Transform Yourself

Jillian Michaels, the kick-butt trainer on "The Biggest Loser" is in town this weekend, speaking at the EDiets Live seminar at the Embassy Suites, Fort Lauderdale.

I had a chance to talk with her and she's one of the nicest people I've encountered - and not surprisingly, incredibly motivational. I was going to skip going to the gym, but after talking to Jillian, I just had to go - she took away all my excuses (and believe me, I have plenty of them :) ).

If you think you don't have time to exercise, or you're too tired, here's what Jillian says:

"You get out of this life what you put in. So when you make your car payment, you have to work to make the money to pay for that car; when you pay your rent, or your mortgage, you have to work for the money to live in that house. Well it's the same with a healthy body. You have to work, you have to put in the time to have that healthy body, and you can make it fun.

Take a salsa class, take a spinning class, take a kickboxing class, get outdoors with your kids, walk your dog. Don't make it tedious, make it something fun - and if that still doesn't do it for you, I'm going to say, look - you know your health is the platform your entire life is sitting on top of. Your family, your job, your vitality, your sex life, everything. It's all sitting on top of your health. When you don't have that, everything else suffers.

Sit down and write a list of all the reasons that you're looking for motivation, whether you're a twenty year old and you wnat to look great at spring break, or you're a thirty year old and you want to be able to pick up your five year old, or you're a fifty five year old and you want to see your grandchild graduate from college. Write down all of the reasons that you want to be healthy and you want to be in shape. That's your source of motivation and inspiration.

If your wish list and your dreams and your goals don't inspire you to make a change, nothing's going to."

Powerful words. Powerful ideas. Powerful motivation.

That's Jillian. You can read more at her website, http://www.jillianmichaels.com/; and to get info and register for the seminar, go to http://www.edietslive.com/.