The Master Your Metabolism Cookbook [Hardcover]

Jillian Michaels (Author)

Book Description

Release date: April 27, 2010

COOKING COMPANION TO MASTER YOUR METABOLISM

Master Your Metabolism, the phenomenal diet bestseller by Jillian Michaels, has been help­ing millions of people become hotter and healthier without their having to obsess over food or exercise. The key is ditching fad diets and chemical-filled Franken-foods in order to optimize your metabolic function and maximize your overall health.
 
Through the Master Your Metabolism plan, Jillian has taught readers how to balance their hormones naturally so their bodies become energetic, thriving, fat-burning machines.

Now Jillian makes it even easier for you by bringing the Master program right into your kitchen. With more than 125 recipes specifically designed for the Master Diet and including health tips tailored to enhance your nutrition and weight loss, The Master Your Metabolism Cookbook will help make living a long, healthy life easier—and tastier.
 
Jillian understands that your life is busy and your time is precious. She believes that being healthy shouldn’t financially strap you. That’s why she designed these recipes with a professional recipe developer to provide you  with healthy bites for when you’re in a hurry. The Master Your Metabolism Cookbook deliv­ers simple, great-tasting meals with minimal ingredients that can be made in thirty min­utes or less!

Mastering healthy eating and living has never been easier.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Best known from TV's The Biggest Loser, weight-loss guru Michaels presents a well-meaning collection of 125 recipes designed to meet specific health and fitness goals. Though she has no formal training in nutrition, Michaels asserts that most health problems are caused by metabolic hormonal imbalances; charging forward without any cited sources, Michaels includes a list of "amazing health benefits" with each recipe (Roast Herbed Turkey Breast with Orange-Cranberry Sauce, for example, is meant to boost metabolism and immunity, improve mood and digestion, fight cancer, and aid the heart). Dogma and posturing aside, these tasty, healthy recipes are likely to please. Michaels does her best to avoid esoteric ingredients, and dishes like Coconut-Curry Steamed Mussels and Grilled Skirt Steak with Chimichurri Sauce would be right at home in a traditional cookbook. Others, like Watermelon Soup with Blackberries and Jicama, or Ginger Shrimp Rolls with Green Papaya Slaw, won't make dieters feel like they're settling. Less concerned with calories or fat, Michaels emphasizes the benefits of foods like beans (fiber), cranberries (anti-bacterial, gum disease-fighting properties), and cinnamon (helps normalize blood sugar levels); while some claims seem glib ("If you suffer from asthma, eat lots of apples!"), Michaels's suggestions are, at worst, harmless and delicious.
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"These tasty, healthy recipes are likely to please."--Publishers Weekly

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 276 pages
• Publisher: Harmony; 1 edition (April 27, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0307718220
• ISBN-13: 978-0307718228
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1 x 9.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (85 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,452 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #57 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Diets & Weight Loss > Low Fat

More About the Author

JILLIAN MICHAELS, best known as a strength trainer and life coach for the NBC hit series The Biggest Loser, is the author of the bestselling Making the Cut and Winning by Losing.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

126 of 129 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Started to browse recipes but ended up reading cover to cover! May 12, 2010

By Savvy in Salt Lake City

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

I am extremely impressed! Jillian is not known for cooking, but it is evident that she consulted & collaborated with the right people to introduce a way of eating that is healthy AND completely do-able for a longterm lifestyle change.

I have many cookbooks...those that teach (e.g. Joy of Cooking etc), those with great photos, those from specific chefs and/or restaurants, those from particular regions or ethnic areas, those that limit something (like low salt or diabetic), those that promote a product (add a can of this to make that), those that only use fresh foods & organic products, those that are designed for quick meals or multiple meals, those that expand on a particular eating trend...get the picture? Most of my cookbooks have something in common: I purchased them for a few recipes that grabbed my attention. Each cookbook comes off the shelf infrequently and typically go back up on the shelf when I find that I don't have the ingredients or the time needed. Even the "new way of eating" or "diet" cookbooks are not sustainable, as the attempt to make daily food "special" has made it impractical or undesireable for weekly menus. Very few of these other (best-selling) cookbooks has entered my life more than a few times per year.

Master Your Metabolism Cookbook is different. After receiving, I opened it just to browse through the recipes, and ended up reading it cover to cover like a novel. HAVE YOU EVER READ A COOKBOOK COVER TO COVER IN ONE SITTING? There is so much great information! The design is really good--things are easy to find. The health benefits of each recipe are listed, along with calorie/nutrient info. You can refresh your memory with the related nutrition facts & explanations as you prepare your meal.

This has a nice blend of recipes & basics--it assumes nothing (e.g.assuming everyone knows how to prepare quinoa). The food is simple but certainly NOT bland. There is alot of variety for various tastes. You don't have to purchase ingredients that you will not use later. This book is full of healthy staple food with excellent flavor--meals that you will enjoy making and eating week after week. These foods are great basics to feed to families, and teach teenagers how to eat on a regular basis. There is no sense of deprivation. Many recipes have the potential to become a family favorite.

Yes, you could get much (not all) of this information from other sources, but WHY would you WANT TO?? It is a waste of time & money to find/purchase a large selection of resources when Jillian has already done the work for you. Jillian has also synthesized the information & discarded the out-of-date old-school beliefs. I HAVE the other books, that I don't need anymore.

Do yourself and your family a favor. Get Jillian Michaels' Master Your Metabolism Cookbook, and keep it close at hand. Don't buy the other books from me on Ebay ;>)

99 of 102 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars 22 lbs and counting, and eating well! May 18, 2010

By L. Schultz

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

I read Master Your Metabolism and it changed everything for me, was exactly the information I needed to finally lose weight and get healthy. This cookbook was on my IMMEDIATE ORDER list as soon as I found out it was being released, and it did not disappoint. FANTASTIC yummy gourmet healthy recipes that help me stay on track and still eat really good food! I could do this forever! I've lost 22 pounds in 2 1/2 months and I'm still going, feeling like I could eat this way for the rest of my life.

47 of 50 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars great recipes, every single one I've tried is well received! May 13, 2010

By Nyo

Format:Hardcover

We got this book in the house a couple of weeks ago and I tried out a few recipes from it... absolutely delicious. Even people with natural aversions to the words "healthy" or "organic" were conned into trying the muffins ("honey this is your best experiment yet!") and the curried chicken with cilantro, plus the thai green curry barramundi (substituted halibut) were beyond delicious. Especially since they were cooked by me, someone with the culinary skills of a klingon (yay, novice-friendly). I cranked my rating for this to five stars because everything I have tried has gotten rave reviews and I have yet to find a 'miss'.

Highly recommended, but be warned, there are no photographs of the food. I know some like the visual appeal, but in a way this is preferable to me since I am forced to focus on the nutritional values beside each recipe rather than how pretty photoshop made it.