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

Good starting point

Basic information with common sense . Easy to follow. Love Jilian Michaels. Great tips.

My only issue, please do not tell your server you have a food allergy, such as gluten or dairy, when it is in fact a preference to be healthy. Yes restaurants are happy to have your business and yes they are happy to accommodate! However when you say allergy an extreme amount of care is taken to avoid cross contamination and the server takes extra steps as well. Just be honest you aren’t eating dairy or carbs and the restaurant will still happily accommodate.

Full of Facts and great Advices

I really like Jillian's books. I bought this book for 2 reasons, the title and that it is Jillian.
I actually lost a lot of weight lasst year and reached my goal, but then i thought, i will never gain weight again if i eat what i want now.. big mistake...

In this book Jillian helps you understand perfectly what is right and whats not.. and you can set a better and reasonable plan to reach and maintain your perfect weight.

If i had this book last year, i wouldn't have made the mistake of gaining almost 40 lbs, now i'm in the same song i was in before losing that weight..

What i mainly like here is that she comes and gives you fact and disapproves a lot of meths..

This book does not focus only on food and exercises, it talks about medicine, house products, and other products that are used daily.

And the best thing is that you don't have to follow all these advices, she gave a case for everyone , so it pretty much covers everything.

Thanks Jillian

Inspirational

If you could sum up Slim for Life in three words, what would they be?

Jillian always has a way of inspiring me. I found the book very informative and will listen to it over and over again.

Good Advice, but Probably Better in Print

I don't agree with all of what Jillian Michaels says, but I like her philosophy overall. . Although it's nice that Jillian reads it herself, the lists, URLs and point system aren't really conducive to audio -- I think it would be more useful to read it (and then maybe listen to it as a supplement or reinforcement).

Very informative and easy to listen to....

I have recently been completing Jillian Michaels workout DVDs and was keen to listen to this book. I have learned so much about what NOT to put in my mouth, and if I do, how it will affect me. Processed food has taken on a whole new meaning!
If you are really interested in getting healthy and staying that way, this book provides excellent and sensible information and I think (after making the decision to get fit and stay that way) that it is well and truly do-able.
I found that some of the information is very much related to the USA (I live in Australia), but I still found the book useful and helpful.
I have also found many helpful hints regarding exercise - what to do and what not to do.
All in all, I was very impressed. I would certainly recommend this one!

Lots of new information

What made the experience of listening to Slim for Life the most enjoyable?

Knowing that Jillian Michaels has proven results and uses herself as examples

What does Jillian Michaels bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Her Passion through inflections

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Each myth exposed and explained

Any additional comments?

I have already incorporated a few of the learning's in this book into my life!

I will definitely listen to many parts of this book again.


The point system was too complicated for me to use as I listened to the book as I get ready in the morning. When I would hear certain facts for the first time I would right them.

Great!

Good way to stay motivated while working out! I listened in the car, on my run, Everywhere!

When was this written?

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

No, the info in it is very elementary and Jillian seems like she is trying to be too nice in it. I specifically bought this book because I needed some tough love. If I would have wanted to be coddled I would have bought a book from the other biggest loser coach!

Would you recommend Slim for Life to your friends? Why or why not?

No. Because as an Audiobook it is terrible it is perhaps better in print because your eyes can scane over all the times she says W W W dot AMAZON dot com. or whatever website she is trying to direct you to. I appreciate that she is trying to direct us to resources but feel like this book is written for octogenarians. Look you can tell me just to go to Amazon for something or to go to the Amazon website...I think everyone in America knows that there is a www. before and a dot.com after. It is not necessary to spell out website after website. It is simply annoying.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

spelling out websites....being too nice...is she trying to make up for the fact that biggest loser portrayed her as a tough coach? I empathize with that but think everyone knows she is nice and she doesn't have to prove it. I bought a book about fitness and diet to be told things by a tough coach not some up for a Miss Congeniality award!

Did Slim for Life inspire you to do anything?

Yes stop eating carbs in the evening.

Any additional comments?

Would like a more advanced book. Perhaps I will read the next one as this book didn't transfer well to audiobook especially with the whole counting of points thing

Good Book, Good info

If you could sum up Slim for Life in three words, what would they be?

Pick for yourself...

If you’ve listened to books by Jillian Michaels before, how does this one compare?

I like listening to Jillian. This one is as good as her others.

What does Jillian Michaels bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Her passion. It kept me wanting to listen.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes.

Any additional comments?

There is good information, and you can make it work for yourself. She says the more you do the better the results. I wish there was a pfd with the websites and questions. I listen at work and don't have a way to write them down. Although I don't want to spend the money, I may buy a hard copy for that.

This book does not work well as an audiobook

This book would work much better in paper form -- it has lots of lists and web links and quizzes, which don't translate well to audio. I am a huge fan of Jillian Michaels but it is painfully dull to listen to her spell out web links that I couldn't really use anyway.

A better way to have executed this would be to put the tips in audio and have a companion PDF file with all the links, quizzes, and other similar material. That would have been much more useful and made the audiobook more engaging.