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People tend to think that metabolism is genetically predetermined. That you're either cursed or you're blessed. And that's not true.
Jillian Michaels
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There is a huge misconception that if you do something like hot yoga, you'll burn more calories, and the opposite is true. You want to heat your body from the inside out, not the outside in.
Jillian Michaels
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My dad was a crazy person, but some of the best qualities about me came from him.
Jillian Michaels
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Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.
Jillian Michaels
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Lazy doesn't exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can't get up off their butt is just a person who's depressed. It's usually a pervasive lack of self-worth, or a feeling of helplessness.
Jillian Michaels
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If you don't solicit me for help, I'll leave you alone.
Jillian Michaels
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If you don't learn from why you're in the position you're in, you are doomed to repeat it. You need to bring meaning to every setback.
Jillian Michaels
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I really want to train Hillary Clinton.
Jillian Michaels
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It's impossible to put yourself first when you're a mom.
Jillian Michaels
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I train in different modalities so that each muscle is targeted twice a week, with two days of rest in between.
Jillian Michaels
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I was picked on as a kid. I had a nose the size of a softball plus braces and acne. It was rough.
Jillian Michaels
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You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.
Jillian Michaels
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Look several months ahead, see where the obstacles lie, and figure out ways to overcome them.
Jillian Michaels
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I have this intrinsic sense that everything will be okay.
Jillian Michaels
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I'm on the younger end of Gen X, and for me, growing up gay was not cool.
Jillian Michaels
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The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all.
Jillian Michaels
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People believe practice makes perfect, but it doesn't. If you're making a tremendous amount of mistakes, all you're doing is deeply ingraining the same mistakes.
Jillian Michaels
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Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.
Jillian Michaels
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Life has a way of working out the way it's meant to.
Jillian Michaels
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The fad diets are doing way more harm than good.
Jillian Michaels
