Sad. She was still a fox the last time I saw her do a Jenny commercial
Posted on 07/17/2008 11:33:12 AM PDT by meandog
Kirstie Alley When the formerly svelte actress gained quite a few pounds post-"Cheers," she seemed like an ideal candidate to endorse Jenny Craig. All she had to do was tell women she got back her formerly fabulous figure thanks to Jenny. There was just one problem -- she couldn’t stop gaining weight. So unfortunately for Kirstie, she was replaced by Valerie Bertinelli, who was soon seen on TV fitting into her "skinny jeans" again.
Another Scientology nutbar.
“Tom Cruise! Tom Cruise! Use your magical powers to make me thin again!”
Actually....the real story here is that Jenny Craig doesnt really work
Like most diets...they dont work. That is why you have hundreds of new diet books and diet money making schemes come out every year
Wait until the former Mre Van Halen starts getting fat...
She was an MRE, all right!
"Norm...oh, sorry Kirstie."
Here's the secret ingredient that makes losing weight happen:
Consume fewer calories than you expend.
Looks like the scientology crazos were unsuccessful in “clearing” her “fat engram.”
Valerie Bertinelli is way hotter anyway.
I feel sorry for her. Many people struggle with similar weight gain issues.
Indeed, I, too, feel for her. Those two pictures above are just startling.
Diets don’t have a good success rate because people tend to go back to their old eating and exercise (or lack of) habits. They can stick to the diet for a while, but they don’t make lifetime changes in what they do. That’s a big problem.
Yep.
+1
You are 100% correct. Any person that tells you they a “gland” or metabolism problem is lying to you, and, probably to themselves as well. Tell that person to write down every single thing they eat for a week and you’ll see the “problem.”
She should hit the gym with Obama.
Even a moderate amount of exercise done properly will do wonders for you -- and you might even find that you don't have to "diet" at all to lose weight.
I should have added:
Continue this process until you have lost the weight you want.
Adjust to balance your intake and burn for the rest of your life.
I rally liked Kirstie on Cheers - much better than the woman who played ‘Diane”
I was looking at some old photographs from the 20’s and 30’s. Two things struck me: not one person in the photos was overweight; the people were all well dressed and well groomed.
Take out your old family albums and see if you can find any/many people who are overweight.
Ahh... Cheers.
As a teenager I looked up to Sam Malone. He was THE MAN. Unfortunately as I got older and into politics, Ted Danson ruined it for me.
Nowadays I relate more with Norm.
I would also point out that she is a former cokehead and therefore has an addictive personality, and also that her severe weight gain seems to have coincided with the acrimonious collapse of a 20 year relationship.
Those super curvy bodies that make a woman look good when she’s young are just fat magnets once they’re old. I was never curvy. In middle age, I’m not the least bit fat. It was a fine trade-off.
Exactly two diets have worked for me. The first was the Navy Aviation Officer Candidate School Run in 110 Degree Sunshine Until You Throw-up Everything You’ve Eaten Since 7th Grade Diet. I lost 35 pounds in twelve weeks and kept it off for almost 15 years. The second was the Shukokai Karate Spar Until You Are Almost Dead Diet. This diet balanced fat loss with muscle and stamina increase (and some broken bones). No other diets have worked, nor have I expected them to. Metabolism is a bitch.
Bingo! It’s amazing how many people can’t grasp the basic idea behind a diet.
Food was not nearly as pleantiful and available, and what was was not overprocessed crap... and 2, there was NO TV. You entertained yourselves by going out and DOING things. There wasn’t a neighborhood that didn’t have bustling churches and community centers, ball fields, ymca’s clubs etc, 5 nights a week.
Also much of the work being done was physical work. Sitting in a cubicle all day was the exception, not the rule back then.
Maybe the Great Depression had something to do with it.
No problem. When I was born in 1973, my grandfather weighed in excess of 300 lbs. Today, at 80 he is right at 200.
But there is a massive difference in lifestyle between then and now. 80 years ago the vast majority of jobs in this country were labor intensive and many worked with the soil just to provide food to eat. Today we have more food than at any time in history, produced by the fewest amount of people ever, and for 99% of us, our "work" in getting food is limited to pulling it off the shelf. And while there are still many physical labor jobs, not nearly as many as several generations ago.
I am sure if I went from working in an office, to sweating over a shovel all day I would quickly and easily drop 30 lbs without effot.
After that point, more exercise is no longer helpful in losing weight.
Running for a mile burns about 100 calories.
So does skipping the croutons on your salad.
What exercise DOES do is to keep you too busy to eat and condition your muscles and skin so you don't look like a rhino.
Yep. She never looked better, and it was down hill from there.
Food was still very expensive relative to people's income back then - and taking pictures was a special occasion that people got dressed up for.
Dinner plates in the 1920's were about 10 inches across. Now they are at least 12 inches - or 48% larger.
Indeed, I, too, feel for her. Those two pictures above are just startling.
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Those pictures sure are. I am amaze she didn’t put her back out posing in the right one. It looks like she is suffering from a severe muscle sprain.
If someone ran up with a pin and poked ‘ole porkbutt, he would ‘splode like a balloon.
Yuck!
Ding Dong! ... Hostess Calling.
So that’s the answer! Heroin!
Walmart cashiers talking about brain surgery ping.
Is your blood pressure OK today?
If it is, then DO NOT read this thread.
As an ACE fitness trainer, I agree. Exercise, eat correctly — that is most (not all) peoples’ problems with weight loss (and it works the same for those who have trouble GAINING weight...yeah, there are a few!).
Just A Little Trivia: Prior to her acting career, she was a contestant on Match Game a long time ago and then one of the celebrities on another, later Match Game, after she started acting. She’s the only one who was both a contestant, and later, one of the celebrities on Match Game.
Was she with her former husband for 20 years??
My feelings about Kirstie Alley rose several notches after Hurricane Katrina. She was shown on the news in New Orleans helping distribute supplies, sans make up and press entourage. She did not seek out the press. It was obvious she was not there to make a political statement or further any agenda.
I was looking at pictures of people watching sports events and people on picnics. Even in those settings women wore stockings and dresses and the men wore pressed shirts. Some wore ties. Every last one was thin.
When I think back to what we ate for dinner while I was growing up, it was much less than what people typically eat now.
They'd been married for 14 or 15 years, I think - and dating for a few before that.
Wow! time does fly!!
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