Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body! by Jillian Michaels, Mariska van Aalst Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body!
Book Review: Boring and sold it within a few days
Summary: 2 Stars
I got bored with this book and the writing style. You dont have to buy this book for the information that was included. Just go onto websites like [...] or do a yahoo/google seach for workouts and nutritional information.
I bought this and turned around and sold it for $5. I would not recommend this book.
Book Review: By removing toxins and restoring whole foods to a diet, hormones can be rebalanced
Summary: 5 Stars
If you're tired of diets that don't work or are difficult to follow because they're basically unsatisfying, you need MASTER YOUR METABOLISM, a three-phrase plan that advocates revving up weight-loss hormones. By removing toxins and restoring whole foods to a diet, hormones can be rebalanced. This easy diet includes food lists, meal plans, and lists of hormone-trigger foods along with easy recipes.
Book Review: Changed my life for the good...forever!
Summary: 5 Stars
Inspiring, and bottom line, she does not regurgitate the same old stuff at us. I have 3 of her books (BUY "MASTER YOUR METABOLISM"!!!!! IT CHANGED MY LIFE!!! 40 lbs dropped in 4 months through her solid advice and my hard work...but the work was NOT hard once I accepted it is just my lifestyle now and absorbed and utilized her solid advice. NO fads, no gimmicks, no "legal speed" in Hydroxy-whatever or pills that make you soil yourself if you eat fat!)
I find reading her books almost as if we are just having a conversation--and I am listening FOR ONCE and letting it sink in, and applying it in every aspect of my life. I also have "Hot Bod in a Box" which is basically "Winning by Losing" on index cards--Nice concept but too time consuming/complicated to re-arrange every workout.
Seriously, "Master Your Metabolism"---read it and do it for yourself. Ignore the cheesy tag line the publishers gave it about "3 Diet Secrets for a hot and Healthy Body." Don't let it dissuade you! It is about sooo much more--and a great reference for men, as well as women. It is so hard to get men to acknowledge the word hormone as applicable to both genders!! :o$
I hope this will reach SOMEONE who needs just that one bit of encouragement. I hope I can help just one person :o) I hope to be the one to push you over the edge into finding a healthy new you deep inside. You will love yourself even more when you get to the root of why you have undermined your health in one form or another. ADVENTURES ARE OUT THERE, what are you waiting for???? :o)
Book Review: Changing my life
Summary: 5 Stars
Since I am in the process of going through menopause, this book has helped me tremendously. Very well written.Book Review: Clean out your cabinets
Summary: 4 Stars
At first glance, Master Your Metabolism by Jillian Michaels appeared to be another gimic diet book for women, but as I learned of the author's credentials and discovered the intriguing primer on major hormones (and signs of their imbalance), I knew this book could lead many readers to the "why" behind their hormone-related symptoms. Michaels explains the steps of Removing (processed foods, chemical cleaners, etc.), Restoring (e.g., whole foods, fish oil supplements) and Rebalancing (e.g., no eating after 9pm) to reach optimal hormone cooperation (aka metabolism).
Although at times the medical explanations were overwhelming, I was impressed with the scientific explanations and am always glad to find a book that I can't sufficiently "skim" (i.e., I need to re-read it) and one that makes me want to dig deeper into a subject--in this case, endocrinology and organic foods. Although written for both men and women, some men may pass this one on the shelf because of its cover. Seemingly marketed as a diet book, Master Your Metabolism actually deals with hormone balance and establishing healthy eating habits. A couple things some readers may find offensive or annoying: the profanity sprinkled throughout the book and Michaels' "go green"/"heal the earth" philosophy. In the section on getting enough hours of deep sleep for hormone function, Michaels did not address the unavoidable lack of sleep for breastfeeding mothers and those in certain careers (e.g., active duty military). I found the references to having a "hot" body on the proposed plan more of a marketing ploy and not really appropriate to the content of the book.
Overall I was happy to come across this book and agree with Michaels' ideas on eating before you get too hungry and enjoying occasional "real" treats (e.g., ice cream) versus imitation ones (e.g. artificially sweetened diet reduced calorie low fat _________ [you fill in the blank]). I certainly needed the reminder to eliminate diet sodas and (most) processed foods from my personal menu, and to add whole foods. But now the challenge is to start practicing what I have learned!