Life is all about balance, and there are certain times of the year - birthday, anniversary, holidays - that are meant to be enjoyed without guilt. That being said, Thanksgiving is a meal - it's not a Thanksgiving day, and it's not a Thanksgiving week.

I tell all my clients to drink at least six water bottles a day.

Fitness isn't about being extreme and hard-core. Healthy eating is not about counting calories, weighing food, or finding less tasteful ingredients. Life is about balance.

The United States is far too efficient. We've lost the ceremony of eating. People don't eat at home and cook meals at home.

It's important that we have a global perspective and look abroad and learn from our neighbors.

Everybody is constantly struggling to maintain a healthy lifestyle and the ideal body, regardless of whether they're overweight.

Kanye has been a good friend for ten years. He flew back from London to Los Angeles for 24 hours just to go to my wedding.

There is no such thing as a cleanse. Cleanses tell you that you need to get rid of that piece of gum you swallowed in fifth grade that is still stuck to your intestinal lining. That's not true.

A meal is a when you eat something that incorporates multiple food groups.

For the average person at home, they should know they don't need a celebrity trainer. It's all about your habits outside of the gym.

There are 168 hours in a week, and even if you're working out two, three, four, or five times a week for an hour, you're still not working out at least 95 to 98 percent of the week. So it's what you do during that time that's far more impactful than what you do in the gym.

If you don't own traditional dumbbells, you can also use soup cans or bottles of water.

When you look at the fittest, leanest populations like Japan and Scandinavia, they don't even go to the gym. The average person in Sydney takes 11,000 steps a day, and the average person in Houston does 4000. Guess who is going to be leaner, regardless of their diet?

I've designed exercise video games, running shoes, healthy beverages, and workout equipment.

Get yourself a pedometer. It's an inexpensive device that fits in your pocket or clips on your pants and counts your steps.

People always ask me if there was one thing they could do today to change the way they look and feel, what would it be. The answer is simple: Walk. To be exact, I want you to walk 10,000 steps a day.

One thing is to not look at fitness as something that you do at a prescribed time of day in a prescribed room and a prescribed building. You should incorporate physical activity throughout your day.

All the healthiest countries don't eat a lot of tropical fruits. They stay away from pineapples, mangos, papayas, and melons and focus on fruits that have edible skin, edible seeds, or are citrus fruits.

In America, we eat until we're full, which means we usually go past the point of satiety because satiety actually follows digestion.

'Airplane' was my favorite movie growing up.

I got into bodybuilding very young - I was 13.

I grew up in a typical Ashkenazi household. My bubbe actually lived with us. She'd make us the traditional colorless, beige, heavy foods: chicken soup, kreplach, gefilte fish, tzimmes.

I hate greens. I hate vegetables, but greens - especially in a smoothie - are a great way for a big kid like me to hide my vegetables into the meal.

I'm a big sweet potato fan.