I'm fascinated by words and how they evolve. The word 'diet' is a word that seems to have undergone such a change. Originally your diet was what you ate. Now when we speak of 'Mary's diet' we assume that's a temporary state of affairs whilst Mary loses a few pounds. That only applies to people though. When we say 'the panda's diet consists mostly of bamboo shoots', we don't assume that the panda has got a bit tubby around the haunches and is laying off the pizza and cream cakes for a while.

Anyway, the issue with conventional diets is that inevitably you end up back where you started. You eat less food, you lose some weight for a while then you hit a plateau, you get dispirited, you fall off the wagon, you start eating more food again, you regain the weight. Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle tells you in detail why this is inevitable.

Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle isn't a diet. It does have a lot of advice on nutrition, but it's a lifestyle change, not a temporary matter. And you get to eat plenty of food, so that's good.