- [Jill] This is how you get fit.
This is how you get toned.
This is how you live longer.
Welcome to the world of fitness!
- Hey, I'm Niki, and this is my fiance, Kelsey.
We're getting married this year.
And we can't wait to make this perfect day our own.
It's wedding season, and this week,
we're talking fitness and nutrition.
Health and fitness is like, what everyone
talks about when they get ready for their wedding.
I'm gonna have that bride body.
I'm gonna look so good.
Everyone's gonna look at my arms.
I have a really poor relationship with health and fitness.
Mostly because I don't like working out.
If I don't have to be, why should I be?
That being said, I'm a little pudgy.
Got some love all around, all of these areas.
So, I'm getting the help from a personal trainer,
and a nutritionist to achieve my healthy
ideal bride body and who knows,
maybe I'll like, be a completely different woman.
- My name's Jill
I'm known as the L.A. Bride Trainer.
I don't wanna like, focus on losing a certain
amount of pounds.
- [Jill] Right.
- But I want to feel healthier, get better stamina.
I just got a little bit of pudge,
that I kinda wanna get rid of.
- [Jill] Okay.
- We're gonna tone and scuplt?
- Tone and sculpt.
- That's so intimidating.
- First thing we're gonna do is
your pre-workout workout.
I'm gonna get your heart rate up,
where your body is burning calories
at a significant level.
1500 brides so far have had
a hundred percent success rate.
- [Niki] Whoa.
- [Jill] And they've all been sexy brides.
Hands down,
in, and stand.
That pace is perfect.
Feel okay?
- Yeah, I regret everything.
- Going forward, we'll do sculpting and toning,
followed by cardio, followed by abs,
yoga class, or flexibility training,
is the perfect way to be at your absolute best
on your big day.
- Okay, we can do that.
In addition to fitness,
nutrition is so, so key to getting the body
that you want.
- My name is Kelly LeVeque.
I'm a holistic nutritionist and wellness expert,
here in Los Angeles.
We work together in cleaning up the diet,
but for the most part it's really just
balancing blood sugar,
making sure they're fueled, post-workouts,
so they have energy.
We can easily take advantage of extending your
fat burning by just making breakfast carb-free.
I have a formula for smoothies.
It has 20 grams of protein,
10 grams of fat,
10 grams of fiber.
So, protein, fat, and fiber together
turn off all eight hunger hormones in your body.
It's overwhelming at first, but really,
it's just four things.
- My goal for this is to be the healthiest I've ever been,
because I believe that if I'm the healthiest I've ever been,
I'm gonna feel the best I've ever been,
and I'm gonna look the best I've ever looked.
I just did my first workout with Jill.
She left, like, 30 minutes ago,
and I'm like, still recovering.
So, Jill has me on her 12-week Bride Body Program.
I work out with Jill three times a week.
I do the Bride Body Program, by myself.
I do a day of stretching and rebound.
And then, I do a day where I do like,
30 minutes of cardio.
We just got right into it in that first week,
and she kicked my ass.
- The first week, all I'm gonna want you to do
is have enough protein and fat at breakfast
to get yourself to lunch without being starving.
- So one of the first things that Kelly wanted
me to do was swap out breakfast for smoothies.
This is the first morning that I did that.
I'm curious to see if it's gonna be enough
for me to last through the workout.
- Two. And one.
- [Co-Worker] How was your workout, Niki?
- I can't do anymore work today.
Even though I could like, barely handle the workout,
Jill was never like, a drill sergeant.
She was always like, "Let's figure out what you can do.
"Let's give a little bit more.
"Let's try a little bit harder."
And that was definitely something that
I could get down with.
- Good job, today.
What you just did in an hour could probably
take somebody three hours.
It's a lot.
You should be proud of yourself.
- I was supposed to do a little bit of cardio
over the weekend, and I fell asleep in the afternoon.
Oops.
And then, it was dark oustide.
Excuses, excuses.
So like, I found one of those aerobics videos,
on Netflix.
Kelsey and I did one together in the living room.
Just to get your body moving for 30 minutes.
It was actually like, really silly, and really fun.
Ow! Rolling out my muscles.
Week two was really hard because Buzzfeed's
Queer Prom happened over the weekend.
I was supposed to do at-home yoga yesterday,
but I worked from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.,
so I didn't do it.
On top of that, how do you say no to free food?
It's really hard to say no to these things. (sniff)
It's hard when like, life gets in the way.
Work gets in the way.
Your routine falls to crap.
And then, you just gotta start over.
You gotta do it again.
A few of my co-workers have seen me working out.
And they're joining me for today's workout.
- [Jill] All around, in place.
- [Niki] Yeah.
- It was really hard.
I'm glad I did it with other people,
otherwise I would have quit after the warmup.
- It was a hell of a workout.
I'm starting to love it, though.
Yay!
- Ten seconds. Three, two, and one.
Put down all that, block run.
- [Niki] I hate running because I never last very long.
But I was like, able to actually keep up a pace,
and do it several times.
Now I'm getting to the point of,
I know what I can give.
And I know what it feels like to get better.
And I kind of like the workouts now.
Ah, who am I?
I literally just worked out and now,
what's happening, Kelsey?
- Niki's getting some hot pop!
It's zero calories!
It's bacon cheddar flavored.
- Oh my God!
- You're welcome.
- I never realized the importance of eating well
when working out.
There are days when I don't eat as much
protein for breakfast, and I feel it,
during my workouts.
Kelly's been really helpful in
fueling my body in the right way for my workouts,
so I don't feel completely dead after.
In the morning, I start with a smoothie breakfast.
And then lunch, I'll have salmon or chicken,
cauliflower rice, and like, a bunch of veggies.
For dinners, it's usually same thing as lunch.
So just a lot of proteins, pack in as many
vegetables as I can.
I'm gonna be farty tonight.
I started my period.
I just wanna eat pizza.
I feel like crap.
- [Co-Worker] Are you talking about how you can't
eat any of this?
- [Niki] Yes.
- We get it, Niki. You're on a diet!
Straight to the ass.
- Goin' on a Sunday run.
It's totally a different energy when you
work out by yourself, than when you do it with people.
We encouraged each other, and it was like,
a really great time.
- Now that you're going for runs with your partner,
it's just important for you to just be like,
"It doesn't suck so much now.
"I kind of wanna get out."
- Jill and I moved our workouts to before lunch,
but what Kelly is recommending is that
I don't eat between breakfast and lunch.
But today's workout, I felt really, really empty,
like I hadn't eaten enough.
I think I'm gonna give Kelly a call,
and see what she thinks,
and see how I should be switching up my diet,
to make sure that I don't absolutely
feel drained during workouts.
Sometimes.
Yeah.
So, next week is my birthday.
I'm gonna want all the things.
I need to know what is okay and what isn't, otherwise--
I can do that.
I got Korean barbecue with a bunch of my friends.
And then on my birthday weekend,
Kelsey and I went and ate really, really
great Italian food.
It's so hard for me to approach special occasions
and like, not want to indulge myself.
Because somehow, I feel like, for turning 24,
I deserve cake.
And my diet just completely went to shit.
Last night I ate Indian food.
This morning my body was like, "Blech-blurgh-ugh."
- [Jill] Niki, are you okay?
- No, my arms are dead.
- We're on track.
I'm gonna measure you.
I wanna see what your inch loss.
- I had pretty much just like, lost three inches
all around, which sounds great.
But apparently, I'm like, not on track
for what I should be.
I know that the fitness is only half of it.
And that if the fitness and the nutrition
don't line up, I'm basically sabotaging myself.
Which is a really frustrating thing,
because I feel like, "Oh, I worked out so well.
"Let me eat this cookie!"
But then that cookie makes the workout like,
not count anymore.
So at this point, I kinda just have to
recommit to eating really clean.
In the long run, it's only 12 weeks
of my life.
And the progress that I've seen so far,
is crazy, that I'm like, excited to see
what's possible in the next four weeks.
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- Nothing but boxing today.
Let's kill it. Ready?
- Yes.
- Let's do it.
- Jill did a little bit of boxing with me.
And that's a workout I could totally get on board with.
My arms are so tired all the time now.
I'm sore, but the good kind of sore.
I remember the first workout that Jill and I had
together, and we are just miles ahead of that now.
Makes me really excited to know what's gonna
happen in like, 12 weeks.
- [Jill] I'm just super impressed by that fact
that every session, you go all out.
- I'm like, really impressed with myself.
This is like, a typical lunch.
Some salmon, cauliflower rice, and veggie stir fry.
All clean, no flavor, no love, no life.
It's fine. I'm fine with it.
I look different?
Like my body looks different?
- Just smaller.
- [Niki] Thanks!
- Just like, fitting very compactly in your clothing.
- These last four weeks were tough.
Jill really ramped up my workouts.
I did more cardio every time.
I did more strength every time.
I did more weights.
And on top of that, I did SoulCycle classes
on the weekend, which are just giant sweat-fests.
- This is our final workout.
We're gonna do exactly the same workout
that we did on day one.
- [Niki] Great.
- [Jill] By this time, the very first time we worked out,
you were already sat down.
And I know now you could go, for sure, to the end of it.
One more rep, and done.
- We did it
- [Jill] Yeah.
- I didn't think we'd make it.
- [Jill] No, I knew you'd make it.
Whatever I asked of you, you always did.
And I sometimes don't get that from people.
- [Niki] Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- Oh my God.
This is the most challenging aspect
of the entire process.
But honestly, it's been the most rewarding.
Three things I learned from this experience:
One, there's no way that changing everything
about your diet and your fitness isn't hard.
There's no easy way out.
You just gotta put in the time, and you gotta
be really, really disciplined.
That being said, two,
not everything works for everyone.
You have to find what works for you.
Someone else could have done the exact same diet
and workout regimen that I did,
and had completely different results.
But don't give up if one thing doesn't work for you.
Three, this is possible.
If I can do it, honestly you can do it.
12 weeks, fitness, nutrition.
Bridal Body Bootcamp.
Argh.
Now, I just have to make sure for the next month
before the wedding, I don't eat a pizza
every day.
Just no matter how fit and clean you are,
thoughts about pizza will never end.
Wedding planning, aaaaaahhhh!
Next, on Wedding Season.
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- Oh my God!
- Whoa!
- Wowza.
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