The Body Fat Solution: Five Principles for Burning Fat, Building Lean Muscles, Ending Emotional Eating, and Maintaining Your Perfect Weight is a book written by renowned trainer Tom Venuto.
If you’re interested in weight loss and have done your bit of internet search on the topic, chances are, you are already familiar with the name Tom Venuto.
Venuto is a popular fitness trainer, health club manager, coach for over 20 years and a popular writer on the Internet. His book, Burn the Fat and Feed the Muscle has been a best selling ebook for years now and he is actively involved in seminars, talks and community forums on his websites. In short, the writer of the book is an expert, and he knows what he is talking about – which says a lot!
The Body Fat Solution: An Overview
The book elaborates on the 5 principles of burning fat, building lean muscle, ending emotional eating and maintaining your perfect weight. In fact, this tag line encompasses it all – the perfect recipe for continuous good health.
How does Venuto achieve it?
Basically, there are no outright recommendations on what you should eat and should not. But, that is nothing to be disappointed about. In fact, Tom explains the principles of healthy eating in such detail that after a proper reading, you won’t need any specific recommendations on what to eat and what to leave out.
Getting back to the book, the first few chapters bust a number of myths about body fat while it explains what body fat is all about and how it got there in the first place. In the next couple of chapters, Venuto deals with the emotional and mental aspects of eating. Having coached so many people, he excels at elaborating the win-win attitude that is at the bottom of continual, long term weight loss.
The heart of the book is proper nutrition and adequate exercise. Venuto advocates a permanent change in lifestyle and explains how to achieve it. The emphasize is on foods that are high in lean sources of protein (fantastic for muscle building), fiber (helps regular elimination and detoxification) and complex carbs (maintains insulin balance). To achieve this, Venuto urges us to eat wholesome, natural foods.
The section dealing with exercises describes how you can combine cardio, aerobics and weight training for quick weight loss. Unlike other weight loss gurus, Venuto even takes the time to consider other activities that can contribute to weight loss (like gardening, walking, cleaning etc).
The final chapters of the book help people learn how to maintain their new weight through good nutritional habits, proper exercises, good support groups and effective journaling. This is something rarely found in popular diet books.
The Body Fat solution: A review
The best thing about the book is that it teaches you everything you really need to know about permanent weight loss and continued good health. The book is an interesting read and although it packs a lot of information, nothing is extraneous. Overall, the book is practical and draws on the author’s practical experience in this field.
Pros & Cons:
Pros:
- Very educative
- Advocates healthy eating
- Touches on the social and emotional aspects of eating (for more tips go to How to Stop Emotional Eating)
- Explain fat gain and busts many myths
- Emphasizes the importance of exercise
- Highly comprehensive and practical
- Motivating
- Advocates and aids long term weight loss
- Covers all aspects of weight loss
- No supplements
- No exotic foods recommended
Cons:
- Actual meal plans are unavailable
- No recipes
In a sentence, this seems to be an excellent weight loss book for people who are struggling to lose weight. The beauty is that Tom combines knowledge of the body with the knowledge of the mind. This is a winning combination, almost unmatched by anyone in the weight loss industry.
