Jillian and The Biggest Loser - Can You Be Fit and Fat? - Notes from the Jillian Michaels Show Podcast

The producers of The Biggest Loser all got fired.  They started to ask Jillian to come back.  She made a list of things that were acceptable to her, and a list of things that were unacceptable to her.  She had all of the unacceptable things taken out of her contract.  She thinks she underestimated the role she had on The Biggest Loser and the impact it had on her audience.  They're going to have a kid on each team, and are focusing on childhood obesity.  More discussion on the podcast, check it out!

Can You Be Fit and Fat?

• "Skinny fat" - High body fat content, but slim.  Extremely unhealthy.  Just because a person is smaller, doesn't mean they're healthy.
• Things that will make you healthy - quality food and exercise.
• Quality food - it can be like medicine!
• Exercise - Cleans the body and helps many facets than your life.
• Eating bad food and being sedentary will make you obese.
• You can still have extra weight, but be fit.
• Size is not indicative of wellness.

Re-inventing Potatoes

• A baked potato is only 150 calories and could have antioxidants.  Skip butter, use greek yogurt instead of sour cream, and put some chives on it.
• Potato salad - there's a vinegar-based version which is much healthier.  If you still need creaminess, use non-fat yogurt.
• Make your own fries.  Bake them, don't fry them.  Cut them up, spritz them with olive oil, bake them at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.
• Mashed potatoes - No butter and whole milk.  Use non-fat milk and no butter.  Boil potato in low-sodium chicken broth to get more flavor.

A lady called in, and she's massively overtraining.  Jillian will be sending her DVDs!

When you're trying to lose weight, you don't want a calorie deficit of over 500 calories, or your body will go into emergency mode and adapt for starvation purposes.  Your metabolism will change, and not for the better.

There will always be stuff on your body you don't like.  Seriously.  Even Jillian doesn't like her own booty.

  

This podcast is from 10/6/12.

I did my best to compile these notes from the show.  If there are any errors, please send me an email, and I'll try to correct it as soon as possible.  I am not a doctor, personal trainer, dietician, or anything that would remotely qualify me to give advice about health, medicine, or anything else.  Please consult a professional before following any advice.  This site is a summary of information provided on the Jillian Michaels Podcast that was compiled to the best of my ability.  I am not responsible for any inaccuracies or errors.

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Holding Yourself Back by Playing Back Your Old Story - Notes from the Jillian Michaels Podcast - 11/17/12

Where is your belief about who you are and what you're capable of limiting your potential?

• The pain of where you're at has to outweigh your fear of change.  
• How painful is it to sell yourself short?  
• If you do fail, it's just an entry point for learning, not a validation that you're not good.  
• Where can you do more and be more?  How is selling yourself short hurting you?  
• Incentivize yourself to take baby steps to open up a door to a different possibility.  
• The more small successes you have, the stronger you'll become to take the bigger steps needed for change.

Food Fraud - Things that you think are healthy, but they're fattening!

• Caesar Salad - Just the salad dressing itself has 300-400 calories.  About 30 grams of fat.  Add cheese, croutons...it's a disaster.  Get light cheese with dressing on the side, and skip the croutons.  Croutons are bread covered in butter in oil.
• Smoothies - Have about 500 calories each.  Take it easy.  Jillian lets her daughter have smoothies, specifically "The Hulk."  If you have a kid with a weight problem, don't do it.
• Energy Bar - Fat is stored energy.  An energy bar can be 300-400 calories.  Even a 200 calorie energy bar is a lot of calories.  It would have to be your whole snack.   Janice thinks that some of the healthy ones taste like hay.  
• Chipotle - sustainable.  A chicken burrito is about 1000 calories.  Instead, get the fajitas and light oil.  Or get fish tacos and take one of the corn tortillas off the tacos.  Don't eat the chips.
• Vitamin Water - loaded with calories.  Watch to see how many servings are in each bottle.  Some of them are 2.5 servings at 50 calories per bottle.  It ends up being 150 calories.  
• Turkey versions of food - There is just as much fat in the turkey version.  Read the label and check the calories.  Check the ingredients.  Just because something is turkey, doesn't mean it's healthy.  Look for nitrate free, chemical free, and then look at the calories.
• Bran muffin - Five hundred calories.  You can get smaller ones or lower fat ones, or eat just half, but it's still not great for you.
• Light Olive Oil - Has the same amount of fat as Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
• Baked Beans, Cole Slaw - Jillian doesn't appreciate it when people bring this stuff to her potluck parties.  Count the calories!

You should not eat while at your desk.  It's bad for overeating, and you still feel deprived.  You need lunch time to decompress.  Take some time for yourself.

Training with an injury - Will you lose fitness by stopping training?

• Cardiovascular conditioning - It takes about three months to use it if you're an advanced athlete.  A beginner would lose conditioning quicker.
• Muscle strength - Disuse atrophy can start after 72 hours.  Muscles you use more often won't atrophy as  quickly.

Janice talked about her first professional gig as a can-can dancer.  Jillian talks about how she has taken living in the USA for granted.  She also talks about how other annoying moms brought Doritos to a party instead of Pop Chips, and how a four-year-old called her out for bringing cupcakes.  Jillian gives her kiddo Unreal candy instead of the regular candies.

I did my best to compile these notes from the show.  If there are any errors, please send me an email, and I'll try to correct it as soon as possible.  I am not a doctor, personal trainer, dietician, or anything that would remotely qualify me to give advice about health, medicine, or anything else.  Please consult a professional before following any advice.  This site is a summary of information provided on the Jillian Michaels Podcast that was compiled to the best of my ability.  I am not responsible for any inaccuracies or errors.

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Mom Empathy & Machine Throw-Down - Notes from the Jillian Michaels Podcast - 2/25/12

Jillian went to Haiti and visited her daughter and realized how tough and wonderful it is to be a mom.  Very entertaining and sweet segment.  A must-hear for parents.

Fat Melting Tips - Things that Jillian tells reporters when they want to know what readers can do to get more healthy NOW.

• Throw out your junk food
• Take a cat nap
• Drink water - will make you healthier five minutes from now.  :-)  
• Helps flush toxins from body and boosts energy level.  
• Makes cells take up glucose more efficiently and improves metabolism. 
• Hydration helps your cells function properly.  
• When your blood is more hydrated, your cells release more fat.  It's called lipolysis.  Janice loved that word.

Machine Throw-Down - How to choose between two similar pieces of equipment at the gym.  Some equipment is more efficient than others.  You want a machine that makes you use your muscles the way you would use it

• 45-degree-angle back extension bench vs. Pin-Selected - use your own body weight, and you recruit glutes, hamstrings, calves, and lower back.
• Hamstring curl where you lay down vs. one where you sit up - Laying down requires you to utilize more of your glutes and calves.  You synergize more of your muscle groups.
• Pec deck vs. Cable Cross Over - Cable Cross Over is better - you choose the path of motion and it forces your body to use triceps, shoulders, core strength, and you have to stabilize at the same time you push the weight forward.  If you're an extreme beginner the pec deck is better.

Hot or Cold Day - Take an inventory of how you're feeling when you're doing different activities or jobs.  Always think about stopping in the middle of your day to think about how you're feeling so you can course correct and shift.  Try to be as present as possible.

Body Revolution - Designed to take a lot of weight off of people.  If you don't have weight to lose, you need to up your calories.  

Wheat - It's a high glycemic index food.  You don't want to make it a huge part of your diet, but you don't want to cut it out either.  Going organic will help.  Lectin might block leptin receptors, which helps us fight hunger.  Jillian eats Ezekiel muffins.  She has wheat in her foods.  If you consume wheat with veggies, protein, etc., it's better.  Someone is writing a new diet book and stirring the pot about wheat...  Wheat isn't a superfood, but it's not the end of the world if you eat it.

360 Weight Loss Navigator - Body Media Fit Armband.  Goes on your upper arm and tracks calories burned, sleep efficiency, etc.  You can log your food.  Jillian can create a program for you, and then the armband sends her information.  Jillian will send you messages that tell you how to course correct.  Sort of like the old Body Buggs.  Costs $180.

Fart sounds abound at the end of the show.  Not to be missed!

I did my best to compile these notes from the show.  If there are any errors, please send me an email, and I'll try to correct it as soon as possible.  I am not a doctor, personal trainer, dietician, or anything that would remotely qualify me to give advice about health, medicine, or anything else.  Please consult a professional before following any advice.  This site is a summary of information provided on the Jillian Michaels Podcast that was compiled to the best of my ability.  I am not responsible for any inaccuracies or errors.

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Jillian's personal health kick - Notes from the Jillian Michaels Show - 10/13/12

Yikes!  Jillian is tired of being sick, and she's on a health kick.  Here are some of the supplements she's taking to stay healthy:

• Brain On - green blue algae
• Multivitamins
• Probiotics
• Macro greens - chocolate flavored, mixed into water.  

Foods that Boost your Fitness Performance 

"Getting the extra edge" that will help you work out harder.  Supplements can help, and Jillian recommends EBoost, which is a supplement/drink she invested in.  However, you can use these foods to help boost your performance.  Jillian says that it's all about increasing the oxygen delivery to your muscles.

• Beets - you can bake beets and have two of them as a snack or blend them into a smoothie.  The nitrates help your blood vessels dilate which increases oxygen delivery to muscles
• Red apples, berries, or purple grapes -  They have corsitin in them, and help you absorb oxygen better.  If the berries aren't organic, Jillian recommends skipping them because they have so many pesticides on them.
• Wild Caught Salmon/Fish Oil/DHA if you're vegan - Helps you metabolize oxygen.
• Iron - Spinach with Vitamin C on it.  If you're not vegan, have a piece of grass-fed beef once a week.  Increases the red blood cell count and helps with delivery of oxygen.  
• Eggs - good source of ATP.  Eat the whole egg.  Eggs raise your good cholesterol.  It's almost a complete food, but lacks vitamin C. Only 80 calories in an egg.

Based on the information above, here's a perfect day's meal:

• Breakfast - Eggs, raspberries, toast if you want
• Lunch - Salmon
• Snack - Red Apple with some almond butter
• Dinner - Grass fed beef.  Put your beets in a salad with goat cheese.  

Jillian and Janice also chatted about Prop 37 in California, Kineseo Tap, Chocolate Milk not being a good recovery drink, and responded to an email question about yet another book written by someone that says you can't control your calories in, calories out.  Sheesh.

I did my best to compile these notes from the show.  If there are any errors, please send me an email, and I'll try to correct it as soon as possible.  I am not a doctor, personal trainer, dietician, or anything that would remotely qualify me to give advice about health, medicine, or anything else.  Please consult a professional before following any advice.  This site is a summary of information provided on the Jillian Michaels Show that was compiled to the best of my ability.  I am not responsible for any inaccuracies or errors.

Welcome!

I'm a big fan of the Jillian Michaels Show podcast.  I listen to it while I'm walking, when I'm in the car, and pretty much whenever I'm on the go.  The podcast is awesome, hilarious, and informative.  In fact, it's so informative, that I find myself wishing I could remember many of the recommendations that Jillian makes during the show.  So, I decided to create this site so I could make note of Jillian's great advice, and also help out my fellow Jillian Michaels fans.

Please note that this site should not take place of actually listening to the podcast (as if!).  The podcast is  entertaining and inspiring.  This site is meant to be a supplement to the show that will help out those like me that have a tough time remembering the lists, websites, and product recommendations from the show.

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