Preliminary Xtreme Fat Loss Diet (XFLD) review

This is my preliminary review of XFLD based on nothing but reading the manuals that makes up the package.

So, I can’t really say anything yet about how effective a diet it is – that evaluation will come in the intermediate XFLD review I’ll make once I’ve been through 4 XFLD cycles.

Let’s get started with a quick overview of what’s in the basic XFLD package.

XLFD comes in a zip-file with the following in it:

• Diet Manual – 73 page pdf
• Training Manual – 21 page pdf
• Workout Logs – 8 page pdf
• Supplementation Guide – 8 page pdf
• Cliffs Notes – 11 page pdf
• Pre-program Checklist – 2 page pdf
• Interrogation audio – 1.26 hour mp3
• Vince and Flavia audio – 1.32 hour mp3
• Interrogation audio transcript – 31 page pdf
• Vince and Flavia audio transcript – 32 page pdf
• Success Journal – 5 tab/page xls

XLFD is imo 70% diet, 20% exercise and 10% strategy

XFLD is being sold on the premise that you can lose 25 pounds in 25 days and that’s a bold claim given that most diet expert advice tells you that you’re doing good if you get rid of 1 or 2 pounds per week.

XFLD is designed around a 5-day cycle and listening to some of the audios that were released before the launch I almost came to the conclusion that I could take the information from those interviews and just design my own version of XFLD to use in my Turbulence Training Transformation Contest.

After all it was ”just” a depletion day to empty the glycogen stores, followed by a cheat day to get Leptin levels back to normal and with the cheat day followed by a fast day – and then with 2 other types of days that weren’t really talked about much in the interview I listened to.

But looking through the details that has been put into the diet manual I’m glad that I bought the program because I wouldn’t have been able to come up with anything close to that.

So, what are the pros and cons of XFLD imo?

XFLD pros

• Complete package – you get all the information needed to lose the weight because both the diet and the training part is very detailed.
• The Workout Logs are absolutely beautiful– they are clearly not just the result of somebody banging up a quick table in Microsoft Word or Open Office Writer
• Pre-program Checklist – it’s only 2 pages, but it’s a neat little checklist that you’ll definitely go through before starting the program.
• Cliffs Notes – a big plus since I find the program itself a bit too detailed/complicated
• Success Journal – neatly laid out so you record all the vital information for each day, and with a end-cycle summary page as well that sums up both the current cycle as well as all the previous cycles. The Success Journal also comes with a series of diet and exercise assessment questions to help you stay on track and do better each day and week.

XFLD cons

• XFLD seems complicated – all the strategy that goes into when to eat what makes XFLD something that you’ll not just dive heads first into.
• On some days you’ll work out 2 or 3 times which probably won’t fit into everybody schedule. I know it certainly doesn’t fit well with how my days normally are.
• The diet part – apart from the cheat day and sound diet recommendations – also includes BCAA’s and protein shakes. Personally I’m not really that into supplements, so for me it’s a con that I need to buy some of that before getting started.
• The links in the Supplementation Guide are affiliate links. I don’t mind buying through other peoples affiliate links if I’ve gotten some free and useful information from them, but I’m not a big fan of putting affiliate links inside paid products.

I’ve bought into the part about the Leptin/cheat day being the vital part of the program given the numerous research studies that’s referenced in the manual, and I know both from the references in Brad Pilon’s Eat Stop Eat that the fasting day has a positive effect on my metabolism and no negative effect on existing muscle mass – and I know from personal experience that working out on fast days is great.

I’ve not bought into BCAA’s being necessary on the fast days since research show no muscle break down happening during short term fasting.

I’ve also noticed a few places where the manuals could have benefited from some more thorough proofreading – I’m by no means perfect when it comes to writing, but with the time this product has been in the making it takes away from the finished product.

The interviews with John Romaniello, Flavia Dragos and Vince Del Monte doesn’t really add to the package in any way in my opinion, but the don’t subtract either.

So, overall I’m pleased with the diet approach in XFLD and the training seems to be well structured (and there are links in the manual to videos showing each exercise), but I’m not that fond of the protein meals and the BCAA’s.

The next review – the intermidiate XFLD review – will be complete in about 3 weeks time when I’ve had the time to go through 3 of the 5 XFLD cycles.

If there’s anything you would like me to pay attention to or if you have any questions about my experiences with XFLD, then drop me a question in the comments below.

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