After years of yo-yo dieting, Oprah has given up the weight war and has now ballooned to over 200 pounds (91 kilos).
 
She writes in the January issue of O Magazine that her goal is no longer to be thin; instead, she wants to be strong, healthy and fit.
 
If someone like Oprah Winfrey has given up the battle of the bulge, what hope do the rest of us have?

 

Weight Loss Scientist Dr Amanda Sainsbury-Salis, who has personally lost 28 kilos and kept it off for over 10 years, shares her insights.
 
"What Oprah is doing is actually a fantastic move. Medical research shows that the more restriction you use to lose weight, the slower your metabolism becomes, the more likely you are to gain the weight back again, and the more entrenched you become in yo-yo dieting. The best way to break the cycle is to take a step back from trying to lose weight and focus on the healthy lifestyle.
 
Your body is genetically programmed to be an optimum healthy weight. So if you focus on the healthy lifestyle like Oprah, and you eat according to your hunger, then the excess weight will come off and stay off.
 
Eating according to your physical hunger is not easy, but it's simple to learn how to do it. By using a food diary and writing down how hungry and satisfied you feel before and after everything you eat, you will quickly learn how to eat only when you feel hungry. That's when you'll start losing weight without restriction.
 
Dr Sainsbury-Salis suggests you give your hunger a rating of -4 to 0, where -4 is ravenously hungry and 0 is not hungry at all. Aim to consume kilojoules only when you feel hungry at a level of -2 to -3.
 
Follow this idea and you will start losing weight without restriction.

More info

www.DrAmandaOnline.com - download a free food diary that will teach you how to eat according to your physical hunger.