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The Buffer Zone Diet: It's Not Just What You Eat, It's When You Eat. Harness Your Hidden Fuel for a Slimmer and Healthier You.
WHAT’S YOUR
LIFE WORTH?
When you’re drowning, the last thing you do before you go unconscious is take a breath. The carbon dioxide rises so much in your blood it overpowers the last few molecules of oxygen in your body. You reach your breaking point, then you inhale. I inhaled food my whole life and I reached my breaking point in my battle with weight loss.
Right at the moment I was ready to give up, I had some last
What if there were things I believed that weren’t true? What if calories in and calories out had exceptions? What if we don’t all metabolize food the same? Why can’t we successfully lose weight and keep it off? I had to find out – my life depended on it. In my quest to break my weight loss code, the Buffer Zone is the space where I found my truth.
Important for distinguishing between emotional hunger and physical hunger
• How to create nutrient-dense meals to keep physical hunger at bay
• Science between weight loss and weight gain
• Five distinct blueprints for designing the new and healthiest you
• Strategies for breaking through weight loss plateaus
• The Four Laws of Weight Management
• And most importantly, the formula that regulates weight for the human body!
LIFE WORTH?
When you’re drowning, the last thing you do before you go unconscious is take a breath. The carbon dioxide rises so much in your blood it overpowers the last few molecules of oxygen in your body. You reach your breaking point, then you inhale. I inhaled food my whole life and I reached my breaking point in my battle with weight loss.
Right at the moment I was ready to give up, I had some last
What if there were things I believed that weren’t true? What if calories in and calories out had exceptions? What if we don’t all metabolize food the same? Why can’t we successfully lose weight and keep it off? I had to find out – my life depended on it. In my quest to break my weight loss code, the Buffer Zone is the space where I found my truth.
Important for distinguishing between emotional hunger and physical hunger
• How to create nutrient-dense meals to keep physical hunger at bay
• Science between weight loss and weight gain
• Five distinct blueprints for designing the new and healthiest you
• Strategies for breaking through weight loss plateaus
• The Four Laws of Weight Management
• And most importantly, the formula that regulates weight for the human body!
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354 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 15, 2017
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June 20, 2017
I’ve been nibbling away at this book for a few days. What I found was another “sure-fire” way to lose weight and keep it off, which is not a new concept, but it MUST BE IMPLEMENTED by the user.
Is this a miracle weight loss how-to? No, but it does take age old proven scientific information and presents it in an interesting and upbeat way. If one person changes their lifestyle and achieves AND MAINTAINS their weight loss goals, than this book will be well-worth the read for them.
We are not a society that savors things anymore, we want instant this and instant that in a grandiose way, including food portions, within these pages are guidelines that may resonate with a dieter when no other guideline has. NOT because they are new, but because they are presented in a way that may finally hit home!
THE BUFFER ZONE DIET by Fred Cuellar is definitely interesting, definitely worth taking a look at when all other diets have failed to truly change your eating habits for life. There is a lot of repetition, at times things sound too easy, but at least the reader is not made to feel a failure personally for their either lack of weight loss, or re-gaining of weight that was lost.
Bottom line, nothing truly new, and in the end, it is in the DOING that people lose weight, not the reading about it! That said, this could be the book that finally hits home and helps to achieve HEALTHY weight loss and maintenance. Just remember, it isn’t the number on the scale…or the clothing size, it’s a lifestyle you choose and NO book can live your life for you.
I received this copy in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: MaxVera Publishing (May 16, 2017)
Publication Date: May 16, 2017
Genre: Weight Loss/Health
Print Length: 352 pages
Available from: Amazon | Barnes & Noble
For Reviews & More: http://tometender.blogspot.com
Is this a miracle weight loss how-to? No, but it does take age old proven scientific information and presents it in an interesting and upbeat way. If one person changes their lifestyle and achieves AND MAINTAINS their weight loss goals, than this book will be well-worth the read for them.
We are not a society that savors things anymore, we want instant this and instant that in a grandiose way, including food portions, within these pages are guidelines that may resonate with a dieter when no other guideline has. NOT because they are new, but because they are presented in a way that may finally hit home!
THE BUFFER ZONE DIET by Fred Cuellar is definitely interesting, definitely worth taking a look at when all other diets have failed to truly change your eating habits for life. There is a lot of repetition, at times things sound too easy, but at least the reader is not made to feel a failure personally for their either lack of weight loss, or re-gaining of weight that was lost.
Bottom line, nothing truly new, and in the end, it is in the DOING that people lose weight, not the reading about it! That said, this could be the book that finally hits home and helps to achieve HEALTHY weight loss and maintenance. Just remember, it isn’t the number on the scale…or the clothing size, it’s a lifestyle you choose and NO book can live your life for you.
I received this copy in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: MaxVera Publishing (May 16, 2017)
Publication Date: May 16, 2017
Genre: Weight Loss/Health
Print Length: 352 pages
Available from: Amazon | Barnes & Noble
For Reviews & More: http://tometender.blogspot.com
June 3, 2017
"I've lost the same twenty pounds over and over, and I always gain it back again, plus a few extra pounds. What's wrong with me? "
Men and women from all over the world are ready to get off the diet roller coaster but don't know how. They are fed up with counting calories, carbs, and fat grams, and obsessing over every bite and sip. They lose weight, only to regain it when they start eating normally. Ever hopeful, they try another new diet, only to be disappointed again.
Every year there is a hot new diet craze that promises to melt off pounds by eating this but not that: Paleo, Atkins, South Beach, Cabbage Soup, Cookie Diet, Weight Watchers, and more. They all tell you something different: eat protein, but not carbs. Eat carbs, but not fat. Eat fat, but not carbs. No wonder so many people are confused about health and nutrition and every expert seems to have a different perspective. Fred Cuellar knows exactly how you feel and his own experience with dieting left him frustrated, baffled and heavier than before, and he wondered why diets never work in the long run. This led him to seek answers to the questions millions of people ask on a daily basis: Why can't I lose weight and keep it off?
Millions of us are dieting, yet obesity levels keep on rising, but why? Fred was determined to figure out the solution to the diet problem and create a formula to lose weight permanently, in a way that is easy and sustainable. It's called the Buffer Zone Diet. He explains the science behind weight loss and gain, while debunking several myths about what we should or should not eat or drink using himself as a guinea pig. With much trial and error, he devised a method to lose weight and maintain a healthy body, all without deprivation, hunger , or will power. Dieting is actually making you gain weight. It is what the diet industry doesn't want you to know.
The Buffer Zone isn't a diet book. You will not be required to measure carbs, count fat grams or starve yourself. Instead you will be given a specific method to timing your meals to lose weight and, best of all, keep it off. You will be amazed at how attuned you will be with your body and give yourself the nutrition you need for optimum weight loss. With guidelines in learning to understand emotional hunger from true physical hungry and our goal shouldn't just be losing weight, but to be healthy.
I received The Buffer Zone Diet by Fred Cuellar compliments of Max Vera Publishing and The Cadence Group. I think there isn't one of us that hasn't tried some form of diet in our life time and I was truly inspired at the approach this author took to his research on a personal level that he shares quite openly in his search to figure out what works and what doesn't and perhaps more importantly, why. This is a science that I hadn't considered but yet it makes logical sense. It is timing out your meals between 8-10 hours from the end of your final meal of the day to breakfast the next day. You decide when you will have the largest meal of your day and incorporating two primer meals to get you through to your next meal. It can be lunch as your big meal of the day with breakfast and dinner being your primer meals, always stopping 3 hours before bed and allowing at least 10-14 hours between last and first meal each day.
He believes the problem doesn't lie with what we eat, although that is important, it is how many times we eat during the day and how much food we do eat. He believes there is a science in the timing of our meals and that most of us eat between 21 meals each week along with upwards of 49 snacks a week. That is what is making us fat along with the content of what we eat. I am impressed with his research particular detailing his own weight loss failures and finally success! He even provides you with examples of how you can begin to incorporate this into your life and still have things like pizza and donuts! I give this a 4 out of 5 stars in my opinion and you still need to determine calorie counts of food to come up with a daily plan of what works for you.
Men and women from all over the world are ready to get off the diet roller coaster but don't know how. They are fed up with counting calories, carbs, and fat grams, and obsessing over every bite and sip. They lose weight, only to regain it when they start eating normally. Ever hopeful, they try another new diet, only to be disappointed again.
Every year there is a hot new diet craze that promises to melt off pounds by eating this but not that: Paleo, Atkins, South Beach, Cabbage Soup, Cookie Diet, Weight Watchers, and more. They all tell you something different: eat protein, but not carbs. Eat carbs, but not fat. Eat fat, but not carbs. No wonder so many people are confused about health and nutrition and every expert seems to have a different perspective. Fred Cuellar knows exactly how you feel and his own experience with dieting left him frustrated, baffled and heavier than before, and he wondered why diets never work in the long run. This led him to seek answers to the questions millions of people ask on a daily basis: Why can't I lose weight and keep it off?
Millions of us are dieting, yet obesity levels keep on rising, but why? Fred was determined to figure out the solution to the diet problem and create a formula to lose weight permanently, in a way that is easy and sustainable. It's called the Buffer Zone Diet. He explains the science behind weight loss and gain, while debunking several myths about what we should or should not eat or drink using himself as a guinea pig. With much trial and error, he devised a method to lose weight and maintain a healthy body, all without deprivation, hunger , or will power. Dieting is actually making you gain weight. It is what the diet industry doesn't want you to know.
The Buffer Zone isn't a diet book. You will not be required to measure carbs, count fat grams or starve yourself. Instead you will be given a specific method to timing your meals to lose weight and, best of all, keep it off. You will be amazed at how attuned you will be with your body and give yourself the nutrition you need for optimum weight loss. With guidelines in learning to understand emotional hunger from true physical hungry and our goal shouldn't just be losing weight, but to be healthy.
I received The Buffer Zone Diet by Fred Cuellar compliments of Max Vera Publishing and The Cadence Group. I think there isn't one of us that hasn't tried some form of diet in our life time and I was truly inspired at the approach this author took to his research on a personal level that he shares quite openly in his search to figure out what works and what doesn't and perhaps more importantly, why. This is a science that I hadn't considered but yet it makes logical sense. It is timing out your meals between 8-10 hours from the end of your final meal of the day to breakfast the next day. You decide when you will have the largest meal of your day and incorporating two primer meals to get you through to your next meal. It can be lunch as your big meal of the day with breakfast and dinner being your primer meals, always stopping 3 hours before bed and allowing at least 10-14 hours between last and first meal each day.
He believes the problem doesn't lie with what we eat, although that is important, it is how many times we eat during the day and how much food we do eat. He believes there is a science in the timing of our meals and that most of us eat between 21 meals each week along with upwards of 49 snacks a week. That is what is making us fat along with the content of what we eat. I am impressed with his research particular detailing his own weight loss failures and finally success! He even provides you with examples of how you can begin to incorporate this into your life and still have things like pizza and donuts! I give this a 4 out of 5 stars in my opinion and you still need to determine calorie counts of food to come up with a daily plan of what works for you.
June 8, 2017
I have mixed feelings about this book
On the one hand I have to admire and appreciate all the work that Cuellar did to supply the reader with useful knowledge about food, nutrition and exercise. He definitely did his homework and more. I also very much like the idea of the buffer zone. I think this will help many people struggling with their weight. What I wasn’t so thrilled about was the repetition. Some of the detail is too detailed. The book could easily have been trimmed by a third without losing anything. However it could be said that the repetition serves a didactic purpose. Perhaps.
The central idea of the buffer zone is that you can’t burn fat and lose weight if you’re eating. You need buffer zones between meals. Cuellar’s idea is to have one big meal a day and two “primer” meals. He adds: “Remember it takes ten hours of no eating before your body primarily switches to body fat to run your body.” (p. 151) Expressing the idea of the buffer zone in another way, Cuellar writes: “Instant gratification is the key to obesity. Delayed gratification is the key to a healthy body.” (p. 110)
Cuellar doesn’t believe you need to give up eating the foods you love. If you want to be successful in managing your weight, you need to know “when it’s okay to eat what you want and” know “when to wait to eat what you want.” (p. 117) Here’s a bit of psychology associated with this idea: “…when that food craving pops into your head you tell yourself that you just have to wait until the next big meal to have it. Which means you are always within twenty-four hours of getting what you want!” (p. 129)
Cuellar designed for himself a 14.8-hour buffer to get 4.8 hours of fat burning every day. (p. 152) That would be like finishing dinner at say six p.m. and then eating breakfast or brunch at 8:48 a.m. Personally I’ve done something similar for decades. I fell into it accidentally when I discovered that I could exercise first thing in the morning, burn fat and feel serene with no low-blood sugar weakness. If however I ate something, even a slice of toast and peanut butter and jelly, often I would begin to feel weak before I finished my workout.
In a sense Cuellar believes that eating causes us to eat. That is, eating causes us to be hungrier than we otherwise would be. We can see the truth in this when we see food commercials on television. Juicy hamburger dripping with fat. Oh, boy. I am hungry. But if we see no food or food commercials we may not be hungry. I believe that part of the reason for the obesity epidemic in developed world and especially in the United States are those myriad food commercials on television, on the Internet, on billboards, etc.
A few tidbits from the book:
“When you’ve finished eating and you collect all the empty plates, emotional eating feels shame. True hunger that has just been satisfied feels content.” (p. 125)
“There’s a time to eat and a time not to eat. Just make sure you know what time it is.” (p. 254)
Corny joke: I’m on a seafood diet. I see food. I eat food.
Grammar police alert: Cuellar keeps writing “less meals” when he means “fewer meals.”
The book could use an index.
Bottom line: this book may be a godsend for some people. I know the buffer zone idea works for me.
--Dennis Littrell, author of “The World Is Not as We Think It Is”
On the one hand I have to admire and appreciate all the work that Cuellar did to supply the reader with useful knowledge about food, nutrition and exercise. He definitely did his homework and more. I also very much like the idea of the buffer zone. I think this will help many people struggling with their weight. What I wasn’t so thrilled about was the repetition. Some of the detail is too detailed. The book could easily have been trimmed by a third without losing anything. However it could be said that the repetition serves a didactic purpose. Perhaps.
The central idea of the buffer zone is that you can’t burn fat and lose weight if you’re eating. You need buffer zones between meals. Cuellar’s idea is to have one big meal a day and two “primer” meals. He adds: “Remember it takes ten hours of no eating before your body primarily switches to body fat to run your body.” (p. 151) Expressing the idea of the buffer zone in another way, Cuellar writes: “Instant gratification is the key to obesity. Delayed gratification is the key to a healthy body.” (p. 110)
Cuellar doesn’t believe you need to give up eating the foods you love. If you want to be successful in managing your weight, you need to know “when it’s okay to eat what you want and” know “when to wait to eat what you want.” (p. 117) Here’s a bit of psychology associated with this idea: “…when that food craving pops into your head you tell yourself that you just have to wait until the next big meal to have it. Which means you are always within twenty-four hours of getting what you want!” (p. 129)
Cuellar designed for himself a 14.8-hour buffer to get 4.8 hours of fat burning every day. (p. 152) That would be like finishing dinner at say six p.m. and then eating breakfast or brunch at 8:48 a.m. Personally I’ve done something similar for decades. I fell into it accidentally when I discovered that I could exercise first thing in the morning, burn fat and feel serene with no low-blood sugar weakness. If however I ate something, even a slice of toast and peanut butter and jelly, often I would begin to feel weak before I finished my workout.
In a sense Cuellar believes that eating causes us to eat. That is, eating causes us to be hungrier than we otherwise would be. We can see the truth in this when we see food commercials on television. Juicy hamburger dripping with fat. Oh, boy. I am hungry. But if we see no food or food commercials we may not be hungry. I believe that part of the reason for the obesity epidemic in developed world and especially in the United States are those myriad food commercials on television, on the Internet, on billboards, etc.
A few tidbits from the book:
“When you’ve finished eating and you collect all the empty plates, emotional eating feels shame. True hunger that has just been satisfied feels content.” (p. 125)
“There’s a time to eat and a time not to eat. Just make sure you know what time it is.” (p. 254)
Corny joke: I’m on a seafood diet. I see food. I eat food.
Grammar police alert: Cuellar keeps writing “less meals” when he means “fewer meals.”
The book could use an index.
Bottom line: this book may be a godsend for some people. I know the buffer zone idea works for me.
--Dennis Littrell, author of “The World Is Not as We Think It Is”
August 29, 2017
I don’t normally read weight loss books because I don’t believe in diets. It makes no sense to eat a certain way to lose weight and then go back to “regular” eating and not expect to gain the weight back again.
It’s for that reason that I think The Buffer Zone Diet book should consider changing it’s name before the next time it’s published. This booknofollow is NOT about a diet, it’s about changing the way you eat forever WITHOUT having say goodbye to your favourite food forever.
I usually don’t like when someone tells their life story at the beginning of a book because it honestly usually bores me. Not in this case however. I was interested in Fred’s backstory right from the beginning and as someone who loved working on hard puzzles as a kid and sometimes thinks in different ways I could identify with parts of his life.
However you don’t just get the he is smart vibe from his backstory. Throughout the book he spends hours, day or weeks researching related topics and then makes lists from that and then uses himself as a guinea pig to test his theories. I do this to an extent too (the extensive research and lists) but he goes all the way. Fred didn’t just write a book on his thoughts. He did extensive research and tested things out long before telling others what to do.
Once you’ve gone through all the parts of the book that explain the science behind everything and you see how the trials went as he tested things out, you will see that this is by no means a quick fix.
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It’s for that reason that I think The Buffer Zone Diet book should consider changing it’s name before the next time it’s published. This booknofollow is NOT about a diet, it’s about changing the way you eat forever WITHOUT having say goodbye to your favourite food forever.
I usually don’t like when someone tells their life story at the beginning of a book because it honestly usually bores me. Not in this case however. I was interested in Fred’s backstory right from the beginning and as someone who loved working on hard puzzles as a kid and sometimes thinks in different ways I could identify with parts of his life.
However you don’t just get the he is smart vibe from his backstory. Throughout the book he spends hours, day or weeks researching related topics and then makes lists from that and then uses himself as a guinea pig to test his theories. I do this to an extent too (the extensive research and lists) but he goes all the way. Fred didn’t just write a book on his thoughts. He did extensive research and tested things out long before telling others what to do.
Once you’ve gone through all the parts of the book that explain the science behind everything and you see how the trials went as he tested things out, you will see that this is by no means a quick fix.
Keep Reading... http://smsnonfictionbookreviews.com/2...
July 12, 2017
A great book for those that want to make healthier choices. It is important to focus on where you are at and where you want to go from there. This book helps anyone figure out how to eat better, exercise more effectively and live a better life for yourself. This book will be the focus of my future fitness and diet plan. My friend and I are going to really buckle down and this book will help us find the path to a better and more fulfilling life. I highly recommend this book no matter where you are on your fitness journey.
May 12, 2018
Great book - helped me lost 47 lbs so far
I understand people complaining about having to read his story before learning what he did, but the books is informational, the ideas are workable and Fred was helpful when I needed suggestions. Because it was hard eating 1000 calories for lunch, I expanded the hard to eat calories into my breakfast... which has been working. I’ll admit, I haven’t done any of the working out he mentioned yet and haven’t felt hungry as I’m eating 600 more calories a day than I was on my previous diet. The book is definitely worth a read.
I understand people complaining about having to read his story before learning what he did, but the books is informational, the ideas are workable and Fred was helpful when I needed suggestions. Because it was hard eating 1000 calories for lunch, I expanded the hard to eat calories into my breakfast... which has been working. I’ll admit, I haven’t done any of the working out he mentioned yet and haven’t felt hungry as I’m eating 600 more calories a day than I was on my previous diet. The book is definitely worth a read.
September 28, 2019
Interesting story that was entertaining and enlightening on a methodology to lose weight and keep the pounds off. I highly recommend this book. It’s not the end all to be all about good eating or nutrition but has enough practical information to motive and help one who wants to be leaner and healthier.
March 25, 2021
I enjoyed this book and think the author knows his stuff. This is an overview of what the author learned doing his own search to be healthier. I agree with a lot of what he say. There is no one plan for all of us to follow, instead he gives information on food, nutrition, and exercise.
What Cuellar means by “Buffer Zone” is the “space between the meals”. He says it takes ten hours of no eating before your body primarily switches to body fat to run your body.
Some of his wording was a bit hard to follow, and I had to go back over it a few times to “get it”. Taking notes would have helped I think.
I don’t know if I’ll follow this way of eating, but I’m still glad I read the book.
What Cuellar means by “Buffer Zone” is the “space between the meals”. He says it takes ten hours of no eating before your body primarily switches to body fat to run your body.
Some of his wording was a bit hard to follow, and I had to go back over it a few times to “get it”. Taking notes would have helped I think.
I don’t know if I’ll follow this way of eating, but I’m still glad I read the book.
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