The Complete Physique Reset: Your Weight-Loss Plan for a Flat Stomach, Optimum Well being & a Physique You may Love at Midlife and Past

Very good book, good writer, informative,
one of the best books i have read on nutrition. very informative. well written i have given one to a couple of other old seniors and to a relative as a gift.This ol bear knows.

Some useful information, not well organized
After reading the article in AARP about this approach to senior nutrition, I bought the book. It’s a mixed bag.The good: Some useful, sound nutritional advice that you can act on immediately, without a lot of prep or outlay on expensive extras. Good examples on how to stick to guidelines while eating out. No fat-shaming. Explodes some lingering diet myths like the low-fat craze. Some of the exercises are good and well-described. Many of the recipes are good combinations of fresh, healthy food, though some were way too fiddly (I’m looking at you, Farro Chicken with Bok Choy). Adding protein as the book suggests, especially at breakfast, has indeed increased my energy levels significantly, so that’s probably worth the price of the book.The less-good: Like an earlier reviewer, I found the book poorly organized and puzzling in places. The section on “The Whole Body High Intensity Interval Workout” covers five pages, two of which are devoted to a kind of sidebar with ideas on how to motivate yourself to actually do the workouts, one page to the benefits of HIIT, and a poorly-designed chart showing “workouts,” except they don’t actually say what to do. There’s virtually no useful information for someone who might not already be familiar with HIIT.The food suggestions do seem to be aimed at people who are already Mediterranean diet converts (kale and sardine panzanella? No, you first) and might not be as appealing to readers new to this type of diet.There are way too many instances of “studies suggest,” or saying things like “…dark chocolate can play a role in keeping blood pressure in check” (though the study they cite is pretty vague about that), “according to a review of studies around the world” (not cited) and other kinds of dubious evidence for their claims. Given that at least one of the authors has a sound background in these fields, I’d have expected better supporting data.The book overall has that slightly-hectoring, sales pitch tone of every diet book ever published, and at least a third of the book seems to be trying to convince you that what they’re saying is true.The essential takeaways for me were to boost protein at every meal, increase fiber ditto, eat brightly-colored fruits and vegetables and exercise regularly. These are good messages, though none of it is new.I’m not sorry I bought it. It just could have been a better book.

Best Nutrition Book Ever for Over 50
When you get older, your body works differently. You have to adjust for that in how you eat. I lost 40 pounds in 7 months, starting at 215 going to 175, thanks to the principles in this book. They are sound, they make perfect sense, and there is nothing weird like living off cabbage soup. You can eat burgers, bacon and eggs, etc. The key is how much protein, fiber, and carbs you have in your mix, and how many total calories you average per day. So you do have to eat mostly “healthy” things like fish, chicken, veggies, fruits, etc. But it is quite manageable while maintaining a pretty normal diet including eating out. It’s all about the numbers, so you MUST keep detail daily track of what you are eating. IF YOU HIT THE NUMBERS, IT WILL WORK. You only have to read the first half to understand the concepts. The rest of the book is various recipes and additional information that is not really needed. But I credit these principles with my weight loss, as well as keeping it off. Note that exercise is helpful, but if you look at the math, it’s mostly about what you eat and how much you eat.

Very disappointed.Protein has been the new big thing for a while, so good amounts of protein spread through the day is a great idea, and lots of fibre and a good range of plant foods and more fibre is proving to be great for us and our gut biome. That info is everywhere nowadays.But where the book really falls down (IMO) is the petty critiques of other diets. Everything that doesn’t align with 3 meals and 2 snacks plus fibre at every meal is dismissed, usually with dismissive mockery. The sections on keto and paleo are particularly funny because they show a complete misunderstanding of them, and the criticism isn’t even based on the actual ways of eating. Instead they are dismissed as eating low protein and living off bugs gathered from under nearby rocks. I kid you not. Even intermittent fasting gets slammed. Then in the next paragraph this book suggests eating 12:12 or 14:10. Ummm yeah. Those ARE intermittent fasting.Those comments show real ignorance, don’t they? And undermine any useful messages contained in other chapters.I know that when you are trying to sell a book you need to promote it as new and different, and in this case he is writing to an audience that has probably tried most of the major food trends in recent years, but when did it become ok to badmouth anything that doesn’t match YOUR trend? Especially when that badmouthing isn’t even fact based?