Making the Cut: The 30-Day Diet and Fitness Plan for the Strongest, Sexiest You

• Jillian Michaels - 30 Day Shred
• Winning by Losing: Drop the Weight, Change Your Life
• The Biggest Winner - How to Win by Losing: The Complete Body Workout (5-Disc DVD Set: Shape Up - Front, Shape Up - Back, Cardio Kickbox, Maximize - Full Frontal, Maximize - Back in Action)
• The Biggest Loser Workout: Power Sculpt
• The Biggest Loser Workout: Cardio Max
• Jillian Michaels for Beginners - Frontside / Backside
• The Eat-Clean Diet Cookbook: Great-Tasting Recipes That Keep You Lean
• The Biggest Loser Fitness Program: Fast, Safe, and Effective Workouts to Target and Tone Your Trouble Spots--Adapted from NBC's Hit Show!
• The Eat-Clean Diet, Expanded Edition: Fast Fat-Loss that lasts Forever!
• The Biggest Loser Cookbook: More Than 125 Healthy, Delicious Recipes Adapted from NBC's Hit Show

As I said, it's a great book that provides some great tips. *The Biggest Loser: The Weight Loss Program to Transform Your Body, Health, and LifeAdapted from Hit Show.,. Making the Cut is only a temporary weight loss solution. However, for those of you looking to lose weight and keep it off, this is NOT the book you are looking for. I should also note here and she says this in her book, if you are looking to lose more than 20 lbs, you need to look elsewhere on advice on how to do that (she recommends her other book mentioned below). (I'd also recommend Jillian Michaels - 30 Day Shred in conjunction with this for maximum and effective weight loss).

within 30 days, this is the book for you. I'd recommend it to people who want to quickly and temporarily get in shape and look good, but it's not a book designed for consistent, long-term use. If you've got a 10-year high school reunion, wedding, or important event coming up and you want to drop 20 lbs. *The Biggest Loser Fitness Program: Fast, Safe, and Effective Workouts to Target and Tone Your Trouble SpotsAdapted from NBC's Hit Show.,. *The Biggest Loser Cookbook: More Than 125 Healthy, Delicious Recipes Adapted from NBC's Hit Show. It's not a bad book at all in fact, it helped me to understand how I eat and metabolize my food but the book is designed for SHORT-TERM weight loss, not long-term maintenance (which is what I'm looking for). I recently bought this book from Barnes and Noble but am planning to return it.

Instead I'd recommend Michaels' other book, Winning by Losing: Drop the Weight, Change Your Life or assistance from any of the other Biggest Loser books:.

I've been pretty busy since I got back and haven't exercised but 3 times in the last 3 weeks and I still have the body (I'm eating right which helps). I also had limited access to a gym, but I improvised the machine exercises with dumb-bells by simulating the same range of movement. I lost 10 pounds and got cut, and gained strength overall. Great book to bring on deployment.

I didn't follow the menu, but instead just avoided sweets and processed foods, and I am very happy with the change in my health and body. I made little index cards which I brought to the gym with me (instead of the big book). I'm very impressed by Jillian's workouts - the plyometrics and combination weight exercises made me sweat hard and tightened me up in all the right places. Her pictures and descriptions of the exercises were very helpful.

I'm a female Marine who ordered this book while in Afghanistan and was able to do the 30 day plan over the space of the last 50 days of my deployment; I didn't have a lot of time, and I also didn't do much cardio at all either. Jillian's book is awesome. This book is great for women who only have 45-60 minutes a day to exercise and who want a dramatic body change.

I was working out at the gym and eating pretty well, but I was losing about a pound or a pound and a half per month. -Good Luck I read "Making the Cut" and followed the workout routine while counting my calories. In that month I went from 211 lbs to 204 lbs. Be sure to check out Jillian's Podcasts of her radio show on the internet (KFI 640am). This book is awesome. The circuit training described in this book has really opened my eyes as to what kind of training is possible and I will never go back to just sitting around and lifting weights.

If you are ready for the time commitment of this strict, highly-scheduled 30-day diet and exercise program, it will deliver results. I recommend both books. You begin the exercise part of the program with an assessment of your current condition by doing a 3-minute step exercise and heart rate measurement, as well as testing how many sit-ups and push-ups you can do in a minute. The three diets are calorie-controlled meal plans you must prepare at home and there is no fast food or junk food allowed. It is not just a strength training workout as there is a fair amount of cardio. The exercise includes the use of some gym equipment as well as free weights, body ball, and a step.

The exercises also involve doing variations of squats, lunges, jumping rope, push-ups, and sit-ups. Note that the diets are not vegetarian. The author has a theory about how people "oxidize" food and provides a test to see whether you are a fast, slow, or balanced oxidizer. An additional approach, [[ASIN:097974590X THE 3:00 PM SECRET: Live Slim and Strong, Live Your Dreams]]. The food is designed for maximizing nutrition and minimizing calories.

Her theory suggests that fast oxidizers need more protein and slow oxidizers need more carbohydrates. . There are over a hundred different exercises, and they progress in difficulty over time, though even the early ones will make you sore.

The 30-day program is for people who want to lose weight and become stronger and more fit. The exercise program requires some knowledge of weight training and involves a balance of cardio and strength training. The book also provides grocery lists to make shopping easy.

The book emphasizes that there are no quick fixes to weight loss - just a lot of hard work involving calorie-restricted eating and effective exercise - but the payoff is the body you want. . This is an intense workout and calorie-sparse diet program for those serious about having a fit body.

The book has three different menus with recipes (which make 10-12 servings) for each type of oxidizer.

The "shopping list" didn't match the menu. I had some left over food. Also, I had to shop for extra food because they were needed in recipes but weren't on the list. I also bought the video, which is a great workout. Although she straight and to the point, which really made me want to work hard, the diet was difficult to follow. It was very frustrating.