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  • Kirstie Alley Pitches Jenny Craig, Oprah Winfrey Touts Weight Watchers–Which Celebrity Endorsement Will Reign Supreme?

    Kirstie Alley is pitching the Jenny Craig method of weight loss as Oprah Winfrey touts the merits of Weight Watchers and the fact that she can eat bread–every day.

    The average person looking to shed a few pounds in the New Year has these two big-name endorsements to consider when deciding how to implement a weight loss plan. Will one reign supreme over the other?

    If you turn to social media, you’ll see that Kirstie Alley is using her old Cheers backdrop to show off her new physique. Might that be the Jenny Craig way of including men in the weight loss wars? John Ratzenberger and George Wendt appear as they did decades ago, seated at the bar, as Alley poses in the foreground.

    Not everyone sees it as a weight loss ad. Some view it as a Cheers reunion of sorts instead.

    Others clearly don’t get the notion that Kirstie Alley is a paid spokesperson, and have opted to throw her Church of Scientology ties in her face.

    One Twitter user seems to have grown bored with Kirstie Alley touting Jenny Craig.

    Then There’s Oprah Winfrey and her Weight Watchers campaign–setting out to convince the average television viewer that she’s just like the rest of us, because she eats bread–every day. Who out there doesn’t understand that someone prepares every bite of food Oprah puts in her mouth? You could lose weight and have your “best body” if a chef prepared your meals, too.

    One Twitter user seems a bit tired of the bread ruse.

    Are you looking to shed a few pounds before donning your spring wardrobe? Which of these two celebrities are you more likely to endorse–Kirstie Alley or Oprah Winfrey? Or have each spokesperson’s ads prompted you to look elsewhere for your weight loss encouragement?

  • Kirstie Alley Advises Older Men to Stop Being ‘So Freaking Boring’

    Kirstie Alley is looking fine after her 50-pound weight loss, leaving her single and ready to mingle.

    However, the 64-year-old actress seems to be having some trouble finding men that leave her breathless. Instead, they apparently leave her ready for a snooze.

    To help the fellas of a certain age out there, Kirstie offered some advice via Entertainment Tonight.

    “I wanted to say something to men over 45. Don’t be so freaking boring!” Alley said. “Don’t have the life already sucked out of you.”

    While her words may seem harsh, the Cheers actress says she would rather date someone her own age… if only they would be a little more interesting and fun.

    “All it does is leave women to date young men and be really embarrassed, because we are dating guys in tank tops,” Alley continued.” I want some men around my age that aren’t boring, and act like they are tired.”

    Alley’s dramatic weight loss was announced last year. At the time, she said she was ready to “hook up,” and while she was out in the dating arena, she was just not finding “the one.”

    Alley made a resolution in 2014 to drop 30 pounds and revealed on the Today show that she finished out the year a full 50 pounds lighter.

    “I lost it on Jenny Craig,” she told Matt Lauer.

    And she has kept it off.

    “This time it’s different,” Kirstie Alley said at the time. “My goal is to keep this and maintain this throughout my life. … I feel like I’ve conquered that now. I’m sort of hardheaded. You know, when I used to do drugs, it took me a while to quit, quit, quit — and then it was done. And I feel like that’s occurred for me [with my weight now].”

  • Kirstie Alley Sheds 50 Pounds, Again

    Kirstie Alley, known for her yo-yo dieting throughout the years, has shed yet another 50 pounds and is looking thin and trim. How did she do it this time? She went back on the Jenny Craig plan on which she lost 75 pounds while serving as the company’s spokesperson.

    “It was so easy for me when I did it before,” Alley said during a recent interview with People magazine.

    Kirstie Alley’s last significant weight loss came while she was a contestant on Dancing With the Stars. The constant rehearsals and romps on the ballroom floor had her looking and feeling amazing. But when the show ended, so did the dancing–and the weight came back.

    The former Cheers star only set out to lose 30 pounds this time, but kept going. She dropped from a size 12 or 14 down to a six six or eight.

    “There’s this certain place I hit where I felt really energetic and agile. I was like, I want to keep going with this!” she said.

    The actress knew if she didn’t incorporate both the diet plan and the exercise this time, she would yo-yo yet again.

    “I thought, how am I going to solve the problem of hitting a goal and having enough fun to keep that going?” she asked herself.

    The answer came in the form of a bicycle.

    “I got a yellow townie bike and I ride over to friends’ houses. I bribe people. I’ll say, let’s ride to this restaurant and I’ll pay for dinner,” she said. “And believe me: If I bike four miles to a restaurant, I don’t wreck it with my order!”

    Having a consultant through the Jenny Craig program has proven noteworthy this time.

    “I started looking at myself as an athlete. I was a competitive swimmer for a very long time and I remember that I wouldn’t have won anything or done well in swimming if I didn’t have a coach,” she explained.

    Kirstie Alley is hoping that a combination of her past weight loss successes will soon become lifestyle changes.

    “My goal is to keep this and maintain this throughout my life,” she explained. “I feel like I’ve conquered that now. I’m sort of hardheaded. You know, when I used to do drugs, it took me a while to quit, quit, quit–and then it was done. And I feel like that’s occurred for me.”

    Lots of people are starting diets or fitness routines now that the holidays are over. They might just find Kirstie Alley’s most recent weight loss inspiring.

    Do you?

  • Kirstie Alley Clears ‘Circus Fat’ Comment

    Kirstie Alley Clears ‘Circus Fat’ Comment

    Kirstie Alley cleared the issue about what she said in her Jenny Craig advertisement that was released on Monday. In the ad, the 63-year-old actress said, “I’m not circus fat, I just wanna lose 20 pounds.”

    The term “circus fat” angered many and they turned to Twitter for their harsh comments against the actress saying that what she said was offensive and demeaning.

    Alley was forced to explain what she meant during an interview for Today with Matt Lauer. She said that she did not mean to be offensive. In another explanation on “Diets in Review,” Alley said, “That’s how I see me,” referring to herself and not overweight people in general.

    Alley defends her “circus fat” comment

    The actress is known to poke fun at her own weight. She has been very open to the public with her journey to weight loss, too. Recently, Alley said that she wants to lose 30 pounds.

    This is not the first time Alley will be working with Jenny Craig, the nutrition and weight loss company. In 2004, Alley was able to lose a total of 75 pounds that can be attributed to the company’s healthy pre-packaged meals. This is the second time Alley has endorsed the company, since she resigned as Jenny Craig’s spokeswoman in 2007.

    In her interview with Lauer, she said that she has regained some of the pounds that she lost due to holiday eating and “man troubles.” The public has seen her weight go up and down through the years, but Alley claims that she has lost 100 pounds since leaving Jenny Craig in 2007. The additional weight loss is said to be because of a weight loss program she co-developed called “Organic Liaison.”

    Alley will now be sticking to Jenny Craig meals and taking supplements from her own line to help shed her 30-pound weight loss goal.

    Here’s the ad. Was it offensive?

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  • Kirstie Alley Is Back On Jenny Craig

    Kirstie Alley Is Back On Jenny Craig

    Kirstie Alley has spent the majority of her adult life struggling with her weight.

    From 2004 to 2007, Alley served as a spokeswoman for the weight loss program Jenny Craig, and was able to lose 75 pounds. She maintained that weight for several years, but recently realized that she had gained 30 of those pounds back. “I was good for a while and then I wasn’t good, and the weight crept up,” Alley told PEOPLE. “Like I say in the ad, I’m not circus fat. I didn’t hugely screw up. I didn’t gain 75. I gained 30.”

    It wasn’t until she saw herself on her new sitcom Kristie that she realized she had been packing the pounds back on. “I was like, you look OK on the street, but you don’t look [OK] on TV, not so much,” she told Today. Alley admitted that a combination of man troubles and over indulging herself during the holiday season contributed to her weight gain. “Listen, men, stop upsetting your women. You make them fat,” she joked.

    Alley decided to rejoin Jenny Craig because she said the program has proven successful for her, and she likes to have a coach to offer their support. “I love that you have a consultant,” Alley explained. “It’s like being an athlete. No athlete is going to do well without having a coach. We have to equate that to life. Without a coach helping us along the way, I don’t think someone can make it for the long haul.”

    Alley has always been a very confident woman and she said that she wants to be able to feel that way again. “I need to get myself to where I feel cocky again,” she said.

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  • Valerie Bertinelli Dishes On Weight Gain

    Valerie Bertinelli admits she has gained back a lot of the 40 pounds she lost while serving as Jenny Craig spokesperson back in 2012. She also says she shouldn’t feel public shame over the gain. The Hot in Cleveland star appeared as a guest of The View on Wednesday, and explained the recent unpleasant ordeal.

    “Because I broke my foot three months ago and I’ve not been able to work out, the weight starts to creep up,” she told The View co-hosts. “Then, I started thinking, ‘Why do I feel so much shame?’ Because the cameras are on me? Because the paparazzi can’t wait to get a picture of me looking like I’ve gained a few pounds. It’s like, we have to take the shame out of it.”

    The former One Day at A Time star says as she felt the weight slowly creep back on she started to panic.

    “It started to panic me and panic me. And then I thought, ‘Well, wait a minute. This is my body. I’m almost 54. I broke my foot, I haven’t been able to move.’”

    Bertinelli shared the following with her Twitter followers.

    Valerie only recently went back to the gym since being warned following her injury about doing anything to potentially raise her heart rate.

    “I’m back in the gym and ready to go,” she said.

    Valerie Bertinelli has no intention whatsoever of starving herself either. She will lose the weight slowly, the way it should come off.

    She shared the following tweets with regard to her recent weight gain.

    “I still like to eat, and I’m going to eat,” she said.

    She also added, “We all need to give each other a break, especially women. Let’s leave each other alone.”

    Oh, definitely. Valerie Bertinelli makes an excellent point here. And it’s not only women either. Even men can fall into feelings of fear and helplessness when carrying a few too many pounds.

    Kudos to the Hot in Cleveland star for speaking her mind and sticking to her guns.

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