Welcome to the Shalene show. Shalene is a New York Times best-selling author celebrity fitness trainer and obsessed with helping you live your dream life.

I think most people know that when you exercise that most people do that because they want to lose weight.

Most people do that in order to maintain their weight.

And I just want you to know that you don't have to exercise to lose weight. It's the truth.

It's a very small component of weight loss. It's probably the smallest for most people is exercise.

And that might be a surprising statement to hear from someone like me who probably knows most of you from exercise.

But it's a very small component of weight loss and weight management.

It's a very small component of it. And I just have to be honest with you and tell you that.

That's why it's so important for you to not worry about like what's the perfect exercise program.

But most importantly, when it comes to your weight loss and weight maintenance, what's the right way to eat for you for life?

I'm not a fan of diets. I think it's fine to go on a diet in an attempt to find a diet.

In other words, in an attempt to find a way of eating that you look forward to and you can maintain for life.

Now, I'm recording this live on Periscope and on Periscope, I happened to stumble upon a lady who was commenting in one of my broadcasts that she had lost 265 pounds.

And she kept repeating that comment. I'm like, hmm, this is interesting. 265 pounds.

That's an insane amount of weight. I don't know if I know anyone who's lost that much weight except maybe on those extreme weight loss shows.

Almost always they've done gastric bypass surgery. So I kept reading her comments and then she commented without surgery or anything else.

And I'm like, what the heck? So I followed her and she started broadcasting and sure enough, she had lost 265 pounds without exercise, without doing surgeries, without any of those crazy gadgets or gizmos or doing anything like pills or potions.

She did it the old fashioned way by changing her diet, but better than that was the inspiration behind her story.

It was a close friend, a best friend who her whole life, the two of them had been on this dieting roller coaster and her girlfriend had gone in for gastric bypass surgery.

And unfortunately, she didn't survive the surgery.

That was the catalyst for Michelle understanding and realizing, okay, there is no quick fix to this. I've got to change my eating.

But when I tuned into Michelle's broadcast, she was very reluctant to admit to me that she had done this, not just without doing surgeries or pills, but she had done it without exercise.

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