14 DAY TRIAL // Until not long ago, before she became a parent herself, celebrity trainer and fitness guru Jillian Michaels would easily slip into judging mode and point a finger at all those parents who would always say they simply never had the time to work out anymore.
Not being a parent, she could not understand how that worked and, as she says in a new interview with Fitness magazine, she simply thought to herself “If you’re going to exercise, then you do it, and you do it 100 percent.”
In her mind, there was no other way around it, no half measures and no room for error.
Jillian has two children now, 3-year-old Lukensia and 10-month-old Phoenix, and she’s finding daily reasons to wish there were more than 24 hours in a day.
She wouldn’t even blame those who’d go “I told you so” on her.
“Now if I’ve got to answer emails while I work out on the StairMaster, well, then that’s what it is. People can rub my nose in it, because it is so hard — so hard — to take care of yourself when you’re a parent,” she says for the fitness publication.
“I get up at 7 a.m. — after being up all night with the baby — and run around trying to get both kids diaper-changed, dressed and fed. Finally I’ll shower, and before I know it, I’ve got 50 emails to answer, and I need to leave for work,” Michael continues.
She doesn’t even have the time to realize she skipped work out by the time she’s out the door and, she says, the nights are no different either.
“At the end of the day, I come home, and I’m like, ‘Okay, let me bathe you, change you, feed you, read you books, put you to bed — wait, how am I supposed to do all this? Son of a [gun], this is hard!’,” she admits.
She doesn’t want to sound like she’s complaining though because “this is what I wanted,” so, instead, she’s learned to adapt and change her priorities to suit her new life.
“My new motto: As long as I’m winning more than I’m losing, I’m still winning!” Michaels proudly announces.