Jillian Michaels tells me her newest book Master Your Metabolism leaped onto the New York Times bestseller list the day it pubbed. But she says being number two on the list — and not number one — is driving her crazy. I can interpret that for you. Buy her book.
If you watch her show Biggest Loser, you know she’ll fight for that number one spot. She fought for that body, too. Hard to believe, but Jillian says she was once a butterball, stuffing food as a substitute for love. She snapped out of that attitude after her mother signed her up for a martial arts class. And never looked back.
This is not your mother’s metabolism Jillian is talking about. Really, it’s your hormones.
She surprised me with all her self-torture – and how her self-treatment turned around for her. She told me she had gone to an endocrinologist when her face had a mysterious pigment, and yet she wasn’t on the pill or pregnant. Jillian learned that her hormones were all messed up.
Why? In part, all those Frankenstein foods we eat. I was so tempted to engage her in a political discussion, viz a viz, how could our feds that regulate so much of our lives let corporations get away with poisoning us. Jillian simply says to be aware, and to vote with your food dollars.
Buy organic — yes, it costs more in the short-run, but honey medical care is expensive. Take that from me — I got diagnosed with Diabetes Two three summers ago, and last year medical care cost me $14,000. Care to guess what my clothes budget was? Suffice it to say, lycra lasts many years. I’m buying organic now. Just bought organic oatmeal before I read Jillian’s book, and sure enough, during our interview this morning, she said that’s how she starts her day. She doesn’t eat any carbs with dinner.
Jillian is worried about our nation’s kids — most of their diet is high fructose corn syrup, which is broken down only by the liver. Dangerous. It’s not fad diets that will slim you and your kids down. It’s staying away from processed foods. Her three-step program begins with Removing antinutrients, then Restoring super foods to your diet, and finally Rebalancing, which means figuring out when to eat and how, to make your body a fat-burning machine.
Jillian kicked butt in our interview. We swung out on a fast pace and kept it going — with a smile in our voices — for our allotted fifteen minutes. The end of the interview I asked her for the take-away — she said “knowledge is power.”
“Anything else?” I asked.
“Yeah! You ask great questions!” Jillian Michaels said.
Hey, she’s not so tough.
I’d love to train with Jillian. For now, her book will do.
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