Posts Tagged: Jillian Michaels

Slim for Life By Jillian Michaels Review

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Jillian Michaels Slim for Life Review

When I released Diet Recovery 2 (99 cents until midnight tonight on Amazon), I had no idea that Jillian Michaels, the devil diet diva herself, would be releasing a book on the exact same day – her new testament of health holiness, Slim for Life.  As you can go ahead and assume, it indeed brought me great joy to see my book edge ahead of hers in the rankings.  But I thought taking the time to read (skim) her new book and write a short review here would bring me, and you, even more joy.  In the beginning of Slim for Life I remained optimistic.  She reminded me much of myself in the beginning of my health exploits, going on and on about eating unprocessed foods and abusing the word “crap” as an adjectified noun… Read more »

Lose Weight and Get Healthy!

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Seen the phrases “lose weight” and “get healthy” paired together before?  Me too.  At least a “Jillian” times.  Our entire society has come to equate losing weight with an improvement in health.  Funny thing that weight loss stuff though.  Not everybody gets healthier when they lose weight.  In fact, by percentages, most people get more UNhealthy when they lose weight.  A more appropriate phrase pairing might be…. “Lose weight and Lose health!” So why does everyone think weight loss is such a great thing?  Why does just about every doctor in America think that if his/her patients lose weight, their health will dramatically improve?  The answer is really simple actually… Weight loss causes a lot of temporary improvements in the biomarkers for things like heart disease and diabetes.  Emphasis on… Read more »

FUDA Day 10

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Both the girlfriend and I had some slight deviations in our diets yesterday, and surprise, surprise, our fasting glucose levels were both higher this morning.  I will also point out that Aurora has been exercising like a fiend the last couple of days, which certainly can’t help much either.  That adrenaline is triggering some glycogen release. My deviations included having some pancakes with a on old friend that I was seeing off – she’s moving to London on Monday.  They were buckwheat pancakes with a few blueberries on top, but I suspect that most of the flour used was refined, and there was probably some vegetable oil and an egg in there with ‘em.  For dinner I had 1 tiny bite of the 12 pounds of St. Louis style pork… Read more »