An Oprah Special on Weight Loss will air tonight on ABC

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“An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution” (Link to CNN article.)

"Oprah Winfrey hosts a sit-down conversation around the radical impact of prescription weight loss medications in the primetime event, 'An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution,' airing MONDAY, MARCH 18 (8:00-9:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC and the next day on Hulu. The special delves into the prevailing questions and concerns surrounding the impact on our health care, economy, lifestyle and culture." About An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and The Weight Loss Revolution TV Show Series
 

I saw Oprah talking about the special on Jimmy Kimmel the other night. She looked beautiful, slim and about 40 years old (she's 70.)


I'm sure the special will be informative. On Kimmel's show she mentioned something I read long ago from a Harvard Med School study. That is that dieting is like swimming under water, it seems easy at first but sooner or later your body makes you come up for air whether you want to or not. That has always been me with my yo-yo dieting. I can stick to a plan for about a year and then one day -- boom -- it's over. I start eating whatever looks good with no discussion about it. Yet still I try because if I didn't diet once in a while that scale would just keep right on going up.

Right now I'm doing well on a 1000 calorie a day, intermittent fasting plan I started on Ash Wednesday, 34 days ago. So I don't think I'll watch it. It might tell me what I'm doing is all wrong and serve as reverse inspiration.

I know @PeppermintPatty is cruising on a good plan now, too, so I don't know ... let me know what happens!
 
Della said:
I saw Oprah talking about the special on Jimmy Kimmel the other night. She looked beautiful, slim and about 40 years old (she's 70.)


I'm sure the special will be informative. On Kimmel's show she mentioned something I read long ago from a Harvard Med School study. That is that dieting is like swimming under water, it seems easy at first but sooner or later your body makes you come up for air whether you want to or not. That has always been me with my yo-yo dieting. I can stick to a plan for about a year and then one day -- boom -- it's over. I start eating whatever looks good with no discussion about it. Yet still I try because if I didn't diet once in a while that scale would just keep right on going up.

Right now I'm doing well on a 1000 calorie a day, intermittent fasting plan I started on Ash Wednesday, 34 days ago. So I don't think I'll watch it. It might tell me what I'm doing is all wrong and serve as reverse inspiration.

I know @PeppermintPatty is cruising on a good plan now, too, so I don't know ... let me know what happens!
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I’m going to try and watch it. My other favourite shows that come on then, I can watch later.

As far as dieting I’m much like you. What trips me up most times is my husbands cooking. When he was at work I didn’t have anyone near me making waffles, pancakes and pudding cake, etc. Now it sounds like I’m blaming him my husband but I’m not. It’s just a reason.

At the end of last year I lost 30 pounds and I bust my butt walking, doing yoga and watching what I ate but Christmas came along and my husband whines until I make him Christmas cookies. He says it his favourite part of Christmas. Only people who have made gingerbreads know how hard it is to make them, bake them and decorate them without being tempted.

This extra weight is really hard on my knees and really hard on my other joints and organs.
I’m diagnosed under active thyroid which doesn’t help any but on top of that I’m taking meds for panic disorder and pstd. These meds main side effects are groggy mindset, slow cognitively, food cravings and weight gain.

Like yourself, I just plunge along. If I lose weight? Great! If I don’t, there are worst things to worry about. My family comes first.
 
Della said:
I saw Oprah talking about the special on Jimmy Kimmel the other night. She looked beautiful, slim and about 40 years old (she's 70.)


I'm sure the special will be informative. On Kimmel's show she mentioned something I read long ago from a Harvard Med School study. That is that dieting is like swimming under water, it seems easy at first but sooner or later your body makes you come up for air whether you want to or not. That has always been me with my yo-yo dieting. I can stick to a plan for about a year and then one day -- boom -- it's over. I start eating whatever looks good with no discussion about it. Yet still I try because if I didn't diet once in a while that scale would just keep right on going up.

Right now I'm doing well on a 1000 calorie a day, intermittent fasting plan I started on Ash Wednesday, 34 days ago. So I don't think I'll watch it. It might tell me what I'm doing is all wrong and serve as reverse inspiration.

I know @PeppermintPatty is cruising on a good plan now, too, so I don't know ... let me know what happens!
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With me, I did lose weight after age 40 with a strict diet of low carbs, adequate protein and at least 45 minutes of aerobics and/or weight training five days a week. I even hired a personal trainer. I lost about 15-20 lbs., but I was still a size 16 or XL. Still "fat", but I was glad to lose the weight.

I did not gain it back by losing control of my food habits. It crept back on because I was not doing that grueling workout 5 days a week. Keep in mind I was working FT and caring for kids, so taking time at the gym was a big demand. Then I had a period of illness for years, neglected by Killer Kaiser & their doctor, and put on 50 lbs.

I have since read that yeah, the endomorphs like me can lose weight with lots of exercise: The 3 Body Types: Ectomorph, Mesomorph, & Endomorph
But we are also likely to gain it all back if we stop, partly because we are endomorphs:

Metabolism: Slower metabolism than the other body types.
Body composition: Gain weight more easily and find it more difficult to lose weight. Because of this, endomorphs are more likely to be overweight. Able gain muscle relatively easily.

Now, add some AGE to this and I ask you, am I gonna have to do aerobics 90 minutes a day to lose weight now?? I guess so. And will I have to do that 90 minutes a day, 5x a week for the rest of my life? Will it all creep back on as it has in the past? Probably.

Do I want to workout 90 minutes a day? How much will that hurt my joints? How much Covid virus will that expose me to at the gym? That's a biggie now - how much Covid am I walking into?

If you are blessed to be born a mesomorph or an ectomorph, you will have an easier time at weight loss and management than your endomorph peers.

Ironically, my ancient people all came from Northern Europe where fat had a purpose - to help keep us warm in winter and survive famine months. Losing weight for me is fighting centuries of DNA programming. I'm not saying it's hopeless. I'm just saying, the people who tell others how easy it is to lose weight and keep it off are usually not endomorphs. I have noticed that.
 
I like them too. I'm finally reading "The Light We Carry" by Michelle Obama. I went to the First Inauguration of a Political Figure, Michelle's husband, in 2009. It was one of my big adventures. It was a time when I was so very lost in my life, facing so many unknowns, trying to figure out if I should give up on where I was living and start over in another state. Looking for a sign, I guess.

I did not see any signs while I was in D.C., but it was a good trip and gave me some postive memories, so that's good. I love the museums in D.C.

I have a quote on my wall by John Lewis: "Make wonderful memories, because at some point, that is all you will have." Amen to that. Rich or poor, famous or ignoble, when your time is over, all you can carry with you as you leave this life is your memories.
 
OldFeller said:
The Oprah weight special is a cleverly disguised infomercial for big pharma's life long weight control drug usage.

For this I have to wait for the Bachelor? Sheesh!
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And yet I am saying, "The Bachelor is trash TV at its lowest point. At least Oprah tries to teach people something."

I know someone who did an interview once for a very minor publication. It was a chance to promote his business. The interviewer, not exactly Dan Rather, asked him some silly questions and one was, "What TV shows do you like?"

The interviewee didn't know what to say so his friend, because they were joking, told him to say "The Bachelor".

So now that answer is out there forever on the blinkin' Internet - that he watches "The Bachelor". SNARK! :ROFLMAO:
I told him, "You have to be careful who you joke with because it stays out there on the stupid Interwebs forever."
 
OldFeller said:
The Oprah weight special is a cleverly disguised infomercial for big pharma's life long weight control drug usage.

For this I have to wait for the Bachelor? Sheesh!
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I'll bet $10 you are a thin man and have been thin all your life. Good job with the Empathy Training. (Sarcasm.)

Yes, the show was talking about medications, just like if she did a show about heroin addicts they might be taking about Methadone treatment.

I guess you missed the point that obesity for far too many years has been treated like a willpower or laziness problem, when it is far more complex than that, just like any complex illness is not a matter of taking more Vitamin C, plus two aspirin, and call the doctor if it gets worse.
 
What struck me most as beneficial was the truth that thin people are treated better; that fat folks aren't lazy; the voice in your head yelling EAT! is what needs to be dealt with.

What turned me off was the audience nodding and reacting like they were paid to be there and nod at the appropriate moments.
 
Della said:
My husband thinks Oprah is pretty but he thinks Michele is hot. He likes tall thin women from the start, but he absolutely fell in love with Mrs. O after watching this:
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She’s in great physical shape too. Years ago she was on the Ellen show and Ellen propositioned her to a push up challenge and Michelle nailed it. She definitely works out.
 

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