Kirstie Alley: Weight Loss Success?

I tried the Jenny Craig plan for over 6 months, I gained 5 pounds and lost a lot of money! I did read the South Beach book and lost 20 pounds (which was 2 more pounds than I was aiming for) It has now been 2 years and I eat better, feel better and have maintained my weight.

Hey, are there any JC Consultants online? Can anyone tell me what the Base Salary is for a JC Consultant and if you get a discount on the food?

Congrats to Kristy she looks great. JC is very effective if done properly.

Kudo's to Kirstie - She is successfully doing it the hard way - naturally! After a period of depression and probably keeping to herself, related to her personal life she 'came back out' into the limelight. Knowing she had put on weight she 'worked with it'! She did the "fat show" and Pier commercials. Some people (actors or otherwise) are comfortable with their weight. Comfort shows in confidence and positive personalities, I, personally don't have a problem with that, some of my best friends are heavy, some are thin, and i'm no light weight being somewhere in the middle. Kirstie got herself over the 'mental' hump in her life - she stepped back into acting and worked on the physical hump (no pun intended) KUDO'S KIRSTIE!! Wish you were my coach!

No way was that woman 220 pounds. I would be surprised if she wasn't in the 280 range. She is a big-boned, tall woman and she was very, very heavy. Too bad they don't have a diet to lose irritating obnoxious personalities. Listening to her shriek from the TV was more than a turnoff. Wonder how many customers Jenny Craig lost because of her.

Skeptic, I agree with your estimate. I was 230lb, I'm like a foot shorter than her (5'1") and I still wasn't as fat as she was at her fattest - and this is not "we never know when we ourselves are fat" goggles, I just recently looked at a picture and I still had only 2 chins, not 3 like her.

I have always liked Kirstie Alley & been a supportive fan of her career, HOWEVER I have to put the skids on this whole JC weightloss thing, She stated.... to quote " If I can do it anyone can."
Well heres a note for ya Kirstie, NOT everyone has $400.00 a month to fork over for JC diet dinners, NOT everone gets a new kitchen designed for them from Oprah, Not everyone gets a signed contract PAYING them to lose weight, NOT everyone gets the JC food for free, & NOT everyone can afford personal trainers & personal chefs if they get sick of their JC pre-packaged dinners. & finally last but not least, NOT everone gets to be on National Television with the 1/2 the world watching their progress.
These things in the very least would be pretty motivating, Wouldn't ya think? & As much as I like & adore you, I DO NOT believe that you are a fair representative of the average American Mother, Housewife or Career Woman. I am happy for your success, But please STOP pandering to us, as if you are anything like the rest of us.
Because you simply are not.

I think the best thing about Jenny Craig is that you don't have to cook or measure your portions, it's all packaged for you.

Oprah is on right now and honey let me tell you this broad may be 220 NOW. She is still very heavy. They must have had a body stocking on her when she was wearing that bikini. She is still quite heavy - that's why she's still wearing those tents and hiding her body. You can see it in her face. She's big.

When Fergie did ads for Weight Watchers, she looked fantastic. Kirstie is still a big big woman who started out close to 300 in my opinion and maybe weighs 200 now. Bad advertisement for Jenny Craig or any weight loss program.

Skeptic, I'm right there with you. No WAY Kirstie was 220lb when she started, and no way she is 145lb now. She is like 5'11", right? At 145lb she'd be pretty small, and not just in the face, but all over. Skinny even. She is tall and big-boned to boot, not a wisp of a thing. I might buy 170lb now, at best.

Jan & Skeptic-I agree completly! I was watching Oprah and talking to a friend complaining that Kristie is flat out lying (sp?) about her weight and that she should step on a scale in front of national tv. I'm 5'9" and she is 5'8". I was at 260# (Kristie was AT LEAST that)and now am at 190# and look as good. If she were 145, she would be very slender. I'm wearing a 12/14 now, so if I took off another 45, I'd be size 8...Kristie sure isn't. I think she has just subtracted 50 lbs from her starting weight...so she is probably around 190 now. Kudos to her for the weight loss, that is GREAT, but so is honesty.

I'm glad to read that there are others that are skeptical about Kirstie's current weight. There is NO WAY Kiristie is 145.
I quit smoking last year and gained weight, boo ;(
I'm over 50 and I've a size 12 rump at 166 and 5'7ish." I have cut back on portions but can't get below 163 so I will probably join a weight loss clinic to learn how to eat to get back to between 145 and 155... I have to loose the girth weight.
Seeing her drop weight is fantastic... they just need to be honest about the actual results.

Wow, do I feel worse than I did. Im 145 and 5'3.I am normally 130 at 55 but had put on pounds(health problems). I watched oprah yesterday watching kirstie as I was running on the treadmill and was thinking for heaven sakes THAT IS WHAT I LOOK LIKE! I wanted to cry. So disheartning .If she was being honest about her begining weight ,it makes me feel worse .Good for her for loosing 75 pounds,But I never thought i looked like that and that my family was lying to me when they told me that I look fine for my height.It is not fair to those that are being truthful and working so hard at this..

Tanya, I'm thinking you'd be a 6, or 4, at your height and 145lb... and so would Kirstie. It is not just fit, it is thin, for a tall person to weigh that.

And NO WAY Kirstie at her largest was even 260lb. I'm not thinking that fat photo on the post here, I'm thinking for ex. when she was in an episode of "Without a Trace", when she was bigger than in that photo and than when she started "Fat Actress". I'm thinking more like 360lb. In the photo above, she still has some shape to her, albeit big. At the time I'm referring to, she was perfectly round, and it takes a lot more weight to be like that. Even at the photo above, there is no way that is 220lb or 260lb, more like 300lb.

And confused: if you look like Kirstie does now, you do look fine. Your family is not lying to you.

kirstie is definitely lying.

my friend is 5'4" and weighs 120 - downright thin.
my other friend is 5'6" and weighs 145 - downright thin.
my other friend is 5'9" and weighs 150 - and she looks very thin.

my other friend is 5'8" and weighs 130 and she is a total bone, no shape at all and looks like those models look when they haven't eaten for a week.

all of these women are between 30 and 50 and all take care of themselves.

from what i saw on oprah and also kirstie's BEFORE fat pictures: she is telling a huge huge lie and i cannot imagine why she is doing this. even rosie o'donnell, last year, came out publicly and stated that she knows for a fact, but just looking a kirstie, that the highest weight at 220 on a 5'7" frame is just hogwash.

my personal experience is that when i weighed 160 on my 5'8" frame, i was shapely and didn't look fat in any way. i had a 30 inch waist at the time, my face was skinny and i had an amazing shape overall, just not skinny. in NO way, did i look as big as kirstie looks right now, and she is one inch shorter and supposed to weigh 145.

YEAH RIGHT. what kirstie doesn't realize is that people who have been larger with a similar body style and height know exactly what someone looks like at a particular weight, give or take 10 lbs. but what kirstie is telling is a lie.

and as honest as oprah is, i am very surprised that she let kirstie on the show saying these things.

now i lie kirstie a whole lot anyway, and she looks fabulous for 55, which she said yesterday is her age.

did ya'll know that she is a scientologist??

also if you want to lose weight then do this: never ever eat high fructose corn syrup or partially hydrogenated fats also called trans fat. make yourself exercise 30 minutes every day, they type where you get slightly out of breath. lift 5 - 10 lbs weights 3 times a week. breath, walk and stretch every day. pamper yourself but not with food. if you find yourself eating a candy bar, then take a piece and throw the rest of it in the nearest garbage can before you have a minute to even think about it. also some real motivational things are realizing that almost universally, men admire and prefer women at or close to the weight overall. or course there are men who are chubby chasers, but i have found them all a bit off center in my personal experience. my opinion. also think that if you had to be carried in an emergency and you were 200 lbs. -- could someone really save you?? also the added weigh on your joints, feet, etc will over time take a gigantic toll if you are carrying around more than 30 extra pounds. and if you waist is over 32 inches, then you have another set of problems too look ahead to when you are older. also breast cancer and colon cancer and other cancers are more common in obese people. and it is very disheartening to watch a big person pay attention to their nails, makeup, purse, clothes, shoes, jewelry and personality to cover up the fact that they are going to look 30 lbs. overweight when naked. that cannot be hidden and in those society we are judged by our ability to control our own lives and the weight is one of those factors.

also if you are tall, you can weigh more and still look good. if you are 6 feet, a man can weigh 180 or even 220 and look ok. but if you are a woman at 5'5" and you weigh more than 145, then you better start watching the scale.

i am 50 and all of my childhood friends, even the skinny ones, spread out when they were older. one one stayed small, and she is lucky. however, i have never seen her eat anything substantial in 30 years and it is genetic.

above all else, be happy. take the best vitamins and supplements that money can buy. eat organic foods and vegetables every day. drinks lots of water and lots of green tea. stay away from boxed foods, and eat out of small plates. sometimes a bite or two of something can satisfy you. and if you dump food you intend to eat or give it away, and you keep doing this, you will feel empowered and better about yourself.

it reduces the amount of power that food has over us.

G'DAY all,
I work for Jenny Craig in Australia, the only thing i have to say its not expensive you can't put a price on your health!!!
I hear this all the time its all about cutting calories and portion control if it was that easy everyone would be happy with there weight...So you all know we are not just about the food its the support,motivation and education you get from Jenny Craig...Its the one on one consultation so we personalise it to your needs..
Wishing all the best in your weight loss whatever you all decide to do :)

I think that Kirstie has done a great job losing weight, but I agree with the other posters that she is lying about her weight. That alone is one reason I wouldn't trust Jenny Craig - no crediblity. Why not come clean and tell the truth?

Betty--hear ye hear ye!!!!!!!! Jenny craig your response???You are losing credibility

Betty, Hear ye Hear ye.....Come on jenny craig you are loosing your credibility.What was her real weight?

Finally, someone telling the truth. I agree totally with Billimingo. KA does not look anywhere near 125 or 135 pounds. Her thighs on Oprah show the other day look like telephone poles. Come on, KA, tell the truth. If, as you say, you have lost 75 pounds, great. Now the problem is KEEPING IT OFF. Good Luck. You actually look like you weigh approximately 200 pounds now. Why do you lie? You are 5'7" tall. You still look fat!!!

Wow, haven't you people ever seen yourself on videotape? I have, and the camera really does add 10 pounds. I don't think Allie is lying at all.

Man, if Kristie is 5'8" and 145, I don't believe her, unless she has absolutly no muscle mass at all, and her weight is only fat. I'm 5'7" and about 125, but I recently lost about 10-15 pounds, and even when I was up at 140, I looked bad but I didn't look like Kristie (and technically would have looked worse). I'll give her that body types are different and nobody carries weight the same, but she's got to be at least 160-170. At 5'8" she'd have a BMI of 22, she still looked too heavy to be that far into the normal range. But I do think it's awesome that she lost weight, but I think she needs to be honest with how much she does weigh, because it's damaging to thers self-esteeme when someone says they're X weight but really 20-30 pounds heavier than that, then other people are left thinking that they look like that too.

Billimingo has a point. It was pointed out on national television that Kirstie started off from being 219 or 220 lbs before Jenny Craig's program and has since lost 75, no matter how I calculate it, it comes down to 144 or 145 lbs that Kirstie is supposed to weigh now. I know that television makes you look at least 10 lbs heavier, but there is no way that Kirstie weighs only about 15 lbs heavier than Naomi Campbell, say for instance.
There goes my 2 cents worth.

My issues with this whole thing-
DIEts such as NS, JC, medifast and slimfast do not help people manage on their own- and most people will gain the weight back- TO me Kirstie will not be completely successful UNTIL she keeps it off long term- When people lose weight on a diet, the diet takes full credit - when people gain the weight back- they completely take no responsibility- A FIVE PERCENT success rate is NOT successful. Sure these companies can't control what we put in our mouths - but I think there has to be other reasons why the success rate is so insanely low-
Kirstie said that silly phrase "If I can do it, so can anyone" OH GAG!!!! I can't stand that because one it's saying that Kirstie has such low self esteem that anyone can do what she's doing- which I do not believe everyone is READY to make lifestyle changes- and it's just an annoying phrase.
It bothers me how the above poster Sharon had the nerve to come here and tell everyone that you can't put a price tag on your health. That's the same line that I was told by NS years ago when I couldn't afford to fork over another 500 bucks. It's just a sales tactic. We do NOT , I repeat, DO NOT need to pay JC or NS for their overpriced foods when we can get it elsewhere- I never tried JC, but I know NS had food that was mostly awful. While you say you give support- I know when I went to NS- their counselors had no counseling degrees- they were basically marketers- trying to market and sell a product- feeding off of the desperation of overweight women!
I am on weight watchers and am glad I can make and find my own food choices. I don't call it a diet. I count my points and am able to eat out- am able to make decision on my own without the guilt of eating prepackaged kaka. I am down 66 pounds, by WW and exercising every day- there's no magic pill, there's no magic food, there's just a lifestyle change and hard work- but it's so worth it.
I don't feel guilty- I don't use the word cheat, I don't use the word diet.. I just eat, exercise, work and life my life. Kirstie - I do wish her the best- I just wish that these celebs weren't made to parade around like circus freaks about their weight.

I've got to say, I think some of the posters are being a bit hard on Kirstie.

I have no love for her. Slightly off topic- she spoke at a teacher's conference in Tallahasee in 2005 that a friend of mine attended where she (as a Scientologist) was advocating a medication-free life for all children. Obviously she's never taught a child suffereing from the joys of undifferentiated schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, abandonment issues AND the onset of puberty.

But I don't think it's impossible for her to be the size she asserts while looking the way she does. People have very different muscle density, and that causes a wide variety of shapes and sizes. For example, I am 5'2 and a sturdy 155 lbs. I wear a size 10, but people are often surprised at my weight and clothing size when I tell them. I deadlift 80 lbs, and I am working on my bench, too. On the other side of the coin, a dear friend of mine has dieted for the past ten years to finally reach her target weight of 150, and she still wears a 12-14. Her face is gaunt and her collarbones prominent, and I worry about her. She has no muscle tone because all of her weight loss has been dieting, there has been no lean muscle growth at all. Every time she worked to gain muscle she saw a little weight gain (it weighs more than fat, obviously) freaked out and gave up on weights.

I think it's easy to forget that people are not of uniform construction. Even two people of the same height and weight will have contrasting appearances, it's all muscle construction and fat distribution.

Jenbug, while I agree people can weigh very diff amounts and be the same size (Marie Claire once featured 6 average women, which at the time I think was 5'4", 140lb and they all looked/wore very different sizes), the thing is, the values Kirstie provided herself don't add up. She has said when she was stick thin, in her modeling days, she weighed 130lb. 15lb + aging is not the difference between the stick figure and what she is now, and 75lb only is not the difference between the woman who was more than twice what she was in her "before". She might even be 145lb now - but in that case, she wasn't 130lb at her thinnest, more like 100lb, or she wasn't 220lb at her fattest either. The 3 figures together don't add up. 15lb, even if it is all fat, cannot add up to 3 clothes sizes or so, which is the visible difference between her thinnest and now.

OK--I have needed to post this all day. Here goes. KIRSTIE ALLY is a HUGE liar. I mean HUGE and here's why. She quotes her weight loss stats as follows--she is 5'8" and started out at 220 and is now 145. Well I am SO sorry. I ain't buying it! Why you ask? Because here are my stats. I am 5'7.5" and I was 227.6 lb in July, 2003. I joined weight watchers and began working out and I now weigh 145. I am 48 years old. I have been in the national weight loss registry for a year. And guess what? I AM WAY WAY thinner than Ms. Ally!! I don't have size D boobs or fat jiggly thighs. And I wear a size 10 on average. I am thin. She is still very heavy. So here's what I think are her real stats (and I think Rosie O'Donnell will back me up). I thnk she was pushing 300 and yes maybe she has lost 75 lb. But she is more like 175 on a good day. She needs to stop lying. And maybe I should collect the millions she has gathered. Yes, that would be me, the woman who put down her fork and got off her ass in a far more private forum. Thanks for listeneing

To Sharon, I appreciate that you have to believe in your product to do your job well, but gimme a break, I am currently losing & getting healthier without spending app.400.00 a month on some pre-packaged,delivered dinners. This would be a huge bill in an average American household, I could never ask my family to cut back on their own needs because I wanted to spend such an exorbitant amount of money on something like this, I am having to do it all on my own because I simply cannot afford your product , why should losing weight cost me a fortune, & why should my family have to pay the price. In reality getting fat has educated me & taught me that I dont need your expensive products I can buy my own vegtables,fish,& fruits at a much lower price then anything you could ever sell me.
I got myself this way & I am getting my own self out of it, I am wiser, stronger & more beautiful than ever without spending a ton of money, & I am learning. So if you really want to make impact on the rest of us with Jenny Craig then make it AFFORDABLE, then I will get behind it & support it, until then its just another over-priced scam. I can spend 30$ & get any nutritionist to consult with me about my so called needs, & better yet I can research it myself for free, & I seriously doubt that giving jenny craig a small fortune will give me everything I need to reach my personal goals. So dont tell me about putting a price tag on womens health we know exactly what its costing us to be where we are & how much our health is worth,& what its done to our own bodies. I am 5'6 & was 220lbs I am now 192lbs, how much do you weigh? & do you really know what its feels like to be this big? If you dont then you can't really speak for us.

Hi Im from Australia and I was 54kg when i met my husband, which was great but everytime i got pregnant I put on the kilos. I am now 96kg. You are probley thinking that i ate junk, no not at all, I craved for ice with all my 3 pregnancies. I feel horribley over weight. So I joined JC. I had to pay about $115 per week and on top of that I had to buy fruit & veg and feed my husband & 3 kids and the bills were just piling up because i just had to lose weight. I lost 8kg in 2 months. I have since stopped JC and have gained 12kg. I feel like I have failed then JC rang me and like I told them b4 I cant afford it anymore. Our petrol has gone through the roof. My mum and family are on w.w and are doing fine. So Im going to start by eating differently first and see what happes, then maybe I'll give w.w a go. I dont need JC anymore as all it did was made me feel good when i lost weight when i stopped because of money I gained more than I lost. Who needs that.

Hi there just wanted to mention my weight loss story.

I gained 70 pounds in 6 months on some depression meds. I lost all 70 pounds in less than six months when I got off them. I used exercise, tons of it. Swimming, hiking, yoga, tai chi and kung fu.

There is a very very simple formula for weight loss. You must burn more calories than you intake to lose weight. You must intake more calories than you burn to gain weight. It is not mystical or esoteric, it is pure science. Drink plenty of water, stay away from crap food and you can eat what you want when you want. I dont eat microwave foods, candy or confections of any kind. No HFCS foods either. I eat a lot of cereals and vegies but I also eat bread and pasta as well as fish, but no red meat or pork. Also chicken sometimes.

You will think it is blasphemy but only if you have no self discipline to go practice a cardio heavy workout a couple hours a day, every day. That is the brutal truth. You can not sit on your ass and lose weight. You must actually work for weight loss. JC cant make you go jog for miles, you have to make you go jog for miles. Burn more than you intake and you WILL lose weight. No need to pay someone. Buy some good sneakers instead and move your ass.

Hi

who care's what Kirsty Alley weighs, the fact is that she has lost weight, and all those women out there complaining about what she really weights PLEASE! You know that not every woman likes to give out her weight, and im currently on a Jenny Craig programme, and it does work, i have my day's when i slip up, and i bet kirsty does too, and when that happens just refocus. She has been a inspiration to me, cos ive seen the size she was before she started, and hands up to her GO KIRSTY. And all you dissers (put downs)out there, get over it.

Hello!

I'm looking for the Kirstie Alley dance routine video cassette/or cd? Can it be purchased? If so where?

I would really appreciate and answer.

Many thanks and best wishes for the holiday season.

Monique

I was on Jenny Craig twice and, although I did keep the weight of for 3 years each time, I fell off and the weight I gained back was more than I originally weighed. Better to change the things you eat than depend on a weight loss program that gives you the meals then takes them away. You go back to your original eating habits and boom "more lbs. than before"

First and foremost I would like to applaud all of those who have had success with any type of exercise and fitness program. I know it can be a daunting task and the reason for this is simple, we make it a daunting task.

Leading a healthier life is all about choices. We all can choose to eat garbage, nothing at all or something half way healthy for us. Incorporate 20-30 minutes of the 'right' type of exercise for your goals, needs and likes and you'll be quite amazed at what will happen to the way you FEEL and look. Of course the more consistent you are the quicker the results.

I have been very outspoken about the 'Hollywood’ way of weight loss over the years and will continue to be as I feel it sets a poor example, let me correct myself, a horrible example. I highly doubt Kirstie alley and others like her become spokes people for free. Its just like ‘the biggest loser”. Dangle some money in front of desperate insecure people and watch them dance, run and jump.
Did you see
Hall of fame quarter back Dan Marino has joined on with Nutirsysyem. Are you kidding me? Over Dans 20 years of professional and college football he never figured out how to stay healthy and fit or maybe it was nutrisytme that helped him become one of the most feared athletes in the NFL for years. Give me a freaking break. These people make me sick at the message they send to everyone watching.

After KA’s striptease on Oprah JC sales jumped all over the country. Do you think it was by accident that it was sweeps that month. Kirstie Alley hasn’t done shit in 10 years now in a span of 2 years she has a show where she embraces her fat and body then does a 180 and somehow gets into a lycra body stocking and bikini for Oprah (the queen of health and fitness herself). $$$$$$$$$

I am guessing that the majority of people on this site earn their living in various ways none of which have you in front of a camera or in a bikini. If a persons income and happiness were determined by looks(body) alone who knows to what extremes one would go to keep them. Judging by all the fads and crap that are a direct result from Hollywood most people will try just about anything to keep that edge.

Take the "South Beach Diet' for example. Do you think this book would have taken off if it had a name like,'Minniapolis diet'? Of course not. You attach a sexy lifestyle to a diet and BOOM! Its all marketing just like 99% of all the health and fitness pills powders and gadgets and most notable diets out there. I will add South Beach is closer to having it right than the rest but its till FAR from perfect.

I could get rambling for hours about the science as to why these programs blow but the truth is DIETS SUCK and DO NOT WORK and most importantly DIETS WILL FAIL YOU!!!! You read that right the diet will fail you not the other way around. Dieting is ABNORMAL and you should NEVER go on one unless a respected physician that you trust advises you to. Last time I checked JC didn’t ask for you to come in and get a physical complete with blood work before they vacuum packed your feedings and swiped your card.

Get a physical to be sure you have no pre-existing conditions ,Exercise with resistance, get moving more and Eat in a supportive manner. Simply put, eat in a way that supports the way you want to feel and look. Get away from processed foods and excess sugar and sodium, by eating more whole foods. If it comes in a bag, box, can or through a window its garbage. Yes that does include all these jc and nutri system type programs as well. The only good thing about these programs is that they do teach you structure in regards to several meals daily but they fail to educate you on how to pull this off day after day when the boxes full of food stop being delivered to your front door.
BOTTOM LINE IS THESE PROGRAMS WILL FAIL YOU IN THE LONG RUN!!!! Read back thru the posts and look at how many people have “been on JC” multiple times over the years. Why is that? If it works why do people have to keep going back on it.
If it truly worked every post on here would be a positive comment about how they lost weight and have kept it off for 5-10-15- even 20 years. Sorry to be so negative but in my 12 year career I have yet to meet the person who enjoy LONG TERM success with programs like this.

Kirtie Alley isn’t building a whole lot of muscle and cranking up her metabolism all she is doing is starving off weight. Anyone can lose weight. . .stop eating. There is a little more to it if your goal is FAT LOSS which is what everyone should strive for.

These people along with all the evil marketers and corporations pumping out all the false info make me sick. Hey at least you have a pile of $$$ and that’s all that really matters.

Kirstie looks great again. Even if she did lie about the amount of weight she lost, it doesn't matter too much. The pictures speak for themselves. The fact is, she worked hard and achieved great success.

I agree with Rodney. You've got to give her credit for the work she has done, despite her celebrity status. And the only reason I have some respect for the girl is that her weight loss took time, and she made several appearances on Oprah which was pretty brave of her. She had an ultimate goal of going out on the stage at the Oprah show in a bikini, which she eventually did. And that was brave as well since she still was a little bigger (beautiful indeed, but she looked NATURAL). She was a healthy weight and still had some loose skin/cellulite which is normal, whereas most celebrities in her position would not have DARED go on stage like she did until they were skin and bones. So give the girl some credit, she's no Anna Nicole Smith who's Trimspa diet was no doubt a fraud. Kirstie Alley actually exercised and ate better using a realistic weight loss program. And everyone can bash her all they want, but she looks genuinely happy, so more power to her!

And Fitpro, "diets" fail in the long run (i.e. low-carb, maple syrup (wtf), or whatever), but "diet programs" are aimed at steering a person in the right direction. A diet like South Beach however is kind of a sham since it works in stages causing a weight loss in the beginning. My grandparents go on it about 2 times a year now, because by the end of the diet, they are eating the foods they used to eat before they started because of how the "stages" work. So I always ask them why they don't just make a permanent change, but they are just so carefree at this point in their lives and go out to eat way too often, so they gain back any weight they lose. Diet programs like Jenny Craig or WeightWatchers intend to teach a person about healthy food choices and the benefits of regular exercise. Some people haven't been educated about how they eat and need some guidance. Programs help some people and don't help others. I don't think their benefits should be discounted entirely. Some people inevitably will not have the will-power and motivation to follow the rules for life, and once they have completed the program, they go back to their original ways and regain any weight lost.

Rodney and On the road, but it DOES matter. Cause it is not Kirstie Alley the person lying about the weight loss stats. It is Kirstie Alley, spokesperson for Jenny Craig. So it is an issue of false advertising.

When Star Jones for example said she lost all the weight doing Pilates, I thought "She is lying", but it didn't matter cause she wasn't being paid to advertise anything (other than cheap shoes, but those aren't weight-loss related). This case is this different.

I do give her credit, and I even think she lost *more* than the 75lb she claims (not that she is 135lb now, by any means - but no way was her highest weight 201lb or 209lb, which is what she later said). But I think if you are going to be used in advertising, these stats can't just be made up.

How does everyone know she made up these numbers? She was straight up fat before she lost that weight, and we know fat weighs more than muscle. I also think she DOES look about 135 in recent pictures.

And yes she is a celebrity spokesperson, but why is that such a negative thing? Jared the Subway guy wasn't a celebrity, but after he began eating Subway sandwiches on a regular basis, he became what can best be described as a "celebrity spokesperson" showing off the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. Most people appreciate his contribution as well as his honesty. Kirstie Alley did the same thing, but since she is a celebrity, she's being railed and accused of lying because God forbid, we can't trust a famous person even though her transformation has been followed very closely from beginning to now.

Too many people would rather see a celebrity fall from grace and wind up fat and miserable than see her succeed in something like the challenge of weight loss which normal people deal with every day and have a hard time figuring out themselves. She's just as real a person as anyone else with the same problems- but due to her celebrity status, her story is broadcasted for all to see. So what if it benefits Jenny Craig? I call that good strategy for success in a highly competitive industry, not false advertising.

Even if you believe she has just the minimum muscle required to live, and is pretty much made up of fat now so she manages to weigh 135lb and look that big, it is impossible to believe that at her largest she only weighed 201lb. For comparison, Britney Spears is 5'4" (5'2", some claim) and she weighs 147lb now, and she is roughly half the size that Kirstie was on Oprah. Kirstie is 5'6". Britney is shorter and was 135lb in her prime. She looked to be about one third of Kirstie's size at that weight, on someone shorter, which should make her look fatter. I don't know how many people who are 135lb you have seen, but she doesn't look like anyone who weighs that much I've ever seen, even for people much shorter than her. My sister-in-law is 5'6", 148lb, and she still looks 2 or 3 clothes sizes smaller than Kirstie. She is no muscle bound fitness buff either. Other than cleaning her house, she does no exercise at all and never has, and her eating is basically junk. Kirstie, with all the healthy exercise Jenny Craig endorses, should have lower body fat than she has and more muscle.

She claims the tabloid pictures of her were all photoshopped to make her appear larger and that she was never over 201lb. Sounds like denial to me, but ok, let's say I buy that too. She appeared in the episode "Risen" of Without a Trace in 2004 though (season 2, episode 16) and she looked the same size, if not BIGGER, than she looked in all the tabloid pictures she claims are photoshopped. Did Jerry Bruckheimer use CGI to make her look fatter too? Is it all a big conspiracy against Kirstie Alley?

Another reason people question her 135lb stat now is that by Kirstie's own accounts, when she was in Cheers and extremely skinny, she weighed 130lb. It is NOT a 5lb difference between the bony body she had back then and what she showed on Oprah, even considering age. And it is not just 75lb from what she showed on Oprah, and what she was on "Without a Trace". And it is not 80lb from the bony could-slice-cheese-with-her-clavicles she was in "Cheers" to what she was at her largest. It all doesn't add up.

This is not on the Kirstie subject but I thought Jared the Subway guy had died. Not that I blame Subway for it, it is by far the only decent-tasting fast-food out there. I just wanted to mention that.

I'm not distrusting her because she is famous. I distrust her cause her stats appear fudged. I don't distrust the amount of weight Jared claims to have lost, or Fergie the Princess of York, or even Anna Nicole Smith (although people claim she had other "chemical assistance" to lose her weight, I don't think that it is not like she wasn't already on whatever it is she is on when she was fat as well, so it is irrelevant). It is not about her celebrity status, or even a dislike of her. I am as close to a Kirstie Alley fan as you can have. I've seen every terrible made for tv movie she has ever been in, every episode of her shows including Veronica's Closet and Fat Actress, which nobody liked. I just don't believe her stats add up.

And if the numbers are false, they are false advertising. Even if it is not specifically done to benefit Jenny Craig, cause I do think she lost the weight she claimed or more. I believe it has more to do with a fragile celebrity ego that can't come out and admit how much she weighed when she was fat, and wants to cry tabloid conspiracy instead.

I lost 24lbs in 9 weeks, by just changing the choice of food i once use to eat. But i didnt do it alone, i tried by doing it by myself, and finding a programme that works for you is a bonus. I see it as an Investment into my life, I joined Jenny Craig and it was a instant change. I no longer on the programme but i still use the menu idea's to help me daily with exercise.