The Flat Belly Solution

The Flat Belly Solution is a weight loss book that is written by Isabel De Los Rios to help you understand your own, unique, way of processing food and responding to exercise.

Although De Los Rios uses an entire book describe what she calls “a simple solution to weight loss,” we thought that this program warranted a little more investigation before we made any decisions about it.

What It Does

This weight loss program is based on the idea that we all have individual needs for weight loss that can be determined by figuring out your metabolic type. Once you know your metabolic type then you are able to decide which foods and exercises are right for you.

How It Does It

Isabel De Los Rios believes that she has found out which foods and exercises correspond with each different metabolic type, and she has explained how to respond to your metabolism so that you can lose weight without ever being on a strict diet plan.

Metabolic typing has been around for more than half a century, and the idea was founded by the dentist William Donald Kelley. Although Kelley was soon convicted for practicing medicine without a license, the idea of determining metabolic types has persisted even up until today.

Would We Buy It?

Even though we agree with the idea that we all have different metabolisms and not one diet program will work for everyone, we don’t think the Flat Belly Solution has an accurate way of decoding metabolisms.

In fact, even the most sophisticated tests, involving blood tests and urine samples have been shown to be faulty and unreliable.

Since the Flat Belly Solution relies on nothing more than making conjectures about the way your metabolism works, we don’t think that this book has any new insights into what makes each individual gain and lose weight.

Although we like the fact that the Flat Belly Solution stresses the fact that any weight loss program that is going to have long term results is going to involve lifestyle changes, we can’t say that this product is going to be an effective solution to weight loss.