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The Biggest Loser: The Weight Loss Program to Transform Your Body, Health, and Life--Adapted from NBC's Hit Show!
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| Part No: | B000QCQGOQ |
| Manufacturer: | Rodale Books |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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The Biggest Loser was NBC+s surprise hit of the Fall 2004 television season, drawing a passionate audience and prompting people nationwide to start their own Biggest Loser competitions. This unscripted weight-loss drama was based on overweight contestants competing to lose weight and win a quarter of a million dollars with the help of a team of doctors, dietitians, and trainers Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels.On the evening that the first season+s finale aired, legions of fans went to the NBC Web site to look for the diet and fitness plan that the contestants used. It wasn+t available to the public-until now. With this book, people looking for change can accomplish the same type of radical makeover of their bodies, their health, and their lives that they saw on The Biggest Loser.The book features the food and fitness plans from Bob and Jillian, health advice from the show+s medical experts, and motivational tips from the contestants themselves. The contestants+ compelling stories and reasons for losing weight, dramatic before-and-after photos, and real-life advice provide the inspiration and upbeat attitude that made this show a smash hit.
| Biggest loser transforms your mind! | 2010-05-29 | 5 / 5 |
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| Very good book, motivates and gives real life stories that are easy to relate to. |
| poor caloric recommendations | 2010-05-15 | 2 / 5 |
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I had heard about the drastic calorie cut the Biggest Loser recommends but did not want to believe it but the book lays this out. It recommends a 7 times body weight formula but the contestants actually use a 6 times formula to hasten weight loss.
It is therefore not a valid recommendation for anyone wanting to lose a few vanity pounds or even up to 20 lbs.
I will give you an example. I weigh 117 pounds but according to my height and gender, I can lose 7 more pounds and go down to 110. Both are slim and in the normal range and I have 17.5% body fat-considered athletic for women, although not elite athlete level -just amateur.
This formula says that I should be eating about 700-800 calories a day, depending on which factor you choose.
I have the body bug and from that I can tell you that my average burn per day is about 2300, sometimes going up to 2800 sometimes down to 2050 or so.
I do P90x-twice graduate-plus add in 30 min to an hour of extra cardio.
I tried limiting my intake to 1250-1300 for 10 days. My blood sugar crashed twice and I nearly blacked out. and no I am a young and healthy individual-no health problems and I have been an avid exerciser for about a decade.
Also guess what? I lost maybe a lb or two in the first 6 days, and then nothing in the final 5 days. And I had all the signs of overtraining-irritability, mood swings, extreme fatigue, insomnia, muscle aches and cramps.
As the Harris Benedict equation as well as numerous sites will tell you, creating a 1000 deficit is the maximum recommended for most but those in the healthy BMI range and with little body fat are less likely to tolerate such deficits and within those days I was creating at least a 1000-1300 deficit. Another equation takes into account lean body mass and contends that in order to optimize my results-burn mostly fat and minimize muscle loss, I should not go over a 650 deficit. That would mean that I eat around 1700-1800.
From my experience I can tell you that I do lose on 1700-I experimented with the drastic cut merely to speed up my results-it backfired.
So do you really think I could go on a 4 month diet, exercising 3 hours a day (in which case I'd burn approximately 2800 on average) and eating only 700 calories? I would be creating about a 2000 calorie deficit per day*7=14000/3500, meaning over 3 lb loss a week.
This is what the math tells you . HOwever, as anyone who knows anything about weight loss and nutrition will tell you that such drastic cuts will result in 1) loss of LBM 2) starvation mode and plateau. 3) further metabolism slowdown as a result of 1.
Also another equation recommends that one lose 1.1 % of body weight a week-this recommends that I lose 1.17 lbs a week and of course this amount will slightly go down per week.
Oh and I am almost an expert on the topic so I was eating a balanced 45 carb, 40 protein, 15 fat type diet, limiting sodium and getting enough calcium etc. eating high quality whey and supplementing and despite all of that, I crashed.
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| book review | 2010-01-07 | 5 / 5 |
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| Great product, arrived as promised in good condition and promply. would gladly do business with this seller again. |
| Not a good diet book. | 2009-11-02 | 1 / 5 |
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| This book is less about the Biggest Loser diet, and more about previous BL participants. So essentially, eat less and exercise more is the book's advice; if it were that easy we wouldn't need a diet book. I returned this book, and suggest looking elsewhere for a more comprehensive diet. |
| Biggest Loser general book has a little bit of everything | 2009-05-23 | 5 / 5 |
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| This book has a little bit of everything from success stories, tips, and receipts. It's a nice light read...something to keep your mind on the right track. |
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