TurboCharged: Accelerate Your Fat Burning Metabolism, Get Lean Fast and Leave Diet and Exercise Rules in the Dust
TurboCharged By Dian Griesel, Ph.D. and Tom Griesel According to these boomer-generation authors, every diet to date is destined to deliver loss of lean muscle mass, moodiness, disappointment and failure. Instead, Dian and Tom provide an exciting new roadmap using a unique 8-step program that has been called “the Holy Grail of Fat Loss” and even the “Fountain of Youth.” Building on an exotic car metaphor, their system requires no strenuous exercise, supplements or special equipment. They sho
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TurboCharged is a program designed to change your life with an emphasis on losing body fat …,
Once when I was on an overseas tour, the guide looked me in the eye and bluntly claimed, “Americans are FAT.” She had a point there because as Tom and Dian Giesel say, “we live in a society where we are quite literally eating ourselves to death.” There are a plethora of diet books out there, most of which seem to make their way into library sales for obvious reasons. Most of them simply do not work for the average person, a person who is not committed to changing their lifestyle. Simply reading a book will not make one thin or fit. The Giesels maintain that they will “give you all the information and know-how you will need to lose not weight–which is comprised of water, bones, fat and essential organs and tissues–but excess body fat, the only thing you want to lose.” (p. xviii). The enthusiastic introduction, which does read like an informercial, certainly garnered my attention.
TurboCharged is a “holistic process” presented in eight simple steps. The emphasis of TurboCharging is to lose body fat by starving “our bodies of those foods that trigger insulin release.” (p. 7) If you are certain you want to explore the contents of this book and are going to purchase it, feel free to bypass this review. If you’d like to know what is actually in the book, keep on reading. I’ll try to give a brief summation of the steps, without going into excessive detail … that is the job the Griesels will do for you.
Step #1: “Forget What You’ve Been Told About Dieting.” This step discusses common myths that prevent us from losing weight, the things most diets have in common, how you can eat nourishing foods without going into starvation mode, and how you will find “the perfect way to eat for the rest of your life.
Step #2: `Measure REAL Success.” Because you will be aiming to lose body fat and reduce your body-fat percentage, you will learn what percentage you’ll need to aim for and when to weigh yourself. There is a link given where you can find a free body-fat calculator, but later in the book there was a recommendation that one might wish to purchase a Tanita scale. Essentially, “The greater your actual fat loss, the greater the waist-measurement reduction.”
Step #3: “The Fat-Burning Elixir.” This step gives some of the key ingredients, so to speak, of TurboCharging. You will learn how to differentiate between hunger and appetite and how to curb unnecessary eating or bingeing. For example, one suggestion is that “maximum hydration, primarily with water, and secondarily with other zero-calorie drinks, is essential to triggering the release of hormones that results in the sensation of satiety or satisfaction with lower food intake.” (p. 26) Other instructions and suggestions of what to eat and not to eat are included.
Step #4: “Fresh Breath Never Tasted So Good.” No spoilers here, but this is an interesting little step three benefits that will “help dull taste buds” and keep you from thinking you “need” to eat. It “helps get your thinking back in line …helps you get refocused, and is of great assistance in eliminating mindless eating.” (p. 34)
Step #5: “Turbo-Charge Your Fat-Burning Metabolism With Activity.” The Griesels disagree with the “30 to 90 minutes of aerobic exercise three to five times a week with several strength training sessions.” (p. 37) They do agree that activity is essential will help you calculate your energy requirements levels. You’ll read about a more sensible approach to exercise, how to calculate calories burned (a chart is provided), you learn several TurboCharged walking tips, and how you can help your body become a “superior fat-burning machine.”
Step #6: “Muscle Power in 5 … (Minutes a Day!) Additional tips are given so you can “get your body to use excess fat as its preferred energy source.” (p. 57) There hare reminders about differentiating hunger and thirst and you’ll be given some basic dumbbell routines to follow.
Step #7: “Eating to TurboCharge.” After a brief review of the significant concepts already covered, you’ll learn about different types of meals and “nutrient separation.” You’ll also learn about what NOT to eat when you are TurboCharging. One standout line was that you “do not eat refined foods in any form and [you should] drive right by any and all grain products.” You’ll also learn about vitamins, foods that will work for you, and you’ll read brief portraits of how Tom and Dian both approach TurboCharging.
Step #8: “Seeing the Prize.” The title of this step is almost self-explanatory. You’ll be encouraged to see yourself as you want to be in the future, not as you were yesterday or what you see in the mirror today.
Throughout the pages of this book there are several vignettes of people who have successfully incorporated TurboCharging into their lives. Jerry claims that “This program is not about…
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|Good plan but…,
I don’t think that this book qualifies as a diet book per se. The authors present their philosophy or method toward weight loss. They do present dietary guidelines, but insist that they don’t focus on caloric restrictions and exercise regimes. Their approach incorporates eight steps to achieving weight loss and boosting the metabolism or “turbocharging” the body.
I have problems with this approach for numerous reasons. First the author’s presume that everyone that is obese or overweight is eating as much as 3500 calories each day. Second they state that anyone can do their program even those that are bedridden. I know many overweight people that consume less than 1800 calories each day (possibly eating the wrong things but definitely not more than 2000 calories) and they aren’t losing the weight. Since one of their eight steps includes daily mini-activity sessions (i.e., exercise) that are based on lunges, body weight squats, standing heel raises, etc., I don’t see how people that are either paraplegics or bedridden could possibly commit to this system. In addition, the authors state that this isn’t based on calories and one need not count calories but the book later states that you’ll need to consume 300-800 calories on the “expressway days.” This is definitely caloric restriction.
This book is written in a way to attract and keep the reader’s attention. It is definitely written in a way that is easy to understand. I don’t necessarily disagree with many of the premises that the authors put forth in this book. I just challenge the premise that it can and will work for everyone. I don’t feel that any one diet will work for everyone (if there were only one then there would be no more need for books, gyms, etc.) but if this does, then great! For those people that can commit to the food restrictions (no grains or breakfast allowed), daily mini-activity sessions, and temporary caloric restriction days, then this may be the program for you. For the rest of us, this may not be the answer.
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|FINALLY….A Book About Fat Loss That Leaves the Others Out of Style!,
It is not often that a book about dieting and physical workout instructions and good/bad foods captures not only the attention of the reader but also creates a credible enthusiasm that makes the reader plow through the book in a single setting. But that is exactly what Dian and Tom Griesel have created in their eminently readable, rational, realistic and exciting book TURBOCHARGED. The only question left at book’s end is why hasn’t someone been this helpful before?
This book lays to rest many of the outmoded truisms about weight control. Without being hypercritical the authors merely explain in lay terms the concept of metabolism, the definition of hunger as thirst, and the misconception that ‘weight loss’ is a tough fad-like plan (one that soon fatigues the temporary devotee and recycles the weight gain problem 10 fold!). Avoiding medical shoptalk these writers go to the point – re-teaching your brain to recognize satiety based on the simple frequent intake of water, eating only healthy foods (very beautifully outlined in an understandable way here), substituting very easy and quick periodic exercises for the expensive home gym or gym membership. In other words, becoming lean is quick and easy and takes only steady commitment on our part to tending to our body and achieve goals few of us thought possible.
There are very few body improvement books that can be recommended more highly than TURBOCHARGED. Even reading the book is addictive and to say much more about the book would be a disservice to those out there who are frustrated with fatty deposits in their bodies. Buy your own copy, keep our own copy for reference, and encourage your acquaintances with healthy outlooks who are struggling with expensive diets and special meals and memberships in programs to buy it too. This book works! Grady Harp, April 11
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