Celebrity fitness guru, board certified nutrition expert, and New York Times bestselling author JJ Virgin is our guest today in Episode 906 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”
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It’s always great to have returning interview guests who are making a real difference in the health of people. And that certainly describes three-time New York Times bestselling author, Board Certified Nutrition Specialist JJ Virgin (listen to Jimmy’s previous interviews with her in Episode 631 and Episode 377). Her books have made a difference in the lives of so many people who have embraced the healthy living principles she shares, including famous people like Gene Simmons, Ben Stiller, Taj George, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Nicole Eggert, Tracie Thoms, and “Superman” Brandon Routh. And now she’s back in 2015 with a brand new book that is already making a difference. It’s called JJ Virgin’s Sugar Impact Diet: Drop 7 Hidden Sugars, Lose Up to 10 Pounds in Just 2 Weeks and is designed to help people struggling with an inability to lose weight because of a food intolerance.
Listen in to hear Jimmy and JJ talk about why fruit is not a freebie in your diet, how nobody is talking about testing your blood sugar, why the green juices and “healthy” wheat bread people are consuming is having a huge sugar impact, how fructose and glycemic load tell the story on how you respond to foods, why low-fat/no-fat almost always means more sugar, using her sugar impact quiz as a tool, how sugar is aging you, why it’s “insane” to be eating every 2-3 hours, how the calorie hypothesis has ruined the health of so many people, the best/worst 10 lists of each macronutrient in her book, how starch is hit or miss about whether it is a hidden sugar or not, why she describes how she eats as “Paleo Plus,” there’s a junk food version of virtually every diet, her crystal-clear writing style that is in-your-face, sugar is the #1 drug of choice, why she’s a fan of tapering off vs. cold turkey approach to reducing sugar impact, how quickly the cravings disappear when you remove the foods stoking the cravings, and why you don’t need to focus on your weight. JJ Virgin is a voice of reason on health that you need to be listening to. ENJOY!
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– JJ Virgin bio
– JJ Virgin’s Sugar Impact Diet: Drop 7 Hidden Sugars, Lose Up to 10 Pounds in Just 2 Weeks
– The Virgin Diet Lifestyle Show
– SugarImpactDiet.com
– JJ on Twitter
– JJ on Facebook
– JJ on YouTube
– RELATED PODCAST: The LLVLC Show #631: JJ Virgin Identifies 7 Food Allergies Keeping You From Losing Weight
– RELATED PODCAST: The LLVLC Show #377: JJ Virgin Will Make You ‘Sleeveless And Sexy’ In Just Six Weeks!
I might just buy a copy of her book for a neighbor of mine whose motto is “not without a coupon.” I spent 3 hours at her house going through her cupboards, and pointing out the amounts of sugar and carbs she consumes as a result of her coupons. Her head was spinning! She also has no idea about marketing claims, and though she did good by buying the “lower sodium” version of Quaker Oats (of course, she had a coupon). I asked her, “Lower compared to WHAT?” she still had a container of the original Quaker Oats, and I implored her to check for herself–sure enough, the original WAS lower in sodium than the new stuff. That’s when i taught her a small sliver of critical thinking, and to check the nutrition facts box first before buying.