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Health & Fitness > Weight Loss > And She Has a Personal Trainer and Cook!
 

And She Has a Personal Trainer and Cook!

I've always said keeping the weight off is harder than getting it
off. What chance do mortals have if Oprah won't do it with all the
professional help she has? Fighting fat is rough and 96-97% don't win
the battle of the bulge! :O(

Oprah Winfrey Says She Weighs 200 Pounds - NYTimes.com














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Oprah Winfrey Says She Weighs 200 Pounds





Filed at 9:38 a.m. ET
CHICAGO (AP) -- When it comes to her weight, Oprah
Winfrey
has always been straightforward.
The talk show queen continues the honesty, saying in the January issue of
''O'' magazine out Tuesday that she now weighs 200 pounds and has ''fallen off
the wagon'' when it comes to healthy living.
''I'm mad at myself,'' Winfrey writes in an article provided early to The
Associated Press by Harpo Productions.
''I'm embarrassed,'' she writes. ''I can't believe that after all these
years, all the things I know how to do, I'm still talking about my weight. I
look at my thinner self and think, `How did I let this happen again?'''
In the piece, Winfrey, 54, details her recent struggles with an
out-of-balance thyroid and how the condition made her develop ''a fear of
working out.'' She says she's added 40 pounds to her frame since she weighed 160
pounds in 2006.
''Yes, you're adding correctly; that means the dreaded 2-0-0,'' Winfrey
writes. ''I was so frustrated I started eating whatever I wanted -- and that's
never good.''
Winfrey also writes that her goal is no longer to be thin; instead, she wants
to be strong, healthy and fit. She hopes to get started with her upcoming ''Best
Life Week,'' starting Jan. 5 with an episode of ''The Oprah Winfrey Show''
during which she is expected to talk candidly about her weight.
Winfrey famously wheeled a wagon loaded with fat onto the set of her talk
show in 1988 to represent a 67-pound weight loss while wearing a pair of size 10
Calvin
Klein
jeans. She had lost the pounds with a liquid protein diet.
''I had literally starved myself for four months -- not a morsel of food,''
Winfrey recalled in 2005. ''Two hours after that show, I started eating to
celebrate -- of course, within two days those jeans no longer fit!''
Winfrey's weight has yo-yoed to the delight of the tabloid press ever since.
She weighed as many as 237 pounds and by late 1990 admitted she had regained
most of the 67 pounds, saying ''I'll never diet again.''
In 1994, she finished the Marine Corps Marathon and by 1996 hired personal
trainer Bob Greene, saying her roller-coaster weight saga was over.
But now, 20 years since the Calvin Klein jeans episode, Winfrey finds herself
tipping the scales again, telling AP Television last week that she has yet to
chose a gown for President-elect Barack
Obama's
inaugural ball next month.
''I had a dress on the vision board, but I'm not sure that's gonna fit,''
Winfrey said. ''So I have to work on something else.''
In the latest ''O'' magazine article, Winfrey writes that she hit rock bottom
when she wanted to skip out on an April 26 taping with Cher and Tina
Turner
in Las Vegas.
''I felt like a fat cow,'' Winfrey writes. ''I wanted to disappear.''
Winfrey's weight and height put her body mass index at 31.8, which is obese,
according to the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
. The CDC says people who are obese are
''at higher risk for chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes
and high cholesterol.''
It seems Winfrey is aware of the health risks, inviting both Greene and Dr.
Mehmet
Oz
to her show during the first week of January, along with spirituality
experts, sex therapists and financial expert Suze Orman.
Winfrey also is expected to discuss her weight on her XM satellite radio
station's ''The Gayle King Show'' on Jan. 5 and will host interactive live Web
casts at Oprah.com the week of Jan. 12
to 16 every night at 9 p.m. EST.
Winfrey, an admitted food addict, sounds almost apologetic in her
article.
''I definitely wasn't setting an example,'' she writes. ''I was talking the
talk, but I wasn't walking the walk. And that was very disappointing to
me.''
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posted on Dec 9, 2008 8:14 AM ()

Comments:

well I fit into my skinny pants this morning. over the summer I could not pull them up over my hips. today they were too loose!!!! and I am not starving myself by any means. just eating healthy and EXERCISE!!! sorry for tooting my horn on your blog but I am proud of myself.
comment by elkhound on Dec 9, 2008 4:28 PM ()
I know how she feels. I've gained back a few pounds, but I'm back exercising and watching what I eat. I'm not going back to the weight I was -- not for anything
comment by teacherwoman on Dec 9, 2008 3:51 PM ()
I am sorry but her weight problems--so what. So what.
comment by grumpy on Dec 9, 2008 3:40 PM ()
I had noticed the weight gain and, like with everyone, it had to become her personal problem before she would tackle it with a vengeance. Food addiction is no laughing matter for it's a habit that can't be kicked cold turkey like other addictions. There's always a bite and a taste. I wish her well and success as she fights this demon again.
comment by donnamarie on Dec 9, 2008 12:17 PM ()
It's one thing when one of us who fail at dieting, but when you have all the resources(and money)at your disposal and still fail?? Well that takes some doing
comment by redwolftimes on Dec 9, 2008 10:37 AM ()
She is definitely a perfect example of how weight issues are something that you fight for a lifetime. Sometimes, I think she is too thin, though. I think she would do better if she maintained a higher weight that was easier to control.
AJ
comment by lunarhunk on Dec 9, 2008 10:08 AM ()
I believe that she is back on the diet again.
Even though she is a little overweight,she carry herself good.
The clothes that she wear makes her look smaller some of them.
I think that she look good.She will always be on the chubby side but a nice chubby.I saw her yesterday with the Mary Tyler group and a fine gal that she is.
comment by fredo on Dec 9, 2008 9:37 AM ()

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