The Venus Factor Diet is not your ordinary eating plan. Created exclusively for women by John Barban, the plan uses sacred geometry — specifically the Golden Mean ratio — to determine the most desirable dimensions for a woman’s body and bases its nutritional and exercise protocols around achieving those dimensions. While 1.618 (the Golden Mean) is considered the “divine proportion” of a pleasing face, according to Dr. Patricia Elby, “With the female figure it is a WHR (waist-to-hip ratio) of 0.7.”
There are actually very few Venus Factor negative reviews concerning the plan’s methods, which put emphasis on metabolic regulation by increasing the body’s production of the fat-melting hormone leptin.
But here are the challenges and issues I found with the Venus Factor diet program:
- Doesn’t work for men
- Restrictions on meal timing. (No late night snacks, and you must eat many small meals)
- The program is only available on-line. (You can request a hard copy for a small fee)
Venus Factor Diet Details
Since the diet allows more freedom than your typical controlled eating plan, it’s not unusual for some dieters to become complacent and delve into overeating. While the majority of dieters find the diet’s focus on food quality and proportions rather than sugar or protein content a breath of fresh air, some women simply do better with a stricter dietary regimen that counts every last calorie and gram of fat, and for them the looser rules of the Venus Factor Diet are just not structured enough. Most of the Venus Factor negative reviews are by such dieters who find it ineffective in controlling their eating patterns.
Venus Factor Goals
One of the biggest goals of the Venus Factor Diet is to replace body fat with lean muscle. Women who are only interested in shedding a few pounds but aren’t interested in muscle toning may not have the drive to stick with the program’s daily exercises, which is a second source of the diet’s occasional negative reviews. In some of these cases it’s clear the dieter did not realize before engaging in the plan that there was anything more to it besides food intake, and this lack of preparation for the exercise component was met with irritation and disappointment.
Ultimately, the majority of the Venus Factor negative reviews reflect the intentions of the dieters rather than objective flaws in the program itself. Women who prefer to have their meals laid out for them exactly may find they can’t stick with it, while the daily exercise regimen it implements may not be of interest to the casual dieter. For the woman who is dedicated to getting in optimal physical shape rather than losing a specific number of pounds and doesn’t like having to vigilantly keep track of calories or carbs or fat, the plan appears to be highly effective and free of any negative side effects.
