Tag — Weight Watchers

Fast food chains and weight loss companies are not supposed to get along, let alone collaborate. This week in New Zealand and Australia, Weight Watchers and McDonald’s have announced they are teaming up to offer weighted meals based on the Weight Watchers point system. Talk about a marketing ploy! In the past, Weight Watchers always offered their members a point system for typical fast food meals such as KFC, McDonald’s, Taco Bell, etc… [Read more →]

Weight Watchers International has had enough of the Jenny Craig weight loss ads that they see as misleading and deceptive. Weight Watchers decided to file suit after Jenny Craig released ads referring to a study that compared a typical Weight Watchers weight-loss program to a Jenny Craig pre-packaged meal system. Being that the two companies offer two very different types of dieting it makes sense that Weight Watchers isn’t happy about this, especially since the study supposedly doesn’t exist. In the ad Valerie Bertinelli is dressed in a lab coat and says, [Read more →]

Jenny McCarthy has done it all, she was Playboy Playmate of the Year back in 1994, did some work on MTV and she’s even published a book on caring for children with autism.  Now, considered to be one of the more solid-minded women in Hollywood, Jenny McCarthy was interviewed by Shape Magazine and divulged on how she has come to be who she is today.  She said,

“In 2002, when my son, Evan, was born, I dialed back that whole sex-kitten thing. And then when I went public about his autism, I gained credibility as a passionate mom.”

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The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson has pledged to don a bikini and run on the beach to show people that they can still be fit and healthy at the age of 50.  The Duchess will turn 50 next October so as of this week she began her training with the help of soccer legend David Beckham, whose management team found her a personal fitness trainer. [Read more →]

As any viewer of Rescue Me has noticed, Lenny Clarke lost a tremendous amount of weight. In fact, Lenny lost an astonishing 144lbs according to People Magazine. After a divorce and canceled TV series, Clarke went “out of his mind eating” going from 176 lbs to 380 lbs. Saddled with high blood pressure and difficulty breathing, his good friend, Dennis Leary who is also a writer and producer of Rescue Me, was concerned and told him “you’re gonna die.” Dennis Leary, became part diet coach, part motivational coach and told him if he had to lose weight for the show, how much could he lose? Lenny responded “100 lbs.” The weight loss plot line was developed which called for Lenny’s character, Tommy, to go to prison to “waste away.” It was now time for Lenny to get into character and lose the weight! [Read more →]

After losing 60 pounds of postpartum weight in 6 months on Weight Watchers, Jenny McCarthy signed on as their spokeswoman celeb in 2006. Currently dating funny-man Jim Carrey, she has continued to maintain the weight loss and is now a Weight Watchers “lifer” she tells US weekly. Not a fan of working out, although she does sporadic jogging and Tae-Bo, Jenny says “it’s what you put in your mouth that keeps your jeans fitting.” [Read more →]