Not a Diet Book: Take Control. Gain Confidence. Change Your Life.

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The repercussions for being skint can cause problems with your landlord and bank, and you get charged or penalised in the financial world to stop people making the same mistake again. Being fat is when your body starts to negatively influence your self-esteem and your everyday ability to think clearly and act optimally. After hating his corporate job, he decided to become a personal trainer because he “saw friends were doing it and was jealous”.

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It’s rare someone who sits healthy at a very low body-fat percent without suffering from a range of other health issues. But it's basic and besides giving the information that may help some people learn, it can't help with the 'how' and probably won't change many lives as claimed (but there's lots of plugs for his online fitness academy if you fancy it) Oh, It's also wrapped up in a giant picture of himself, obviously. Not only that the person internal variable such as gender, age, environment, genetics and external variables such as sleep, nutrition, stress and hydration all affect how fast he can recover. After the introduction, I felt a sense of guilt putting the book down (for those who have read it, you understand why!I remember asking the dinner ladies which foods would make me fat, but they didn’t know what to say. It came out at the right time for me personally and Not a Life a coach has absolutely nailed it’s timing too. Think about it this way, if everyone was given one cake to eat in a week (yum) and they can only eat the cake for two of the days then they get half a cake on each day. It reads more conversationally than I personally like from a non fiction book but I can see how this would be helpful for people who don’t normally read non fiction. To end this review, I want to share the quote that stayed with me long beyond the final page, and the one that resonated with me the most:’The train is about to leave, so make sure you get on it.

Not a Diet Book by James Smith | Waterstones

What you accomplish over the next months or years even will be a direct result of the choices you make starting today. Every single calorie you reduce must come from one of the three essential macro-nutrients – protein, carbohydrates and fats. My favourite parts of this book are the amazing quotes that are so perfectly put into place and the little tasks throughout the chapters. The only possible reason why he abruptly kept quoting Einstein about the law of thermodynamics in a self improvement book is the effort to seem smarter even though “he didn’t do school”.Whereas if they can eat the cake four times a week, they’re going to get a quarter of the cake each day. Even I have fallen for every fad diet and fitness trend out there, that’s why I’ve got such a chip on my shoulder. Self-confessed disruptor of a billion-dollar diet industry, James is armed with every tool you’ll ever need to achieve incredible results from dieting, training, and staying in shape to identifying the fads, phonies and nonsense that get in the way of genuinely lasting progress. There are some principles though, that I think are more typical of a younger generation, and not quantified by James' expertise or level of life experience, and would be dangerous if taken to heart.

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When you get a bit skint you’ll announce to your mates that for the next two weeks you’re not going out because you need to balance your books. A lot of people though, have become confused over the past few years due to the ridiculous amount of conflicting information out there – no thanks to the influencers of Instagram. Getting into shape and losing weight takes work and a healthy commitment to maintenance, and the same goes for relationships.There was one thing that he started to talk about, about how diets are more in our heads and we need to fix our mindsets. I lost interest after reading that and skimmed through the rest, but the book did not redeem itself. People have too many ‘options’ of losing weight and their all a load of crap – just stop eating too much. He lobbied Men’s Health magazine to publish pictures of more achievable physiques on its cover, and he gave a motivational TED talk about women’s menstrual cycles affecting their weight and motivation.