TurboCharged: Accelerate Your Fat Burning Metabolism, Get Lean Fast and Leave Diet and Exercise Rules in the Dust Kindle Edition

I really like the way the book is written. It is easy to read, gets to the point, offers testimonials from successful Turbo Chargers and is very encouraging, "Just give us 10 days". I have to admit that I have had a hard time following it for longer than 3 days. However, on those 3 days I feel great.Like the current trend of nutrition books, it emphasizes the dangers of sugar and grains in our diet. The rest of the book goes into a different direction. They offer 8 steps to follow in order to reach your goals.#1 Forget what you've been told about dieting. Their dietary and exercise recommendations are very different from the norm.#2 Measure REAL success. They recommend purchasing a body fat scale which I agree is essential if you are trying to gauge your "fat loss".#3 The fat burning elixir. Can you say 16 cups of water a day!#4 Fresh breath never tasted so good. They recommend brushing your teeth when hungry or after a meal to curb the overeating. I told one of my friends about that and she lamented that she loved nothing more than to continue to enjoy the flavor of her last meal once it was over. I have been known to keep eating chocolate kisses just to keep the flavor going, so this is a wise suggestion.#5 TurboCharge your fat-burning metabolism with activity. Walk more to maintain your activity level throughout the day. No hour long exercise sessions while limiting your food intake. This is refreshing! I have tried other low calorie diets with huge workouts and does that make me cranky, starving and desperate when my blood sugar drops.#6 Muscle power in 5 minutes a day. The idea of exercising in short bursts throughout the day is ingenious. The days I do it, I feel invigorated. Sometimes while at work, I don't feel comfortable to jump up from my seat and start doing squats. I should just go to the restroom, lock the door and knock it out. I am drinking enough water that trust me, I am in there anyway.#7 Eating to TurboCharge. The idea of food separation I have only read about before in Suzanne Somers' old books. I have to admit my stomach does feel better when I don't combine certain food groups like grains and meats. Eating that way is a challenge when going out. It is hard to be at someone's home and limit yourself to vegetables or meat and no carbs. My friends are amazing cooks and I want a bite of everything!They also recommend in the beginning of the day to limit your food intake to fruit or a protein smoothie with fruit. I suffer from low blood sugar and I was surprisingly okay doing this. I do start the day with a protein drink and then pack a bunch of fruit to munch on. They recommend a vegetable meal and then a protein meal for dinner. Nothing but fruit, if hungry, after 8 pm. With all of the water you are drinking, your hunger does get reduced. I do have a hard time after a long day at work coming home and calmly preparing my dinner while trying to rein the kids in for their dinner. This is one of my bigger challenges.#8 Seeing the prize. Visualization is the step that is supposed to keep you going. They recommend cutting your face out and pasting it on the body you want to have. Maybe that would help me to stay on this diet. I have a hard time believing that my body will let go of the extra 10 pounds I am carrying.In summary, this diet makes it's own sense. You will feel good following it. The exercises they outline are simple to do anywhere. The food recommendations are simple too. Depending upon how social you are, eating this way can be a challenge, but that is the nature of dieting to lose weight anyway. I have been implementing the steps sporadically, but I really hope to give myself the 10 days they ask for to make a big change in my body composition. July 1st looks promising.

So I have read the book, and even made a bunch of notes for my easy reference and am very anxious to get started. I hope my results are as good and as quick as everyone elses. The only issue I forsee at the moment is that it is going to be tough to never eat ANY grain products when my family is eating them, and I am the only one in my house doing the Turbocharged diet. Bread products and sweets, not a problem. But a couple slices of pizza ever couple of weeks and spaghetti every now and then, well, I can give them up for awhile, but I have no desire or intention of never eating them again. The authors seem to be of the opinion that anything made from any grain is poison and must NEVER be ingested. I guess I will find out after I am "turbocharged", when I bring occassional grain products back into my diet. Also, I wish they had a regular forum on their website, rather than the Facebook thing. Not everyone is into Facebook, and forums are so helpful.

I would like to start by saying, I AM TURBOCHARGED!In November 2012, my wife saw a Today Show segment that featured Turbocharged. She sent me an email link to the web site. I took a look at it and thought that it sounded pretty good so I ordered the book.I have struggled with my weight ever since I can remember. This was mainly due to poor food choices and lack of activity. After going through the holidays, I was carrying 264 pounds on my 6'3" frame. I had been on three different blood pressure medications for six years. My doc said that my total cholesterol was at 228 and I was getting close to needing medication to control it. It was at that moment that I knew it was time to act. I looked over on that nightstand and blew the dust off the book I had bought 2 months prior. It was addictive and easy reading and I was done with it in a day.So, day one: January 4, 2013 my BF% was 37%, 17 inches on the neck, 47 inches around the belly button, cholesterol was 228, and I was tipping the scale at 264.4 pounds.After starting the program, I could not believe the results that I was seeing. (Even though you told me in the book what would happen) I was literally dropping off 1-2 pounds of fat per day. My family and friends were dumbfounded. After the first month, I had dropped down to a BF% of 29%. After 3 months my BF% was at 26%, I had lost 7 inches off my waist and was down 48 pounds to 216.4 pounds. At that point, a cholesterol test showed that my total cholesterol had gone from 228 to 166 without medication.Today, 5 short months after getting on the super highway, I am proud to say that I am completely off all of my blood pressure medications, my BF% is at 20.1%, 11 inches off my waist, 1.5 inches off my neck and my weight is at 191 pounds. I've got to tell you, I am enjoying driving this new car around town!I can not thank you enough for sharing your research in such a way that it was easy to understand and follow. I am TurboCharged, and it has added years to my life! My kids, wife and I certainly appreciate your dedication to helping people improve themselves!

Given that one always reads diet books with a bit of scepticism, it's pretty important that they try to convince you. Well this book certainly tries, but not in the way I personally value. It's very full of itself, repetitive in hammering home how it's guaranteed to work 100%, but a tad light on evidence or explanation. The passing observation that of course they know all the science but don't want to bother our pretty little heads with it doesn't entirely convince me that they really do know the science. The 100% successful thing is based on 'do EXACTLY what we say and if it doesn't work, you obviously DIDN'T did you?' Taking that line requires them to really cover every base very very carefully and provide enough information for a person to figure out what to do about foods, circumstances, etc that they don't mention. But actually the account is very thin and lacking in detail. For example: yes of course you can go to the restaurant with your friends. Just choose the foods we recommend. Well, um, how? The restaurants I go to tend to premix the foods. That's what restaurants do.So, you are given a list of foods you are allowed to eat together, but not mix, because they are EITHER protein/fat OR vegetables and fruits. But last time I looked, beans (vegetables) were pretty high in protein. Foods are a tad more complicated than this two-way distinction suggests.The basic idea is that we should separate out these two types of food rather than combine them because our ancient ancestors ate meat when they had it and otherwise vegetables and fruits. Okay, maybe, but this seems to be based on catching an antelope once in a blue moon rather than, say, trapping rabbits or fishing every day. They may not have been doing stir-fries, but why do we have to assume that our modern human ancestors, as smart as us, didn't spot that you can mix things in a single meal? There's also a full ban on grains in this diet... like our ancestors didn't notice that you could bash wild grass and make meal? If they hadn't, humans wouldn't have developed crop farming. Most importantly though, could one not argue that a diet associated with people who were usually dead before they were 40 is not necessarily the best one to adopt if you want to live to 90?The claim they make, that the modern diet spikes our insulin levels and makes us want to eat more is not implausible, but if the only way to fix this is to separate out food types in any given meal, why haven't we heard more about it?The science has long since shown that high fat, high sugar, high salt diets are very bad news, so keeping the system cleaner with fresh veg and fruit is not a bad idea. Nor is exercising a bit more, or drinking a lot more water, including at those points when you think you are hungry. That alone might drop you 4 or 5 pounds in a week. Nor, even, is it entirely dumb to note that our modern diet is not really suitable for our body, which evolved more slowly. However, why do we hook back to some ideal point in human prehistory as being the point when we stopped evolving? Hasn't it been shown that in China people have developed a tolerance for lactose in the past decades, as a result of consuming more dairy products? Genetics no longer claims that we evolved some genes thousands of years ago, and then everything stopped and we're stuck with them. Modern genetic theory fundamentally recognises an interaction with the environment, that enables us to adapt more quickly than mutations themselves permit.Siimply claiming that the science is there, and then listing at the back as the source of their information a load of other diet books is not all that robust. Call me old fashioned, but I am suspicious of anyone who claims that their method will work for everyone. I don't believe that it's equally easy for everyone to lose weight (or fat, their focus) nor that the differences are entirely to do with ignorance, dishonesty, lack of willpower, etc. I suspect we are actually all a bit different, and any given method will work differently for different people.So, I am not convinced by the claims. But I also think that the claims would have been more convincing if the authors had presented the ideas more methodically and coherently, toned down the 'we believe in you, you're amazing, we know you can do it' sections (they have not met all their readers, they don't know them, they don't know they can do it), and if they thought a bit more about what the reader needs to know, and trusted us a little more to cope with the scientific evidence.

This book is full of really useful principles. It makes a lot of sense and I think it should be fairly easy to follow. I got the recommendation from a friend who at 65 seems to have the body of a 40 year old. Must be something in it :-)

These days it seems that everyone and their pet is offering their opinions and suggestions about weight loss. Been there, done that. Many times. This system actually works. The approach is whole-life change, not just a list of recipes to follow. The rationale behind the advice is explained clearly, and the concepts ring true.There is some similarity to the popular Paleo dietary regimes, but with some significant differences. For one, the concept of a 'balanced' diet is revealed for the failure-inducing mistake that renders most dietary programs ineffective. Many other food myths are examined in light of the cumulative experience and research that led to this program. Dian and Tom Griesel share the benefits of their insight gained from research as well as having put their advice into daily practice themselves.Personally, I dropped 60 pounds and 8" off my waistline by following the TurboCharged system. Then I lost my job. What with stress-eating, and not being able to afford good food, I gained back more than half of that weight. One of the themes in the book is the contamination of our food supply with poisonous amounts of sugar and salt. Now that I'm working again, I am back on track and returning to what the Griesels call "leandom". I now believe that to be my natural condition, and something everyone deserves. This book can show you how to get there. TurboCharged: Accelerate Your Fat Burning Metabolism, Get Lean Fast and Leave Diet and Exercise Rules in the DustTurboCharged: Accelerate Your Fat Burning Metabolism, Get Lean Fast and Leave Diet and Exercise Rules in the Dust

This book is different from any other diet books available on the market. It seems to contradict every once of knowledge we share as a society but it very efficient and very easy to apply. You don’t have to believe it but give it a try and we will be amazed at the quick results we will get by following the easy steps described in the book.

good book