The Complete DASH Diet and Exercise Blueprint for Weight Loss

A Comprehensive Guide to Combining a Low Sodium DASH Diet with Exercise for Optimal Results and Lifelong Fitness

By: Julia E. Chatwin

Narrated by: Monica Levy

Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's summary

The Complete Dash Diet and Exercise Blueprint for Weight Loss, now available in an immersive audio book format. Are you trying to shed those extra pounds but finding it hard to figure out the most effective way? Are you looking for a healthy, sustainable diet that doesn’t restrict you too much or leave you feeling deprived? Are you in search of a fitness plan that fits in perfectly with your diet?

Well, look no further!

Whether you’re a DASH Diet beginner or a weight loss enthusiast, this audio book provides the consolidated, evidence-based knowledge you need:

• Dive deep into the heart-healthy world of the DASH Diet.
• Discover why this low-sodium diet is recommended by experts for optimal cardiovascular health and weight loss.
• Equip yourself with actionable DASH Diet meal plans and understand the benefits of this sustainable weight-loss diet.
• Elevate your understanding of fitness regimes.
• From cardiovascular exercises to strength training, you’ll find routines that not only promote weight loss but also enhance overall well-being.
• Embrace the synergy of diet and exercise.
• Learn the strategies to seamlessly integrate the DASH Diet, with exercise plans for weight loss.
• Discovery how the combination of a low-sodium diet and tailored fitness regimes accelerate your journey to your desired physique.
• Uncover the secrets to maintaining motivation, staying the course, and ensuring that your DASH Diet and exercise routines remain a sustainable part of your daily life.
• And much more!

Who said heart-healthy diets have to be boring? Indulge in mouthwatering DASH Diet recipes that not only support your weight loss goals but tantalize your taste buds. From breakfast to dinner, we’ve got you covered! If you are ready to combine the power of the DASH Diet and effective exercise routines for unparalleled results, order your copy of The Complete DASH Diet and Exercise Blueprint for Weight Loss today. Don’t hesitate, simply scroll up and buy with confidence!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2023 Julia E. Chatwin (P)2023 Julia E. Chatwin

Not Quite Enough about the DASH Diet

This audiobook comes with a companion PDF you can download at Audible. I always appreciate it when nonfiction authors include a PDF with the audiobook. I think it's essential for books that include recipes, as recipes are not well suited to the audiobook format. I listen to many audiobooks, with and without PDFs, and this author used the combination in an unusual fashion. They actually felt like two completely separate elements only loosely tied together but each incomplete without the other. The PDF is not a word-for-word visual version of the audiobook, nor does the audiobook have everything that's in the PDF. They are truly meant to go together. For instance, I think only a handful of recipes are actually stated in the audiobook, but they are all in the PDF. As a recipe and cookbook lover, I'm glad to have the PDF and don't really care that they're missing from the audiobook.

The author calls this a “complete” book, something I wish authors would stop doing, as no book on a contemporary topic can ever be complete. I certainly would not call this one complete in any way, shape, or form. In a book supposed to be about the DASH diet, I didn't feel as though that was enough of the focus of the book. It seemed to be far more about weight loss than using the DASH diet for weight loss. Out of the 3 hours of the audiobook, it felt like only a handful of minutes were spent discussing the tenets and follow-through of the DASH diet itself. And the concept that there is any idea of a “DASH exercise” concept is completely ludicrous, as there isn't. Yes, of course, there is such a thing as healthful exercise, but pairing it with the concept of the DASH diet as if they’re a thing is just wrong. The author spent far too much time on peripheral, tangential weight loss topics that have nothing to do with the DASH diet, but could be a part of it if desired, like intermittent fasting and other ways of healthful eating that don't quite fall under the DASH diet umbrella—and the author didn’t quite draw the connections.

This only has a handful of recipes for the different standard meals of the day, snacks, and desserts. Some recipes sounded tasty, but I felt as though the author relied upon many of the same ingredients, including unusual seasonal ones like pomegranate seeds. The DASH diet is not nearly as limited as other diets, and it would have been nice if the small group of recipes the author created/chose included more ingredients from its generous rainbow of choices. The included PDF has no photographs of the recipes. The recipes are not written in the best recipe format. I'm a great lover of cookbooks, both self-published and traditionally published, and I firmly believe that self-published recipes should reach the high standard set by traditional ones, including that the ingredients should be listed in the order given in the directions. That did not happen here.

Unfortunately, too, I have an issue with the audiobook's narrator. This isn't the first time I've complained about her, as she does a very unprofessional job for what I assume is a paid narrator. What makes that so? The book actually has several narrating errors, places where she said the wrong thing, made a verbal flub, etc. The narrator didn't do a good enough job scrubbing back and removing the errors. One you could definitely tell she meant to go back and fix, as she snapped her fingers after the error, as I've heard her do around other mistakes in other books, which I believe would raise the amplification of the audio waveform so that, theoretically, it would jump out at her so she could go back and fix something easily. But she did not do this in that spot or fix other errors that crept in.

If you're truly interested in using the DASH diet to help you on your weight loss journey, I recommend finding a better source of information about it.