All right, Squad, it's real.

Keeping it real with Jillian Michael.

All right, Squad. It's that time.

It's a new year, and a lot of you guys are looking to lose weight. Right? And I have all people want to encourage that. Of course, don't want you to be healthy and live your best life. but I want to set you up to succeed. So there are definitely

three things that I want you to avoid at all costs on this journey. Now I'm going to lay them all out for you real quick.

Number one, do not select a diet that has you on a dramatic calorie restriction. So women no less than 1,200 calories a day. Men no less than 1,500 calories a day, with unlimited

greens by the way. are free food not the

sauces you put on top of it but the actual green vegetables asparagus broccoli

spinach and so on eat your brains out literally eat to your hearts content.

They're very, very low in calories, loaded with fiber, loaded with nutrients,

packed with water. Go to town.

Calary-wise, 1,200 women, men. No less, unless you are under adopters' supervision.

And the reason for this is because when you reduce your calories so dramatically, you know I know these diets are

tempting the hcG diet and all of that crap or the master cleanse that has likely

been renamed or is I'm gonna juice cleanse, whatever.

Listen, here's the bottom line.

When you dramatically reduce your calories like that,

you're basically telling your body I'm in real trouble, right?

We've got a legit famine going on here.

And your body will adapt accordingly

to the stress in your environment of zero food.

So your body says, like, holy cow, okay, you know, I got to shift my

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