You may know her simply as the tough-as-nails trainer from TV’s The Biggest Loser, but Jillian Michaels is a fitness expert, life coach, author, radio host, blogger, creator of DVDs, video games, and even a line of apparel. She is one of the leading health and wellness experts in the country. Considered one of the most demanding people on television for her role as trainer and life coach on the NBC hit series The Biggest Loser, Michaels has created a brand name for herself. Every week she motivates nearly 15 million TV viewers, approximately 2 million subscribers to her Web site and daily e-mail newsletter, and many more radio listeners.

Each season in which she has trained contestants on The Biggest Loser, one of her trainees has taken the top prize. Books, DVDs, video games, meal plans — Jillian has them all covered. Already a New York Times bestselling author, she is currently working on her third book. Her DVDs, including 30-Day Shred, are consistently top sellers, and her website enjoys tremendous success because of people who are looking for a comprehensive online wellness program.

Her goal is to create total life solutions for people including all aspects of living well, health, wellness, weight loss, and overall lifestyle. By imparting to her clients a unique and inspiring philosophy that stresses the integration of fitness, nutrition, and behavioral changes, Jillian empowers the people she works with to define and reach their physical and psychological goals. Click on the images to the right to be dazzled.

In her book, The Biggest Loser trainer explains how the many hormones that make up your endocrine system work to keep your body healthy and balanced. All day your body interacts with external variables, like what you choose to eat, the time of day, the intensity of your workout, and your endocrine system responds by releasing hormones to help you balance your blood sugar, go to sleep, burn fat, or build muscle.

This incredibly detailed guide combines personal memoir, serious science, and healthy eating recommendations to shed light on how artificial additives and other external factors can sabotage your weight-loss efforts. She divides the book into three phases: removing these toxins from your life, replacing them with healthy foods, and rebalancing your hormones through diet, sleep, and exercise. The good news is that you can help balance your hormones in part by changing what you eat. Master Your Metabolism, helps you to identify and remove all the toxic crap that damages your endocrine system, turns on your fat-storing hormones, and causes you to gain weight. Then she teaches you to restore the nutrients that speak directly with your fat-burning hormones to nudge them back to their most favorable levels. Finally, you will learn to rebalance the energy going into and out of your body, so that your metabolism works for you as a fat-burning machine.