Tag Archives: weight loss
Quickies!: The “Gossip Girl” Spin-Off Already Sucks
Is Oprah’s Weight Struggle The Secret To Her Success?
In case you live in a cave and have somehow avoided seeing images of Oprah recently, she’s put on some weight in the last couple of years: 40 pounds to be exact. In the January issue of O Magazine, out on newsstands today, Oprah opens up about her continued weight struggle in what’s become her signature way: like she’s confessing her sins — or at least her deepest vulnerabilities — to her closest confidante. “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?”‘
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Japanese Do Diets Right
I hate diets. While Americans spend billions of dollars a year making themselves miserable trying to loose some extra weight, I eat cake, wear bikinis that clearly show my stretch marks, and try to keep a healthy attitude about my appearance. Sure, sometimes my muffin top gets to me, but dieting just seems like a form of self-hatred when it involves eating pre-packaged low-cal food. Yuck!
But just like technology, Japan seems to have one up on us in the dieting category. In an article in fitness magazine, Fytte, Japanese women submitted the top 10 weight loss programs that worked for them. Much to my surprise, they actually sound fun. From #4 — Pelvis Exercises that include hula hooping — to #8 — taking a bath in scented salts for 45 minutes a day — slimming down never sounded so good! Who knows, maybe I’ll finally cave on this dieting stigma and learn to put my tummy to good use with belly dancing. [Calorie Lab]
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Wedding Weight Loss To The Extreme
We often hear about women trying to lose weight before their wedding, but here’s a story about a man doing so, and it’s not just a few extra pounds. Manuel Uribe, who has dropped 550 lbs. over the last two years, celebrates his 43rd birthday today, and his wish is to be able to walk down the aisle on his wedding — he hasn’t been able to leave his bed for the last six years. Still, his fiancée said they have a real relationship, including sex, and the only real issue is that her parents were concerned that her first husband, also obese, had died of respiratory failure. Manuel, who lives in Mexico, says his obesity began when he lived in the U.S. about 10 years ago and consumed a diet of junk food and soft drinks. “It is all because of the junk food,” he said. [CBS News] Keep reading »
Get REALLY Skinny For Bikini Season!
Thank goodness for The Onion. I was really tearing my hair out about how to lose the extra 50 lbs I’m carrying around my mid-section before putting on a bikini this summer, but now I know chewing on pencils when I’m hungry is the answer! [The Onion] Keep reading »
Weight Loss Wears Relationships Thin
I once covered a national fat acceptance convention for the old Jane magazine. As I sat in a room full of men who were the spouses of big beautiful women, they all had one unanimous lament: why doesn’t my wife think she’s sexy, especially when I, her husband, do? These guys would tell their special ladies that they were hot, but just by the mere fact that they had to constantly reinforce their wives insecurities made the men feel like they were wrong for loving them. Their taste was insulted by the very object of their affection. Now a new study has shown that dieting really affects both people in a relationship. Keep reading »
Ye Olde Trim Spa
Anyone who has tried to eat at Medieval Times knows the food from the Dark Ages, much like the mores, is disgusting. As if the taste wasn’t enough of a deterrent, King Charles II, who liked his women heroin chic before heroin was even invented, used to feed his royal mistresses a special herb to suppress their appetite, as archaeologists recently discovered. During a dig at Soutra Aisle monastery near Edinburgh, Scotland, Dr. Brian Moffit, a medieval potion professional, found evidence of the 14th Century skinny secret. The powder made from the Heath Pea (lathyrus linifolius) plant was like ye olde Trim Spa. It promised to make whoever ingested it forget to eat for weeks, even months, and was useful during famines. The remedy ironically fell out of popularity when the potato became a widely planted crop. By the way, King Charles II is also famous for sleeping with a gaggle of dogs that are aptly named after him — the King Charles Cavalier. We’d rather stay fat and sleep with the much cuter puppies too. [The Sunday Mail] Keep reading »
