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I was 175 pounds at 13 years old and 5 feet tall.
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Think of it this way: If you got a flat tire, what would you do? Change the tire? Or get out of the car and slash the other three tires? No! Get back on the road. Don't dwell on it; don't beat yourself up. That gets you nowhere.
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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.
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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.
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I really want to train Hillary Clinton.
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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.
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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.
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It's impossible to put yourself first when you're a mom.
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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.
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I have this intrinsic sense that everything will be okay.
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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.
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I like to train the body from as many different angles as possible to use every modality available to do it.
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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.
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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.
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I'm on the younger end of Gen X, and for me, growing up gay was not cool.
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The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all.
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Look several months ahead, see where the obstacles lie, and figure out ways to overcome them.
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Life has a way of working out the way it's meant to.
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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.
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The fad diets are doing way more harm than good.