Does the world need yet another diet plan or fitness regimen? What is different about the approach taken in this book – The New ME Diet – that makes it stand out from all the other weight loss plans?
- First of all, the Tetas’ “Metabolic Effect” (TM) approach is based on science. The authors, who are doctors and brothers, extensively studied the body’s biochemical reactions to food.
- Second, this approach claims to actually burn fat, grow and strengthen muscle, and tone the body (rather than leaving a dieter with less weight but more flab). In essence, eating and exercising as described in the book sparks the body’s metabolism into fat burning and muscle growing mode.
- Third, this approach seems reasonable to accomplish (coming from a person who has tried various “health” regimens, diet plans, and fitness routines over the years).
According to Drs. Teta, the goal is not weight loss but fat loss. This is the key to burning off the pounds and keeping them off – for good.
Metabolic Type or Body Type: Helping Everyone Become Fat Burners
In their book, the Teta brothers explain that every human being is one of four metabolic types: sugar burner, muscle burner, mixed burner, or fat burner (which is where everyone wants to end up).
Each metabolic type needs to eat a little differently to balance the body’s hormones (so some of these hormones stop telling the body to store fat). The book explains the details of the body’s biochemistry, stressing how every morsel of food and every muscle movement affects the body’s chemistry and metabolism – and, ultimately, well-being.
Using Proper Diet to Achieve Fat Loss and Muscle Gain
Surprise, surprise! What a person eats affects how the body functions. Many people don’t fully consider this when putting food in their mouths. Each person needs to customize his or her diet to spark his or her body type’s biochemical reactions into fat burning mode.
It may sound confusing, but the book lays it out simply for each metabolic type (the specific ratios of each kind of food and which types of burners should/shouldn’t eat specific items). The book also includes helpful recipe ideas, shopping suggestions, and other nutrition-related advice.
Exercising in a Way that Maintains/Expands Muscle
According to Jade and Keoni Teta, besides diet, exercise plays an important role in initially sparking (and later maintaining) the body’s metabolism into fat burning mode. Not just any exercise succeeds, though. Hours of aerobic exercise may help a person shed pounds, but those pounds won’t just include fat – they will include muscle. And muscle is crucial for fat burning, energy, and health.
In The New ME Diet, the Teta brothers recommend a certain kind of exercise, called “rest-based” weight training, which focuses on intensity and rest while working the muscles. The book describes specific exercises to choose from, providing a variety to match every reader’s preference (and to allow a person to vary the exercises from week to week to avoid getting bored).
The book also explains how these exercises affect the body’s biochemistry and why they are so important.
How Lifestyle Choices Affect Muscle/Fat Gain or Loss
Beyond diet and exercise, other aspects of life affect the body’s metabolism and health. Some of these lifestyle factors include sleep habits, exposure to light and darkness, stress, and alcohol consumption.
The bottom line: Environmental factors greatly affect the body’s biochemistry, whether people realize it or not.
Putting it All Together: How The New ME Diet Book Can Help People Lose Weight
Taken together, the combination of nutrition, fitness, and lifestyle changes advised in The New ME Diet work to give a person energy, fuel muscle growth, and spark fat burning – all without burning a lot of much-needed muscle in the process (so participants avoid the flabby look as they lose fat and lose weight).
This is the secret to the Metabolic Effect method described in this book: keeping/growing muscle while burning/losing fat. That’s why the authors say people following their fat loss method become toned and athletic.
Who wouldn’t welcome a toned, athletic look, along with the energy the authors claim people feel following this plan? The Metabolic Effect is more than a diet and more than a fitness plan; it’s a new way of life. The book, The New ME Diet, by Jade and Keoni Teta, shows how everyday people can transform their lives, feeling healthier, more mentally clear, and more energetic overall.
Full Book Title: The New ME Diet: Metabolic Effect - Eat More, Work Out Less, and Actually Lose Weight While You Rest
Authors: Jade Teta, ND, CSCS, and Keoni Teta, ND, LAc, CSCS
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Berg, Eric, DC (2008). The 7 Principles of Fat Burning: Get Healthy, Lose Weight and Keep It Off! Action Publishing (Glendale, CA).
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Teta, Jade, ND, CSCS, and Teta, Keoni, ND, LAc, CSCS (2010). The New ME Diet: Eat More, Work Out Less, and Actually Lose Weight While You Rest. HarperCollins Publishers.
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