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I don’t know what it is about Jillian Michaels and her show Losing it With Jillian but it really tugs at my heart strings and makes me reflect on my own personal life.  Each week I see the struggles of the individuals and the families and relate to them so much and this week was no exception.  Tonight we were blessed with Jillian introducing America to The Northern family. Tonight, June 22, 2010 the episode was all about how Jillian helped the family to realize that all of the power to take back the control of their lives was not on some television

show but right there in their hearts and within themselves.  Tonight was a good episode and was enjoyed by the entire family that sat and watched it in our home.  Even the teenage daughter was inspired by the show and she is not even over weight.

The Northern family resides in Goodlettsville, Tenn. and there was the father (Patrick), the wife (Kim), and the two teenager children that were about 13 years old.  Their names were very pretty and the son was named Ameer and the daughter was Ameera.  They are a Southern family and they had a love for food and they sure knew how to cook it in old southern traditions of thick and greasy.  Patrick had lost his job and that was an emotional drain on his self esteem and he turned to food which propelled him to 329 pounds while he should have been 192 pounds.  Kim was a whopping 283 pounds and her healthy weight should have been 192 pounds.  They were both soon to learn that they were very close to major health problems if they did not make a change.

In this episode we saw something new which was that Jillian was watching the family live on a flat screen, in her automobile.  She watched them prepare a gigantic pot of fried chicken and a massive dish of some sort of greasy, artery clogging casserole.  We soon

learned that the casserole and the chicken had over 10,500 calories combined.  Jillian looked at the camera and said she was “pissed.”  Soon we heard Jillian on the phone talking to the family and said she was watching them and then yelled out to the son “put the food down!”  She then told them they had to go see her doctor for an exam and then she was going to work them out.

At the initial workout Jillian mocked their “100,000 calorie lunch” and for the first time she publicly acknowledged her approval of The BodyBugg on Losing It With Jillian.  We were very excited that she was getting the word out because we personally know how effective it is towards weight loss and great it works!!!!!!  This is the first time that the Body Bug was mentioned on Losing It With Jillian despite it has been visible on the arms of all the people of all previous episodes of the show.  It was a very short mention but her approval and endorsement of BodyBugg was there nonetheless.  We know she loves it because it empowers a person to be able to make the needed decisions on what to eat and how many calories are being burned on a daily basis!  Jillian said the BodyBugg needed to be their Bible for weight loss!

Jillian then noticed a trend with the family and that was where Patrick goes, the family follows.  Ameera started to cry because she felt as if her Dad was not really trying to exercise.  Jillian then tore into Patrick that he was the leader of the family and that he was the one leading them down this road to unhealthiness and he had to stop giving up in life.  Jillian told Patrick and Kim that they had to make their life a priority and take care of their bodies first or they would not be around to take care of the kids. The kids both got teary eyed and the family started to dispose of all the unhealthy food in their home and put it into garbage bags.  Jillian was then alone in her room and said to the camera “I am in another strangers house again”

We were soon in the gym and Patrick was on the treadmill and trying to jog an then fell down with Jillian promptly responding “Right on time.”  She then screamed at Patrick “You tell your body what you need it to do and it will do it.”  Soon he was running for 10 minutes on the treadmill despite all of his protests that he could not do it.  Jillian proved her statement that Patrick could run for 10 minutes.  It was soon evident that the emotional barrier Jillian had to break through this week was the low self esteem Patrick felt because he was unemployed.  Since he was not working he started to lose the leadership role of his family.  Jillian had to get Patrick back as leader and Jillian had to wake that up from inside of Patrick, that was the struggle.

At the end of the show we were all back with the family 8 weeks after Jillian had left them.  It was at a surprise 40+1 party because Kim chickened out at her last party because she was too ashamed of her body, so she cancelled the party.  This time when she showed up she had lost 41 pounds and dropped 4 sizes.  Patrick soon appeared looking pretty good after having dropped from a size 52 to a 44 and having lost 61 pounds.  Patrick said he was able to do it because Kim had her “foot squarely in my butt.”  Soon we saw Patrick step dancing which was something he was too ashamed to do with Jillian before he lost his weight.

While he was step dancing we heard Jillian tell America that this is what life was really all about.  That despite bad times, or hard times being happy and being healthy was what it was all about.  Overall this show was not as powerful as previous, but it was pretty good overall.

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