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You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when you're still choosing to have poor eating habits.

Bob Harper

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Bob Harper
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 18
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Personal Trainer
Television Personality
Tennessee
United States
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I'm tired of good people getting ripped off by diet products that don't work!
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By default I am the good parent. I've used my own personal experience. I came from a world where I was in need and starving for the good parent, so it's like I'm bringing my own persona issues into that. I am the parent that I always wanted to have that's how I look at my role.
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Stop talking about tomorrow. You owe it to yourself to do whatever you can to live you can to live a better life today.
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