The Body Fat Solution

Five Principles for Burning Fat, Building Lean Muscle, Ending Emotional Eating, and Maintaining Your Perfect Weight

By: Tom Venuto

Narrated by: L. J. Ganser

Length: 10 hrs and 1 min

Publisher's summary

End Emotional Eating - Reprogram Your Mind for Success - Get Mega Motivated - Never Diet Again!

Tapping into his decades of personal training experience, Tom Venuto will help you change your relationship with food and take charge of your life, and he delivers a step-by-step program that promises dramatic and permanent results. An eating plan is just one part of this program. The Body Fat Solution is neither super low carb nor super low fat, and the author steers clear of demonizing entire food groups. Instead, Venuto shows you how to personalize an eating plan that takes into account your unique metabolism and calorie needs.

He details the stumbling blocks we all face to success, and gives you the tools to overcome them. He then presents workout programs to maximize the success of the diet plan that are fast and efficient, enabling you to quickly achieve your goal of replacing fat with lean muscle. So why wait? Start your Solution today! This audio comes complete with an exclusive message from the author, as well as printable files of exercises and plans from the book.

Download the accompanying reference guide.

©2009 Tom Venuto. All rights reserved. (P)2008 BBC Audiobooks America

Motivation!

I found this book to be not just motivational but educational. It took me 1/2 of the book to get use to the narrator's nasally voice but narrator aside, i found this book to be excellent! I would recommend it to anyone not just to lose weight but with motivation in general.

The best book for losing body fat!

This book has been pivotal in helping me lose body fat despite my habits of eating healthy foods and working out 5-6x/week. This book addresses the psychology of losing fat and the influences of your social circles, goal setting and time management. More so he makes it simple to follow with enough comprehensive material to make a complete reference I've completed listening to twice.

Certainly holistic and unique perspective

Certainly holistic and unique perspective. Loved every chapter, every paragraph, and every perspective. Audio format made it even more enjoyable

Not exactly awe inspiring

If you've never spent much time thinking about nutrition, exercise, life, the people in your life, and how they're all interrelated, you might enjoy this book. If you're an active person, reasonably knowledgeable about nutrition and exercise and somewhat introspective, you'll be bored to tears. If you already know the 'shoulds' and you're searching for a way to get control of one or two demons, keep searching. The reader didn't help. I couldn't wait for the book to end, I was so tired of his 'preachy' style. I did rather enjoy the interview with the author at the very end, so I suspect that if he'd read it himself, it might have had a more positive impact.

Hands-off the best "diet" book written to date

What made the experience of listening to The Body Fat Solution the most enjoyable?

I've struggled with weight all my life. Although I have brief periods of good weight and training habits, I have been unable to keep the weight. This has been due to several reasons: lack of motivation for exercise (I hate sports), lack of focus and self motivation when it comes to diet and finally a confusion around which "diet" works best. So I've been experimenting with everything from low-carb, "raw food", vegan and even fasting. The secret is that almost all of these diet programs ("weird stuff" as Tom Venuto would call them) work! At least for a while, and Tom explains why that is but also why they are not long-term solutions.

This book changed everything for me, which is weird since I thought of myself as a true expert in all the details of nutrition and weight loss. It combines the best and most truthful facts and best practices into a very straight-forward method that is easy to embrace. It helps to change habits and patterns instead of promising a quick-fix. Also the book is very inspirational and boosted my self confidence and motivation.

So all in all, I've literally thrown out all other books on the subject and read The Body Fat Solution three times now, so happy that I found it.

Great book for every(body)

Would you listen to The Body Fat Solution again? Why?

I probably wouldn't listen to it again, I have the concept and the understanding I needed, and it will serve me for a lifetime. I am in good shape, I'm 52 and have always exercised regularly. I hear family and neighbors spout off about some 'certain' diet, bla bla bla, but have never heard an explanation like this, one that makes sense to me and will always be in vogue. Stop eating so much. That's it. Don't deny yourself anything, just keep it to a good portion. Start doing weight workouts (I do about 5-7/ week now). I never knew how important it was until I read this book. Without trying at all I dropped about ten pounds in two months and feel good all the time. I eat carbs, I eat cookies, I eat hamburgers, I drink beer. But not too much of any of it. It really changed my life.

Not in Audio

The book itself is good. Lots of information that isn't new, but that is good to be reminded. What was disappointing is that there was no effort to make it anything other than a book that is read to you by someone else. Inappropriate for a book of this type. With a small amount of effort and a producer it could have been an audio book that you use over and over and it becomes motivation for your program. So get the book or get another audio that is billed as an enhancement to your workout program because this isn't it.

Meh.

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I got this audiobook hoping for some inspiration and a different mindset towards the way I think about food. Unfortunately, every time I tried to listen to the book I would get incredibly bored and would notice 10 minutes later I hadn't listened to a word. I still have 3 hours left and am ready to move on to something else. I will say, the reiteration of the "calorie deficit" has stuck with me and I tend to think about it more when I am choosing my food. I think I read in some other reviews that the author didn't actually perform the reading - if that's the case I would hope the author would find someone else to read his other work.

Would you ever listen to anything by Tom Venuto again?

No

Part 3 - Last 3 chapters of print book MISSING!

What did you like best about The Body Fat Solution? What did you like least?

Nothing... most info in first 9 chapters are not new info than Burn the fat and Feed the muscle book.

Would you recommend The Body Fat Solution to your friends? Why or why not?

No. Due to missing chapters.

What three words best describe L. J. Ganser’s voice?

Not as good as Tom Venuto's. Takes a bit of getting used to - which I never did.

Was The Body Fat Solution worth the listening time?

No.

Any additional comments?

Give me the missing chapters - I bought this book just for those chapters.

Great book with invaluable information!

This book was amazing, but Tom should have narrated it himself. I didn’t enjoy the narrator at all, I almost stopped listening because of it, but thankful I endured because I learned so much from this book!