Cheat Your Way Thin – Eat What You Want and Lose Stomach Fat
Recently read Joel Marion’s downloadable ebook on losing fat and decided to write a quick review for you. Enjoy!!
Cheat Your Way Thin is a fat loss manual by Joel Marion that focuses on how the foods you eat affect your fat loss efforts. What makes it different from other diet or weight loss programs, is that at the core of the manual are “cheat days” that are strategically placed to make sure your body does not go into starvation mode and start to hold onto, or store body fat.
The manual itself is a very easy to read and understand and at 52 pages, the author does a great job of getting straight to heart of fat loss, while leaving out a lot of filler, or fluff material. Along with the fat loss manual, Joel includes a couple mp3 files that explain how and why he developed this system, and the science behind it. He also includes a few other downloadable items, like reference cards, check lists, and a “Success Journal”.
The nuts and bolts of Cheat Your Way Thin are very straight forward and easy to implement as he gives you pretty much everything you need to know in terms of what is acceptable to eat and what isn’t. He delves into what kinds of proteins and carbohydrates will help you lose fat and speed up your metabolism. He talks about how big portions should be and a very simple way to determine them. There’s also, believe it or not, a list of guidelines that show you how exactly to go about “cheating” while on his program.
The actual implementation of the program is broken down into three phases: a Priming Phase, a Core Phase and a Maintenance Phase. The Core phase takes into account that different people have different carbohydrate tolerances, so Joel included five options for you to choose from. In addition, there’s a system for tracking your progress to make sure you know where you are throughout the process.
Finally, the exercise component of Cheat Your Way Thin is included, which he calls “Mixed Intensity Training”. This mixed intensity training protocol is designed to help you burn fat not only when you’re working out, but for hours after you’ve finished work out. There are several studies (all of which he cites) that show this to be the most effective way to burn fat in terms of cardio conditioning, so it was nice to see that this component added.
Overall this is a very solid “real world” fat loss manual by Joel Marion that is not only easy to follow, but easy to implement as well. It’ll definitely help remove a lot of the guilt that usually goes along with diets, and since cheating is figured in for you, the “stressing out” part of dieting should be minimal as well. For more information click here.









