Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body!

by Mariska Van Aalst and Jillian Michaels

Book Overview

Does it feel as if you're fighting your body to lose even one pound--or just to maintain your current weight? Respected health and wellness expert and bestselling author Jillian Michaels has been... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307450732
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Harmony
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Weight is finally coming off after months of ZERO!!

FINALLY seeing progress again! Wasn't sure to purchase this book or not but the points seemed to fit my situation to a 'T' so I gave it a shot. I'm not an organic person and never avoided anything processed before. So this is all a HUGE jump for me. Let me first sum up my situation: Lost 50 pounds in the last 2 years and still need to drop another 50 pounds. I was eating between 1200 and 1400 calories a day and working out EVERYDAY for 45 minutes cardio/weights. I was doing everything right and everything that went in my mouth went in my food journal. There was no cheating and no excuses. According to my calorie intake and calorie burn I should have dropped 2 pounds a week consistantly. And every week when I got on the scale it was up 2 pounds or didn't move! Total frustration and wanted to just SCREAM! Then I see this new Jillian Michaels MASTER YOUR METABOLISM and the point of the scale not moving no matter how good you ate and how hard you worked out. HEY what did I have to lose!? So it has been 10 days on her program and sticking to it faithfully and the weight is just pealing away! Down 8 pounds in just 10 days, like my body has finally said "OK... time to let it go". I haven't changed my workouts, they are still constant. I am following her main guidelines for eating and am consuming WAY more in volume of food and the calories I'm keeping at the 1200-1400. I feel soo full, never craving any junk. And I think, no way I'm going to lose weight because I feel soo bloated but in the morning.... the scale shows another drop! It works for me and I'm not going to go back! 3 months of perfect work and no results VERSUS changing to a healthier eating plan and more food volume with RESULTS! Took about 5 days before the scale and my body agreed to start releasing the pounds.

WHAT A RELIEF !!

As a menopausal 56-year-old woman, I had to STARVE to lose weight. I exercised and watched what I ate, but I always felt a bit sluggish -- not at all like the energetic woman I used to be, and I could never understand why. I get annual physicals, and I would complain to my doctor, but he told me it was just age. After reading Jillian's book, I was shocked -- and relieved! I sure as hell get it now! Jillian reminds me of the little boy in the children's story who yelled, "The emperor has no clothes!" I started cleaning out my kitchen cupboards this afternoon, and I'm so looking forward to cleaning out my body and eating fresh and clean and green. I can't believe this information hasn't been in the mainstream. I feel like it was written for me -- I'm an average layperson (university professor), who I now realize had a woefully inadequate knowledge and understanding of nutrition, metabolic processes and hormones. This book has been a revelation for me. It's what I've been looking for. THANK YOU, JILLIAN!

Endorsed by a licensed M.D. endocrinologist, very thorough and easy to read...

I have read a lot of books on physiology, more specifically hormones and metabolism, written by people with board-certified medical degrees. This book explains almost all of what the others do, plus more recent research, in a much easier to read format with helpful charts and references. I was very surprised a book of this quality could come from a non-degreed personal trainer. I have a new respect for Jillian Michaels for passing along medical researched-based facts (many pages of peer-reviewed medical references in the back if you want to check the sources) and dispelling myths like working out on an empty stomach, and the problems with soy and other substances interacting with hormones. Her own story is very interesting and there is a very thorough section explaining hormones and their interconnecting roles in our health. I've already started cleaning out my fridge and cabinets.

Jillian Rocks; as usual.

Jillian just gets cooler every year and with every new book she writes. I like how she is always researching, learning, and writing about new stuff instead of spending her career re-spinning the same old advice, as a lot of people in her field do. I read this new book in one sitting and now I'm scared, yet excited, because it really hits home for me and explains why I struggle so much harder than anyone I know and I still can't get rid of the fat around my waist and I feel like crap most of the time. I'm a bit confused and overwhelmed after reading it--not because the book is confusing in any way, but just because it has so much information in it to digest at once. Tonight I'm heading to the health food store with the book in hand to pick out some new foods for my cupboards. Today I've been working with the information I do remember which is HFCS=poison and a few other very important pieces of advice on food ingredients. I've already changed my morning cereal (which I used to think was healthy!) and not put the usual powdered creamer in my coffee (and now that I've examined the ingredients I'm not sure why I ever thought that wasn't straight poison). I changed the bread on my lunch sandwich today too and skipped the wheat thin crackers. It's strange but I already feel different--and it's only been one day. I don't feel my usual afternoon drag that would be coming on about now. The best part is that I'm not having a hard time feeling motivated to do this program because all the stuff I read in her book made it not even tempting to eat any more unhealthy foods. The funniest part is that I really thought that I was a very healthy eater before reading this book. I just thought my metabolism was super slow so that is why I gained weight so easily. Now I understand that my body is just so out of whack from all the years of dieting and eating diet foods with such strange ingredients. I'm suddenly feeling desperate to clean up my body and get my metabolism fired up. In this book, Jillian says that she can now eat significantly more calories than she used to be able to while exercising significantly less, yet still look as good as she does. I'm hoping that I can rebalance my body after reading this and get similar results so I can stop this constant struggle with my weight. Jillian Michaels is super smart, super hot, and has a great book here. It has information that you need to know in it. Your life could depend on it so read it!