Comments on: Kirstie Alley’s Weight Gain Cover Up

By: Kirstie Alley Launches New Weight Loss Product

Kirstie Alley Launches New Weight Loss Product — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:52:36 +0000

[...] Kirstie Alley may be forever struggling with her weight but she’s definitely making a business out of it and making plenty of money. It all started a few years ago when she lost weight on Jenny Craig. Even though she gained the weight back she still received a huge payment for endorsing the product. Then she gets her own reality show, Kirstie Alley’s Big Life, which will chronicle her current weight loss journey and of course she will get a paycheck for that. And now we discover that she’s launching her own weight loss company that will cater to the ‘average overweight American.’ Even more money! She said that with her magic ‘elixir’ she has already dropped 20 pounds in the past eight weeks. She said, “Im not a doctor or a nutritionist – I’m a regular person like you who has been struggling with her weight and searching and praying for a weight loss program to end that forever.” [...]

By: Nena

Nena — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:16:05 +0000

I’m in favor of good, solid science too, but no reputable scientist I know of would tell you that the things you are recommending are supported by real science. If they work for you, great, but science doesn’t tell you to give up dairy and “all processed food”. That’s just urban myth.

I also don’t understand why people always smugly suggest one substitute fruit for chocolate and other sweets. One tastes sweet and good, the other is sour and horrible. I personally would rather starve than eat fruit. If it works for you, great, but the same approaches just don’t work for everyone, and each of us needs to find what works for us, rather than following someone else’s rules.

As to following my parents, who were thin throughout their adult lives, they ate a diet heavy on dairy, meat, and processed foods, by today’s standards (and in those days, when everyone was thinner, so did most people). That probably isn’t very healthy, even if it didn’t make you fat. However, they didn’t eat between meals – something I’ve also been trying to follow.

By: Nena

Nena — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:02:26 +0000

You never had to purchase food from Weight Watchers. I tried it seven times in the early 70’s before realizing it didn’t work for me, and I’ve had a lot of friends on it over the years, and before the “points”, it was all about weighing and measuring real foods. WW has never sold meals, or enough individual products that they could possibly “make” you buy their food, unlike Jenny Craig and Nutrisystem.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:11:16 +0000

Why don’t these people realize that it is all about the exercise. You can’t just exercise until you get to a certain weight and then go back to old habits. You need to do it every week for the next oh say forever, or you will gain weight.

By: Kati

Kati — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:03:40 +0000

Thanks Ella!

If people would use their common sense, they would realize that Jenny Craig & NUTRA SYSTEM contain appetite suppressants. Try eating a lean cuisine (same amount of food as Jenny Craig) and see what happens. Hungry?

By: Kati

Kati — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:59:07 +0000

To Esme,

Right on girl!

By: susie

susie — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:16:40 +0000

[quote comment="4272"]@christie - It is fucking true, so STFU[/quote] Hey Ella, I bet you were on a winning debate team in college. Such a profound, astute rebuttal.

By: disambiguation

disambiguation — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:39:21 +0000

While weight loss clinics pitch a good game, I do wonder if processed packaged foods that many sell accumulate in our systems. These complex chemicals that preserved the very foods packaged by Weight Watchers and the like stay in our system and contribute to an overall obesity epidemic. When these chemicals are coupled with larger portion size it is a bloody disaster. People totally forgo their metabolic type and assume that everything is safe to eat, and with the advertisements of “fat girl slim” success stories, places like Nutrisystem and Weight Watchers are flooded with new clients. Factor in job searching where employers can afford to be choosy and no wonder these clinics are flooded!
But what are we putting in our mouths? Pesticide laden and processed morsels. Bare in mind these are designed to preserve the food longer! Boxed foods may have the “appropriate portion” and caloric requirement (that contributes to the day’s allotment), but they are disastrous when it comes to nutrition. We really need to test blood type and do a full metabolic panel on EACH person who wants to lose weight. Hell if this country can bomb foreign countries while letting the obesity epidemic get way out of hand, we have the money to help all lead a healthy life. After a full metabolic work up, we then have to base a diet of protein, carbs and healthy fats (fats are a necessity as they signal the brain to say “I’m full”) that are as close to natural food as possible. This makes he obesity epidemic far easier to handle then the government’s “fighting a forest fire with a fly swatter” approach! Additionally, have you noticed why our European counter parts are so slim? Perhaps they listen to their bodies instead of obsessing over their weight.
Changing a lifestyle is difficult, and I know the first hand feelings of Ms Alley. The pressures to be slim or die and old maid as no man wants a fat chick, and stay employed because discrimination against heavy people is a pain in the arse to prove in court. It is slow going but doable. I have lost 30 kg (65 pounds) so far and need to lose another 40 kg! But I am taking my time.
Here is how I do it:
Drinking more water and eliminating soft drinks (painfully hard!!!)
Eliminate sweets** (need a “go to food” ex. Strawberries in exchange for chocolate)
Eliminate processed foods (a tough one but decidedly a key to success)
Aufedersein dairy! That’s right my metabolic type (family) excelled at weight loss when that was one of the things eliminated.
Dovetailing off the last one—watch your parents! What foods made them gain/lose?
Finally? Listen to your body
We live in a day and age of comfort foods and with the slumping economy, and people who are stressed out need some comfort! But comfort can come in other forms! Kristie needs to tune out the superfluous comments and listen to herself and her physician!

I am in favor of good thorough science-so lets cut the crap!

By: Sally Haas

Sally Haas — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:51:18 +0000

I signed up for the lifetime program and I’m glad that I did. Whenever my weight goes up, I return to Jenny Craig and get back on the diet for a few weeks. They remind me how to eat healthy. I’ve lost 20 pounds and feel good enough to return to Tai Kwon Do.

By: Ella

Ella — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:51:39 +0000

@christie –

It is fucking true,

so STFU