The Stark Naked 21-Day Metabolic Reset: Effortless Weight Loss, Rejuvenating Sleep, Limitless Energy, More Mojo

by Brad Davidson

A groundbreaking lifestyle plan to help you attain lasting peak levels of health and fitness by resetting and optimizing your metabolism—resulting in a lean, strong body, more energy, mental sharpness, better sleep, a heightened sex drive, and increased resiliency to stress.

Are you totally over feeling tired, sick, and under-sexed? Wondering why you aren’t seeing results even though you’re eating all the right foods and hitting the gym?

Forget everything you think you know.

You won’t lose weight or improve your health cutting calories and carbs or relying on longer and harder workouts. Those old school approaches are actually detrimental to your health. You’ve got to reset and optimize your metabolism.

In The Stark Naked 21-Day Metabolic Reset, fitness expert and co-founder of Stark fitness Brad Davidson shares his exclusive two-tiered program to help you feel great and perform at consistent peak level—with boundless energy that lasts.

Davidson begins by showing you how to repair your metabolism by reducing common stressors and removing food sensitivities and toxins that cause inflammation, weight gain and burn out. He then teaches you how to optimize your metabolism by safely reintroducing the right foods for you and learning how to carb cycle, a method of eating carbohydrates that enhances performance without health risks. Designed to withstand the hectic demands of modern life, The Stark Naked 21-Day Metabolic Reset includes step-by-step meal plans and easy to follow recipes, without using any expensive, hard to find foods or complicated calculations. This is THE ultimate program for the high achiever on the go.

Get the results you’ve always wanted but never thought possible—The Stark Naked 21-Day Metabolic Reset is the lifestyle plan to help you take control of your health and fitness forever.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction

320 pages, Hardcover

First published December 29, 2015

Reviews

[Benjamin Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've been thinking about how/if to try and reset my metabolism and this book seems to be what I was looking for. The author offers a logical approach based on his own extensive experience as well as a lot of research over the years...and it makes sense to me. He does point out that he is not a doctor or a nutritionist but as a personal trainer his focus is more on a sensible approach to a metabolic reset that leads to long-term sustainability. Much of the book is education on why he has developed the program he has while only the final few chapters detail the plan itself. For me, that was all valuable information.

The book is aimed at those people who have been trying to lose weight or clothing sizes via the ol' standby of eating fewer and fewer calories and exercising more and more. The problem over the long term, of course, is that your body adjusts to that and before long you just aren't making much progress and you feel worse and worse. This book addresses those issues, explains how metabolism works, and how following phase 1 will lead to better sleep, higher energy, and much more besides just weight loss. The author has a personal style and while there is some repetition, I found myself looking forward to each new chapter.

My wife and I will be starting phase 1 (the 21-day part) this next Thursday after our house guests leave. If anybody is interested on how/if it has worked for me, feel free to send me an e-mail via Goodreads.

[Tara · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was clearly written just to make money. There was no consideration taken to make sure it makes sense. For example he’ll have a list of approved foods that you’re allowed to eat and then he’ll do a sample meal plan which has foods that are not on the approved food list. Another example is that he says to eat protein and vegetables at every meal in phase 2 yet in the daily breakdown of what to eat, for breakfast it just says protein, fat, and coffee but doesn’t mention any serving of vegetables.
I could list hundreds of examples of these inconsistencies that drove me crazy. So I emailed the author, Brad, hoping he could provide some clarity on some questions I had about these inconsistencies. After waiting a week with no response I called him and left a message asking for a response to my email or to give me a call back. It’s now been three weeks and I haven’t heard. I got his email and phone number from a his website where he is trying to promote something else. Clearly I will not be purchasing anything else from him and I recommend you don’t either.

[Kim Darwaza · Rating 5 out of 5]

It works! I lost weight quickly and am sleeping a lot better. I still enjoy the shakes and now drink green tea regularly and still do hot lemon water in the AM. I no longer drink soda or even crave it. I also really love bison as an alternative to steak and ground beef. I hadn't tried it until this plan. It is easy to do a mostly Paleo diet after. You don't even want to eat some of the things you ate before.

[Patrice Doten · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are only about 3 chapters worth of actual information in this offering. The rest consists of examples, anecdotes, and testimonials/case studies explaining how the author developed the philosophy, why many Americans need a reset, encouraging readers to try it, and some fluff meant for entertainment. That’s all par for the course with these types of books (particularly when written by fitness gurus or life coaches). None of it surprised me and I skimmed through the repetitive sections.

The one glaring issue I have with the book is its many contradictions. For example, the author says several times that dairy has to be cut for the 21 days of the reset (and gives good reasons for it), but then the very first recipe contains heavy cream (which is dairy, last I heard). He also says in one place that he never drives if he’s the least bit sleepy, but in another he talks about how as a dad with small children including a wakeful infant, he’s often tired and not sure he should be driving. Those types of inconsistencies undermine his credibility.

He does have some sensible suggestions - prioritize sleep, drink enough water, limit screen time at night, slow down, and eliminate sugar, caffeine, and the biggest food sensitivity culprits to give the body (especially the liver) a break to recover. It also lays out a reasonable plan for reintroducing potentially problematic foods in a way that allows for identification of intolerances without expensive tests. Beyond that, as I’m not a health or nutritional expert, I can’t speak to the overall philosophy and strategy without following it myself. I do plan to try the reset, though, and will post a more complete review once I have done.

[Sharon Fort · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really works!

I have struggled with weight all my life; I have hypothyroidism. I used to exercise like a mad person, and be super careful what I ate. Just as I turned 50 I had to have a hip replacement, followed by hitting menopause, then another hip replacement, and finally diagnosed with spinal problems, and was it so much pain. I persevered with exercise, but was limited by pain, and no diet was touching the weight I gained through the surgeries, and menopause. I was desperate and depressed with no energy. I felt like I was waiting to die. I found this program and started at the end of January. I am down 8 lbs, which is a miracle. I feel much better in myself and have hope again. It isn't hard to follow, which is important to me, as I have a family to look after and no time or patience with fussy menus. I am on phase 2 now. I still have a way to go to as far as weight loss, but I am confident I can get there with this program. I highly recommend.

[Ondrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy to follow, this plan really works for me. I see someone complain about the recipes but it's easy to tailor the recipe to your needs. The main focus is keeping carbs amd fats at the designated amounts. I didn't have an issue. I just had to adjust amounts for a family of 4. I just wish there was a place to find more recipes.

[Jackie Wayman · Rating 5 out of 5]

My husband and I tried it. It works and wasn't that hard to stay on for 21 days. We had a lot of fun with it.

[Paul Thompson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Recipes are good, the repetition requiring a whole book is a bit much. Have kept the smoothies in my diet for almost 8 mos. now though.

[Suzanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was reluctant at first but a friend got good results. I did not follow this exactly as described but still loss inches and pounds. I slept better and my skin is clearer. So five stars because works.

[April · Rating 1 out of 5]

I got this book because it included recipes, and I need something easy without guess work.
Well guess what? NONE of the recipes can actually be used on the diet!
He actually makes a sample meal plan with recipes that cannot be used on the diet.
None of them have the correct portions of fat/carb/protein/veggie as required by the diet.
Basically he's saying- here's a diet that even I couldn't find recipes that work for.
Oh- and he blathers on for more than 200 pages before he gets to the actual plan (but you'll get gems about trying to score with Elle MacPherson during a zombie apocalypse).
For those of you who actually care about the English language it's a grammatical nightmare.
What a waste!