Great strategy for losing weight

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	• Break Through Your Set Point: How to Finally Lose the Weight You Want and Keep It Off George Blackburn, Julie Corliss Collins Living, 2008 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Practical and readable

Just when you think, "Oh no, not another book of advice about losing weight," one like this comes along. I've heard for years about how we all have individual set points, but I never completely understood what that meant--or why it affected weight gain and loss--until I read this book.

What's more, "Break Through Your Set Point" is full of practical tips. It provides a program for slow, steady weight loss, followed by a maintenance phase, followed by additional weight loss if you need it. This book acknowledges right up front that losing weight is hard work, and that it takes time.

If you want a quick fix, this is not the book for you. But if you're smart enough to want something grounded in science rather than fantasy, buy this book. Try the advice it offers. I bet you won't be disappointed.

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Great strategy for losing weight

Anyone can cook up a diet and write a book about it. You don't need to know anything about nutrition or physiology, or present any evidence that it actually works. All you need is an idea and the chutzpah to sell it. The graveyard of fad diets--along with the frustration of millions of people--testifies to this sad fact.

In the field of nutrition, George Blackburn isn't just anyone. He has been at the forefront of research into how the body gains and loses weight for many years. And the book he has written with Julie Corliss isn't just another diet book. Break Through Your Set Point offers a careful, steady approach to losing weight and keeping it off. The centerpiece of Dr. Blackburn's plan is the 10% solution: lose 10% of your weight and hold steady for six months. For many people this is enough to reap important reductions in blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar. After six months, your body has adjusted to the lower weight (established a new set point, in the language of the book), so if you want to keep slimming, try another 10%. The idea isn't sexy, but it has sound scientific backing.

Early in his career, Dr. Blackburn developed a mixture of amino acids and other nutrients that was fed to patients after surgery or an injury. It kept them from losing weight and becoming malnourished, which until then had been a common and deadly problem. This work saved countless lives. These days, with 1 billion overweight or obese people around the world, overnutrition is a huge concern. Carrying too many pounds contributes to so many health problems that the strategies for weight loss that Dr. Blackburn provides in Break Through Your Set Point will be equally as lifesaving.

Pat Skerrett
co-author, The Fertility Diet

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The Truth

Let me tell you my story;
In 2006 I gave up a career in as a VP for a large financial services company to live my passion; Health and Fitness. I was a athlete and college and love the idea of spending my days assisting others how to become healthy, strong and develop lasting fitness.

In 2004 I started doing research to find the BEST, third party, dispassionate information on how to safely shed total weight and body fat. I came across Dr. George Blackburn's work first in a study he co-published in the Cleveland Clinic Journal, then others in the NEJM. His work is BRILLIANT because it is so simple! I was fascinated with the title of one of his published studies: "A Physician's guide to popular
low-carbohydrate weight-loss diets" This title suggest that even doctors are confused by all the misinformation in the marketplace!

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We were so impressed with his work that we used it for the basis our company's new fitness training and meal programs.

In 2006, after 2 years of research my business partner and I created a company that delivers customized heart rate training and meal plans to clients ( I am not providing this review to promote our company, thus I am not telling you who we are). Our system is delivered all online and via email. In less than 3 years we have attracted 1,000's of clients from nearly every state in the US and 4 other countries. We have assisted our clients in shedding 1,000's of pounds of body fat. We have been featured in FORBES.com, Men's Journal Magazine, local TV and many other press articles. Please understand that our system is based on Dr. Blackburn's body of work.

I have read BREAK THROUGH YOUR SET POINT and strongly recommend this book to anyone who has tried to shed weight AND/OR anyone who is a professional in the health and fitness field. If you are interested in the science of what, why and how humans gain and shed weight, then READ THIS BOOK and KEEP it on your shelf!

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Wonderful, practical approach!

I really enjoyed this book, because it is down-to-earth and very practical. Most of us who've tried to lose weight with fad diets or marketed programs didn't have the perspective that we must STAY at a set point and stabilize before we move on to the next stage. VERY helpful!

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How many times have you gone on a diet and lost a few pounds, only to hit, once again, that dreaded plateau? Many people manage to lose the first 10, 15, or 20 pounds of the weight they want to shed. Then, no matter how hard they work, they can't seem to nudge the number on the scale farther down, and often they end up gaining back the weight they lost. Finally, there is a healthy, permanent weight-loss solution that will get you off the frustrating yo-yo that often accompanies most fad diets.

Dr. George L. Blackburn is the associate director of the Division of Nutrition at Harvard Medical School and directs the Center for the Study of Nutrition Medicine, which investigates complex issues in nutrition and health. Based on three decades of his research and clinical practice, Break Through Your Set Point offers an exciting and effective program that will give you specific tools to help you get out of your rut and prevent those extra pounds from coming back.

Your set point, or typical body weight, is determined by your genes and your environment. Many modern lifestyle habits?including getting too little sleep and eating on the run?have conspired to raise many people's set points to unhealthily high levels. According to Dr. Blackburn's theory, if you set a reasonable goal to lose about 10 percent of your initial body weight, then hold steady at your new weight without regaining any pounds for at least six months, you can reset your body's set point. And once you've reset your set point, you can repeat the cycle to lose even more weight.

The body's innate tendency to protect itself against starvation explains why the body resists losing weight after a certain point. Dr. Blackburn explains the science behind the set-point theory and helps you devise a plan that works for you. With his unique, multi-faceted approach, Dr. Blackburn shows that hitting your set point is not a dead end but the first step in losing weight the right way. This book will help you overcome your weight-loss plateau once and for all.

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