Jillian Michaels Quotes

A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!

Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going!

It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.

Why choose to fail when success is an option?

The past does not define, you the present does.

Why are you going to choose failure when success is an option?

Thriving. That's fighting... Surviving is barely getting by.

Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their own need for approval than with your need for support. No matter what their response, you need to be firm and hold your ground. At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.

Will is a skill.

I am doing the best I can given what I have today.

Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part.

Be brave and be patient. Have faith in yourself; trust in the significance of your life and the purpose of your passion. You are strong enough to sit in the space between spaces and allow divine inspiration to shed some light. When you put positive energy and productive effort into the world it will come back to you. Occasionally in ways you might not immediately understand and on a time frame you didn’t expect. Look. Listen. Learn. Stay open. Your destiny is awaiting you.

Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to health and wellness, but it is critical that we learn how to handle small failures positively so that we can minimize their long-term destructive effects. One setback is one setback—it is not the end of the world, nor is it the end of your journey toward a better you.

Selfish isn't a dirty word. It means we take care of ourselves and are able to give back.

Do I look like the kind of person who gives a ****

Do you realize that there is nothing in our genes that tells us when to die? There are genetic codes that tell us how to grow, how to breathe, and how to sleep, but NOTHING that tells us to die. So why do we? Because we literally rust and decay our bodies from the inside out with poor food and lifestyle choices.

If I fall in love with a woman, that’s awesome. If I fall in love with a man, that’s awesome. As long as you fall in love… It’s like organic food. I only eat healthy food, and I only want healthy love!

I can always use a good chest fly in my life

If you want to meet your true love, don’t focus on wanting someone to take away your loneliness or make you feel less unloved. Instead think about everything you have to offer the right person, and imagine the beautiful, productive relationship you will have, which is what you will project and attract.

At some point you have to stop acting as though life is happening to you and acknowledge the ways you are happening to it. Once you take responsibility for your side of the street, you grant yourself the power to improve every aspect of your life by simply acting and behaving differently.

If it didn’t come from the ground or the ocean or have a mother—don’t eat it. Think about it. Twinkies and Cheetos—what the hell are these? There’s no Twinkie tree, and I’m pretty positive that nothing ever gave birth to a Cheeto.

No one ever died from an open mind.

I want you to take a moment here and write down all the problems that are plaguing you at this moment, from big to small. Now ask yourself what you contributed in creating your current situation. Did the professor fail you because you never went to class? Did your boss yell at you because you were on YouTube instead of working?

Here’s the thing, though: forgiving the asshole isn’t for their well-being, it’s for yours. If you can’t forgive the things that have been done to you—as a kid, as an adult, whenever—then you won’t be able to move on with your life. Forgiving doesn’t mean forgetting. Nor does it have to mean letting the person back into your life to hurt you again. It simply means healing the hurt that’s been done to you and continuing to pursue a prosperous, meaning-filled life.

Something horrible may have happened to you, but you always have a choice in how you respond to it. You have the “Why does bad stuff always happen to me? I’m never going to find happiness” option, and the “This sucks but I’m going to learn and evolve from it, examine what role I played in it, and ultimately it will help me become the person I’m supposed to be” option.

Pick someone in your life you admire. Your grandfather, an old college professor, a friend—it doesn’t matter who, as long as you have total respect for them and you admire their life or accomplishments. Then when you’re about to take a leap, visualize this person at your side, rooting for you, telling you how much they believe in you. Try it when you ask for a raise, or ask someone on a date, or go for a bank loan to start your small business, or do anything scary that takes you outside your comfort zone. We all need a little encouragement and support sometimes.

You may be thinking, But life really has dealt me a bad hand. It’s really not my fault that my life sucks. Just hold on a second. I’m not saying taking responsibility means controlling all the things life throws at you—none of us can do that. And there are times when we are victimized. Allowing yourself to accept that reality frees you to release any guilt or shame you might be carrying for tragedies and hardships that befell you in the past.

Life is not about perfection. It’s about progress. And progress only comes with age.

If you’re still not convinced, watch what you say, because I’ve been in therapy since I was five. My mother started me at such a young age because I was really angry at my dad, and it was coming out in the form of night terrors. Therapy literally changed my life, and I’ve been in it pretty much ever since. Because of my years on the couch, I’ve gotten to know my dark side, and I’ve learned how to keep it in check. At this point my self-destructive behaviors are like old enemies that I’ve done battle with again and again—I know all the angles, all the moves I need to dodge them and prevent them from fucking up my life.

what we believe affects how we behave—and how we behave dictates our reality.

En los últimos veinte años se han reportado al menos diez patógenos que incrementan el peso en humanos y animales, incluyendo virus, bacterias y microflora en los intestinos.

Los investigadores estiman que puede haber hasta 10 veces más genes que incrementan el peso corporal que los que lo disminuyen.

Las mujeres con síndrome de ovarios poliquísticos tienen niveles más altos de BPA en la sangre comparadas con las mujeres que no tienen la enfermedad.

¡Algunos investigadores afirman que los pesticidas pueden ser más culpables de la resistencia a la insulina, el síndrome metabólico y la diabetes, que la misma obesidad!

Los alimentos altos en grasa y azúcar hacen que el cerebro segregue “opioides endógenos”, alias morfina biológica.

Un informe reciente del British Medical Journal sugiere que más de 6.000 genes, o alrededor de 25 por ciento del genoma humano, ayudan a determinar nuestro peso corporal.

Why choose failure when success is always an option?

Demasiado estrés dispara el cortisol, responsable de producir la grasa abdominal. Los estrógenos sintéticos en el ambiente atacan al cuerpo desde todos los rincones y engañan a tu testosterona. Demasiadas noches sin dormir ocasionan que las hormonas del crecimiento decrezcan y no quemen grasa. Las comidas que omites hacen que salte la ghrelina, es decir, la hormona del hambre. La adicción a los refrescos con azúcar entorpece el trabajo de la leptina, la hormona de la saciedad (satisfacción).

Raised to expect unparalleled social and economic privilege, white men are suffering today from what [the sociologist Michael] Kimmel calls “aggrieved entitlement,” a sense that those benefits that they believed were their due have been snatched away from them.

Michael Kimmel suggests that the relationship between violence and masculinity is particularly acute among the group he labels “angry white men,” because they can no longer “do” gender in traditional ways, such as economically providing for their households.

Transformation is not five minutes from now; it's a present activity. In this moment you can make a different choice, and it's these small choices and successes that build up over time to help cultivate a healthy self-image and self esteem.

Americans have totally skewed ideas about portion size. I have never been to a country that has portions as enormous as we do.

Simply put: once you accept you’re old—you become old. Your

For example, you may not think that acting irrationally would age you faster—but it could. Many studies have shown that the higher your emotional intelligence—your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself (and others) and to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships—the more likely you are to make better decisions, manage anxiety,1 and be more resilient to stress,2 all of which can help you age well.

If you have a why to live for… you can tolerate any how.

Finally, there’s the often disregarded but equally important psychological age. Age can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe affects your behavior, and how you behave affects your reality.

Nail these markers at the expected times and your social age is right on track. But if you dare deviate, your social age may fall much younger or older than the norm, which could affect you in ways you might not expect. Being a teenage mom, feeling the pressure to be in a serious relationship or on a career track, going back to school in your thirties, or not being financially able to retire are just a few deviations from the norm that could bring on what scientists call “social stress.

tu cuerpo absorbe bisfenol A, un químico que, según se ha demostrado, se desprende de los recipientes de poli-carbonato plástico en los líquidos que lo contienen. Algunos estudios en animales han descubierto que esos estrógenos exógenos se introducen en el cuerpo y, en menos de treinta minutos, disminuyen los niveles de azúcar en la sangre e incrementan de forma brusca los niveles de insulina. Después de sólo cuatro días de exposición, ese bisfenol A estimula al páncreas para segregar más insulina y el cuerpo comienza a hacerse resistente a la insulina. Ahora ten presente el hecho de que tenemos más de mil químicos aditivos en nuestros empaques y en nuestro procesamiento de alimentos. Piensa en cuántos plásticos más llegan a tus labios en un día: esa taza de café de poliestireno, la botella de aderezo para ensaladas, la envoltura de tus sobras de comida, el recubrimiento interior de una lata de sopa, la bolsa de vegetales para microondas. Piensa en los aromas en tu detergente para ropa y la mezcla de cloro en el cepillo para lavar tu baño. La camioneta de jardinería estacionada frente a la casa de tu vecino. La…

cada libra de músculo quema tres veces más calorías que cada libra de grasa.

Los músculos rastrean el azúcar en la sangre y mejoran la sensibilidad a la insulina de tu cuerpo.

El ejercicio reduce las hormonas de aumento de peso, como el cortisol, al liberar endorfinas para combatir el estrés; también incrementa la producción de hormonas quemadoras de grasa, como la testosterona, la hormona del crecimiento humano, la DHEA y la tiroxina (T4). Necesitas ejercicio. Punto.