Reboot with Joe: Fully Charged 7 Keys to Losing Weight, Staying Healthy and Thriving by Joe Cross
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Publisher: Reboot Press
Genre: Food & Drink, Health
ISBN: 978-0990937203
Source: Received From Publisher
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In Fully Charged, Joe Cross shares what he’s learned since filming Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead about staying healthy in an unhealthy world. Whether you’ve followed the Reboot diet and are looking for help in sustaining your success, or looking for advice that will help you lose weight and adopt a healthy lifestyle, this book is full of inspiration and encouragement, as well as practical tips for diet, exercise, and mindfulness.
Adopt Joe’s 7 keys and thrive!
1. Change Your Relationship to Food (Don’t Abuse Food)
2. Change Your Diet (Eat the Right Stuff)
3. Change Your Habits About Food (Find a New Groove)
4. Embrace Community (Get a Little Help From Your Friends)
5. Maintain the Machine (Follow the Upkeep Manual)
6. Practice Mindfulness (Chill Out)
7. Respect Yourself
“Before I started juicing, I was overweight and taking medication to treat an autoimmune disease. By drinking only fresh vegetable and fruit juices while making my film Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead, I lost weight, got off the medication, and began to feel better than ever! Today, I still drink a lot of juice and eat a balanced diet centered on fruits and vegetables. But I’ve also realized that staying healthy is a lot more complex than just what you eat. I’ve distilled what I’ve learned down to 7 Keys to health and happiness. Paying attention to these 7 keys helps me thrive.”
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Reboot with Joe: Fully Charged is a solid follow up to Joe’s first Reboot book and leans more towards those who really need that extra psychological push to get it together. The book is broken down into three parts: “The Puzzle of Real Food, Real Life,” “The 7 Keys to Unlocking Health,” and “Resources.”
Fully Charged covers everything, from breaking the cycle of food addiction and sugar addiction (which won’t happen overnight but will be life changing in the best way), sustaining a healthy lifestyle (while accepting that no one is perfect) and knowing that what works for one person doesn’t work for another (which should be obvious since we all have different bodies but alas).
The book has a huge emphasis on how we are all creatures of habit and conditioning rather than conscious decision making and it makes a point to guide those who are truly ready to course correct but aren’t quite sure how to stay on course once they do. This means that this isn’t just about food and exercise. It’s about sleep and low stress and community and a handful of different factors that we must have a solid balance in order to succeed.
Personally, this book didn’t help me at all since all of this advice has already been engrained in me from various resources (generally speaking and in much more detail) but this book is perfect for the newbie or the backslider who needs hand holding and that’s okay. If you saw Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead 2, you know how easy it is to backslide. This book is about not letting your mistakes take ahold of your entire life again. This is about picking yourself back up and staying the course.
That said, if you have read Joe’s first book, I wouldn’t say that you actually need to buy this book, maybe get it from the library and pick out the tidbits that you need as there’s a lot of repetition here. Actually, I much preferred the first book to this but this is coming from someone who already knew just about everything in this book and therefore didn’t find it helpful. So, I guess is just depends on where you are at on your health journey. So if you think this book is for you, go ahead and good luck on your journey!
Reboot with Joe: Fully Charged 7 Keys to Losing Weight, Staying Healthy and Thriving by Joe Cross is available today.