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| Thursday, January 01, 2009 |
| Oprah and her Wagon |
Oprah Winfrey is a rare breed of star. Instantly recognized by just one name, she has earned her fan’s devotion and celebrity for powerful and positive leadership, a kind and compassionate soul. She earned her status with her heart, her mind, and her conscience, and shines it on causes where she can be a positive influence. She owns a unique public position, a non-denominational rabbi, priestess, or goddess. She’s our representative; we trust her and believe that she understands personally, “many of the challenges that we all face, and the desire of millions of ordinary men and women who long to improve themselves-to become better parents, kinder friends and stronger individuals.”
If you follow her lead, you can learn to expand your mind, shrink your waist, preserve your assets, comfortably, and know why.
She seeks and defends truth and if you abuse her trust, like James Frey, she will take you to task publicly. She defends women, and children, especially those at risk and if a predator threatens, as a matron at her Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa is alleged to have, she will pursue justice through the courts to punish the guilty and defend the weak.
Her personal life, like so many other ‘stars,’ is subject to gossip and scrutiny. Her ethics and behavior are not, and never have been an issue. Her weight may be the only public evidence of behavior she can not always control. She is living proof that trainers, chefs, consultants and diets can not always conquer or defend us from the private demons we all face with food. Unlike the starlets who fill the pages of magazines under the heading of body after baby, Oprah lives through the same cycle of diet success and failure that those of us who struggle recognize. When she is successful, she is spectacular. When she fails, she is even more so. Her most recent weight gain, of 40 pounds, accompanies the emotions we all feel, in her situation. She’s “mad at herself, and embarrassed.” She “took herself off her own priority list,” allowing “stress, health issues, and a political campaign-to cause her to miss workouts and slide into poor eating habits.”
In her essay in O Magazine she said “I can’t believe that after all these years, all the things I know how to do, I’m still talking about my weight.” The reality is that every DIET fails. Only healthy, slow, real changes in your eating habits and patterns can bring you healthy weight loss and the freedom from the cycle of weight loss and gain. Her weight loss team of experts and professionals has all gone on to fame and fortune. Their most famous protégé fails again, and wonders why. That’s why we created Sensei.
- Nancy
Labels: food for thought, Lifestyle Change, Nancy, Oprah Winfrey
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