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Summary: Business Plan for the Body
Review: Without doubt, this is the clearest, most rational, ands convincing explanation of what it takes to get and stay in shape... and control your weight. No fads, no gimmicks... just sane advice and practical "instructions". I have already been following the author's personal advice for more than a year, prior to his book's publication. Jim Karas's "Business Plan for the Body" is indeed guaranteed to bring you results. My own plan has been good for 40 lbs so far, and it has been "easy"... because it is so logical and understandable. Just do it!
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Summary: Smart Advice
Review: I just finished the Business Plan for the Body and have to say that it is the most intelligent, informative book on weight loss that I have ever read. I really felt that Jim Karas understands weight loss. He made it understandable. He takes an emotional, complicated subject and makes it clear and easy to follow. The best part is that Karas himself admits he struggled with weight loss. This is not advice from some jock who never had to struggle with this issue. Buy the book. I am going to for many of my friends.
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Summary: NEW CONCEPT - GREAT IDEA!
Review: Since part of what I teach in business management is how to develop a written business plan, the concept outlined in "The Business Plan for the Body" certainly caught my attention. It is not a book merely for losing weight, but one that you can use to maintain your weight and keep fit.Like a business plan, you will find the book revolves around number crunching - calories in, minus calories out, comparable to money in, money out. Your body's metoblism rate is the key. As I point out to my students, do not expect to sit down and undertake a complete business plan in a few evenings, a well-developed business plan simply does not happen that way. The same principle can be applied to this book. First you must do your research and find out what the need and demand is. In this case, what your body needs for food and exercise. If you are using the book as a means to lose weight, remember, you did not put the weight on in a few days, do not expect to take it off in that period either. However, if you have the commitment to follow through, you will be very pleased with what you learn in this book. The book, also, contains some fascinating facts on the myths of exercise, nutrition and weight loss. Would I pay $10,000 a week as some celebrities and CEO's pay Jim Karas to keep fit? Definitely not, even if I had unlimited financial resources. I would be extremely desperate, no matter what my financial resources were, to pay $10,000 a week to keep fit. After all, what it really comes down to is proper exercise and eating the right foods for your metabolism. If you are paying $10,000 a week, week after week, to have someone plan your exercises and watch over your shoulder as you eat, I question if having a personal coach is a necessity or... a status symbol. The book, however, is certainly worth the price you will pay for it, especially if like most of us, spending $10,000 means blowing your entire food budget for the next year!
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Summary: Great business-like way to do it.
Review: I thought this book was great. Using the business-like way of planning a program really appeals to a business-like person like me and somehow it made the program easier to follow and more effective. It was funny because I was reading it simultaneously with another book called "Your Mind and Body are a Corporation and You are the CEO" and between the two books, my whole way of dealing with both my mind and my body changed (and improved) radically. Best of all, I think I can follow the advice in "The Business Plan for the Body" for the rest of my life
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Summary: It's A Rave
Review: This is an easy read and says it all, from someone well qualified I'd recommend it to anyone trying to lose weight and be fit. BUY THE BOOK
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Summary: Practical Advice - Realistic Advice
Review: Mr. Karas has written one of the first practical, motivational and realistic guides for managing your health and fitness. He does not offer get fit fast cures or claims - just a realistic, self-authored plan for getting yourself fit! For the first time, I feel that I could take this "body manual" and achieve fitness. I highly recommend this book and am ordering copies for several of my friends.
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Summary: What Celebrities & CEO's Have Paid $10K a Week to Learn
Review: Like everyone, I, too, enjoy a bargain and The Business Plan for the Body, written by Jim Karas, is exactly that. This guy has been charging celebrities and CEO's $10,000 a week for his weight management expertise - needless to say, I didn't pay anything like that for my copy. The title stems from Karas' business background - a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, Karas has cleverly used the analogy of a classic business plan to guide his readers along the path to successful weight loss. One of the components that I found especially interesting was Karas' emphasis on "doing one's own IPO." The author contends that most individuals begin a weight loss program intending to fail. Fail? Yes. They tell few people, if anyone, about their intent to lose weight and when they don't succeed, no one is the wiser. Karas, on the other hand, urges his readers to 'go public". Tell everyone your intent, urge them to monitor your progress (much the same way analysts would with a stock) and use that pressure as a positive in the weight management business. Karas examines the "competition", and explains why today's so-called hottest diet and exercise programs don't produce "profits" for their users. I've exercised for years and have done hours of cardio vascular, aerobic work- most to little or no avail. The Business Plan for the Body urges one to cut back on the cardio and increase dramatically the strength and resistance work. I was struck by a passage where the author urged his readers to go into a health club and check out where the most fit individuals tended to spend the majority of their time - I did check it out, and Karas is right, they are in the strength and resistance training rooms, the less fit seem continually drawn to the treadmills, ellipticals, etc. Karas discusses weight management in terms of numbers, numbers numbers. Forget tyroid, bad metabolism, genes - it's basically calories in minus calories out. Creating lean muscle tissue helps burn those calories to create a caloric deficit. The book is hard to put down, not what one expects with from a "how to" book. It's an easy read. It's loaded with extremely engaging anecdotes drawn from the author's experience helping the wealthy and celebrated manage their health. Additionally, it is the first weight management book that reads as if it were written based on a common sense strategy for weight control. Upon finishing the book, I felt that at long last I actually understood what weight gain/weight loss were all about. And, more importantly, I felt I had been given some intelligent tools to finally succeed. Would I pay $10K for this information? I'm not so sure, but at $12-15.00 I learned more than I've ever learned regarding weight management from any other source. I liked this book a great deal.
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Summary: Rate the PLAN, not the book
Review: I was given this book to read by my doctor and after having it just for a few days, I went out and bought my own. It was easy to read and very well written. Jim explains things so anyone can understand it. I continue to go back to the book as I lose weight to keep on track. He has given me a better understanding as to what it all means. I've been on a diet for about 5 weeks and I have lost 20 lbs. I'm so excited that I finally found someone who writes with me in mind. I have recommended this book to many people and they all have liked it too.
Thanks Jim for helping me start to become the weight I want to be.
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Summary: Excellent! down to earth, fact-based!
Review: I think this book is really good. I've researched health, weight-loss plans for a long time and I think Jim Karas has a very in-your-face, direct, fact-based approach that is hard to argue with.
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Summary: The Business Plan for the Body
Review: At 5'4" and 185 pounds, I feared for my life. Hating my appearance became a secondary concern to the health problems I was beginning to face. I had tried so many diet plans, and would lose a few pounds only to gain them right back. I was desperate, and a friend of mine recommeded Jim Karas' book. This book offered a straight forward approach to weight loss through learning how to live a healthy lifestyle. I am proud to say that I have lost 47 pounds so far! I no longer avoid the mirror and I feel great. Jim, if you can read this, thank you- you saved my life.
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