Slim for Life

My Insider Secrets to Simple, Fast, and Lasting Weight Loss

By: Jillian Michaels

Narrated by: Jillian Michaels

Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins

Publisher's summary

Stop battling your weight and slim down for life with this no-nonsense, insider’s plan from America’s health, wellness, and weight-loss guru: Jillian Michaels. She has helped millions lose weight and feel great, and now she can help you, too.

Best-selling author and Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels swore she’d never write another diet book. But she realized that with all of the conflicting, overly complicated information being thrown at you each day, what you need is a clear, simple plan that cuts through all the confusion to deliver amazing results, fast. This book distills all she’s learned about diet, fitness, and a healthy lifestyle to provide anyone seeking to be slim, strong, and healthy with an easier path to achieving dramatic body transformation.

You’ll learn to:

• Utilize Jillian’s insider secrets for optimizing your fat-burning potential
• Dispel myths and avoid diet trends that will damage your metabolism and make it harder for you to lose weight
• Banish self-sabotage, build support, and cultivate lasting motivation
• Navigate and circumvent every possible pitfall presented by any situation or circumstance you could come up against - from weight-loss plateaus to travel, budget, and time constraints
• Eat, move, and live in manageable, and even enjoyable, ways that facilitate a slim, sexy physique
• Supplement strategically, manage stress, and even purchase the proper home and beauty products - all to help ignite your metabolism

No nonsense, no gimmicks, just actionable advice that gets incredible results fast!

©2013 Jillian Michaels; 2013 Random House Audio

Loved it!

Great health tips. Enjoyed the book. It helped me get back on track. I am now exercising and more active. Feel great!

Jillian is the best

she is motivating and inspirational. wish I could keep her in my pocket. Buy the book!

Says vegetarian diets are unhealthy

I was on board at the beginning of this book. I like her approach on THE BIGGEST LOSER, specifically her tough love approach. What I cannot get behind is telling her readers that giving up meat and animal products leaves you devoid of several key nutrients. This is totally irresponsible. If you want to continue eating animal products, that is your choice and I am POSITIVE you can live a healthy life with intelligent choices regarding said animal products (Perhaps not eating meat at every single meal would be a good start? Maybe limiting meat to once a week would be easier on the digestive system..) But telling people you cannot be healthy without animal products? Please. Tell that to all the Americans living with heart disease, diabetes, early onset puberty (!), bad skin, bad breath, early signs of aging and not to mention all the damage to the environment we are all having to deal with.

OK, sermon over. I feel strongly about this and now that we are almost in 2018, people should understand that A LOT of people feel this way. I respect Jillian's choice to speak her truth no matter who she may offend. I really do. But it's not about being offensive at all. It's about teaching a culture that already over-consumes meat and dairy that giving it up (or even just cutting way back) is not a good idea. Ridiculous. Try reading HOW NOT TO DIE instead. Much better advice there and you WILL lose weight.

Calorie counting jigsaw puzzle

Although there is nothing wrong with the tips themselves, this diet book left me wondering who would realistically have the willpower to practice many of the tips long term without becoming obsessed with calorie counting. A slippery slope for eating disorders and rebound weight gain.

No handouts provided

Pdfs really should be provided for the points lists at the end of each chapter.