Oprah Wants Your Money (and Self Worth) For a Dying Weight Watchers

Much as been written about Oprah Winfrey buying Weight Watchers‘ stock for $40 million dollars and, in just a few days, tripling that investment, when stocks rose.

On the surface, like most media blitzes, the numbers look impressive.

And comics and cartoonists had fun with the idea that Oprah would make MORE money to add to her billions:

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But beyond the media blitz and the jokes, there is something much more insidious and disappointing about this shoddy deal.

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Checked Baggage: Life Without the Stories

For anyone living under a rock, Geneen Roth’s new book “Women Food and God” is a New York Times bestseller recently featured on Oprah. I first studied Geneen’s ideas on intuitive eating and breaking out of diet hell many years ago.

Here’s an idea from the new book that had great impact on me:

love life without the story,

you without your past

 

Wow – all that past … just gone.

All those stories … obliterated.

All that baggage … dropped at the airport and left on the conveyor belt of life.
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Does Oprah Get It?

If you watched the Oprah segment about the Geneen Roth book, Women Food and God, you may have seen some changes in the popular talk show host.

I certainly noticed change. Since I am deeply involved with the real change necessary to lose weight permanently, I’ve often prayed Oprah would get it.

The most important part of the show for me was when Oprah admitted she had shamed herself when she ran the January 2009 magazine cover of her “skinny” and “fat” selves.

"Skinny" and "Far" Oprah! Magazine Cover

I remember how much that magazine cover bothered me, especially the headline “How did I let this happen again?” Those words told me she had been living in an unconscious state during her weight gain.
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