Master Your Metabolism by Jillian Michaels
http://www.jillianmichaels.com
"INTRODUCTION FROM HER BOOK TAKE BACK YOUR METABOLISM"
"Why Hormones Matter—to All of Us. I could have called this book The Evolution of a Health and Fitness Guru. Why? Because after seventeen years of work in the fitness field—seventeen years of studying with the world’s top doctors in sports medicine, nutrition, endocrinology, and anti-aging—this is everything I’ve learned. Yes, this is what it has all been leading up to: Master Your Metabolism, my total approach to optimal weight and optimal health. This book is the distillation of my entire journey in health, from childhood binge eater to weight-loss guru. I’ve been at this for almost two decades, but what I’ve learned in the past few years completely changed my body and my life.
My first book, Winning by Losing, centered on the psychological and behavioral aspects of losing weight. In that book, I focused on how to get yourself into a frame of mind so you’d be ready to lose weight. (If you’re just getting started with an exercise program, and want an approachable plan, you might want to check it out, too.)
My second book, Making the Cut, was my ode to fitness. It is a physical fitness regimen designed to get rid of those last ten pounds—the hard way! It is ruthless, but very effective (insert evil laugh here). It gets you shredded, blasts the problem areas, like muffin tops and saddlebags, and helps you prep for that big event or party where you want to look your best. (If you have only a few pounds to lose and want to get fit fast, its thirty-day plan will work for you.)
This book, however, has nothing to do with exercise. Surprised? I know that’s not what you expect to hear from me. I’ve gone on and on in the past about the benefits of exercise. And you and everyone else know it’s good for you. So that’s not the purpose of this book. And it’s not a calorie-counting book either. I know what you’re thinking: that after being such a tyrant about exercise and watching calories, I’ve finally gone soft, right? Wrong!
Master Your Metabolism is, first and foremost, a diet book. My very first diet book. And let me tell you—if you practice what I’m preaching here, it will change your life, in more ways than just being skinny. I’m talking about adding years of quality to your life. We all know that fad diets are a thing of the past, and that the no-carb, no-fat crazes of the eighties and nineties are scientific laughingstocks and
pop-culture dinosaurs. Welcome to the future—this is the era of genome mapping, stem-cell research, and nutrigenomics (the study of how food communicates with our genes). Yes, calorie counting and exercise are very important, but they are not the whole story. Underneath the dieting and workout programs are the little messengers that carry information from your body to your brain and vice versa. These “little messengers” are your hormones.
What do hormones have to do with anything? Let me explain. If I were to ask you what your metabolism is, what would you say? I bet you would answer, “The way my body burns calories.” If so, you would be wrong. That’s one of the key things your metabolism does. But do you know what it is? The answer is hormones! Your metabolism is your biochemistry.
Some hormones tell you you’re hungry, some tell you you’re full. When you eat, hormones tell your body what to do with that food, whether to store it or burn it as fuel. And when you exercise, hormones tell the body how to move and consume energy stores, and how to boost or shut down different parts of the body. Hormones control almost every aspect of how we gain weight—and how we can lose it.
Maybe right now you’re thinking, “I’m a guy—I don’t have to worry about hormones.” Or, “If this book is about hormones, it’s not for me-I’m twenty years away from menopause.” That’s what I thought, too! I’m only thirty-four—what could my weightpossibly have to do with my hormones? But guess what: Whether you’re a girl or a guy, whether you’re young or old, your weight has everything to do with your hormones. Whether you want to lose the freshman fifteen, the postbaby belly, or the beer gut, your hormones determine whether you’ll succeed or fail.
And right this minute, your hormones—and by definition your metabolism—are being set up to fail. Without you even knowing it, your hormones have been hijacked by toxin-filled, nutritionally deficient, stress-dominated systems—endocrine disruptors—that cause obesity and disease. These systems lurk in surprising places, but they ultimately disrupt our hormone function and cause hormone imbalances—in all of us.
That’s why I designed Master Your Metabolism: to identify these catalysts
of obesity and disease, cut them out at the roots, and create a state of optimal health where the body and mind function at maximal efficiency. Together, we’ll target and eliminate these endocrine disruptors and replace them with the hormone-positive systems that make you healthy, happy, and skinny, no matter how old you are.
Synthesizing what the science of endocrinology can teach you about your metabolism, your eating habits, and your weight, Master Your Metabolism
gives you a clear-cut plan that makes the latest research work for you and your individual biochemistry. And this complete lifestyle plan will help you not only lose that weight but keep it off once and for all.
THE SECRET TO PERMANENT WEIGHT LOSS: HORMONAL HARMONY The endocrine system is sometimes compared to an orchestra. Each hormone is like an instrument. Playing together, in tune, they sound amazing.
But what happens if, right in the middle of a concert, the violin suddenly goes wildly astray, twanging away? And then the clarinet starts shrieking? And then the pianist can’t keep a steady pace? They would sound like crap, right?
It’s exactly the same with your metabolism. Your body can’t work the way it’s supposed to if any of your hormones is out of tune. Once one loses the beat, they all follow. That’s why, when your hormones are off note, you can’t just focus on one hormone at a time—you have to work to get them all in tune and playing in the right key again.
You’ve probably heard the words cortisol, growth hormone (or HGH),
insulin, and leptin—especially being thrown around on weight-loss infomercials
at one a.m. Am I right? Well, those words are the names of hormones, and those hormones dramatically affect your weight and your health.
So the weight-loss products that target them must work, right? Hardly. Thing is, those bunk “treatments” focus on only one hormone at a time (if they even work at all), which is a very incomplete and misleading picture. Unlike those infomercials, instead of trying to isolate one hormone at a time—which is totally impossible—this book is about how you can naturally optimize all of your hormones. And how you can do it without taking dangerous or expensive drugs? Our hormones—all of them—are influenced by millions of things in our diet and environment, from processed foods to pesticides to lack of sleep to excess stress. Any disruption will kick one hormone into overdrive and another into hibernation mode. When the normal function of one hormone gets thrown off, that imbalance creates another, and another, and another.
Way too often, these chronic imbalances make you fat—even when you are ruthless and meticulous about calorie counting and burning. I want to teach you that you can get your hormones in check simply by changing your habits in the grocery store and at the kitchen table. We’re going to dig deep here and remove all the toxic crap that damages your endocrine system, turns on your fat-storing hormones, and causes you to gain weight. Then we’ll restore the nutrients that speak directly with your fat-burning hormones to nudge them back to most favorable levels. Finally, we’ll rebalance the energy going into and out of your body, so that your metabolism works for you as a fat-burning machine, instead of against you, storing fat and stealing energy. When your hormones are at their optimal levels, your body functions at peak efficiency:
1. Your metabolism starts jammin’.
2. You look a lot better.
3. Your body maintains a healthy weight without much conscious effort.
4. Your belly flattens.
5. Your skin is clear and radiant; your hair and nails are strong and shiny.
6. Your eyes are bright.
7. Your senses are keen, not dulled.
8. You don’t suffer from excessive hunger or crazy cravings.
9. You get cut and lean.
10. You have energy to burn.
11. You live a longer, healthier life.
If you’ve seen me on television or heard me on the radio, you know that I am like a dog with a bone—I do not give up. I have perfected this plan to work for everyone. And I’ve done it the way I’ve worked to help every one of my clients and Biggest Loser contestants—through careful attention to detail and relentless persistence. I’ve taken all the latest cutting-edge research and personally tested it to make sure I could offer the healthiest, most effective eating and lifestyle program possible.
Believe it or not, I’ve fine-tuned this plan to the point where I can eat two thousand calories a day, and hit the gym for 2 to 3 hours a week (gotta love those grueling work schedules!), and still manage to maintain my physique. Sounds crazy? It’s possible for you, too. The best part is, I’ve done all this work so now you don’t have to!
I know you have a hectic and full life. I know you hate plans that make you count and chart and obsess about minute details. Forget all that. I may be tough in the gym, but I’m going to make it easy on you on this diet. Just pull up a seat at the table and enjoy. In this book, you’ll learn how to:
• Optimize all the hormones that are necessary to lose weight
• Fix your metabolism so it works for you, not against you
• Choose foods and habits that trigger weight-loss hormones
• Avoid foods and habits that trigger weight-gain hormones
• Learn which foods work together and how to cook them for maximum endocrine benefit
• Prepare fast, hormone-balancing meals with items already in your kitchen
• Eat incredibly well on a few bucks a day
• Correct biochemical dysfunction with relaxation techniques
• Detoxify your environment so that hormones readjust and weight drops off
• Enjoy fresh foods that can prevent cancer, heart disease, depression, diabetes, and
other diet and lifestyle-related diseases
• Dramatically increase energy levels and potentially lengthen your life by many years
As you work your way through the book, you can follow this program either
as general guiding principles or as a specific, prescribed weight-loss plan. I’ll break it down in as much detail as you need—do it all or just take the major lessons and go on your way. It’s your call.
I want you to begin to see everything that we’re up against, and start making choices that follow the major tenets of this plan. Do that, and you’ll take back control of your hormones, restart your metabolism, and get it revving faster than it ever has. Because, bottom line, this is not a book about being thin to be healthy. It’s about being healthy to be thin. Ready? Let’s go."
I just have to read this book. Linda table 9
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