{"id":80970,"date":"2012-10-23T09:11:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T14:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=80970"},"modified":"2012-10-25T09:54:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T14:54:20","slug":"valerie-bertinelli-talks-weight-loss-and-healthy-italian-food-on-dr-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/valerie-bertinelli-talks-weight-loss-and-healthy-italian-food-on-dr-oz\/","title":{"rendered":"Valerie Bertinelli Talks Weight Loss and Healthy Italian Food on Dr. Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Oz interviewed Valerie Bertinelli on his October 22 show as she opened up about divorce, drugs, and losing weight, as well as her new cookbook, <em>One Dish at a Time, <\/em>which features healthy Italian recipes.<a title=\"valerie bertinelli dr oz\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/valerie-bertinelli-talks-weight-loss-and-healthy-italian-food-on-dr-oz\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-80971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Valerie-Bertinelli-and-Dr.-Oz-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Valerie-Bertinelli-and-Dr.-Oz-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Valerie-Bertinelli-and-Dr.-Oz.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bertinelli, a longtime television star, lost 40 pounds with the help of <strong><a title=\"Jenny Craig Diet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Jenny_Craig\/\">Jenny Craig<\/a><\/strong>, becoming their spokesperson in 2026. She wrote a book about her weight loss experience called <em><strong><a title=\"valerie bertinelli losing it\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Valerie_Bertinelli:_Losing_It\/\">Losing It &#8211; And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time<\/a><\/strong>. <\/em>She tells Dr. Oz she has never kept her weight loss off for this long and that her weight gain occurred during a low point in her life in which she was &#8220;eating her misery away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The star answers fan questions as well. She says she <strong><a title=\"Focus on Why Instead of How for Weight Loss\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/11\/focusing-on-why-instead-of-how-is-the-key-to-reaching-any-goal\/b\">stays motivated to exercise<\/a><\/strong> by saying mantras such as &#8220;I am healthy&#8221; and thanking God for the life she&#8217;s been blessed with as soon as she wakes up every morning. She&#8217;s asked what favorite foods she has had to cut back on, and says it&#8217;s her brother&#8217;s <strong><a title=\"Chicken and Shrimp Gumbo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/recipes\/chicken-and-shrimp-gumbo\/\">delicious gumbo recipe<\/a><\/strong>. She used to eat three bowls at a time, but now only has one cup, which is just as good. Her final question is about weight loss support systems, and she says that Jenny Craig was tremendously helpful for her, as well as her friends and family. If you don&#8217;t have these, she recommends searching people out from the gym, websites, or wherever you can.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Oz and Bertinelli then make some of her favorite healthy comfort food recipes on the show, including a healthy soup and anise twist cookies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Jenny Craig Commercial \" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/videos\/valerie-bertinellis-new-bikini-commercial-for-jenny-craig\/\">Valerie Bertinelli Shows off Bikini Body for her Jenny Craig Commercial<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"sweet potatoes\" href=\"http:\/\/fitbottomedgirls.com\/2012\/10\/5-ways-to-eat-sweet-potatoes\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 Ways to Eat Sweet Potatoes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"healthy eggplant parmesan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/recipes\/no-fuss-eggplant-parm\/\">Recipe: No-Fuss Eggplant Parm<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Oz interviewed Valerie Bertinelli on his October 22 show as she opened up about divorce, drugs, and losing weight, as well as her new cookbook, One Dish at a Time, which features healthy Italian recipes. Bertinelli, a longtime television &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/valerie-bertinelli-talks-weight-loss-and-healthy-italian-food-on-dr-oz\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695,58],"tags":[534,3124,12,733,10326,596,74,8423],"class_list":["post-80970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","category-womens-health","tag-dr-oz","tag-dr-oz-show","tag-jenny-craig","tag-tune-in","tag-tune-ins","tag-valerie-bertinelli","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-maintenance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80970"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80987,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80970\/revisions\/80987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}