{"id":3398,"date":"2008-12-09T17:14:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T22:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2009-01-05T22:33:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T03:33:24","slug":"oprah-tips-scales-at-200-pounds-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/oprah-tips-scales-at-200-pounds-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Tips Scales at 200 Pounds, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there’s one thing that women will not divulge, it’s the number on the scale. But Oprah isn’t your average woman.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

She’s one of the most powerful and successful women on the planet. But if there’s one thing that Oprah<\/a> has had trouble with in her life, it’s her weight. She’s notoriously yo-yoed over the years, and now she’s actually being very candid in saying that she is tipping the scales at 200 pounds again.<\/p>\n

She slimmed down to 160 pounds in 2006. But in the upcoming January issue of O magazine, Oprah is spilling the beans on her recent 40-pound weight gain: “Yes, you’re adding correctly. That means the dreaded 2-0-0,” Oprah admits.<\/p>\n

“I’m mad at myself… I’m embarrassed,” she writes. “I can’t believe that after all these years, all the things I know how to do, I’m still talking about my weight. I look at my thinner self and think, ‘How did I let this happen again?'”<\/p>\n

In 1988, Oprah famously wheeled a wagon loaded with fat onto her talk show set to represent a 67-pound weight loss while wearing a pair of size 10 Calvin Klein jeans.<\/p>\n

She lost the weight with a liquid protein diet… which may help explain why she has yo-yoed over the years. Fad, short-term fixes will only disappoint.<\/p>\n

And if I can take the liberty of playing amateur psychologist, maybe there are some deep-seated emotional issues that have been unresolved. If anyone has the ability to surround herself with healthy support – and has with the likes of fitness guru Bob Greene<\/a> and Dr. Oz<\/a> at the ready – it’s Oprah Winfrey. So, why does she struggle with her weight unless there are some powerful “demons” she’s dealing with. When she says \u201cI felt like a fat cow,\u201d and \u201cI wanted to disappear,\u201d you can’t help but think maybe the problem isn’t in her stomach, but above the shoulders.<\/p>\n

At least she seems to be aware of this possibility.<\/p>\n

“My greatest failure was in believing that the weight issue was just about the weight,” Winfrey told People Magazine in 1991. “It’s about not handling stress properly.”<\/p>\n

Being a billionaire doesn’t erase all of life’s problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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