It's not nice to make fun of people with issues.

I was born with a crippled leg. I wore a corrective shoes since I was three years old and I still wear them.

Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There's no one in the world like you. You are amazing.

How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told - as a children been told that they're no good, that they're never going to be anything else.

When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.

If you want to get the body you've always dreamed of, you have to earn it.

I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back.