Fitness expert Jillian Michaels joined Cheddar News to discuss her app that helps with exercise programs, meal plans, and the simplicity of living a healthy life.

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Discussing Exercise and Diet With Fitness Expert Jillian Michaels

So many of us got to know Jillian Michaels on TV, as a fitness trainer and life coach on the biggest loser and losing it with Jillian. Well, now she's available 24 hours a day on your phone with her award winning the fitness app. She's also the host of the podcast back in the saddle and keeping it real welcome. Welcome, Jillian. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for having me. So your app has workouts, it has meal plans and mindfulness routines. Why did you want a holistic approach to wellness? Because it's the only one that will actually work. And it's important to give people tools that are affordable and accessible. So, is everything under one umbrella? Completely customized meal plans, personalized workout programs on demand any place anywhere in the gym at home, outdoors, on your TV, on your tablet, anything and everything you need to help you be successful. You're offering so much in this app. But what do you think is the most important thing? The number one thing that people should do to take care of themselves, common sense, honestly, like it, it's so simple and I'm not saying it's easy. It's not easy for a host of reasons, but the simplicity of not overeating. Right. You have 3 to 4 meals a day, eat every 3 to 4 hours breakfast, lunch, snack dinner. If you're doing a longer overnight fast of 12 hours to, let's say, 16 hours, then it would be three meals, lunch, snack dinner. Right. Eat whole foods and move your body. Have a step goal. 8000 steps a day would be great. What I love more, of course, a minimum of 5000 get to the gym or work out. I mean, I would love for 30 to 45 minute times a week. But if you did two sessions a week and that would be enough to get things moving beyond. Absolutely. The idea is just to make more good choices than bad choices. And I promise you it's that simple. As mentioned, it's not so easy, which is why you want to give everybody all of the tools that they can utilize to be successful, but it really is that simple. So speaking of tools, uh you have this app, but I notice you have that smart watch. How are wearables uh a factor in all this well, wearables, give you information and they provide inspiration. So for example, I mentioned a step goal. I want people to get a certain amount of steps every day. This will tell you, ok, how many steps have you hit today obviously? Right? And this device is called I touch Wearables and I partnered with them because I found it bought it and loved it. And the reason is because it has all the features that you want. It monitors sleep. It has a seven hour battery, it's water resistant. You get your text messages on it, you can track your heart rate, your blood oxygen levels, all the things. And it's like 100 bucks instead of 700 bucks, which is really important for me when trying to give people tools that they can afford. And when you think about the cost of being unhealthy, 100 bucks seems minuscule. Right. Well, all the other devices either or quadruple the amount of money and, or they have limited functionality. So this has all the functionality at a fraction of the price and it's cool looking. So you get that too and it comes with three months of the fitness app for free as well. So you have the diet and the exercise component along with it. I think back to when I first saw you and it's been almost 20 years. Oh, stop it. Now, you look great. You look great. Uh, when you look back, do you think that our culture has a better sense of health today than it did 20 years ago? No, no, I would tell you that. I think television might have more morality in that. You know, I don't believe weight loss should have been turned into a game show. Now, I still think that there's absolutely room for a show about positive transformation. I think it's needed more than ever. Um But when you're looking at drugs like Ozempic and that's arguably going to be the best selling drug of all time. I think we're more misguided than ever. Actually. I think the narratives are extremely manipulative. Um and they're burying the facts. So you're against drugs. I would only be pro something like that if an individual needed a life or death intervention. And you know, this is not coming from me personally. I, you mentioned my podcast Keeping it real. I interview some of the best doctors in the world in their subspecialties of medicine. And when I ask these doctors whether it's Doctor William, we doctor, um and I do Doctor Peter Atia who everybody knows and loves right now. They will pretty much all tell you they would only use these drugs and an individual that is significantly obese or overweight needs a life or death intervention and simultaneously be working with that individual to help them with a mind body program to focus on weaning them off of these drugs. Outside of that, they have unbelievable side effects. Thank you so much for being here. It's such an incredible time having you here and gosh, you're a superstar, superstar Jan Michaels. Download the fitness app to get even more of her expertise.