I just read this article that said Oprah Winfrey weighs 200 pounds.

“I’m mad at myself,” Winfrey wrote in an article…

“I’m embarrassed,” she writes. “I can’t believe that after all these years, all the things I know how to do, I’m still talking about my weight. I look at my thinner self and think, `How did I let this happen again?’”

We often think of celebrities and their amazing bodies and we say to ourselves, “of course that person has an amazing body. They are rich and can afford to hire a personal trainer and chef and dietitian to work with them around the clock.”

So what happened with Oprah?

How come she has fallen off the wagon once again.

Well one place she went wrong, I believe, is that she focused too much on the scale and “being thin.”

We all know that a scale doesn’t not differentiate between muscle and fat.

A scale does not tell you how strong you are.

A scale does not say anything about your fitness level.

Your weight can fluctuate greatly from day to day depending on how hydrated you are.

So in summary, throw away your scale.

Oprah now says she wants to focus on being “strong, healthy, and fit.”

I think this is awesome, but I would still want her to define some very specific and measurable goals (think of my 4 performance goals I recently tried to tackle).

Another place where Oprah went wrong is that she went on too many diets where she really deprived herself of a lot of the foods that she liked to eat.

From the article…

“Winfrey famously wheeled a wagon loaded with fat onto the set of her talk show in 1988 to represent a 67-pound weight loss while wearing a pair of size 10 Calvin Klein jeans. She had lost the pounds with a liquid protein diet.

“I had literally starved myself for four months — not a morsel of food,” Winfrey recalled in 2005. “Two hours after that show, I started eating to celebrate — of course, within two days those jeans no longer fit!”"

So there are lots of diets out there right?

Some of them are very unhealthy, like the liquid protein diet, like Oprah went on

And some of them are healthy, and not even what I would consider a diet, like Jayson Hunter’s Carb Rotation Diet.

Even though The Carb Rotation Diet has the word diet in the title, I don’t consider it a true diet as you don’t have to deprive yourself of your favorite foods.

It’s more of an eating strategy that Jayson as put together that allows you to eat your favorite foods, and lose body fat at the same time.

And remember, we’re talking about losing fat…not weight.

Anyway I would love to hear your opinions on Oprah’s struggles with her weight.

Her weight certainly has gone up and down like a yo-yo.

Please share your comments.

Have an amazing day.

Scott