Oprah Gains Weight, Discovers That She's Human After All - Page 2
'I think I felt she was losing her zest for life, and that was one of the saddest moments.'
Okay. Where do I start?
First of all, if you have a thyroid problem (and I'm not blowing smoke here, I've been diagnosed with a very malfunctioning thyroid as well) then you've got to get that issue taken care of before weight comes off. It's just that simple. All the rest and "taking time for yourself" and "discovering 'me' time" and "getting in touch with the inner me" isn't going to do you a spit's worth of good if your thyroid is going wonky. You've got to get that taken care of, and that should ideally be done through one's physician. And quite frankly, I NEVER watch Oprah's show and I figured out on my own that she had a thyroid problem, so if her doctors couldn't see it then I respectfully submit that she find new doctors.
Second...the woman is fifty-four years old. I don't care what anyone says, most (and I'm using generalities here) women in their fifties usually do carry around a few extra pounds. Oh, I know Madonna doesn't, but she exercises four hours and eats one organic poached fish fillet a day. But most normal women do have a few extra pounds here and there, and they do find it harder to lose those pounds as they get older. It's a normal part of aging. I'm not even forty yet and I find that it is harder for me to lose weight now than it was when I was in my late teens...that's because my body is different now than it was then. That isn't failure, it's a part of life. Now, you can't fall back on that as an excuse to gain weight, but you do have to work at finding different ways of losing it.
And last, but certainly not least...this is why I have issues with Oprah, and generally any celeb who starts touting their personal way of life as The Way To Eternal Happiness and if you'd only listen to every little thing that comes out of their mouths and do every little thing they say to do, you'd find The Way To Eternal Happiness too. How many diets, eating plans, life plans, and the like has Oprah touted through the years? How many books has she authored or endorsed which tell us what to eat, how to eat, what exercises to do, what thoughts to think to help us be happy? Yet, here she is, at the end of it all, still fighting a weight issue, still not happy? Yet, she's had the gall all these years to try and tell US what to do to be happy? What happened to all those diets, food programs, self-help books? Did she fail at them...or, much more likely, were they all a bunch of hooey to start with?
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