The author: Venus Factor is the creation of John Barban, a fitness expert with a degree in nutrition and human anatomy from the University of Florida and a vast experience in the fat loss industry backed up by real life results, scientific evidence and common sense.
The Venus Factor system for female fat loss and body shaping was born out of necessity in order to reflect women different response to diet and exercise and create a specific program for them. Aside from workouts and diet, the program revolves around restoring women sensitivity to leptin, a very important hormone that was discovered as recently as 1994 as having a dramatic impact on fat and appetite, both for men but especially for women.
This is a key element of the program approach that is unique to Venus Factor and got our attention in the first place. To our knowledge, no other female diet or weight loss program has it. In fact, leptin has become increasingly important in the last decade or so for its ability to interfere with the way your body stores fat or burns it, sending signals to your brain to start or stop eating.
The problem is that while leptin is present in both men and women, and in fact women have more of it, women are less responsive, that is women are affected by leptin resistance more so than men despite having a better base stock of it. This means that the negative effect of leptin resistance in women offsets their initial advantage. But before we dig down into the nuts and bolts of the program, here is a quick overview of the program structure.
Venus Factor Diet - How Does It Work?
The diet process itself is split into 2 parts, the first for fat loss, the second for moderate muscle building. We agree with this approach, as it is much easier to reshape your body by tackling one issue at a time rather then simultaneously because building muscle and shaping your body while losing fat do not go well hand in hand with a very low calorie intake.
The book explains how body composition is critical in determining how your body looks, rather than just body weight. The key is to achieve a low body fat with a moderate amount of muscle in the right places for an aesthetically pleasing and functional physique.
John Barban's PDF goes to great lengths in listing which foods should be avoided like the plague to prevent storing fat in the first place. Not surprisingly, these are the usual culprits like refined sugars, too many carbohydrates, sweet sodas, alcohol and the likes.
The manual explains the importance of Basic Metabolic Rate as the foundation on which to structure your calorie regime, as this varies depending on weight and height, then the charts provided work out for you how many calories you need per day and how much you should eat.
More importantly, the diet approach also takes also into account one's body limited ability to sustain a great calorie deficit for extended periods of time and is designed with a reverse calorie strategy to avoid muscle depletion. Basically this means that the fatter you are, the less you can eat, the leaner you get, the more you can eat. We could not agree more on this.
What happens is that at the start of a diet, with a high percentage of fat tissue, your body has a greater ability to handle a more drastic calorie deficit. However, as you go along and start getting leaner, with less body fat but still the same amount of muscle tissue, you should start increasing your calorie intake progressively to reflect your body diminished ability to cope with a drastic calorie deficit. This is a safe and proven method, tried and tested well before the Venus Factor was created, to prevent weight gain rebounds and yo-yo diet effects and to guarantee safe fat loss with no muscle depletion and permanent results.
Technically, the Venus diet is organized in a 12 week cycle structure and goes hand in hand with the use of the Virtual Nutritionist software to laser target your calories, meals and meal times. The 12 weeks are in turn broken down in 2 week mini cycles for a total of 6 mini cycles. Each mini cycle is different from the others, constantly switching calorie intake and food composition, from low calorie to higher calorie and vice versa, and from carbohydrates to fats and vice versa.
Here is when we became a little baffled. The idea of this part of the program is to confuse your body by forcing it to constantly adjust to these dieting variations which in turn allegedly cause your metabolic rate to go into overdrive and burn more fat, hence the fancy name "Metabolic Override". While we support the reverse calorie strategy depending on one's body composition and percentage of body fat, we are not fully convinced that this other "food confusion" strategy may enhance metabolism.
The reverse calorie strategy alone works very well and has been around for a long time and that alone may be responsible for the good results of the program.
However, the meal plans section of the manual is highly detailed and leaves nothing to chance. There are 10 different meal plans calculated for each daily total calorie intake plan, which is then split into 3 meals and 2 or 3 snacks per day. This means that you first find out what is your total calorie daily requirement with the help of the book and the application, then you have 10 different meal plans to choose from for your daily calorie requirements. We have to say that the Venus Diet leaves no room for error and prevents boredom in the meal planning department.
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