Falling Off the Scale: Your Advice & Support for Kirstie Alley
By Linda Vongkhamchanh
Credit: People Magazine
Real-Life Wisdom for the Struggling Star
Kirstie Alley recently talked to People about her weight-loss struggles and how she often sets the bar too high when she’s trying to slim down. “I have to be below 140 to really look good,” she said. “Actually, do you want my real goal? My real goal’s always too low. I love the way I look at, like, 128.” How many times have we let that number on the scale make us feel guilty and upset with ourselves? Here women from our community who have been there share their words of wisdom with Kirstie.
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Date: 06/20/2009 - 09:46 am
Jo -
Congrats to you, but you'll gain it back. WW is just starvation level deprivation and your body will rebel and you'll gain back more than you lost. It will be harder to lose next time and the cycle will repeat. WW is just another gimmick - do you really know anyone in the organization who has lost and kept off any amount of weight? The leaders are just like oprah with stories of lose/gain repeatedly. The only thing that keeps them coming back is that they are not happy with who they are to begin with.
Don't be so perky, once you are done starving yourself, or are sidelined by an injury because of your age and can't stick to the exercise regimine you've had imposed on you, things won't go so well-you must prepare yourself that the weight will come back because that's how you are made. Do you really think that you were fat until you were in your 50's because you were undisciplined, lazy or had no willpower? Not so, dear. Some people are physiologically meant to be fat - learn to love yourself where you are and just be as healthy as you can where you are.
Come on people, fat is for life, deal with it and stop trying to change who you are. What needs to change is the false ideal that everyone can and "should" be a gym obsessed, size 0, 20 year old. Live a real life and stop obsessing and buying into the multi billion $ industries like WW, JC & NS.
Date: 06/04/2009 - 12:11 pm
Funny how scientists have studied weight issues for hundreds of years and never have found the solution. But armchair health "experts" know all the answers? Obesity is a complex issue. It is physical, mental, psychological and spiritual in nature and needs to be approached from that position. I think it is wonderful that there are a lot of "big girls" out there. I just wish they were more "out there". Part of this disease is that it is a disease of isolation.
A person I knew who worked at a major department store heard this and began to watch exactly when big people shopped. Yep! You guessed it. They shop at night or when they think the stores will be empty. They tend to be 'invisible' in the day time. How can you just say, Hey take a run, join the gym,head for the pool! to people who like/need isolation? Why do they need it? I do not know. But I do know that society has put such an owness on obesity that it is enough for anyone to hide. It doesn't help that obesity is treated as one size fits all either.Each is unique and has to approach their disease in their own unique way. I say offer your calories and calories out and then shut up and support Kirstie or anyone else in anyway you can. Kirstie's weight is not what defines her. Her personality does. Her weight is actually attractive on her. But if she wants to take it off for HERSELF and not for every fitness guru who comes down the pike, I am with her.
However,There are a few, very few people on this earth who are committing suicide by food.
Witness the 700 pound man. His intervention needs to be medical.....then spiritual, physical, etc.
But if a person is just a big guy or gal? Let them be. Whatever happened to respect and diversity?
Date: 06/01/2009 - 09:28 pm
Read the book "Skinny Bitch" by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin!!!! It is filled with a wealth of information and is very motivating! Although the authors are vegan (and I am not), the info is very helpful and is fact. The authors are also "in your face" about our unhealthy eating habits and I found the wit in which the book was written as a good way to hold my attention and make it a fast and easy read. I highlighted the things I wanted to look back on.
Good luck and happy, motivated reading!
Date: 05/29/2009 - 06:50 am
People, the problem here is not the food -type, style, etc it is ADDICTION! All these people are dealing with the same issue addiction to food , just like addiction to narcotics, alcohol, sex, gambling....what do they have in common? Their lives a are unmanageble around a substance or behavior...in this case it is food...admitting it is the first step to becoming a person in recovery instead of a person in misery. CEA-HOW is a 12 step program, following the principles of AA that is intended to help the compulsive eater lead a fulfilling life - go to our website CEAHOW.org... I have been free of sugar and flour and maintained the same weight for 12 years...and I live a very fulfilling life not filling my face with food to run away from life. Living life on life's terms. Guilt free eating and loving the life I have....Blessings and Love to you all
Date: 05/28/2009 - 09:01 am
I've lost 60 pounds in the last 18 months - on my own. The first thing I cut out was regular soda and then, about a month later, I cut out diet soda. The sweeteners in diet soda "trick" your body and play a lot of games with your insulin levels. I found the weight started dropping off faster once I switched to water or unsweetened iced tea. My skin improved, my hair improved. Sound bland? Not really - I got used to it and I don't miss diet soda at all. I have 10 more pounds to lose but I feel great and - ok, I'll say it - I LOOK great, too.