Marissa Jaret Winokur has decided to make her weight loss journey public.  After she gained weight over the past couple of years she has a new goal to appear in a bikini in People Magazine.  Likewise, she will be blogging her diet experiences once a week on the tabloid’s website and hopes to meet her goal by the end of the summer.  She wrote,

“I am back on track to fitting into my bikini before the END of the summer!!! There are temptations all over my house!!! I have an 11-month-old son, Zev, who loves those yummy gold fish that taste amazing at 3 in the morning, and a husband [Judah Miller] who can eat ANYTHING (it’s so not fair, but that’s a whole other blog). It’s so hard – Zev eats mac and cheese and I just share it! I need to clean out my kitchen!!”

She went on to explain that she’ll be replacing her fattening snacks with healthy foods:

“I am gonna clean my fridge out and re-stock it with healthy food!!!! It’s a total mess! I need more fruit and veggies. I am gonna clean my fridge myself and make a shopping list! I am not going to be a crazy dieter – I just want to get healthy again and feel good. Maybe you can join in and clean out your fridge and start the slow and steady journey with me……”

May Marissa reach her goal and good luck!

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Marissa Jaret Winokur, who had the starring role in HairSpray as the overweight Tracy Turnblad is signed on to host a new show.  The Oxygen network released their summer lineup last week and one of their shows will be Dance Your Ass Off, it’s similar to Dancing with the Stars but in this series overweight contestants attempt to shed pounds by pairing up with professional dancers while preparing for weekly stage performances ranging from hip-hop and ballroom to pole dancing.

Marissa, who did plenty of dancing in HairSpray and also when she was a contestant on the ABC’s Dancing with the Stars said dancing helped her lose weight. She tells the New York Post,

“When I left Hairspray, I’d lost 60 pounds. When I did Dancing With the Stars I was a plus-size dancer who’d gotten down to the skinniest I ever was.”

Maris confessed she likes Biggest Loser but that this new show is a lot different:

“[Those other shows] are more like boot camps. This isn’t like boot camp. This is people finding their sexuality and embracing life in a different way. They’re finding their femininity or masculinity,” said Winokur. “They dance to the scale — that’s how it’s different than Biggest Loser. It’s not like a walk of shame to the scale.”

During the series, the contestants work with a nutritionist as well to get good dieting advice.  As for the weekly performances they are not only judged on their dance ability but also on their weight loss.

“People love dancing shows and to watch people perform. I always said that when I was on Dancing with the Stars, if I had to get on a scale after, I could never have done it,” said Winokur. “It’s really impressive.”

Dance Your Ass Off will air in June.

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