Eat Without Guilt » Oprah

What Kids Can Teach You About Weight Loss

Dinneen — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:01:58 +0000

I watched one of the most powerful Oprah’s shows yesterday. The subject was an epidemic that is affecting the health of America’s children, and what’s also affecting too many adults. It’s not what we usually associate with adolescents: drug addiction, alcohol abuse, or smoking. It’s something more powerful and affecting more kids (AND adults) than ever before: obesity. The children on the show show took part in a day-long intervention, just like what is often needed when children (or adults) abuse drugs or alcohol. But for these kids their drug of choice was food. The intervention was to get to the real reason why these kids ate. And like Oprah said on the show, the reason they got overweight “goes way beyond junk food.” On the show we got an inside look of these children’s lives. They spend their days in shame, guilt, depression, discomfort, stress or pain. In one… Read more

The Inside Scoop on Losing Weight

Dinneen — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:54:49 +0000

Women (and some men) all over the world have been talking about Oprah these past few weeks, and her constant battle of the bulge and war on losing weight and KEEPING it off. Many of us can relate. I even wrote about Oprah’s weight gain last month in my blog. Many people in the spotlight, like Oprah (and winners of the reality show The Biggest Loser) can’t seem to keep the weight off. They lose, then gain, lose, and then gain again. And it’s the same for many of us! What the heck is going on? For one thing, we keep looking to external factors to determine what and how much to eat. We’ve spent years listening to others to tell us what to eat, so we’ve been disconnected from our bodies. If we listen to our bodies correctly, it tells us what to eat. The problem is, we’ve… Read more

The REAL Reason Oprah Has Gained Weight — Again!

Dinneen — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:00:57 +0000

Oprah’s Battle With Weight Gain – and her Missing Link for Permanent Weight Loss It’s hitting the airwaves and news media like a tidal wave. The news about Oprah and her constant struggle with her weight. Once a trim, healthy-for-her-body weight of 160 pounds, Oprah has now reached the dreaded 200 pound mark, a number she (nor many of us) does not want to see on the bathroom scale. In the latest issue of O Magazine (January 2009) Oprah opens up about why she feels she regained the weight, what she’s learned, and how she plans to change. The article is candid, open, honest. She puts it all out there. There’s no excuses, whining, or blaming of anything, or anyone other than herself, for her actions (or lack thereof). Kudos to Oprah for being real, being open, and taking responsibility for her body, her life, and how to go about… Read more