Let’s all just stop the cr*p about acai berries, special foods that “burn fat,” etc. etc. etc. ad nauseum! It is not easy, but let’s all try to deflect the fork or hand as it goes to the mouth. I’m a fine one to talk, but this is what I’m trying. Forget all the airbrushed magazine covers and talk about diet, diet, diet. And 60 minutes a day to exercise can be quite a chore to fit in. So park the car farther away, take the steps, don’t eat all the candy at one sitting … ENOUGH PEOPLE!!!

Hi,
I wish everyone struggling with weight all the luck in the world. Can anyone shed light on the “rumors” I hear about Oprah’s new diet? Acai Berry?

I ADMIRE OPRAH FOR TELLING THE WORLD SHE HAS A WEIGHT PROBLEM. OBESITY KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES. IT’ EVERY RACE, RICH OR POOR. I HOPE SHE INSPIRES OVERWIEGHT PEOPLE TO SEEK HELP.

It’s great of Bob Greene to say that Oprah needs to “identify where she missuses foods and replace it with something healthier” when his advice prior to her regaining her weight was to try to control her vices via the age old diet adage of “moderation”.

IF we could eat the foods we love in moderation, we wouldn’t consume enough of them to gain 40 pounds, 80 pounds or 100+ excess pounds!

We aren’t obese because we aren’t living our best life, we are obese because we consume foods that we shouldn’t and do so on a regular basis and in large quantity.

Why does the diet industry have such a problem telling people that the simply CAN’T eat McDonalds, fried chicken, drink Coke etc.

Corporate sponsorship and greed might be one reason why the gurus don’t profess “Just say NO” when it comes to the junk foods peddled by these companies.

Bob Greene does Oprah and the rest of us a dis-service to have his image on Happy Meal boxes put push pedometers, tell us that cereal is an acceptable breakfast, etc and then expect us NOT to regain weight!!!

Dr. David Katz, who writes for O magazine said this in the foreword of The Vice Busting Diet:

By addressing diet vices, Julia is emphasizing the ‘negatives’ in your diet, so she can help you emphasize the positive potential in your life! Focus on fixing what’s wrong with your diet- and just on fixing what’s wrong- and you wind up with a way of eating you can actually live with.

This is in marked contrast to the myriad fad diets that reconstruct your eating pattern from cabbage soup to nuts, based on unsustainable exclusions, cockamamie theories, and/or cumbersome food combination schemes.

Julia correctly identifies leading contributors to the epidemic of obesity- and your personal weight control difficulties. She very insightfully inventories the leading “diet vices” in our culture. Her words ring true to me, based on my nearly 20 years of counseling patients. These very habits have indeed often been a cause, or even the cause, of weight gain, and failed attempts at lasting weight loss, among my patients. Julia gets it.

And gives just as good as she gets. I like the emphasis on health, first and foremost. I like the focus on simple, unintimidating steps. I like the inclusion of family, the consideration of mental as well as physical well-being. I really like “The Vice Busting Diet”!

Drawing on her own, rich experience, Julia provides simple and compelling wisdom. She notes, for example:

Deprivation is not living without certain foods, but living with them and being deprived of your true health and happiness!
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Perhaps Oprah should take her doctor’s advice this time and read The Vice Busting Diet!

my neigbor had a thyroid problem that was overlooked for years. she finally went from doctor to doctor until she finally was diagnosed with a thyroid condition. her and her husband have money too and execellent medical insurance. she is now at her proper weight and finally after being sick for so many years is finally ok. There are a lot of factors why some people put on the weight. i m not going to judge an overweight person. I M SKINNY

This is for Oprah, Sweetie Pie you are a beautiful, talented, woman who needs not to explain to anyone about your weight. I love you, anyone who knows Oprah as I know you can not in any good conscience even think that your size is of any real interest. Be healthy, be happy and continue to love yourself as so many people love you I have have to say I LOVE YOU THE MOSTEST MOSTEST. Your friend, Linda M. Donnie of Oxnard

With all that money.Why does she have a Thyroid condition.There is med out there just for that.People out there that don’t have money,can’t afford it so they do gain weight.Let’s get w/ it people,do something about it.No excuse!! Sherri from FL.

With all that money,I would have it all cut out.I would hire a good chief to cook just for her.There is no excuse for her.Sorry.

She’s lying. I know tv puts 10 pounds on you, but she’s 240-250 right now if she’s a deuce.

Oprah, I have battled a weight gain all my life. like you I was molested from the age of 5 until I was 15.now I am 53 and 100 pounds over weight. and don’t have the money to say on a good diet plan. So I just live with it and love myself. Because if I don’t who will.
Valeria

some people have high metabolisms and some have low metabolisms. i think that’s why some people have weight problems. takes 3500 calories to lose 1 pound and it takes 3500 calories to gain 1 pound. We don’t walk in overweights people’s shoes and we shouldn’t condemn them. they need a lot of love and encouragment. from a skinny person

i have taken off 40lbs in 74 days .oprah should go on the isagenix body cleans and diet. i feel great and so will she .

I’m disappointed in Oprah for making such a big deal over this. What about loving yourself no matter what? Yes, you want to get and stay healthy but the shame associated with women and their weight just causes more eating disorders. Talk about getting healthy, not about how much you weigh. You know better.

Food just tastes sooo good. I agree with Oprah though, I exercise and diet, but I don’t lose weight, I think I have a thyroid condition, because of my sensitivity to cold weather, and other problems. I will keep trying.

ROBERT PATTINSON, YOU ARE SO HOT!

OPRAH, I HOPE THAT YOU GET TO READ THIS. I WANT YOU TO KNOW HOW BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE JUST THE WAY YUO ARE. I KNOW THAT IS A KLESHE BUT I MEAN IT FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART. I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL I WEAR THE SAME ARMOR FOR PORTECTION. WE HAD A LOT OF THE SAME CHILD HOOD TRAUMA’S THAT KEEP US FROM MEETING OUR GOAL WEIGHT AND STAYING THERE. BUT WHEN WE LEARN TO TRULE LOVE THE CHILE INSIDE AND REALLY LOVE THE CHILD UNCONDTIONALY EXCEPT THE CHILD AND KNOW THAT THE CHILD WAS NEVER EVER WRONG AND FORGIVE, LET GO AND EXCEPT OUR SELF AS WE OUR. THEN WE WILL FINALY SETTEL IN WERE WE ARE MENT TO BE. THE LORD WILL SEE TO THAT BECAUSE WE GAVE IT UP TO THE LORD AND BELIVED HE WILL HEAL AND HE WILL. OPRAH LISTEN CLOSELY TO ME Y.O.U. A.R.E. B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L.L. INSIDE AND OUT BY FARE THE PRITYEST OUTRAGOUSLY ENCREDABLE DROP DEAD GEORGIOUS. SO STOP TRYING TO KILL YOUR SELF, OVER THIS I KNOW I HAVE BEEN THERE AND WORKING IT OUT NOW. LOVE YOU JOE D. KIRSTIE’S FRIEND JOEY

Falling off the food wagon isn’t a healthy thing to do but it isn’t criminal. Take care of yourself and get busy again trying to shed the extra you have picked up and you will be successful.

I understand how Oprah feels! I too gained 40 lbs. after losing and am sick of weight still being a problem. I went back to eating everything and that is wrong. I had a thyroid problem in one state they treated me in another Id can’t even get access to a thyroid doctor. I’m embarassed too. Oprah your beautiful inside and out. Thank you for being real.

I know how Oprah feels I am in the same
boat. I spent Nov 2006 until January
2008 loseing 50lbs. My trainer used me
in various ads around town and I have
started gaining my weight back as well.
I have went from 220 lbs to 162 lbs and now I’m at 185lbs. I as well use food as comfort and have never learned how to
eat right especially during the hard times.

Kim

Money can’t stop ‘GLUTTONY’