Winning by Losing Drop the Weight Change Your
October 26, 2009 by Jim Made
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Losing has never felt better than with Jillian Michaels, the female fitness guru on Network Nine’s hit show The Largest Loser, who presents a unique and comprehensive health and fitness program that will keep the pounds off for excellent.
Jillian Michaels knows a thing or two about getting people to lose weight and live a healthier lifestyle. In her new book, Winning by Losing, Jillian offers a comprehensive and integrated program that provides readers with a clear–cut path to total health. Unlike other well loved diet books, Winning by Losing works from the inside out, combining a behavioral makeover with a unique diet plot and a no–gimmick workout.
The book is divided into three parts: Self, Science, and Sweat. Self focuses on behavior patterns, and shows how unchecked urges and emotional roadblocks lead to unhealthy eating habits. Jillian will help readers address and overcome these issues completely, an accomplishment that is the first and most crucial step towards leading a healthier lifestyle. Science is the book’s nutritional facet, in which Jillian teaches readers how to make their own personalized diets. This section will help readers identify their own unique biochemical and metabolic needs, arming them with the knowledge they need to formulate a diet plot far more effective than generic ones offered in other books. Sweat utilizes Jillian’s expertise to give readers an integrated workout program that combines the most effective elements of different training styles. It doesn’t promise to be simple – but it works and lasts.
While there are several recognizable men at the top of the fitness guru chain, including Bill Phillips and Jorge Cruise, this category has yet to see a new female occupy the spotlight. Jillian Michaels is attractive, knowledgeable, and dynamic, and is the perfect candidate to be the next huge thing in fitness/health books.
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Winning By Losing…Jillian Michaels
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I was compelled to buy three of her books…have not had time to read them yet…but can tell by skimming through that I will benefit from them.
growing ancient but staying young
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This book will help you know the numbers game. I took this book to my personal trainer for questions and answers and she was not quick to give it back because she liked it so well. Jillian is tough but to the point and I like that. If you are ready to believe loosing weight is a numbers game, you want to eat excellent dietary food, and you know you have to exercise to loose weight and start a different life style, buy this book. Because frankly after all these years there are just not gimmicks, just facts.
If you like Jillian, it’s a bit different from the 30 day schred
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I really liked the 30 day shred, but I found the book a bit challenging to get through. Couldn’t really get into her 3 types of people – maybe it was just me. Did find the motivational sections fascinating.
fantastic!
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Haven’t end the book yet but I am really enjoying because it really helps me set my goals and is very simple to read!
Motivating!
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I really loved reading this. It was the motivation I needed to get “back on track” with my fitness and health program. Although I don’t follow everything exactly (diet especially, I have my own regimen), I really liked the section on attitude. I also found the description of each exercise simple to follow and very detailed. But, I finished up cutting out each page of exercises and taping them on a board because it was hard to do the exercises and keep flipping through the book trying to find each exercise and read how to do them. Once I got it organized though, the workout has been fantastic. Very challenging exercises with progressive workout programs designed to stay challenging.
A must have item
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This book awakens you to the importance of healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle, along with diet. It is a excellent investment for anyone that wants to lose weight the heathy way.
Oustanding
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Fantastic book! Would recommend to anyone. Has a lot of excellent information as well as recipes and 12 week workout plot.
Jillian’s your trainer
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Jillian covers the basic that most people overlook and take for granted. There are some excellent thoughts on nutrition, exercise and clean living for a new you with increased vitality and longevity.
Missing Link
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I like the total package this book offers. I’ve been on a pretty challenging exercise routine for a couple years, but couldn’t shake the last few pounds. The nutrition section of this book did the trick. It taught me the best foods to eat for my personal type of metabolism and makes it very simple to know. I also found the sample exercise section of the book very useful in changing up my routine.
Comprehensive Weight Loss
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The fantastic thing about this book is that it addresses weight loss from many different angles. It starts with the emotional issues involved. Jillian seems to be able to cut through everything and get to the root of why you became overweight. I’ve read a lot about weight loss, but this is the first book that seems to touch on everything I needed.
excellent read
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
this is a very educational book on learning to live a better life style. It is very simple to read. I like the way she write’s it sounds like her when you are reading.
Kids like the book!
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I ordered this book for my son, he has really started to apply some of the things he learned while reading this book. WE like Jillian!!
Like it!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I’ve really learned a lot from this book and it really motivates me! I will probably reread it because I want to stay on top of my weight loss until I reach my goal!
Very informational and…
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
…motivational. I like how Jillian breaks weight loss down to 3 sections and initially starts with the area most needed– which is why we are having problems with our weight in the first place. I did not even know who Jillian was until this year when a coworker started watching The Largest Loser and I was forced to watch along with her. But, I soon got hooked on the show and it wasn’t long after that I realized this lady knew her stuff!
Her 3 pronged approach to weight loss, health and fitness is basic, yet well written and thought out and very simple to know and follow.
A worthy read
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The book is a worthy read; especially helpful to those who haven’t sifted through similar thoughts for years as I have. Jillian speaks fluently in a clear concise way.
I agree with the thought of figuring out why we choose to over eat, yet there is an added element about emotions and eating. We need to realize how processed foods alter how we feel. With the preservatives, dyes, heavy, heavy stout content & overall low nutrition, it causes a mental and physical dysfunction in us. There’s recent information out there that dyes are attributed to mood and behavior disorders in children. How those with visceral stout are more depressed, etc, etc. It’s out there if we choose not to pass if off.
Eat a super-sized meal at a quick food joint and tell me you don’t feel like you want something else only an hour or so later. The stomach is beyond full but the body feels like it “needs” something. Generally, it leads to eating something else causing the same physiological reaction to cycle again. Eat whole, unprocessed foods for even two weeks, (no cheating by adding junk anywhere, and make sure there’s enough calories for your size. Whole foods are naturally not calorie dense, so you should be eating quite a bit of food each day.) Notice how the the time between regularly spaced meals and snacks is effortless. The body and mind feel content all day.
After only a few days of eating the right foods, a sense of calmness is the immediate result – no highs and lows; no edginess. The kids appreciate my having more tolerance. Now… if there’s emotional issues to deal with, at least I have an objective perspective. In coming to terms with food specifically, now that I’m eating right I eat tons of fantastic food throughout the day. I’m always satisfied, my brain is more alert, I feel pleased, and I’m losing weight. Instead of, “why am I choosing to slowly kill myself,” I reckon, “Oh… I’m hungry. Better eat.”
I am convinced there is a food intake formula for people to function at their best. One plot does not fit all. Regardless of how the breakdown of protein to carbs to stout shakes out for the individual, the food source is still unprocessed, “whole food”. The stout intake isn’t overboard as in some of the lo-carb plans. The information offered in the book is not meant to be used as a “diet” for temporary use to lose weight. An individual needs to assess what type of fuel burner they are and live it forever.
In case you’re wondering if it’s all too excellent to be right after you’ve spent the money on the book to find out the plot only allows you 800 calories per day, no way! No one is underfed, ever! Larger people need more calories. As pounds shed and/or activity becomes less, there is a need to adjust the calorie intake lower to maintain or continue losing weight to reach the healthy goal. No one, skinny or stout, should ever skimp on calorie intake because it’s an immediate communication to the body it’s starving and the body will slow metabolism to become more efficient at storing any meager intake of fuel. You do need to assess current weight, activity level and use the formulas in the book to find out the right calorie total to eat so you don’t take in more or too small for your current situation.
The information Jillian is offering will work if the individual isn’t fooling themselves with excuses. She’s got all the basics covered to help any one of us – different and as similar as we are.