The View January 25th Recap: Special Edition on Dieting
Today was another View “special edition” episode, this one about dieting. Whoopi Goldberg introduced it as “Fat Friday.” She said that she gained 22 pounds back of the over 40 she lost. Sherri Shepherd said it was coincidental because she lost 22 pounds. She is a little upset because she lost some in her booty. Whoopi asserted that she still has the booty. Joy said that she gained back 10 pounds of the 30 she lost on Jenny Craig, but is working to get it back off.
Whoopi said that she never gets hungry and doesn’t emotionally eat either. Both Elisabeth and Sherri said that they are emotional eaters. Sherri said that she eats healthier now, though, because she has diabetes. Joy said that she eats more after drinking two glasses of wine and it also gives her more hot flashes. She said that alcohol makes you say yes to sex, so of course it makes you say yes to food, too.
David Smith, aged 26, once weighed 630 pounds. He has lost more than 400 pounds, in large part to help from a stranger, Chris Powell. He said that his weight gain came from drinking a lot of soda and a lot of late night binge eating. He considered the gastric bypass surgery, but he had a good chance of dying on the operating table.
Chris Powell was the fitness correspondence at David’s local television station and David wrote to him for help. He had to think about it for a week because he didn’t know how to help him. He wanted to make sure that David was really ready to make the change. The day that Chris found out about David was the same day that David’s mother died.
Chris said that the physical part of weight loss is easy because you just need to create a calorie deficit and have six smaller meals during the day. He said that it is the psychological part that is the hardest part, because of emotional eating. David said that part of his weight gain from emotional eating resulted from when he was molested at age seven and turned to food as his only friend.
Chris said that he has gotten a lot of personal fulfillment out of the experience as well and they have become great friends. He wants David to become a trainer as well, so he can experience that too.
Lauren Waters, weighed 310 pounds and lost 180 pounds after gastric bypass surgery. She was always a heavy child and thinks it was part genetics, but also because she ate a lot of fast foods. She first tried Weight Watchers at age thirteen and hypnosis in high school, as well as other diets. Her parents supported her decision to get surgery, but did not bring it up until she expressed interest. She was 18 at the time of the surgery. She thinks it should be the child’s decision to do it. She has trouble keeping weight on and needs to eat four times a day.
Susan Nicholson, weighed 360 pounds and lost 200, following gastric bypass surgery. She has since gained 80 pounds back. She said that if you eat too much fat or sugar following the surgery, you get nausea and vomiting. She had three children in three and a half years and that is how she gained the weight back. She never had a chance to get off the baby weight and went through a bout of postpartum depression. She has gone back to school because she needed a lifestyle change to get herself back to losing weight. She said that she goes to a website called “Living after weight loss surgery” to find other people to talk with about gaining the weight back.
Dr. Garth Davis, from TLC’s Big Medicine, appeared on the show. He said that the surgery is only a tool and not a cure-all and it is common to gain back weight later in life. People eat for reasons other than being hungry, such as stress and emotional reasons, so their should be therapy in addition to the surgery.
Elizabeth Somer, author of Nutrition for a Healthy Pregnancy, appeared on the show. The average woman gains approximately 30 pounds during her pregnancy. They typically lose about 15 pounds of that during in the first week after birth. Breastfeeding increases your metabolism and can help you lose weight. However, it also tells the body to hold on some extra weight, about 3-5 pounds, in case of famine, but that should be gone after you wean the baby.
If you are not breastfeeding, about six weeks after the birth, you can start dieting, having about 2000 calories to lose weight. If you are breastfeeding, you need another 500 calories or so. After six weeks you can also start exercising. She said that it may take nine months or longer to get the weight off and get your tummy back in shape.
Dr. Ian Smith appeared on the show to talk about the “hot” diets this year. The Ultimate Tea Diet believes that you can suppress your appetite by drinking tea flavored like your favorite food, like chocolate. You have to drink six to eight glasses of tea a day and it will increase your metabolism. Dr. Smith likes the idea of it helping you reduce your cravings, but there need to be more studies to determine its effectiveness. Black tea will take away the cravings for french fries and popcorn. You can also cook with tea sauce
The Genotype Diet believes that everyone falls into one of six types. Depending on what type you are, you eat different foods. Your type is based on blood type, family history, length of your finger, and other factors.
The Spectrum Diet allows you to eat what you want and incorporates mediation and is about achieving a healthy life. Different foods are assigned a number and the closer you are to eating all 1s, the more likely you will lose weight. For example, different kinds of oils or breads are assigned different numbers based on how healthy they are. Dr. Smith liked this diet best of the three.
The View, Sherri Shepherd, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, dieting, weight loss, David Smith, Chris Powell, exercise, personal trainer, big medicine, Garth Davis, Gastric Bypass, Susan Nicholson, Lauren Waters
January 25th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
I didn’t get to see the show, ..and it wasn’t really of special interest to me.
However I am glad that they did a show on dieting and eating healthy. There are so many over weight Americans, and so many out there that are on one type of a diet or another. Hopefully the show was a help or aid to those wanting to loose weight.
I know it is a concern for so many, (weight & dieting) especially teens. And it’s the teens I worry about. So I hope that one of these professionals talked about diets that are NOT good for you, and some of these diet medications that can cause problems.
January 25th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
I thought overall, show was terrible.
Whoopi’s story on how she doesn’t eat and blah blah blah —- zzzzzzzzzzz boring. And her voice…she talks so slow sometimes, with her long drawn out stories. ugh. I also felt she contradicted herself. First she said how she gained weight because she’d look in the mirror and see the weight she lost. Then see potatoe chips and say I can say no to you and the next thing she knew she was eating the chips. But then she said food did not interest her. ?????
The interview segments were awful. The first where Whoopi and Sherri interviewed the guy that was 600lbs. and his trainer. I thought it was full of nothing. I felt the questions and answers were disjointed and unorganized. I also felt the ladies were tip toeing around asking questions. I also don’t feel I really learned the particulars of how the guy lost all that weight. I do commend him for doing so, though.
The second where EH and Joy interviewed the ladies who had gastric bypass was even worse. EH spoke too too fast. Joy’s questions were more to the point, but it still felt awkward.
The one with Elizabeth Somer was equally bad, IMO. EH still spoke too fast and sometimes I did not feel like she gave the poor lady enough of a chance to answer. Sherri was funny at the end with her Koegel excercise, lol
The last was the most entertaining. Dr Ian Smith was fun and seemed to know his stuff. I enjoyed him a lot.
January 25th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
I found Whoopi’s statement on eating, or lack of interest in, disconcerting. I think if they are doing a show on weight loss, she should have been more honest. Joy challenged her statement and made sense. The people I’ve known who really didn’t care about food were too skinny. Another woman I knew claimed the same disinterest with food and could not understand why she was obese. I believed her until I saw (and heard) her eat a bowl of ice cream. She scraped her spoon (major pet peeve of mine) at least 50 times to get the last drop of melted ice cream from the bowl. With that mind set, she’ll be fat forever.
January 25th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
I just want to point out that periods of fasting do slow down your metabolism and put it into a stressed state ofthe body trying to give you the energy in form of glucose you need while still saveing fat stores for the future. whoppi talks about not eatign for a day or 2 which is just enough time for her to decrease glucose and starts some fat break down but not long enough put her body into a full on starvation/stress mode where she would be losing weight and if she over eat after that because she is hungry that may cause her problem. not to mention she has an early show so she may not sleep long enough which mean she is not getting her growth hormone releaseing over night causeing fat to be spared and protien to be lost.which might also be a problem. i remmeber queen latifa saying she sometimes has no intrest in food. and overcourse if yopu like fatty foods rather than healhty foods you have a problem not matter what
January 25th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
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January 26th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Didn’t see the show but enjoyed reading the comments here. Just have to say to Stacee…I noticed how you spelled Potato and have to add (in a kidding way of course)..did you take spelling lessons from Dan Quail?
January 26th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
May, nope.
Sometimes I type too fast and don’t double check my posts like I should. I used to correct my errors with follow up posts, but because I could not see posts immediately I did not know of the mistake until way later. By the time the posts do show, I just forget about correcting it.
Hope that helps explain the unintentional spelling error.
January 26th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Stacee,
No explanation needed. We knew what you meant.
January 26th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
It’s kinda apt that EH was involved in this diet interview, since the poor lil’ gal has her own eating disorders…bingin’ on Fox News talkin’ points, and then purgin’ ‘em on The View….
Dan Qayle…oh spare me from those mem’ries. Reason #9,999 why the Republican Party is so sorry and sad.
January 26th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Sounds like the show wasn’t as informative as I had hoped it would have been, on this subject.
Heck I learned more from “#4- mibi comment than the show seemed to offer.
Stacee, I make mistakes all the time, I think everyone does once in awhile. don’t worry about.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Hi All … wouldn’t it be interesting to have healthy Height/Weight models shown on such a segment? Since it’s been said that the camera adds 10 lbs., I’ve always wondered what the height/weight actually is for those celebrities that defy the size 0-2 trend. For example, Kristen Johnston (the gal who played Sally on Third Rock From the Sun), she is tall and with a “less than petite” figure (being pc here)– I think she really looks great and so healthy. But when I tried to find her measurements online (to use as a personal goal) … well, let’s just say that the Porn Spam overwhelmed my in-box! (I should have known better)
Another interesting segment (IMO) would be to give examples of how age and body tone affects how weight actually looks. That is, 20’s eat anything & everything; 30’s metabolism changes; 40’s bring skin changes etc. I’m 44 and having gone through those stages, I can say that I’m much healthier now than I’ve ever been. NOT SKINNIER
but definitely in better shape (nutrition & muscle tone) because now I have to pay A LOT more attention to my eating and exercise habits.
Too bad they seem to have wasted the opportunity to make a difference … Thanks Winnie (as always!) for being so willing to sit through this program to give us a forum for real discussion.
January 26th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
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