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January 27, 2009: Rachael Ray has Jillian Michaels on her television show and the interview covered The Biggest Loser and her tough love approach to the contestants. She also brings along a work out for everyone to try.

The show started off with Jillian Michaels coming into the New York studio and interacting with some of the audience who were waiting outside in the cold weather.  She teased some of the ladies outside with some minor exercise routines. 

Rachael Ray introduced Jillian on the show as “slightly scary and totally sweet.”  Rachael then had a flashback to a scene where Rachael had her hand on the butt of Jillian.

There was then a brief hand raising moment where the audience was asked who had started the New Year with a resolution with weight loss that already failed.  The audience raised hands and then Rachael asked Jillian if she believed in New Year’s resolutions.  Jillian Michaels responded with the answer that if that is what it took to motivate some people, then it was alright and said there was nothing wrong with having them.

Then there was a mention from Rachael Ray about the new videos Jillian Michaels has available on Amazon.com and Rachael said that she herself has ordered some.

Jillian then went into a monologue that she tries to help people lose weight by getting to the core issue of what is causing them to be obese.  She said she likes to focus on the behavior that brings reward that will make the weight loss efforts worth the trouble.  Rachael then stressed the fact that she considers Jillian to focus on the Holistic aspect of the person.  Jillian agreed with Rachael.

The next brief scene provided some insight into the mind set of Jillian Michaels.  She said that Season 7 of The Biggest Loser has made her fear failure and one insightful phrase was uttered.  Jillian said she was afraid of being consider a fraud and that she has doubts of being a success.  Jillian seemed very human during that scene.

Jillian then switched to a scene of being in a health club in L.A. and answered questions of people who came up to her.  The one answer that was insightful was about people achieving plateaus.  She said that there really is no such thing.  You may stumble for a week, but the solution is to “eat less and just move more.”

Jillian then called a few ladies from the audience and demonstrated some exercise routines.

Jillian announced her new weight loss videos will be released on Feb 3, 2009.

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