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According to “Extreme Makeover”
fitness trainer Chris Powell, we’re all in charge of
our own “emotion-driven machines” that can work
for us or against us depending upon what we feed them and
how we exercise them. He also places great emphasis on the
thoughts we think about ourselves and how they influence our
daily lives.
This interesting and easy-to-understand guide, now available
as an audio book read by the author, encourages cycling carbohydrates
with alternate low-carb/low calorie days and high-carb/high
calorie days, eating healthy foods, and maintaining a regular
exercise schedule to achieve desired weight loss. The carb
cycle, the foundation of Powell’s entire program for
weight loss, confuses the body into near-constant boosting
of the metabolism.
Many of the early chapters highlight Powell’s success
with a morbidly obese man who had essentially given up on
life while just in his 20s. Weighing more than 600 pounds,
this man wrote to Powell in desperation, even though he had
no ability to pay. Powell took on the case and helped the
man lose more than 400 pounds during a two-year time frame.
This inspiring story of cycling carbs, using exercise, and
changing a mindset fuels the rest of the book.
Narrated in a friendly tone with lots of enthusiasm and occasional
chuckles, Choose to Lose blends common sense with lesser-known
wisdom regarding diet. A few suggestions Powell endorses include
conquering between-meal hunger with mint-flavored products
that satisfy cravings more than other flavors, eating high-fiber
foods such as oatmeal early in the day to stay fuller longer,
adding protein powder to hot coffee instead of cream and sugar,
and retraining your desensitized taste buds to enjoy eating
“real food” instead of fast food, fatty food,
and processed food. The specifics of Powell’s carb cycling
are included on a PDF.
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Leslie C. Halpern is the author of Passionate About Their
Work: 151 Celebrities, Artists, and Experts on Creativity,
Rub, Scrub, Clean the Tub: Funny Children's Poems About
Self-Image, and Shakes, Cakes, Frosted Flakes: Funny
Children's Poems About Table Manners. |
