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Originally Posted by Meme#1
Oprah keeps regaining her weight because she just can't fathom that she has to make a lifetime change to eat a certain way. So, she looses, regains, looses, regains.
In her new commercial which I just saw last night, she announces she has now lost xxx (fill in the blank) amount of weight.
But, as I thought before, I wonder how much meds she has to take to control diabetes, blood pressure and also the stantons....but she loves her bread! And so- that's her choice, bread with drugs.
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I left Oprah's name out of the bolded part, simply because this is how it seems that the vast majority of people view dieting. They do whatever necessary to lose the weight (including starving the weight off on some clearly unsustainable crash diet), then go back to their usual way of eating and regain it. Oprah is not the only person to do the same diet over and over, going off, regaining, and going back on the diet again. For most people who do WW, that's also the way they do WW too - they join and go to the meetings long enough to lose the weight, then go off the diet, and gain it back. Then they rejoin, to lose the weight again - over and over and over.
This holds true for LCers too. Despite the efforts of regulars on here trying to help them understand that this is a lifetime way of eating, how many people join this site, lose a significant amount of weight on LC, disappear for a number of months or years, then come back and admit that they went off the diet and regained the weight?
It's the old saying holding true - the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. In the case of dieting, that saying goes two ways - if you go on the diet that helped you lose before, you know you'll lose again - you're expecting the same results. What they aren't taking into account is that they'll get the same results as before when they go off the diet - regaining the weight. Or maybe they are taking it into account, and figure oh well when I gain X number of pounds, I can just go back on the diet again, and lose it again.
As far as Oprah is concerned, no idea what medical conditions she may be dealing with or drugs she may be taking as a result of the high carb diet - maybe none so far. She may be controlling borderline diabetes (just barely), and/or a whole host of other medical problems with WW. That may continue to work for her as long as she stays on WW, or any problems she has (or is on the verge of having) may continue to worsen despite the calorie restricted nature of WW.
Liz, you said it well:
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she will continue to do what she thinks is right.
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And if she has/develops diabetes or other medical problems from continuing to eat the bread she loves, and what she feels is truly best is to take a mountain of drugs to control the problems, rather than altering her diet drastically enough to alleviate the problem, then that's what she'll do. That won't make her a bit different from the vast majority of those who have those problems - even the ones who announce to the entire party/table at the restaurant that "I shouldn't be eating this", and eat it anyway. There are so many people who are a lot more willing to take more meds, than than who are willing to change their diet in any significant way.