Jillian Michaels
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Because the story is, I'm weak, I'm fat, I'm worthless, I'm this, I'm that, all the internalized shame.
And at that moment, I pretty much tried everything.
What you don't see is this has gone on for about four hours and I can't get her on the fricking ladder.
She comes in the room and I'm like, all right, that's it.
I'm like, God damn it.
Get on this fucking ladder.
I swear to God, get on the fucking ladder or you're going to go home.
Get on the fucking ladder.
Going crazy.
And I'm utilizing her fear of me, quite honestly, to circumvent the story that she thinks is true.
Long story short, she gets on the ladder.
She climbs 15 seconds.
Show up the next day.
She's like,
I got back on the ladder for 15 minutes last night.
I was like, that's awesome, dude.
And she ended up losing 300 pounds.
So you may not agree with it, but it worked for me and it worked for Shay in that moment.
You don't know why I'm doing it.
You don't understand that it's a life or death intervention on a ticking clock.