Weight Loss Why Oprah Winfrey Can’t Stay Slim

Oprah Winfrey is one of the most famous and successful women in the world, yet she is not successful at keeping her weight under control. Her weight has yet again spiralled out of control.

In Oprah’s words: “Thought I had it, but life took over.”

Oprah’s many successes and failures with her weight are her most widely publicized and self confessed problem area.

Too many of her efforts follow exactly the same route: lose weight, gain back, lose again, and gain back even more. And every time it is just more difficult to lose weight.

So... why can’t Oprah stay slim?

She has everything that is needed to achieve her ideal slim look: money, a personal trainer, chefs and a desire to be slim, yet it is interesting that despite all this she can’t achieve permanent weight loss.

There must be something else that sabotages Oprah’s success.

She says: “I use food for the same reasons an addict uses drugs: to comfort, to soothe, to ease stress.” It appears that although Oprah Winfrey's career is blooming she is full of stress and she deals with her stress through comfort food.

Now while we are alive the stress issue will never end and in fact unpleasant situations will occur more frequently. If food is used to cope with the stress than weight loss issue doesn’t appears to get solved.

While running weight loss programs for many celebrities in London and keeping their weight off for long term, it was easy to identify that one of the biggest problems that sabotages most people's success is emotional eating.

So the question is: What about people who permanently lost their weight? Did they do something different?

The answer is yes. They discovered a better way to release their physical and emotional stress and the food stopped being the emotional trigger for them.

It is important to note here that most often we don’t really crave a certain food but what we crave is the feeling we get when we eat that specific food. The way out of the emotional eating is to find a different way to release stress when you face unpleasant situations or get bored.

This could be by doing something which you discover you love doing, such as dancing, art class, karate, swimming or yoga, etc. Yoga is one of the best ways to distress and relax, leaving you feeling good about yourself and rejuvenated.

Issued in public interest by celebrity trainer Subodh Gupta.

Subodh Gupta is an author of numerous books on yoga, weight loss and stress management. He has been interviewed by various TV channels and his views and articles appear regularly in magazines and newspapers in India and the UK.

Subodh Gupta is a celebrity personal yoga trainer in London and conducts yoga, weight loss, nutrition and stress counselling sessions for number of celebrities.

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