If you haven’t heard already, Oprah recently announced she had again reached 200lbs. “I’m embarrassed,” she says. “I’m mad at myself,” over the weight gain.

Oprah, not unlike so many other millions of people, lost a substantial amount of weight, but failed to keep it off.

“When it comes to maintaining my health I didn’t just fall off the wagon. I let the wagon fall on me,” the chairwoman of Harpo Inc. writes. “I didn’t follow my own fundamental rule of taking care of self first.”

Studies indicate that the percentage of people who gain back some or all of the weight they lost between 65% to 95%.

Diana, the registered dietitian, who overseas both Weight1Minute and Iowa Avenue, started a discussion entitled, What advice would you give Oprah regarding her weight gain?, so that, as a community for people to band together for mutual support and motivation, to help Oprah and others, who need suggestions about how to lose and keep our weight off. Or as Oprah state–to stop the wagon from faling on ourselves.

In the discussion, What advice would you give Oprah regarding her weight gain?, Iowa Avenue members offered several suggestions, so I’d like to feature a few of them for today’s Thursday Thirteen:

1. So, it’s time to push the wagon off herself and get moving again.

2. How funny you should ask–I just posted about this: http://www.peacewithcake.com

3. I would suggest she jump on the Hundred Push Ups bandwagon

4. I feel for her!

5. I say “take it one step at a time”.

6. I would like to tell Oprah to stop being such a spoiled brat, order the Total Gym and go for it!

7. I admire and respect Oprah but someone needs to get a little tough love with her on this subject.

8. My advice would be to keep a food diary.

9. She gets too cocky when she does something, the superlative attitude.

10. To take care of your health, hire some holistic nutritionists to keep you on track.

11. She needs to start putting herself first instead of everything else.

12. Go for it Oprah!!! You can do it!

13. I feel sorry for her but probably she was too busy taking care of her big business without having time to cook or eat healthy.

Support can come from many different sources, so if you’re out there Oprah, please take a look at these. I hope they’re helpful for not only you but everybody, because

After all, it’s about a healthy lifestyle!

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