The World’s Fittest You: Harness the Power of Interval Training-and Get On the Road to Fitness in Just One Month
Joe Decker
ISBN 0-451-21401-3
Joe Decker’s The World’s Fittest You is my favorite guide for weight loss/exercise. He includes the following ten steps to healthy eating:
(1) Follow a schedule for eating, (5 times daily),
(2) Downsize everything and follow the allotted portions,
(3) Drink water–don’t substitute water for food,
(4) Read the label for all foods (especially pay attention to the size of the portion that is chosen to list the calories, etc.),
(5) Give your refrigerator a make-over,
(6) Substitute the good for the bad,
(7) Keep track of your emotion triggers (food is often used to comfort and ease our emotional pains–Joe recommends keeping an eating log),
(8) Take control of all your eating–think before every time you
eat to make the right choices,
(9) Plan ahead–”A kitchen without food is a fattening one”,
(10) Reward yourself–he suggests Sundays for little treats.
The largest part of the book is devoted to his FIT equation. He doesn’t like the word “exercise” so he calls them activities. These routines fight the biggest reason that we quit working out–sheer boredom. FIT is included in many other exercise books and stands for F (frequency), I (intensity) and T (time). The three types of activities are cardio exercises, strength training and stretching (flexibility).
One of the workouts he includes is a workout at the playground which includes warm up, strength, and cardio which is varied and fun to do. He includes recipes and activities–all types–for 30 days and recommends doing an activity log as well as food log.
