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Strip That Fat - Unbiased Review & Secret Links

BY lqysa lovely | 02-04-2010 | 1:34 AM
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Strip That Fat Review Basics: Strip That Fat is a strange product, in many ways it reminds us of Fat Loss 4 Idiots. The main guide is 95 pages long and easy to read, it concentrates on giving tips and advice and then discussing those for a page or two so you understand them more.

It covers how to motivate yourself, how to control portion sizes, how to eat at restaurants without ruining your diet, exercise myths, the danger of fad diets, how you need a rigid diet to stick to if you want to succeed, plus a lot more.

What we like about it is that it gives lots of tips and advice but it also does so in a way that most people can use. So for instance it gives exercise advice that you can follow in front of the telly, and tips on how to move more during a busy day at work or out and about doing errands.

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They understand we have to work and live (like when it says to eat 5 meals a day, the 2nd and 4th meals are really just healthy snacks which is doable at work, unlike some diets which tell you to eat a mini-meal at 10:30 in the morning when you are at your desk!) while doing the diet which a lot of other diets seem to forget.

Then you get the online meal generator which allocates you 5 meals a day and gives you a list of about 15 – 20 different foods and meals for each, you run down and tick the items you like for each and it looks like it just randomly chooses one of your choices per meal per day for the full 14 day program.

For the meals it allocates in the plan then if you click on them it gives you a short summary of the ingredients and how to make them, that shows up for all of them automatically if you print it out but you have to click each one if you want to read them on the screen.

The problem we have with it is that while we felt it gave great information, then it seems to be missing structure and substance. For instance, why is that meal generator going to help me lose weight? I can see the meal choices are relatively healthy, but what makes it so special, and why is it not discussed at all in the main guide? I’d like to know the background to it and also how to use it correctly.

You do get a few words on the main page of the generator about how to follow their plan, but it just seems like they skipped over it and didn’t want to talk about what is supposed to be the backbone of the system. You don’t know how to adjust things if they are not working, or what happens if you miss a meal etc, none of that is discussed.

Plus the main guide feels like a big collection of tips not a system you can follow, it doesn’t really leave you feeling you know how to eat healthily after the diet finishes, even though as we said it does give some good tips.

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We can’t quite put our finger on it but it just doesn’t seem to give you the full picture, the main guide seems to be an addon to bulk out you using the online generator, rather than part of the system.

The upgrade guides we feel are not really up to scratch, the ab guide again gives some tips, then it does give 5 ab exercises to do with instructions and a picture to follow, but then it seems to direct you for each one to youtube videos from other people which show you how to do the exercise. I know that doesn’t really matter, but if I am paying for a diet then I don’t expect to be referred to other people’s free content.

The recipes are pulled off other people’s websites, but they look like good recipes. The tips guide is well, more tips! Plus lots of repetition from the main guide. The ’second diet’ which is part of the upgrade, called CalWorries, is just teaching you to count how many calories you should eat per day then telling you to eat less than that or exercise to get your calorie expenditure higher than your intake, something which should have been in the main guide.

Plus the calculations look wrong because the author uses her target weight to workout her daily calorie expenditure, then deducts more off that to get to the figure she needs to eat, making it extremely low. It should be calculated using your current weight, not your target weight, and then have calories deducted off it to make you lose weight.
 

Strip That Fat Review – The Good & The Bad:

Pros

  • Gives you an relatively easy to follow 14 day plan and you can choose to include only the meals and foods you enjoy (but only from the options they give you)
  • Lots of great tips on how to stay away from bad foods, monitor your portion sizes and get more exercise into your daily routine

Cons

  • A lack of structure to follow after you finish the diet so you know how to eat healthily, it is just a series of tips which you have to weave into a plan yourself
  • Doesn’t really tell you anything about the meal generator, why it is supposed to work and what to do if it looks like it isn’t working etc
  • Not enough detail about how many calories you should be eating per day until you get

The Strip That Fat guide also seeks to dispel many common myths of dieting, aiming for a fat loss program that will create results, instead of simply depriving the dieter. Instead of focusing on methods that will only make the dieter miserable, Strip That Fat claims to be focused on a sustainable method that will achieve long lasting results.

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