Holly Robinson Peete Loves Oxygen Chamber, Juicing

What is it like?

“It’s a long, doughnut-shaped tubular shaped tent. You turn it on, and it fills with oxygen, and gets really hard, and then you have to decompress like you’re in an airplane. You lay there for an hour-and-half, and you breathe pure oxygen. It gets into your whole body. You do this for an hour-and-a-half a day for a month, and then you take a break. It has unbelievable benefits. I love being in it. In Japan, it’s in every spa, so when you go get a massage, you also get your oxygen treatment. In America, we’re a little bit behind with the oxygen treatment – the benefits of pure oxygen.”

She likes to unwind with Stevie Wonder’s Don’t You Worry About A Thing.

“It’s one of those songs that doesn’t matter how many times I hear it, it’s going to get my day going. The whole thing – don’t you worry about a thing, just keep moving.”

After she gets her gym time and oxygen chamber excursion, Holly heads to the kitchen.

“I do a lot of fresh juicing – kale, lettuce, spinach – and then I put an apple or some lemon in it,” she says. “I find fresh juicing is so beneficial when I can keep it up. It’s a lot of work. It’s a lot of cleaning the juicer. You put everything in – you put the whole apple, and the whole lemon in, you shove kale in there, and ginger. I have this cocktail every morning. It’s called green lemonade, and it’s kale, apples, ginger and lemon. I find if I have that every day, I am pretty energetic. It gives me energy, and it cleanses your body. Good old green lemonade.”

Holly doesn’t live on fruit and vegetables alone.

“I watch what I eat, but I can’t ever see beating yourself up for a day where you’ve just gotta have it,” she says. “There are some days when I’ve gotta have my McDonald’s French fries. I’ve gotta have it, it can’t be anybody else’s fries, it’s gotta be Mickey D’s. The fact that my kids love McDonald’s, I’ve gotta drive through the drive-thru and go ‘don’t do it, don’t do it,’ and then say to the kids ‘can I have some fries?’ ‘Here you go mom, you can have my fries.’ When I do that, I don’t beat myself up about it. We should treat ourselves. We should give ourselves a break.”

Her kids -- twins RJ and Ryan Elizabeth, 11, Robinson, 7, and Roman, 4  -- are growing up with a great role model who eats right.

“I eat small meals all day long. A lot of people think if you skip a meal, ‘OK, I didn’t eat.’ Your body has to keep metabolizing all day long, so small meals every few hours is the way to go.”

What would she tell her younger self?

“Stop and enjoy everything you’re doing because it fleets. It goes really fast. And keep in touch with people who were important in your life. Some of the most amazing connections I ever made were when I was abroad. I spent time in Europe when I was a young teenager, and that was pre-Internet, pre-Twitter, pre-all that, so I lost touch with people. I would say keep in touch with the people who are important to you.”

Here's a photo of Holly and I from her visit to the OK! offices. She's incredible.