Unlimited by Jillian Michaels

Author:Jillian Michaels [Michaels, Jillian]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-58832-6
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2011-04-04T16:00:00+00:00

(I know what you’re thinking. Yes, he really did write that bit about the sword and the moon. So he’s a little eccentric. Some of the best of us are!)

This letter spoke to me loud and clear. From the moment I read it, I knew I had to become my own person, to step up and face life full on. It was time for me to let go of the fat loser kid once and for all. I went back to the dojo, trained for a year, and got my black belt in Akarui-do (the way of the light). It was a turning point in my life, the beginning of everything.

I still had a long way to go, but I had done something. And I hadn’t done it for anyone else. Sure, the cheers and pats on the back were great. But I’d done it for myself, and that was what felt the best. I nurtured this feeling of accomplishment and carried it with me like armor. I applied it to every task or situation I approached, allowing it to give me that quiet inner strength it takes to go after what you want. Even now I’ll catch myself thinking, “If I finished my black belt training, I can do anything!”

This is another reason I beat the crap out of the Biggest Loser contestants the way I do. I know that when they go back home and are forced to face all their painful demons, they will be able to rely on the inner strength they built from the grueling hours of punishment I dished out in the gym. They have point-blank said to me, “After living through several months with you, Jillian Michaels, there is nothing I can’t endure.”

Problems with self-esteem are particularly insidious because like many other emotional issues, they often begin in childhood. So by the time we’re adults, we think it’s normal to doubt ourselves at every turn, to lose ourselves in any relationship we enter into, and to sit life out because of fear of the unknown.

I always found the term dysfunctional family to be somewhat amusing, because it implies that functional is the norm, but most families operate with at least a little dysfunction in the mix. Of course it’s all relative, and some of us come into adulthood with a lot more baggage than others. (Think back to Shay in Chapter 5—that’s dysfunction taken to its most dreadful extreme.) But we all have varying levels of dysfunction in our family backgrounds and relationships—it’s just the nature of the beast. I believe our life’s mission is to work through these issues in order to grow and adapt. The key words here: working through the issues. When you don’t, they have the potential to greatly inhibit and even destroy the joy and purpose of your life.

Remember the story of the chained elephants? If you have grown up believing that you’re not good enough, how are you going to know any different when it comes time

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