims about weight loss that might prove to be useful; however, it leaves the reader wondering whether Fat Loss 4 Idiots is truly just for idiots.

One of the major reasons why many people fail on conventional diets and fad diets is that the prescribed regimens are too strict. For instance, they might require you to eliminate carbs altogether from your diet for long periods of time (including things as insignificant as an apple). Initially, these restrictions bring rapid weight loss but ultimately they prove unsustainable.

They’re unsustainable because they don’t accept the reality that human beings are implementing the diets. In fact, if the diet’s instructions were simply being fed into a robot that then acted out the instructions carefully, there would be no problem at all. But that’s not the case.

If you’re like most people who struggle to lose weight, you struggle to do so because you simply cannot give up your favorite foods. You cannot adopt an austere diet that forces you to starve yourself and to give up an important pleasure in your life: the taste of great food.

Fortunately for you, there’s a diet that claims to allow you to do just that: to consume the foods that you love on a regular basis as part of your diet. And not only does it allow you to do it, it’s an actual requirement of the diet.

So what is this diet, you ask? It’s called “Cheat Your Way to Thin” and, not surprisingly, it is called that because it allows you to consume delicious food that would be considered “cheating” in the context of most other diets, but it will still permit you to lose weight-and lots of it-at the same time.

To make things better, this diet isn’t your typical, fly-by-night program with no known creator. Joel Marion, the founder of the “Cheat Your Way to Thin” method, is a Certified Sports Nutritionist with the International Society of Sports Nutrition. Additionally, his work has been featured in Oxygen, in Lifescript, in Women’s Day, in Men’s Fitness, in Muscle mag, on NBC, and on Fox News to name just a few places.

Marion is both well-known and well-trusted. And, as he claims, his product not only resulted from the knowledge that he accumulated over many years he spent in the fitness industry, but also from the serious mistakes he made throughout his career.

With all of this said, what can you expect from Marion’s product? There are two parts. The first part contains audio that explains how the diet was created, as well as the science that backs up how it works. And the second part is a 53-page ebook that contains an exhaustive run-down of the program.

Marion’s approach consists of two parts: diet and exercise. For the dietary portion, he has readers to rotate between high GI days, low GI days, and low carb days. And for the exercise portion, he has readers perform 3 different exercise sessions per week.

Overall, the ebook contains an excellent and highly-specific overview of how you can improve your diet and adopt an effective workout regimen. And best of all, it comes from a real person with real credentials.

As far as reviewers are concerned, the Cheat Your Way to Thin product appears to deliver on its promises. However, some argue that it focuses too much on requiring you to buy expensive auxiliary products, such as protein shakes. But on the upside, it allows you to have “cheating days,” which will make your diet much easier to maintain in the long run. It also offers simplicity by focusing on portion control, rather than on calorie counting, which is often infeasible.

I remember the saying “No Man is an Island” from many years ago, and it’s true still today. We can accomplish a lot more when we work in a group or have the support of our peers to help us reach our goals. The is especially true when it comes to losing weight.

Another thing people often overlook, or are shy to ask for, is having a mentor. There have been many studies recently that show that people who ask for, and work with, a mentor or coach have a much higher chance for success than those who stubbornly try to ‘go it alone.’

Anne Collins is an Irish nutritionist and the beauty and strongest point of her weight loss program is the very active forum. All the comments I read by people who use the forum – newcomers and old timers alike – were positive and full of stories of support and encouragement as they walked their path towards good health and weight control. She personally moderates this forum. She will answer your questions and guide you as you progress. It’s also possible for members to send private messages. She stresses that lack of motivation is one of the biggest obstacles to successful weight loss, and motivation is one of the high points of this program.

Anne Collins doesn’t just offer a “one plan fits all” diet program. Her program has nine different diet plans so you can chose which one best suits you and you can move around between the different plans whenever you chose.

Here is a brief description of each of the plans currently available:

* Glycemic Index Diet which is great for diabetics or anyone else who needs to watch their carbohydrate levels. There is also information explaining what the glycemic index is and how it works.

* Balanced Diet – this is a traditional diet that basically follows the popular food pyramid.

* Low Calorie “Booster” Diet – designed to be followed for just fourteen days to jump start your weight loss.

* Cholesterol-Lowering Diet – High fiber for those with a cholesterol problem.

* Low Carbohydrate Diet – quick weight loss.

* 10-Minute Meals Diet for those who don’t have the time or inclination to do a lot of cooking.

* Vegetarian Quick Start Diet.

* Diet for Life.

* Vegetarian Diet for Life.

She provides tools to help you figure out your body mass index (BMI), what the best weight would be for your body size, and how many calories you need each day.

The price for all of this: Just a one-time fee of $19.97 for a full year’s access to all of the information on this extensive website.

Here’s a list of exactly what you will get for this low price:

* The 9 diet plans listed above, downloadable as convenient ebooks

* Access to any new diets Anne may develop as well as updates to any of the existing diet plans

* Shopping lists – very comprehensive and useful to just grab and go! This feature will save you a lot of time and money!

* Access to the exclusive members-only area for a full year

* Access to the private members-only community forum

* Personal support from Anne Collins herself every day of the year

* Massive amounts of motivation tips and advice to keep you on track, not only from Anne Collins, but from the whole community

* Many of the diet plans have fitness and exercise advice and information

* Nutrition and calories explained in detail

Anne Collins program offers you a 60-day risk-free money back guarantee, but notes that if you do cancel, you will pay a $5 retention fee to prevent abuse.

Conclusion: For the price and the massive amounts of information the Anne Collins program provides, as well as the excellent community forum and direct access to Anne Collins herself, you can’t go wrong with this weight loss program.