Posted on 08/04/2017 4:53:03 AM PDT by simpson96
In Oprah Winfrey's mind, there is a concrete number that stands between accepting her body and being unhealthy when she steps on the scale.
Winfrey, 63, spoke to The New York Times Magazine about the specific weight she deems unacceptable for herself. She also discussed her decision to get involved with Weight Watchers in 2015 and her well-chronicled struggles with fluctuating weight over the years.
"For your heart to pump, pump, pump, pump, it needs the least amount of weight possible to do that,'' she said. "So all of the people who are saying, 'Oh, I need to accept myself as I am' - I can't accept myself if I'm over 200 pounds, because it’s too much work on my heart. It causes high blood pressure for me. It puts me at risk for diabetes, because I have diabetes in my family."
The media mogul told the magazine that she doesn't care if she is ever skinny again because the most important thing to her is feeling like she has control and is more conscious of her eating habits.
"This whole P.C. about accepting yourself as you are - you should, 100 percent," she said. "(Weight Watchers is) a mechanism to keep myself on track that brings a level of consciousness and awareness to my eating. It actually is, for me, mindful eating, because the points are so ingrained now."
Winfrey had famously tried all sorts of diets over the years, many with only temporary success, before she decided to buy a stake in Weight Watchers.
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And then I fell into a pool...and it was like OMG
Diets don’t work IMO. You have to control What you eat as much or more as how much you eat. Diets remind me of hair growth schemes, none work and if they did rich people would all have hair and everyone would know about it........ask George, he knows.
I dreamed I was in my Maidenform bra...
“Car battery cheese”..........a classic line! lol
May the LORD give her another four hundred pounds.
She’s Fat-Shaming!
Actually rogaine works on a significant portion of balding people. I like many don’t hate their balding.
That’s ok Okra, I won’t accept you no matter how much you weigh.
Nothing against your weight, Opera, but I don’t accept you if you were a 100 pound white cutie. You are ugly on the inside. I don’t fool. (I swear I thought I clicked on the right thread b4. Maybe I had a delayed scroll while I was clicking.)
What? But I thought you were supposed to accept EVERY and Anything? You know, she could solve her problem AND be on trend if she lopped off her breasts(about 15 lbs eacb?) and got testosterone injections. Become a well muscled male! Her girlfriend should approve.
Okra,,,, cut your fat head off!
Eat paleo and get an hour of Bikram yoga every day, Oprah. You’ve certainly got the means and time to cater your every working moment around losing weight.
I could never accept Oprah under any weight circumstance.
Weight does not make a person.
You're a despicable liberal loonie racist at 275 or 135...I mean, look at Al Sharpton.
Go away.
Hey ORCA, I don’t accept you at 175 either
This woman is a billionaire. She needs to find an incredible chef pay him a million a year to follow her around and make good tasting low cal foods.
Not sure if it’s our western diet, lifestyle, genetics or what, but here in NC I’d say nine out of ten black chicks that I lay my eyes on have a weight issue.
Very rare to see a slim black gal nowadays.
“an incredible chef pay him a million a year”
I could straighten her out, no charge: “Okra, stuff less food in your cake hole, drink more water and move your fat azz.”
This isn’t brain science but this woman is always whining about her obesity. Stop eating so much you hog.
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