The Jillian Michaels Extreme Quick Start Rapid Weight Loss Program is a program including a calorie control product and a maximum strength fat burner.  They claim to give you the ultimate weight loss solution and the expertise of Jillian Michaels, trainer on The Biggest Loser.  They claim that it will help you to lose weight with these 2 approaches, and they sell exclusively through third party retailers such as GNC for example, meaning that of course they are turning enough of a profit that GNC actually wants them.

So how does it actually work?  Well to start out of course, they have your metacaps of their maximum strength calorie control product.  So you assume by the name that it will suppress appetite.  It actually has a blend of guarana, damiana, and yerba mate.  When apart, these ingredients of course do nothing.  But when combined, they can slow the rate of gastric emptying.  In other words, you stay full for longer and therefore eat less.  The problem is that they use a 922mg proprietary blend to cover those ingredients and a few more, ensuring that you will not get the amounts you would need to actually see results.

Second, they use caffeine.  Caffeine is more of a fat burner for thermogenic results.  But it alone requires at least 400mg.  It does not suppress appetite, and you can basically guarantee they aren’t going to devote just about half of their proprietary blend to that one ingredient.  However, even in smaller amounts, it has been known to cause some side effects, mostly for those who are sensitive to caffeine.  This is not an ingredient you should actually see in something that is just supposed to be an appetite suppressant.

Then they have ginger, jujube, and schisandra.  These are all Chinese herbs, and so they think that you will think Chinese and assume that it must be effective.  Again, these ingredients do have some benefits.  But to achieve those benefits, you have to have certain amounts of each individual ingredient.  With only that tiny proprietary blend to cover what has now become 11 different ingredients, you can be quite sure it won’t happen.

Outside of that, the only ingredient that is really worth looking at in certain ways is cocoa seed.  This is of course a part of chocolate, and it acts as a powerful antioxidant.  It has an amount of theobromine, which means it has some fat burning capabilities.  Of course, fat burning is not exactly what this formula was supposed to do.  But you again run into the fact that they don’t have sufficient amounts.

From there, we move onto their maximum strength fat burner.  They have a number of ingredients such as blood orange, bitter orange, and sweet orange in an 866mg proprietary blend with a few other ingredients.  Bitter orange extract is otherwise known as synephrine, citrus aurantium, and the cousin to and ultimate alternative to ephedra.  It typically speaking seems to work in amounts of about 250mg, and they claim that it will work without the nasty side effects we’re used to with ephedra.  You can bet this formula doesn’t actually devote over ¼ of the total amount to one ingredient.  They must be assuming that if you see orange in other ingredient names, you will just assume that they are the same.  They are not.  This is the only one with actual weight loss capabilities.

From there, they use grapefruit extract, which actually has a weight loss component.  But interestingly enough they don’t specify it, and realistically with that proprietary blend, you couldn’t get enough even if they did.  They use coffee bean extract, which requires at least 400mg or just under half of their formula total, and they use cocoa seed/theobromine, which again requires much more than they would actually use.  And they use cayenne pepper, which while capable of burning fat, is a kitchen ingredient that would only promote modest results even with the right amounts

Outside of that, they use two ingredients known as alpha lipoic acid and white willow bark.  Alpha lipoic acid is a potentially powerful antioxidant, and white willow bark decreases inflammation and pain as the natural aspirin and the base form of the acne fighting ingredient known as salicylic acid.  But neither of these is known to promote weight loss, fat burning, etc in any way, shape, or form.

So as you can see, the Jillian Michaels Quickstart Rapid Weight Loss Program is just another complete and total waste of your time and money.  It doesn’t have the right ingredients really, at least no ingredients that you wouldn’t find just about anywhere else, and it definitely doesn’t have the right amounts.  Realistically speaking, you may suffer side effects related to caffeine with these formulas.  But they will not control calories, suppress appetite, or burn fat, which is supposed to be the whole idea.

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