Jillian Michaels on the 80/20 Rule: recommends

Jillian Michaels recommends eating about 80% of calories from “common sense” nutritious food and 20% as enjoyable indulgences — she cites wine and pumpkin pie as examples — while staying within overall calorie balance, per the Fox News Digital write-up. She shared the rule as her approach to avoiding holiday weight gain.

Her stated reasoning is psychological sustainability: a framework with no banned foods avoids the deprivation-binge cycle, and the 80% baseline does the nutritional heavy lifting. She presents indulgence as compatible with weight management as long as total calories stay in balance.

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