Jackie Warner This is Why You're Fat!!

This is Why You’re Fat (And How to Get Thin Forever)
By American’s No-Nonsense Celebrity Fitness Trainer Jackie Warner

                40 year-old celebrity fitness trainer Jackie Warner is not only ridiculously HOT, but doesn’t beat around anyone’s bushes.  She had to ‘fight hard’ even for the title of this book, as it is ‘inflammatory’ and bound to make people upset.  But Jackie is “tired of turning on the TV and reading diets that are not going to help.”  She wants readers to understand from the offset that “being fat is not your fault; staying fat is.”  So no excuses people; if you’re carrying around only ten or fifty extra pounds, it’s on us if we remain that way, particularly when Ms. Warner has apparently created the BIBLE of weight loss.

                This book is actually pretty impressive.  I have to say the thoughts of reading yet another weight loss offering was yawn-worthy in the extreme.  But Jackie’s ‘take no prisoners approach’ which blasts you from page one and keeps you captivated until the bitter end, is actually quite motivating.  At no point did I mutter, “Whatever Nazi workout lady,” and toss it onto the toilet tank along with last month’s tabloids.   She’s educating on a subject she’s passionate about, and it leaks into the pages.  You somehow feel her sincerity and desire to help us ailing fatties more than a yearning for personal success and royalty checks. 

                She starts out discussing toxins, and chemical/hormonal imbalances.  It appears I am the walking poster child for all these ailments.  She should have posted a photograph of me in chapter one under the title of ‘Exhibit A. What Not to Be.’  It makes total sense that weight loss isn’t going to occur in a sick individual.  That would be like expecting Ferrari performance out of a worn-out Pinto.  The foods we eat can balance everything out.  For this purpose, she proposes that for the first two weeks of her plan you keep eating the way you have been, but start incorporating certain foods into your diet (she gives you a list.)  By doing this you are starting along the path towards balancing your body chemicals.  After the two weeks you follow her ‘clean’ eating plan.  It’s not super horrific either, and based on portion control, not calorie counting.  A carbohydrate needs to be paired with a protein and plenty of non-starchy veggies, and if the portions fit into the palm of your hand, “that’s cool.”  At the weekends you can have two meals under 1,500 calories that are ‘free’ meals…in other words, anything you want.  This reminds me so much of another successful diet and workout program called ‘Body for Life.’  The premise behind both programs being, you eat as healthy as you can during the week, but avoid denying yourself a few ‘treats’ at the weekend, as doing so can lead to binging. 

                I like the idea, but after having gone through the Body for Life program, I found that the weight loss I experienced during the week was undone on my free day.  Still, Jackie allows only two meals of junk eating, not an entire day.  And you will probably find (as I did), that your body doesn’t want too much junk anyway.  Sugars, carbonation and over-salted dishes simply taste bad when you’ve retrained your body not to want them.

                The eating program also incorporates some pretty intense workouts.  But what I like about Jackie is she views ‘less as more’; so long as you’re doing the correct exercises.  I don’t have the time or inclination (or current energy levels) to throw myself into lengthy, strenuous and unrealistic circuit training.  After reviewing some weight loss books and trolling through endless pages of smiling models in crippling exercise poses, I become instantly depressed and worn-out; certainly not motivated in any way.   Jackie recommends 20 minutes of high-intensity cardio each day, and 3-4 weight training sessions a week.  Cardio needs to be mixed up to surprise your body into working harder.  Try walking fast for two minutes on your highest incline.  Then sprint for two minutes on a flat ramp.  Cool down for one minute and then repeat this cycle three more times until you’ve reached your twenty minute goal.  When you do your weight training, Jackie supplies many upper and lower body workouts that focus on the large muscles in your body (back, chest, quads, glutes and hamstrings) as these muscle groups really burn fat.  She advises combining three upper and three lower body exercises to make one big set that you work through quickly without a break in between, alternating from upper to lower for maximum fat burning results.

                What I truly like about Jackie Warner’s approach to diet and exercise is her ability to get to the heart of the matter and really appeal to the powerful, fit and healthy person hiding under the layers.  She seems to understand why and how we got this way, and if we’re willing to do some work and show some commitment, will take us by the hand and lead us back along the road to health and HOTNESS.  Despite losing fans and popularity recently over some insensitive comments on her (now cancelled) show WORKOUT, I like her.  And I like this book.  I for one am going to listen to Ms. Warner and give this program a go. 
                Stay tuned…