- I'm not ready for this shit.
- Come on, yes, you are.
- Shut up, Julissa.
- [Julissa] Towards the end of 2017,
some of the Pero Like crew decided
^we need to get fit for 2018.
So, we called on our fitness celebrity trainer,
Melissa Alcantara, who also trains Kim Kardashian
to help us out.
- [Melissa] Perfect.
Go, go, go.
- [Kim] You guys, she's trying to kill me.
- Only a little bit.
- [Kim] Officially trying to kill me.
- [Julissa] She exposed us to the hardest eight weeks
we will never forget.
- My name is Melissa Alcantara and I
started my fitness journey about six years ago.
I gained 70 pounds
when I was pregnant with my daughter Isabella,
and I just couldn't seem to lose the weight.
And so, one day I saw an infomercial on Insanity.
It's the craziest workout ever,
and I was like you know what?
If these people can do it, I can do it.
From that day on...
It was a 60-day program,
and I just followed it through every single day,
prepped my meals, and 60 days later I lost 40 pounds,
I had abs, and that kind of set off this whole journey
that I'm still going through right now.
So, I'm gonna be training Pero Like for two months.
They have no idea what is about to happen to them.
^- I used to workout before I started at Buzzfeed,
^and what I mean by working out was me at home
doing some pushups and walking my dog.
- I hate working out.
^It's as though someone is dragging me by the feet
and I'm hitting my face and mouth
and teeth and everything on cobblestone.
- I have a gym membership.
^I like to think that I'm working out,
^but really I ain't doing shit.
- I never work out, ever.
^I get extremely out of breath when I walk up the stairs.
^- I'm putting Pero Like on a macro-based diet.
^They are going to have to weigh their food,
^cook fresh food, eat a specific amount of protein,
carbs, and fats, which I've created for them individually.
- I thought macros was an abbreviation for macaroons, so...
Apparently, it's not.
- My hopes for the Pero Like team is
not to focus on losing a ton of weight.
I want them to be conscious of the food
that they're putting in their mouth,
of how they feel inside.
- My weight is at its biggest that it's ever been.
^I eat bad, I have a lot of heartburn,
^and my doctor says that I'm generally very unhealthy.
^All I'm hoping for is just to get a little bit slimmer.
- I've done so many different diets,
but it never surpasses a time period.
^From this journey,
^I honestly just wanna gain mental stability and strength.
^I wanna do it for the gain of confidence
^that I think I've lost over the years
with just letting myself go and just eating
and doing whatever I wanna do.
- I wanna do this 'cause I wanna feel sexy.
I've actually had hundreds of sexual partners,
and I've only ever taken my shirt off with one.
So, learning to love myself a little bit more
is going to be one of the hardest parts of this journey.
- I am a very emotional eater.
So, when I'm happy, I eat, when I'm sad, angry, excited,
and I think I've hit a point now
^to where I feel a little depressed and sad
^because I don't feel healthy.
^I want to gain some confidence in myself
^that I am able to accomplish this journey,
and that I will be able to develop healthier eating habits.
- Pero Like, are you ready for me?
(all talking)
- It's day one, and tonight, Melissa's coming by after work
and we're gonna do our first fuckin' workout.
(exhales) I'm doing the eating already.
I had a good breakfast, but I don't know about this...
I don't know about this gym tonight.
- I'm super excited (chuckles).
Yeah, I'm just like (swallows).
- Everybody's gonna be sweating, even the other people.
They're gonna look at us at be like, yo.
- The one that was like, I'm excited.
Now I'm like, what? (laughing)
- We're about to enter hell, man,
and I'm not looking forward to this shit.
- [Julissa] Our first workout with Melissa was rough.
- Julissa is killing it right now.
You okay, Nor?
- My arms are gonna fall off.
It feels like my arms are gonna fall off,
it feels like my legs are gonna fall off.
This is day one, and I'm really fucked.
- In the beginning, everyone is always super motivated.
And so, I saw the motivation in all of their faces.
- With this new food plan,
suddenly I became more aware of
what I was putting inside of my body.
This is two cups of brown rice.
I made a scramble of sorts
that just has half a yellow bell pepper
and one whole tomato cut up in four.
It's not as bad as I thought it was gonna be.
- [Julissa] It's meal prep Sunday
and we just went grocery shopping, so...
Wow, I've never seen my fridge like this.
Look at that.
- From the beginning,
I saw that Julissa was like 'I'm gonna murder this.'
She's very competitive.
- I was waking up in the mornings, going to the gym.
I'm here, 6:30 in the morning, at the gym.
Oh, there's no cuts, but after eight weeks, you gon' see.
Yes, I was tired, but it wasn't like
my normal sluggish tired.
It was like get up, you got this, you can do this.
- Norb is super strong.
I felt like he was in it, but at the same time,
he was kind of like, 'oh, yeah, I got this.'
- For the first couple of weeks,
I definitely was very negative about the whole experience.
I complained a lot.
I don't feel like working out.
I don't feel like cooking.
I don't care about this anymore.
I don't care about looking good.
I don't care about losing weight.
But I did the workouts and I did the food diet.
Even though I hated doing it,
I still did it because I knew
it was gonna benefit me in the long run.
- For Maya and Curly,
there's something about building self-confidence,
and I saw that that's what they needed in the beginning.
- The working out part I was nervous about,
but I ended up working out with curly a lot.
And I love him so much, and we just push each other.
Every single time we wanna quit,
we're like, no, just one more set.
- What's wrong today?
You're not weak.
You can do this.
I kind of, for the longest time,
needed the other Pero Likers to kinda be there with me.
I felt really weird going to the gym by myself.
- [Norberto] Come on, Curly.
You can do it, I believe in you.
I believe in you.
- Damn. - Do it, come on.
Come on, keep going, keep going.
Stay, stay, power, power.
- We had a group text, which was amazing.
- Definitely being in a group while doing this
I think helped me.
One, because I'm competitive, but also
the fact that we were in a group chat talking,
the fact that me, Maya, Curly, and Norb
all worked together?
You kind of hold each other accountable.
Maya, you're gonna have a piece of the cake?
- I'm just looking at it.
(laughing)
Can I have your permission to look at it?
- We are at Muscle Farm headquarters in Burbank.
We're gonna so sprints, kettlebell swings, battle ropes.
We're gonna hit every muscle.
We're gonna do a total body workout.
Y'all are gonna come out like this, with guns.
- Aren't you excited?
- I am not excited, what you talking about?
This is gonna be terrible.
- I feel like I might throw up, I might cry.
- I feel like I might throw up watching her throw up,
and then I might cry watching her cry.
- [Julissa] The first workout we had at Muscle Farm
was intense.
- I knew it was gonna be hard,
and it was 100 times harder than I ever expected.
- Push, push, push, push. (groaning)
Let's go, let's go.
- I don't know what the fuck I got myself into.
I'm kinda regretting this shit.
After that first rep, I could promise you I was like,
oh shit, I said I was gonna come out on top,
and instead I'm fucking dying right now.
And I didn't wanna tell everybody that I was dying.
And then after round two,
it was like a boost of energy
and all this adrenaline just rushed through me.
Alright, you guys, let's do this!
I was no longer feeling like I was gonna die.
For real, for real, I'm proud of all of us.
We did it. - Yeah, we did.
- Nobody gave up, nobody was like, no, I'm not gonna...
I can't, come on, wait, let's finish, let's stop.
We fucking...
We did it, you know what I mean?
And although I was talking my shit, we finished,
and that's really what matters,
and we finished strong on top of that.
So, group hug, guys.
Lo hicimos! - All sweaty.
- All sweaty, a sweaty hug.
- Alright, so apparently Mel just sent us a revised workout
for the next four weeks.
She signs it off at the end as 'have fun, muahahahaha,'
and there's a little devil emoji.
I had just gotten used to the last four weeks.
I was pretty good with them.
I was starting to get better at the exercises.
I was staring to get better at the routine,
and now she throws this curve ball.
- I also did see the new workout plan
and I was like, girl, you are...
No, we're not...
I'm sticking to the old workout plan.
There's a part where we're jumping
and we need to jump on a box.
I'm like, where does the box come from?
What box?
How am I gonna jump on a box?
- Y'all, this glutes hamstring whatever day,
calves, is real, so be prepared because it's real.
- I cheated a little bit, but it sparked an entire breakdown
'cause I felt guilty about it.
I feel horrible and I feel like shit.
I know that it's a process
and it's not gonna be fixed like that.
And I didn't nibble today,
I didn't cheat because I don't care.
I really care a lot about this,
and I wanna do right by Melissa,
and I wanna do right by myself.
I realized that whoa, what's happening?
Don't do this to yourself because you can fix this.
You have the control to literally go to the gym tomorrow
and work off whatever it is you ate.
- I feel like I definitely had an emotional breakdown
where I was sitting in my car
and I just didn't want to get out.
This morning, it was a struggle to get the fuck here
into the gym.
I'm in the parking garage and I still haven't gotten out.
And I'm late, it's like 6:45, not even 6:00 anymore.
I just want sleep, I just want a 12-hour night of sleep.
- Over the weekend, I went down to San Diego.
I didn't think about the diet.
I didn't think about the workouts.
I just decided to go out there and enjoy myself.
- [Woman] What are you doing?
- I'm breaking my diet, that's what I'm doing.
So, today, I wake up and I go weigh myself,
and in two days I gained five pounds.
So, this week, I'm gonna go hard at the gym.
I'm gonna lose those five pounds
and I'm gonna lose an additional five pounds,
and I'm gonna try and look as good as possible
^and finish this off (speaking Spanish).
- This shit is actually working.
Not only is it working, but I can see the difference,
which is even more rewarding.
Seeing it on the scale, cool,
but when you're seeing at feeling it?
That's a whole different territory.
That makes you want to keep going.
Look at this, look at these bones poking.
Welcome back, collarbones.
Welcome back, girls.
- Discovering my body changing was...
It happened really fast.
I immediately started to fit into clothing
that I hadn't fit into in a very long time,
which made me super excited to keep going.
- So, my mom has noticed a difference.
She commented the other day, she was like
and I was just like,
'no, mom, I'm trying out this new thing,
this diet and everything.'
- We're at Muscle Farm today
for our final workout with the whole gang.
It's been such a journey, right?
I feel. - Yeah.
- I think I'm gonna continue this, hopefully.
Cross my fingers, but what about you?
How do you feel?
- I mean, I feel pretty great.
I've complained a lot,
but now that we're here
I don't regret any of the eight weeks.
- I can't believe their results.
I'm just so happy and so proud.
We're sculpting and building booties and muscles.
Today, we're gonna do total body.
It's not gonna be super duper crazy,
but it's gonna be intense.
- The first workout compared to the last workout
was a drastic change.
I definitely noticed that we were less nervous
to workout with them and we were more determined
to make them proud.
- Together, together.
Two, yes, come on.
Three, no laughing.
- In the final workout, I could definitely keep up.
It was still hard, it was still difficult,
but it was nice to know that you know what?
I can do this. - We did it.
Did we do it?
- You're still alive.
(cheering) (all talking)
- I lost 30 pounds.
My goal for this was to get my ass kicked.
I wanted to change my lifestyle, and I feel like I did that.
Now, I'm going more to the gym,
I'm more aware of the foods that I'm eating,
and I think none of that would've happened
if it wasn't for this eight week program.
- I lost 12 and a half pounds.
Seeing my face thin out, seeing my body get slimmer,
was so rewarding.
Melissa's plan really works, and I stuck to it.
I went to the gym even if i didn't want to,
and that let me know that the mental strength
that I wanted in the beginning, I had all along.
I just had to really work for it.
- I lost 30 pounds.
It wasn't as weird to go to the gym alone anymore.
I felt a little bit more confident.
The goal was to be able to feel comfortable enough
to take off my shirt,
and it's interesting because I don't think that I have...
I'm there yet, and I think that that's okay too.
I think that if I've learned anything from watching Melissa
is that working out is kind of a process
that never really ends.
You continue to keep growing,
and it's nothing that you just do once.
I stopped drinking, I stopped smoking, I stopped doing drugs
and now I'm getting my fitness together.
So, it just was really nice to kind of
become this whole person, and I bring it all back to her.
And I'm saying she did this for me,
and I'm so thankful for her.
Because of the way that she trains
and because of who she is, you wanna do well.
- I lost 18 pounds.
I didn't focus on hitting a certain number
that I wanted to lose, I focused on does this feel okay?
Do I have energy?
Are my moods okay?
Because my emotions were out of wack in the beginning,
and I feel like now that I have this system going,
I have everything in check.
Your personal goal should not be because of somebody else.
- Oh my God, that is insane!
Oh my God, I am so proud of you guys.
You have no idea.
I watch you guys on Instagram, and every time I see you,
I see the changes, and it just makes me so happy.
If I did, you can do it.
I'm no different, I'm not a superhero, I'm just...
I'm a mom, I'm just a regular person.
You have to make time for yourself,
for the things that you want, so that you can feel good,
so that people around you can feel good.