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

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Author: Jillian Michaels
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

120 reviews

Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.9

ISBN: 0307382516
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
EAN: 9780307382511

Publication Date: January 22, 2008
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
You’ve seen her change lives on The Biggest Loser–why not yours?

Are you in good shape but struggling with those last ten to twenty pounds? Do you have an event on the calendar where you’d love to make jaws drop? Or do you just want to see what it would be like to have the best body you’ve ever had? Then you need to discover what millions who’ve seen Jillian’s training methods on The Biggest Loser already know!

Making the Cut empowers you to:

• Identify your unique body type and metabolic makeup (are you a fast, slow, or balanced oxidizer?) and customize a diet plan that is perfect for you
• Acquire the mental techniques that will greatly enhance your self-confidence and sharpen your focus on success
• Develop your strength, flexibility, coordination, and endurance
• Reach levels of fitness you never before thought possible

Customer Reviews: Read 115 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars

excellent results, with a few shortcomings December 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

My background: I lost a significant amount of weight (about 50 pounds) a few years back and have always struggled with that last 15-20 pounds that would really make me look great. I knew that Jillian understood how hard it is for people to lose that last bit of fat; I also knew that doing the same workout routine over and over wasn't going to cut it.

THE PROGRAM ABSOLUTELY WORKED in the following ways:
1. The workouts themselves are expertly designed and incredibly challenging. I saw definition in my shoulders and arms after 2 weeks. After 4 weeks, I noticed that the shape of my stomach was changing, and trust me, NO workout has ever accomplished that for me before.

2. Jillian isn't to wordy. She tells you exactly what to do. It's a handbook for action, not for theory. If you're like me and you've read a billion books about weight loss before, this is a relief.

I FOUND A FEW FLAWS WITH:
1. I am living in South Korea, and the shopping list is so incredibly American-ized that it's pretty much impossible to make any of the recipes in the book. I don't even have an oven in my apartment! However, I didn't follow any of her nutrition advice and I still lost 15 pounds and look fabulous, so it shouldn't be too much of a deterrant. It was just kind of a bummer.

2. As soon as I finished, I thought, "now what?" I'd really like to maintain my new fitness level, but im not sure how to continue. I can't just keep doing the program over and over (Can I?).

It seems like, to be able to maintain this shape, I need to buy another Jillan Micheals book or join her website. Good for her for getting all my money! But as it stands, I've never read a plan as good as hers before in my life, and until I do, she definitely has a loyal customer in me.

3 out of 5 stars

Great Book -- just not on the Kindle! December 18, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

This is no doubt a great book! And I read it in 1 day on my Kindle. However, this book should be purchased in print format because of the tables, menu plan and other items are not viewable. And the menu is most definitely a must have! I bought it on the Kindle now I'm going to have to buy it in print form. What a waste of money to have to buy it twice!

5 out of 5 stars

great book December 16, 2008
I just try to follow the diet for a week and it worked; I could already see a difference in my stomach I was so happy; however I'm not deciplined and I stopped following step by step on the diet, but I still follow the principles of this book. I highly recommend this book it has a valuable nutrional information such, it gives you a quiz to complete and from that it tells you what kind of oxidizer you are and which one of the three meal plans best suits you. If you follow the diets outlined in this book it will work!!!

5 out of 5 stars

Great book. great plan! December 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I followed the 30 day plan a month back and was very successful with it. I made a few modifications. Instead of doing the workouts in the book I did workouts from Jillian's "30 Day Shred" dvd (amazing by the way!). Having had an appendectomy two weeks before going on the plan, the workouts in the book were out of my reach. Actually the first week I didn't even work out, just stuck to the meal plan, and I still lost weight!

After making a grocery list of the items I would need to make her exact recipes, I realized that I had written down around 100 items and decided that I didn't want this diet to put me in the hole financially. Instead of following her exact meal plan I picked a few simple recipes of hers that I liked (Moroccan Chicken especially) and created some of my own. I always stayed within my calorie range and balanced my protein/carb/fat ratio as Jillian did in her meal plans. I admit that I never really felt hungry, though sometimes the meals got boring (maybe her recipes would have been more exciting). I was religious in staying away from alcohol for the entire 30 days, which was really tough but totally worth it.

Results: I weighed 141 lbs on day 1 and weighed 130 lbs on day 30. At one point in the last week I got down to 129, which was the first time I had seen the 120's on the scale since the 5th grade! Making the Cut definitely got me in the best shape of my life. I have been off of the plan for a month and maintaining the weight loss has been difficult, but at the same time I haven't been an angel. I have put a few pounds back on, but now I know what to do when I want to take them off again. Making the Cut was a challenging experience. It was a test of my will power, but I proved to myself that I could do it. That was the most amazing part of it all.

5 out of 5 stars

Making The Cut November 29, 2008
Love the book only downfall for me in Australia is finding the brands or similar brands to some of the foods on the meal plan. I will continue to investigate before giving up.