When I read the title of Jillian Michaels’ latest fitness DVD, Yoga Meltdown I did a double-take. What does this reality TV trainer with a background in martial arts know about yoga? But Jillian’s Yoga Meltdown isn’t yoga in its strictest sense, and it’s certainly not traditional yoga as we know it.

The Biggest Loser coach firmly believes that using your own body weight is the quickest, most efficient and most cost effective way to burn calories. Whereas weights could make you bulk up quickly, body weight training help you get lean. And this is exactly what Jillian focuses on in her new DVD.

“Yoga power poses are rooted in body weight training,” she says. “What I wanted to do [with this DVD] was take the platform and use the poses but create a fat-burning workout with them, so I am building kind of a hybrid in that you’re repping out traditional poses with movement in a circuit training fashion.”

In Jillian Michaels: Yoga Meltdown, she uses her fat-burning and cardio approach together with resistance and yoga’s power poses. If you’ve done Jillian’s 30 Day Shred DVD program you’ll already know her methodology – intervals and circuits combined with cardio and resistance. Jillian continues this concept with moves that are yoga-based, and including levels. Level 1 burns calories with quick-flowing yoga sequences while Level 2 adds more challenging twists and balance poses for more of a burn.

“The idea was let’s take everything people love about Shred and give them a different workout, since we all need some variety in our routines,” she says. “Plus, yoga has the added benefits of core strength and flexibility – and the way that I worked it all together made sure that it was calorie-burning, too.”

Jillian Michaels has become a household name over the years, whipping some of America’s biggest losers into shape and turning into a reality TV star herself. Recently the 35-year-old health-nut released her own line of dietary supplements, but is now being sued for misleading advertising of her “worthless” product the Jillian Michaels Maximum Strength Calorie Control.

A couple of months ago, the celebrity trainer was crowned America’s Healthiest Body by Health Magazine, while a new season of the hit show The Biggest Loser kicking off at the beginning of the year. But in documents filed in the LA County Superior Court on February 9, Jillian is being held liable for “violation of the consumers legal remedies act”, “violation of unfair competition act”, and “untrue and misleading advertising” of one of her weight-loss supplements.

The class action alleges that after the reputation she’s developed as a hardcore fitness instructor, always stressing the importance of hard work and discipline, for Jillian to now advocate an easy way to drop the pounds by popping two pills is misleading.

“Contrary to everything Ms. Michaels has ever instructed, she and the companies peddling this product suggest it makes weight-loss effortless, falsely claiming ‘Take Two Capsules Before Main Meals And You Lose Weight. That’s It.’,” the lawsuit says. “Ms. Michaels knows better – taking two pills before eating does not miraculously cause weight loss.”

The companies also being sued are Thin Care International and Basic Care Research, both of whom helped Jillian develop and market her supplements.

Celeb Diet Doc…
Julian Michaels seems like a straight shooter so I was more than a little surprised by the fact she came out with her own line of diet pills. Let’s check the ingredients…

Amount Per Serving % DV Fat Burner Proprietary Blend 866.00 mg ** Alpha lipoic acid ** White Willow (bark) Powder (Salix alba) ** Kola Nut (seed) Extract – standardized to 12% caffeine ** Blood Orange (fruit) Extract ** Sweet Orange (fruit) Extract ** Bitter Orange (fruit) Extract ** Grapefruit (fruit) Extract ** Guarana (seed) Extract – standardized to 12% caffeine ** Coffee (bean) Extract – standardized to 70% natural caffeine ** Cocoa (seed) Extract ** Cayenne Pepper (fruit) Powder ** ** Daily Value (DV) not established

These diet pills are a caffeine stimulant type product which can lead to headaches, feeling jittery, heart palpitations and unfortunately little to no weight loss. Sorry Jillian but you sold out.. just calling it like I see it:)

Btw here are some less than stellar comments about Jullian’s diet pills. Granted they are from the GNC website and anonymous so take it for what it’s worth.

This product did nothing i took reg doses and exercised more this was a total waste of money!

Gave me headaches for approximately one week. Did not see any results although I work out one hour a day.

I take two in the morning and it claims to have some caffeine in it, and I feel nothing. I took 3 this morning, still no effect.

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Jillian Michaels, fitness guru and trainer for the show The Biggest Loser receives the deserving title as America’s Healthiest Body in the November issue of Health Magazine.  With a new reality show in the works and tons of exercise DVDs and books it’s no surprise this wonder woman is being acknowledged by the magazine. Michaels said she was very flattered by the recognition but she admitted that she too struggles just like the rest of us.  She explained,

“I’m totally flattered. But I just think, ‘God, if people had any idea of the stuff that goes on behind closed doors: the struggles in the middle of the night in front of the refrigerator, the weeks on end I can’t get my ass to the gym!’ But, in reality, there’s a part of me where it makes perfect sense.”

Michaels also gave some tips on healthy eating and lifestyle choices by promoting an organic diet that’s free of chemicals and to strive to reach our full potential when it comes to exercise.  She also noted that to be healthy doesn’t mean that the person is necessarily skinny.  Smokers and drinkers can be very thin but are waiting for diseases to attack at any time.  Instead, a healthy person is someone who is disease-free.

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This week the NBC network announced that The Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels is getting her own show next year.  In her new eight-episode series Michaels will travel through out the US and live with families for a week and while there she will assess their lifestyle choices that have made them unhealthy and unhappy.  Michaels explained,

“When your health is out of balance everything else suffers — finances, relationships, work and family dynamics,” Michaels says. “I’m moving in with families across the country, getting down and dirty and rooting out bad habits in every corner of their lives that are preventing them from health and happiness.”

Michaels will also get some help from the handsome celebrity chef Curtis Stone who will give tips on cooking, nutrition and healthy foods.  Check out the NBC website if you’re interested in you and your family getting casted on the show. And don’t worry all of you Biggest Loser fans, Michaels will continue to be on that show in addition to her own new show.

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Twitter seems to be the latest way celebrity trainers share their tips to a healthier lifestyle with us ordinary folk. Super trainer on hit TV show The Biggest Loser, Jillian Michaels, last night tweeted her tips on how to choose a good lettuce at the supermarket.

While working on her new nutrition book, Jillian asked her followers if they had any healthy-cooking tips they’d like to share, then she shared her own too.

“Don’t buy your produce pre-cut. The air oxidizes the food faster and depletes its nutrients. Betcha didn’t know that. And now… back to work.”

The 35-year-old reality TV trainer later tweeted that it’s fine to buy frozen produce, but when it comes to lettuce, always pick from the top of the pile. According to Jillian’s chef Dr La Puma, the lights in the supermarket help boost the nutrients in the leaves.

In the photo above Biggest Loser fitness trainer, Jillian Michaels, is practically unrecognizable without her spandex and tennis shoes.  Posing in a cute orange dress she gave some tips to the readers of Ok! Magazine on how they can quickly lose a dress size for an upcoming event.  Here are nine things a gal can do:

1. Take three to five days to prepare.

2. Drink a gallon of water a day with two tea bags of dandelion tea, all-natural cranberry juice and the juice of one lemon.

3. Eat asparagus and a little watermelon. The potassium helps flush water out.

4. No salt. Sodium-rich foods include cold cuts, most meat, anything processed.

5. Avoid tanning because the sun will dehydrate you. If you want color, go for a spray tan.

6. Work out.

7. Spend three 20-minute sessions in a sauna and sweat it out of your cells.

8. Avoid carbs.

9. Go to a spa and get a body wrap.

Jillian also said that when she doesn’t have time to workout she avoids the empty calories of alcohol.  However, she did give a good recipe on how to save some calories when enjoying a nice cocktail, which is something to consider once that dress finally fits! She explained,

“A margarita is 500 calories, so instead you can do the diet version that has 80 calories, with Patrón on the rocks, fresh lime and if you need it, a tiny splash of orange juice.”

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Biggest Loser fitness trainer Jillian Michaels knows how to tell others to get in shape but in Ok Magazine we finally get a glimpse at what she does on her own time to keep herself in such tip-top shape.  Firstly, she was asked how often she workouts, she responded,

“When we’re not shooting I try to do five hours a week and when we are I’m lucky to get in three hours a week.  My body goes from a size 2 to a 4 and I gain 5 pounds.  You’ll see it from the beginning of the season to the end when I get tired. We’re working 14-hour days and when that happens, you  need to be very mindful of your food.”

Jillian also revealed how her food intake changes while she’s filming.  She explained,

“I allow myself less when I work a lot and don’t have time to work out as much. There’s no drinking whatsoever. I don’t get to have my organic peanut butter cups or eat as much period.  I usually go from a500 calorie breakfasts to 300 and being able to have sweets at night is gone, as is a glass of wine and tequila shots, they go.”

However, when she is working out regularly she has a trainer that puts her through one tough workout session:

“I work my ass off.  I do Capoeria, it’s a Brazilian form of martial arts.  I have a trainer that I’m crazy about  and we do crazy shit like sledge hammers, kettle bells, holistics amd biometric pull-ups. I do mixed martial arts, I run, I’m very cutting edge and intense.”

When asked if she has to work hard to stay in such great shape she explained that she was an overweight kid and that even now she still has to be very conscious about her diet and exercise.

“I work my ass off, it is no joke.  You watch me go up and down. I’m not a fitness guru because I’m not that girl who feels the burn and loves to exercise.  I hate it, but it’s about rebuilding my life and fitness is my tool.  If I were to take a contractor and ask if he loves his hammer, he would say no but he’s proud of the house that he just built.  That’s what fitness is.  It’s a means to and end.  I can get to the core of someone’s self destructive behavior in the gym and can reverse 90 percent of overweight diseases like stroke, hypertension and sleep apnea in that gym.”

Jillian Michaels has become a fitness celebrity in her own right.  She first gained popularity as the fitness trainer on the reality show Biggest Loser.  Now a days, she has her own fitness empire with workout DVDs, exercise equipment, books, Wii workouts and she will soon be releasing another book, Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body

Jillian was inspired to write the book after having issues with her own endocrine system.  Because of this, she got together with some experts to first correct her own metabolism by learning how to work with the hormones, and then she decided to share her findings.

The three-phase plan engages all of the weight loss hormones and she reveals how to ‘remove, restore and rebalance.’  Other features of the book include  shopping resources, food charts that activate hormones, information on how to buy the right foods on a budget, tips on dining out, recipes and ways to to control hormone related health issues.

The book will be released on April 7th.

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Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body

Over the past few years we have all seen how Jillian Michaels, the fitness trainer from The Biggest Loser has whipped those contestants into shape. Her constant motivation is admirable and it is evident that she practices what she preaches. Now, Jillian has come out with two DVDs so that we too can learn her best fitness practices in the privacy of our own homes.

The first DVD titled, Jillian Michaels: No More Trouble Zones, is a 40-minute circuit workout that targets your belly and waistline (also called muffin top) and wobbly arms. And the second DVD titled, Jillian Michaels: Banish Fat, Boost Metabolism is a series of ten short cardio workouts that last four minutes each that is sure to burn off those unwanted calories. As we’ve seen on the reality show series, Jillian has incredible knowledge on fitness and health and she knows how to target those unsightly areas that need the most work. These DVDs have just got to be good!