Jillian writes with compassion, candidness, and conviction to help you reach your goals. I've liked her since I was a teenager watching "The Biggest Loser." I can hear her talking through the book, and Jillian is all about accountability but expresses it with complete earnesty not condescension. She evens debunks common fitness and health myths floating around the internet. Although there is a lot of information available online, it helps to have a centered source like Jillian (and someone I admire) to deliver that message.

Since I've been into The Biggest Loser this season, wanted to check out the books. It's pretty good, though I don't agree with all her diet advice (heavy on artificial sweetners and some odd substitutions). I really like her view on weight loss surgery being barbaric. Nowadays, gastric bypass is pushed like it's a magic cure, even though it has a relatively high mortality rate. I was especially interested in the exercise section-- good pictures of weight training exercises that seem actually doable.

All in all, a practical book that combines Jillian's qualities of toughness with a nurturing/understanding core.

Valuable for her sample 12 week workout plan and the breakdown of the strength moves, but generally it was mostly stuff I already know.

This is better than Jillian's other book on weight loss, Making the Cut, but for Jillian's most comprehensive book on lifestyle changes, Master Your Metabolism still remains king.

The book is divided into three parts - Self, Science and Sweat. First, Jillian wants you to take a long hard look at yourself in the mirror to understand what led to you being in your current state. Next, the science part, which is the highlight of the book, explains the basic fundamentals of calories in, calories out, and also contains information about the Glycemic Load of food. I found this to be the most useful part of the book and consulting this chapter is the key to eating a satiating diet. After that, Sweat details a fitness program using resistance training and provides a sample 12 week program for exercises. While there are photos to illustrate correct form for some exercises, I think that Audio-Visual guidance is still far superior for ensuring that you perform the exercises safely and correctly.

This book is best for people who are complete beginners to weight loss, but if you had to pick only one book, I would still recommend Master Your Metabolism above anything else for the most detailed information to overall health and weight loss success.

Good but basic.

I didnt really get into this. I liked the first section but the found the science section a bit dull and I just didn't want to do the math... So, in the end I didn't actually finish it.

Most of the information at the beginning was a bit out of date, however the workout at the back is great!

Really in depth and a little confusing in just a few parts. She rocks!

This book took me 2.5 seconds to read, because I'd basically already read it. If you subscribe to her daily emails, it's basically just random paragraphs from her book. Good advice, just nothing new. Either way, she still scares the crap out of me on "The Biggest Loser."

This is not a beginner's book. If you are out of shape, these workouts will make you cry and vomit at the same time. Love her!

This and her second book are similar in exercises, but again, she is quite motivating!

Most of these books seem exactly alike when reading, so I don't usually get much out of them. I did find her questionnaire about metabolic processing, though, to be surprisingly helpful. Her exercises had some variations that I had not seen with my personal trainer, and those were helpful too.