Jackie Warner - This Is Why You’re Fat (And How to Get Thin Forever): Eat More, Cheat More, Lose More and Keep the Weight Off

Neither this diet and exercise program nor any other diet and exercise program should be followed without first consulting a health-care professional. If you have any special conditions requiring attention, you should consult with your health-care professional regularly regarding possible modification of the program contained in this book.

Copyright 2010 by Jackie Warner

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Old habits die hard. But what if your best (or what you think are your best) habits are to blame for the extra pounds youre packing? Spending hours on the treadmill, cutting fat intake, labeling certain foods off-limitsthese are all behaviors that actually work against your body. Jackies groundbreaking techniques for tricking the brain will change your body chemistry and the way you view your relationship with food forever. By simply changing your body chemistry with no-skimp nutrition and short workouts, plus thinking yourself thin, you will trim your body, tone your muscles, and get your best, hottest body ever! Now with her revolutionary plan, fitness guru Jackie Warner will show you how to work with your body to jump-start your motivation, kick your metabolism into high gear, and melt that fat away for good!

To my grandfather Jack Warner, whom I was named after and to whom I attribute the best in myself. I miss you every day.

Thanks to my literary agent, Mel Berger, and to my team at William Morris Agency for always looking out for my best interests and fighting the good fight. Thanks to Maggie Greenwood-Robinson for making sense out of my sometimes rambling thoughts. To Diana Baroni, my editor, who stayed positive and let me write the kind of book I wanted. Nicole Wool, you are an amazing publicist and so valued! Thanks to all of my friends at Bravo, specifically Cori Abraham, for always believing in me. Most of all, thanks to every individual who has reached out to me for guidance. You have made me a better teacher and a much better person.

This is a book for the fat and frustrated , for the sad and energy-challenged, and for all of you who know deep down that your life and body should be working better for you. I am not a doctor, dietitian, or psychologist; I am a fitness, nutrition, and energy specialist. I wrote this book because I have a deep desire to share my lifes experiences and intense personal work to help you get thinner and happier. Ill do it by giving you knowledge and as many simple tools as possible to plug into your own life. Oh, and at forty, I have finally found the key to getting my hottest body, and higher levels of personal energy than ever before. So I can confidently say that yes, I have unlocked the secrets of how to get lean, healthy, and happy forever.

Let me just say this, too: I hate diet or fitness books that are complicated, elitist, and recommend stuff thats expensive or hard to find. Not everybody has access to top trainers, or amaranth grains, or special weight-loss herbs handed out by expensive Hollywood doctors. I wanted to write a book that breaks down the strongest, best-supported research principles into a program that anyone can follow, no matter what their shape, geographic location, or income level. In this book, you will find that program.

And its a program that will give you what you really want: a hot and healthy body. I remember a client who weighed around three hundred pounds. Her heart, her blood sugar, her cholesteroleverything was a complete wreck. And she was addicted to prescription painkillers and antidepressants. As I gave her my speech that she would probably die from complications due to obesity, she looked me in the eye and said, I dont care about all of that. I just want to walk into the Gap and buy a pair of jeans.

Okay. I get it. Scary statistics dont work in todays body-conscious culture. Its about you wanting to feel sexy in a bikini, tight jeans, or anything that comes in a smaller size. Its getting thin and healthy that matters. Some people are even saying: Accept your fat. Thats delusional. If you believe this, give it up. Theres nothing loving, acceptable, or positive about eating your way to unattractiveness, fatigue, cancer, depression, and other terrible problems.

So yes, I get it, size is important to you. You care about your weight, and its one of those numbers you keep tabs on. Clothing size, pounds on a scale, inches on a tape measureall these numbers greatly impact your life. You feel great when you go down a size or two and horrible when you go up. Its that out-of-control roller-coaster ride that can affect your whole life. Im going to show you how to get off that roller coaster and find stable ground.

I have a great advantage over most people because of the unique experience I gain through my work with thousands of clients at my gym. Such experience has led me to landing my national television show and forced me to stay on top of cutting-edge sports and nutrition science. But it was from my family background that I gained the most valuable advantage of all. I grew up in a dysfunctional family that struggled with depression, along with a number of chemical disabilities. My father was mentally ill with postwar schizophrenia and took his own life when I was eighteen. The challenges and pain from my childhood made me very empathetic to emotional struggles. I gained a strength that led me, through diet and exercise, to battle and cure my own depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, skin cancer, and, at times, crippling low-self-esteem issues.

As a kid, I was a sugar and junk-food addict. Comfort food was my drug of choice in dealing with emotional pain. I was thin, but was completely bingeing on mass quantities of processed food and sugar. And while no doctor told me, somewhere inside I knew it was causing my depression, learning disabilities, and terrible ADD. My teens and early twenties were filled with starvation diets followed by bouts of bingeing that left me feeling horrible about myself and out of control in my lifeso much so that I even went to Overeaters Anonymous to combat my unhealthy relationship with food. Each diet I tried didnt work fast enough, or long enough, and led to feelings of failure and self-loathing.

Not until I reached my thirties and started really researching and applying the science of how the body changes with different foods, exercises, and metaphysical work did I finally turn the corner for good. I started adhering to a few commonsense rules for myself. These simple lifestyle changes have stuck with me and countless clients throughout the years.