Not many 49-year-olds can boost losing 40 pounds, running a marathon and being a spokesperson for Jenny Craig. Valerie Bertinelli has gone one further this month – she’s just released a new fitness DVD, Losing It And Keeping Fit, with her personal trainer Christopher Ross Lane.

The former One Day at a Time actress apparently spent most of her workout hours in her living room, and now wants to help other women workout in their homes too. The 61-minute DVD Valerie Bertinelli: Losing It And Keeping Fit
went on sale on November 3 and boosts two exercise programs with full-length workouts to help you lose weight and keep fit.

The first program is Body Basics for beginners (a 20-minute whole-body workout to tone legs, hips, abs and arms) while the second is a Bikini Ready intermediate routine (40 minutes of sculpting exercises with bursts of cardio).

A bonus feature also includes interviews with both Valerie and her trainer Christopher.

Back in 2007, it was Kirstie Alley who brought Valerie Bertinelli on board as a new spokesperson for the Jenny Craig Diet.  But now the tables have turned and it’s Bertinelli who looks like a bikini bombshell and Alley has confessed to having gained 83 pounds.  When Alley saw her friend’s swimsuit photos for People Magazine she said,

“She didn’t just look good – she looked stunning! It was inspiring.  It’s like the student surpassed the teacher, who is now over there in the corner, fat!”

Valerie Bertinelli responded to her comments and said that it was nonsense and that Alley’s weight gain

“is just a bump in the road. Nothing in life goes smoothly all the time,” she continues to say that Alley is “a mentor and a motivator. She’s part of the reason I’ve come this far.”

Bertinelli then went on to say that she and Alley should work together as she knows the dedication required and that she too has to stay motivated now that she has already lost her weight and wants to keep it off.  Bertinelli said,

“She should come work out with me!  She should remember you can’t do everything in one day [and] her exercise has to be consistent. She can do this. There’s no doubt in my mind. I’m still on the journey and still keeping my fingers crossed.  I am one jalapeño pepper away from gaining 40 pounds. It’s not simple! It’s something you work on every day.”