Cheat Your Way Thin Review

  • Website: www.CheatYourWayThin.com
  • Owner: Joel Marion
  • Company: Joel Marion Fitness Solutions, LLC
  • Cost: $47 or $97 depending on the package you choose
  • Refund Policy: 60 days unconditional
  • Delivery Method: Digital download
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Cheat Your Way Thin Review Basics:

Overview

Cheat Your Way Thin is a carb cycling diet (something which has become popular recently), with a cheat day thrown in at the end of each week to make sure your body’s starvation response does not kick in.

The main product is the 53 page guide which explains the system to you, but before you start on that you listen to the Gamechanger audio for 17 minutes which explains all the science behind the system to you. You can also listen to the Confessions audio for 7 minutes which explains how the author stumbled onto the system he proposes.

Then the 53 page guide gets straight into it and you dive into the 3 different phases of the system. There is a priming phase for 3 weeks, then the core phase which is just a one week plan but you repeat it as often as you need to in order to get down to your target weight. Then you have the maintenance phase which is how you are supposed to eat long term. I like the way there are 5 versions of the core phase to allow for people who react differently to carbs, so if you don’t get results from the main version you can adjust it until it works for you.

There are basically 3 different days where you eat different things and the phases mix these up to promote weight loss, you have days with very little carbs, days with low GI foods and then with high GI foods. Then of course the cheat day each week where you eat whatever you want all day.

Exercise is discussed briefly with 3 workouts a week for about 20 – 25 minutes a time as the recommended plan. Overall the guide is very concise, but it does skip over some things like why you should drink the recommended protein shake at 9pm each day, and then in the journal there are two things it asks you about in there which are not mentioned at all in the guide so you cannot answer.

You are given an easy to follow way to gauge portion sizes, then told how many portions of carbs/protein and fats to have for each meal on the different days (apart from the cheat day which is a free-for-all). Then you are given lists of the foods that you should be eating on those days to get your carbs, then the protein and fat lists are related to all the days apart from the cheat day.

You also get some sheets to print out to remind you of what you should be eating, and how much of it, in a separate file. Also a strategies video which takes you through how to eat healthily when out at a restaurant or when travelling, also how to motivate yourself and make the diet as easy as possible.

The upgrade gives you a personal email consultation with the author, a set of 28 days worth of meal plans for each of the 3 different types of day (making almost 3 months worth of plans) along with the recipes for those meals. This is much better than most recipe guides people give with their diets because it is actually made especially to conform with the diet, most recipe guides are just a collection of recipes pulled from anywhere which may or may not suit the diet they are given with.

You also get a short guide giving you other exercise plans to follow and an Excel spreadsheet to use if you want to count calories rather than doing the portion size system that the author recommends.

We emailed in 4 test question for the personal consult and had a response back 24 hours later, although again there was no greeting or anything, he just used the email we’d sent and put in the shortest answer he could below each one, so yes it did sort of answer the questions but more detail would have been nice so we knew how to move forward.


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What’s included?

There are two packages available – Basic and Deluxe:

Basic:
- The main 53 page ‘Cheat Your Way Thin’ program manual

- ‘Confessions of a Habitual Cheater’ mp3 (07:13 in length)
- The “Game-Changer” mp3 (16:47 in length)
- No-Fail Strategies Video or mp3 (21:04 in length)
- 3 Ultra-Easy Quick-Reference Cards
- Workbook & Success Journal (8 pages)
- Pre-program Quick-start Checklist (2 pages)

Deluxe:
- All the above plus:
- A One-on-One Jump-start Consultation
- 84 Days of Done-for-You Meal Plans (32 pages)
- 130+ Cheat Your Way Thin Recipes (72 pages)
- Cheat Your Way Thin Workouts (10 pages)
- Calorie Calculator (Excel spreadsheet)

You also get a 60 day money back guarantee provided by their payment processor so you know you have something to fall back on should the need arise.

 

Cheat Your Way Thin Review – The Good & The Bad:

Pros

  • You get a cheat day where you can eat whatever you want
  • Has 5 different versions of the core phase to compensate for different people’s tolerance of carbs, rather than trying to force everyone into one plan
  • Gives an easy way to measure portion sizes rather than having to count calories (although the calorie counting method is given for those who want that)

Cons

  • Have to drink protein shakes every day (more expense and hassle)
  • Wants you to exercise in the morning, or the afternoon will ‘suffice’, but almost everyone is at work all day during the week and an evening workout is the only choice
  • Doesn’t explain some things, like why you need to drink protein shakes, what is the NEAT score asked for in the journal, and what is the CLT cardio mentioned in the journal?

 

User Comments

The Cheat Your Way Thin program has been one of the most effective diets I have ever been on. I consistently lost weight and inches week after week, leaving me down more than 30 inches and 35 pounds in only 10 weeks!
- Actual user comment from main site, Annette Sassin*
 
In eight weeks, I cheated to drop 18 lbs and 14.5 inches! I’m now fitting back into jeans I wore almost 10 years ago in high school, and there’s no way I would have been able to do it without The Cheat Your Way Thin program.
- Actual user comment from main site, Erin McGuire*
 
Finally, I found a diet that I can actually stick to. Six months later, I’m still maintaining the 20 lbs of fat I lost (From 127 to 107 at 5’2″) and love the energy I have each day to spend on my kids.
- Actual user comment from main site, Christina Jenkins*
*Most people will never even finish reading the product let alone take any action on it! So the results above are far from typical.

 

Customer Support

Customer service was not great, you are given an email address to send queries to, we sent in a test question on a Tuesday, then we chased them up after hearing nothing by the Friday. Then we received an email on the Saturday with just a link in answer to our query, no greeting, no name, no nothing, which we think is incredibly rude, so there is no forum and rude, slow customer service, so they get only 1 star.

Thankfully Clickbank.com handle all payment queries and refunds so you don’t need to deal with them if you want your money back and can get a prompt response.

 

Cheat Your Way Thin
Review Overall:

This diet is quick to grasp, but is a little rushed so it leaves out some information you need to know. With the reference cards and especially if you get the meal plans then it will be relatively easy to follow and looking forward to that cheat day once a week will help you get through having to behave for the other 6 days of the week.

It is an expensive product compared to other diets as you don’t get a massive amount of content like in some of the other more expensive diets we have reviewed. It will take some getting used to as you adapt to having to choose and avoid certain foods on different days, and making sure you get some protein even in your morning and afternoon snack might prove tricky as well.

Also be prepared to buy protein powder which is an integral part of the system so you have to add that expense in when you consider this diet.

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Cheat Your Way Thin was given a rating of 3.5 stars by InsideYourDiet.com

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