The final word?

I've read countless adverts asking me if I want to drop extortionate amounts of weight with just one secret... but there is a cash catch and I'm not going to fall for that. They need a bigger hook.

And along came that hook...

The process wasn't punishing. It wasn't hard. Tiny changes were all it took. Tiny changes that, while small in isolation, produced enormous changes when used in combination. Want to extend the fat-burning half-life of caffeine? Naringenin, a useful little molecule in grapefruit juice, does just the trick. Need to increase insulin sensitivity before bingeing once per week? Just add some cinnamon to your pastries on Saturday morning, and you can get the job done. Want to blunt your blood glucose for 60 minutes while you eat a high-carb meal guilt-free? There are a half-dozen options. But 2% bodyfat in two weeks? How can that be possible if many general practitioners claim that it's impossible to lose more than two pounds of fat per week? Here's the sad truth: most of the one-size-fits-all rules, this being one example, haven't been field-tested for exceptions. You can't change your muscle fiber type? Sure you can. Genetics be damned. Calories in and calories out? It's incomplete at best. I've lost fat while grossly overfeeding. Cheesecake be praised. The list goes on and on. It's obvious that the rules require some rewriting. That's what this book is for.

OK, for seven quid, from Amazon, I'm up for this. So if you don't want to risk either your money or your health, just sit back and relax 'cause I'm totally up for this and I'll be reporting on the paperback in due course once it gets released in February.

Of course, if you know me, you'll be aware that I'm not about to load myself full of chemicals (natural or otherwise) simply so that I can put my face in a massive cream pie and go, "Yum, yum, yum..." although the image is, indeed, tempting.

I'm hoping to walk away from this book with a better understanding of what I'm shovelling in to my face and, lets face it, despite increasing my fish and fresh veg intake, dropping the meat input, being conscious of where my food comes from plus loads of walking, I still can't shake this fifteen stone carcass of mine. If I can find a tip here and there to help this stuff come off slowly and also increase my strength just a little so that I'm not having to struggle to get the top off a jar of whatever, then I'll be happy.

I'm aware that long distance runners end up shooting their knee joints by the time they reach old age and I don't want that to be me, so I won't be binging, but when a production contains things like...
"RULE #3. PLEASE BE SKEPTICAL.
Don't assume something is true because I say it is."

..it's got to be worth a punt because as it also says...

"RULE #4. DON'T USE SKEPTICISM AS AN EXCUSE FOR INACTION.
As the good Dr. Noakes also said to me about one Olympic training regimen: "This [approach] could be totally wrong, but it's a hypothesis worth disproving."

...and I'm up for that.