Anyone tried this out?

[Scartissue]

Hi! I just wanted to know if anyone on here has ever tried the Gabriel method? It's for weight loss but it does help in other aspects of life too. I've just read half the book and I find it just awesome, I love it!
If you have tried it or are doing it at the moment, would you like to share your experience? If you haven't but have a opinion, please share! :-)

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

The placebo effect is a profound phenomenon that the Gabriel method utilizes. However, although placebos have a positive impact, they don't out perform real solutions like exercise. Mood may inadvertently affect your calorie consumption or burn, but it is still consumption and burn that determines weight gain/loss not your mind melting fat away cause it feels safe.

Studies have shown that people are getting fatter due to less active lives, rather than greater consumption (in fact, as a nation we're eating about the same as we always have). So this idea he has that emotions make us overeat, might have some truth for some people but certainly is not the core issue. The core issue is activity. It's been estimated that our average job burns 100 less calories per day than 5 decades ago. That's extremely significant. That's 25,000 calories less we burn a year just from our daily work. Not to mention how much our expenditure plummets with all the additions of sedentary life at home (computers, video games, TV, cell phones, etc..) which is only modestly made up for by better access to outdoor activities such as hiking and skiing and the fact that there are gyms everywhere.

Ultimately I believe, people are best doing what they can stick with consistently. If that's the Gabriel method, whatever. However, for most everyone I know it is as simple as KISS-- Keeping It Simple Stupid. Diets and exercise routines that are overly simplified, easy to follow, easy enough for you to do everyday, work for everyone except those aspiring to be elite athletes. Unfortunately flashy overly complex routines and get fit quick schemes drown out routines you can actually stick with for a year. Consistency beats efficiency when it comes to the average bloke with average ambitions. How hard your routine is should directly reflect how willing you are to fight for it (without overestimating how much you really want it) and that's the best philosophy towards weight management there will ever be

[Scartissue]

I really like your comment and I totally agree on most of it. It's nice to know that you know about the book and some of what he means! Now, I don't know if you've read the book, but I'm reading it right know and what he means isn't that you'll get thin just by thinking its safe and so on. What he does mean is; if you start thinking it's safe to lose weight and change your entire mind believing it's true you will lose weight. But not by sitting at home all day and just thinking about it. What happens if you do the Gabriel method is that your body will learn that it doesn't need the excess weight that it has kept for all this time, and the mind will start craving better and less food. You'll begin to want to exercise and being healthy = you'll lose weight. So as I see it, it's kind of like KISS.
In his book there're lots of chapters just about nutritious vitamins and foods that your body needs and will start to crave.

[Scartissue]

I've only read half of the book but there is a lot about exercising too :D

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

I have not read the book, only of it. I understand the method, I was just portraying my feelings a little bit there. I just feel it is a bit manipulative that it advertises itself as a method of weight loss that doesn't require dieting or strenuous exercise. Because it does. Even if it's making the user cut consumption or increase activity through indirect means, it's still the cutting and burning that creates the deficit. Now I agree with the reasoning that drastic, instant measures are unnecessary and hurt confidence, but I don't agree when it suggests that you have to transform yourself into a person who likes healthy foods and exercise through some type of mental therapy. I believe it is much more simple and that you merely have to balance results with difficulty. A truly ambitious person can manage great results at the expense of great difficulty, but average people can't deal with that difficulty and pick themselves up and throw themselves back in the gym the next day, everyday.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

https://www.thegabrielmethod.com/uce In this video he'll say a few health fallacies--- One of the biggest one that really discredits his knowledge in the topic is that your body goes into fat storage mode or "starvation mode". More than that he dismisses that we have to "eat less and workout more" saying that's not the solution. When it is! Continuing on to claim that you have to get your body to believe it wants to be skinny, to end starvation mode. Which is crazily over complicating things.

There are plenty of KISS methods out there that are better than this. Stronglifts 5x5 for example. DVDs such as insanity and p90x that take the thinking out of creating a challenging routine. Or "thefreshdiet" which delivers to you all the food you can eat in a day, so you can't possibly cheat without grocery shopping or going to a restaurant. I, personally, follow my own KISS method that is even simpler than those. So I definitely don't like his method as a one size fits all solution.

[Red_Dragon]

Hmmm. I've never heard of that, but you remind me that I have seen people advertise for this book:

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It might be helpful to you :).

[Scartissue]

I'll look that up! Thank you kind sir! :D

[Red_Dragon]

You're welcome miss 😊.

[itsme_goodsamaritan]

Just checked it out. Mind-body weight loss... sounds interesting! :-)

[Scartissue]

Yeah I'm completely in love with the book, the way he writes and everything awh hahah!

[itsme_goodsamaritan]

I think its a 2-in-1 therapy. You get to strengthen your mind along with losing your weight. I'd definitely go for something like that. :D

[BertMacklinFBI]

i have no idea what it is but ill look it up :D

[Scartissue]

Neither did I two days ago, and now I'm completely stuck haha. I found it as a PDF file so I didn't have to buy it :D

[BertMacklinFBI]

ooooh. you got a link? :D

[Scartissue]

I couldn't paste it in here, but search on Google for the Gabriel method PDF and the first one should be it! :D if you have an iPhone you can open it in iBooks and read it there :D

[yaddayaddayadda02]

How much did the book cost?

[Scartissue]

I found it as a PDF file so: 0$ haha. Just search on Google for the Gabriel method PDF and the first one should be it :)

[yaddayaddayadda02]

Nice LOL.