Jillian's Tricks and Treats. Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Notes from the Jillian Michaels Show Podcast.

Very funny opening segment about how Jillian went to a pumpkin patch with her kids.   She gives her kid Barlene's Lemon Merengue flavored fish oil and tells her it's candy.  Hehe!

• Unreal - make versions of Snickers, Milky Way, etc.  You can get them at the drugstores.  No HFCS, no hydrogenated oil.  It's just sugar and fat, not the chemically stuff.
• OCHO - make clean candy bars.
• Paul Newman - makes peanut butter cups.
• Sundrops - organic chocolate covered peanuts.
• Celebrate the holiday!  Go to Halloween events, read Halloween stories.  Learn about the tradition and culture.  It doesn't all have to be about the bad food.

Everyone talked about the bad things that people could give out to trick-or-treaters...like pennies or pencils.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

1. Early Detection.  You can change the mortality rate by 50 percent if you just catch it early.  Get your regular checkups.  Do the self-exam, regularly.  Do it regularly, because the cancer can grow quickly.  If you catch things earlier, it's so much easier to manage.  85 percent of breast cancer cases that occur have NO family history.
2. Go Organic!  Pesticides are linked to breast cancer.  The Dirty Dozen are the thin-skinned fruits and veggies that are the worst.  If you can't afford the organic fruits and veggies, don't buy the thin-skinned ones.  Eat an orange.  The Clean 15 has thicker skins or natural insecticides.  Prioritize the organic dollars on grass-fed beef, ocean-caught fish, dairy, avoid soy.
3. Sleep.  You have to sleep.  If you get fewer than six hours of sleep a night, you get low-grade inflammation.  Try to get 7-8 hours of sleep a night.  If you have to choose between sleep and exercise, sleep.
4. Alcohol.  Extremely estrogenic.  Not good.  One small, small caveat is red wine.  You don't want more than 4 oz per night maximum.  They think it may mimic the effects of estrogen lowering drugs.
5. Exercise.  Boosts your immune system, keeps free radicals in check and helps you maintain your weight.  Lowers fat, which makes more estrogen in doctor.
6. IVF, Birth Control pills.  Read studies first.  Can predispose you to breast cancer and ovarian cancer later in life.  Use condoms.
7. Food.  
1. Boost fiber content.  
2. Omega-3s - Barlene's.  Inhibits inflammation.
3. Pomegranate 

Callers!

Caller with sleep-related eating disorder called.   It was awesome.  You should download the podcast so you can hear it.

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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Finding the human connection - Notes from the Jillian Michaels Show - 8/18/12

Importance of being compassionate and seeing the world through someone else's eyes.  Sometimes its best to sacrifice a little to put others at ease.  You're not compromising your own happiness.

Caffeine As A Fitness Performance Enhancer

• Counteracts the effect of adenosine, which relaxes the nervous system.  
• Makes your nervous system more sensitive.  You have more speed, agility, alertness.
• Takes 30-60 minutes for it to enter your system and take an effect
• Half of the caffeine in your system is gone in 4-6 hours.
• 75% of the caffeine is gone in 6-7 hours.
• Go up to 200 mg.  Over 200 mg will make you overstimulated.
• Get the caffeine in 40-60 minutes before your workout.
• Take the least amount you can and still notice a difference.
• If using coffee, make sure it's organic.  A strong, tall cup of coffee is about 200 mg.  A shot of espresso is about 80 mg.
• If you're competing in an endurance race, you could take more caffeine about an hour into the event.  ONLY for endurance sports.
• EBoost - Jillian is amazed with it.  All natural.  Has electrolytes, so it's a recovery drink too, along with the caffeine.  Flavored with Stevia.  Clean energy.  Has vitamins and immunity boosters.  160 mg of caffeine per packet.

Deciphering Food Labels

• "Local" - Doesn't mean it's healthy.  It means you're saving the environment because it doesn't take as much in fossil fuels to make it to your grocery store.  Don't presume it's organic -  ask.
• Organic - no preservatives, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics.  It costs a lot to get organically certified
• Gluten Free - Gluten affects people with celiac disease.  If you don't have celiac disease, you don't need to buy gluten free food.   They are higher in calories, have less fiber, and are more expensive.
• Trans-Fat-Free - Food could still have trans fat in it, but if there's not enough, it could be labeled as trans-fat-free.  If it says 0 grams trans fats.  If you see hydrogenated anything on the label, don't buy it!  They can round down on the serving sizes.  
• Whole Grain - It has to say 100 percent whole grain.  If not, they could just put a little bit of whole grain in the food and label it as whole grain.
• Good source of _____.  - Could just be ten to twenty percent of the recommended daily allowance.

Good Way to Get into the Fitness Industry

• AFFA is straightforward.  It doesn't make you miserable.  It's manageable, and the courses are great.  NASM, ACE, ACSM are all good.
• Do you want to get a personal training certification, group exercise certification, or both?
• Go to some fitness expos.  You will find all of the different group exercise people there.  What group exercise do you want to teach?  Sign up for that course.
• Jillian is coming up with a group exercise class called Body Shred.  If you take that class, it will count toward recertification.
• Read the trade magazines - Shape, Women's Health, Men's Health.  Men's Health is really good. The trade magazines are an easy read.
• PubMed - Read the latest studies on exercise and diet.  When you like something, study it and read it all the way through.  Find out who funded the studies.
• Pick a gym in your area that you like.  Start working your way into working at the gym freelance.
• Get insurance.  Make every person that you train sign a waiver.

When Your Partner Doesn't Want You To Lose Weight

• Try to get him/her to open up about why
• Ask for partner's support - don't bring bad foods in house
• Communicate very clearly, directly about what you want and what you need
• Reassure and validate him/her
• If after several attempts this doesn't work, you have a very serious decision to make.  

Ended the show with a short discussion about bras.  :-)

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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