Ratings1
Average rating3
The author, a longtime personal trainer and admitted fitness addict, has never been overweight. So he decided to learn what millions of Americans, and many of his clients, live with every day. For six months, he stopped exercising and ate common American diet of fast food and processed snacks. This title describes all the details of that journey.
Reviews with the most likes.
Readers of weight loss books are an impatient lot - if they don't get a solution to their weight problems, they will be unhappy. Very unhappy, it would seem, judging from the one to two star reviews. This book is a memoir, not a how to book. Still, it was natural to have the question “How did he lose the weight?” answered, and the author doesn't do that very well. He doesn't give detailed food plans, his workout routine etc. When he reached a plateau for one, he rambled on and gave anecdotes on his wife's strict upbringing, his friend's jobless season, which were tenuous examples to the point he was trying to make. He does that a lot, and it does get annoying after a while. Still, he excels in telling us the emotional, social and relational impact being overweight has on a person, though his six month sojourn can be akin to a rich man living in Africa for six months in a hut and saying he knows how is it like to be poor now. Good attempt though.
Fat loss, however, is a very complicated thing to do. Its a complex biochemisty process and he fails to explain that properly.