Losing Weight

According to a MSNBC article Oprah Winfrey has gone public with her recent weight gain and discusses her frustrations in the January issue of her "O" magazine. Can you relate to Oprah's struggles? Does knowing a celebrity like Oprah is struggling encourage you or discourage you?

.......“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.”

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Oprah has let her weight become her identity.  It's a shame because she is a beautiful and powerful woman.  She is extremely smart and sets the tone for a lot of people.  I think she needs to let go of it.  As long as she keeps herself healthy by continuing to exercise and eat fairly well, that is the most important thing she can do for herself and her followers. 

Weight has become such an issue in this country.  I look at most of the female entertainers now and see way too thin.  They look unhealthy and unattractive.  I think Spain took the right steps in not allowing that emaciated look to walk the catwalks for their fashion shows.  I'm not sure who decided that being 5'7" and weighing 110 was ideal.  It is not ideal and it is not healthy.

American women WAKE UP!

I totally agree with you. I have been on every diet with Oprah. I too am 203 pounds today. Meaning that I've gained back almost every pound I lost. This time I will not feel shame or any other negative feeling associated with not being the perfect size for society. This time I congratulate myself for all the times I did exercise and eat healthy. I will continue to exercise and eat healthy knowing that things other the number of calories consumed or expended determines our weight.  My husband and I work out together six days a week, eat basically the same thing and he is at his ideal weight and mine, while I struggle not be 300 hundred pounds.

To Oprah and everyone else, self esteem comes in all sizes. More and more, the scientific community is proving that one's natural weight may be genetically predetremined, and that the words "healthy" and thin are not necessarily synonymous.

I tell myself this every morning when I'm tempted to start another diet. I have to remind myself that diets don't work. Taking care of myself does.