is fit and feeling good! The celebrity chef spoke with for a new story about his journey to healthier living and eating. without compromising on his love for bold flavors. , a physical exercise that involves walking or hiking with a weighted backpack, which Guy often did on a fire road near his home — and fully uphill.
The host explained that he'd never been that unhealthy to begin with. "But unfortunately, in the world, people like to go, 'Oh, you're the chef that eats the deep-fried pizza burgers with the ice cream toppings and all those huge, fried everythings.'" "My response is 'I don't want to say that you don't know what you're talking about.
But you don't know what you're talking about,'" he responded, also adding that as far as he's concerned, "moderation is a real thing." He opened up about having always balanced his more extravagant eating habits on his Food Network shows with juicing, diet control, and moderate exercise, but turned the volume up when he turned 50. Guy explained that one of the major motivations for him to go healthy was so he could spend more time with his sons with wife Lori, 18-year-old Ryder and 27-year-old Hunter (he also raises ).
Once he hit that milestone, he realized that he would get more exhausted than usual when he went hunting with his boys, and wanted to remedy that by hiring a trainer. After he started seeing the results in the form of lost weight and regained energy, he turned to other means. "That's when we started talking about i.