It is being reported that Oprah Winfrey is going to get a $12 million advance to write a fitness book with her personal trainer/nutritional guru Bob Greene. Unless this book will be a primer on how to yo-yo diet, or how NOT to design a reliable lifestyle program, there will be no reason to buy this book.
But millions of people will buy it anyway.
Greene and Oprah have been posing as fitness experts for years now despite the fact that Oprah has had zero success living a consistent, healthy lifestyle. Over the past several years Oprah’s weight has been up and down more than…more than…well more than something that constantly goes up and down.
Too bad people are so blinded by her celebrity and don’t realize that she and her guru are in no position to tell us how to eat, exercise, live etc. And shame on Oprah for not being content with her ability to sell people all kinds of other stuff. Like she really needs to branch out into this area, a subject that she knows so little about and has been so unsuccessful in dealing with.
Perhaps since Oprah has been a spectacular failure with her own weight, this is the way she deals with it. For all of her billions, she just can’t get a handle on her weight and can’t be happy with the way she looks. Having money doesn’t improve a person’s own body image, I guess.
Mark Twain once said, “Stopping smoking is easy. I’ve done it a thousand times.” But he was joking, or being clever and witty.
What Oprah’s has been saying is “These people know what they’re doing with regards to losing weight - even though it doesn’t work for me - and you should buy their advice.” Well she didn’t actually say this, but her actions say it. You know, since her weight has been going up and down and up and down.
Article comments
1 - Mark Bellinghaus
Thanks for the early warning signals about this outrageous this absolute ridiculous idea of her--of all people to write something like that.
Poor lady must make a few more billions to wear more 20 carat earrings I understand.
That is a late April fools I guess. And it stroke me as hard as that heavy and absolutely out of any shape Dr. Phil is giving Fitness tips! Moron is selling his Ferrari and giving dating tips for clueless idiots who believe that baldy with the grin of a vacuum salesman.
He and that white hair freak from E-harmony are pretty much the scariest faces on TV. Oprah's is the most tiresome.
A book on fitness? Maybe a book on how to lose two pounds and find 20 right after. That would be applauded and worth reading.
She is almost as fat now, as she was 20 years ago. I found an old magazine from 1986 and I saw Oprah in it and I thought to myself: OMG!
Sal Marinello your name sounds hip enough to put it on a fitness book--I might even buy just yours! Do it. Good job.
2 - sal m
thanks...i just think i'll stick to telling people what NOT to do, it's so much easier that way!
3 - Mark Bellinghaus
That's fair--but with that attitude you are a winner already. Good Luck. Let's boycott that Oprah book-- and I was successful to shut down one book project before--the miserable attempt by a crazy ol dame called June DiMaggio. My first blog literally shut her up and she or her publisher pulled the book release! True story.
Check it out on my website.
You can do that with Oprah's crazy attempt to annoy all of us with that hidious book project when she hardly can keep her form and body for one freaking week.
I know that carrott cake is tempting--especially when it is covered with pure gold that you can EAT as well.
4 - AV
I could not agree with you more. I'm really getting sick of hearing about Oprah all the time.
I turned on Dateline NBC last night and there she was being interviewed, and she looks big again. She has no business writing a book about weight loss or gain. She clearly has a food addiction, and the few times I have seen her show, and someone is cooking, she dances around and acts REALLY weird when food is involved. ENOUGH OPRAH ALREADY!
5 - Tina Marie
Great article Sal! You are so handsome by the way.
I think this whole thing is a ploy to get more money for Bob Greene. She has turned him into the handyman at her mansion in CA. Maybe he wants back in the spotlight. Oprah is heavy again, she is not an expert on weight at all. Way too many amercians hang on her every word. What's next a book about weight loss from Star Jones?
6 - sal m
stop it, i'm blushing...
if you want to laugh, i just saw an item on AOL that is comparing oprah to Mother Theresa...i'm not kidding.
7 - Tina Marie
Don't blush...Well, you are hot Sal. I have always been attracted to really built Italian Guys. :) OPRAH IS NO MOTHER THREASA!!! That is almost as bad as some director a month ago wanting Paris Hilton to play Mother T in a movie.
8 - Julie J
I agree Tina, SAL M. IS A TOTAL STUD (and smart too). I'm soooo over Oprah! It is like she is trying to take over the Universe. She must be stopped. ha-ha
9 - Christopher Rose
you know, that trick of pretending to be more than one person would be really clever if it wasn't for the fact that we can see they all come from the same computer...
10 - Casey Carson
So many people are way too obsessed with Oprah.
It is like people who are still obsessed with Marilyn Monroe. GET A LIFE!
11 - Julie J
People who are obsessed with stars, living (Oprah) or dead (Marilyn Monroe) is just sooooooo creepy. Our culture is in a very sad, strange place.
12 - Mark Bellinghaus
Who says that Oprah is alive? That is news to me, girl! Prove it.
13 - craven
I dont know how she can look in the mirror after accepting this big payday! What a joke!!
America is so stupid that if Oprah said eating her own feces would make them lose weight people would probly try it....
14 - sal m
please don't give her any more ideas!! although you are probably right as to the loyalty of her fans.
15 - MOO
Oprah writing a book about weight loss makes about as much sense as The Dr. Phil Show winning an Emmy for "best hair". GO FIGURE!
16 - Peggy Byrd
Hi, Sal:
How do you keep off the weight? For example, I am a 52-year-old woman who exercises doing aerobics 2x a day (total 90 minutes), ab work (30 minutes a day), and use a cardio-glider for 30 minutes a day. Eat salad (no iceberg lettuce) with lemon as dressing and drink protein drinks for breakfast and lunch. Started 3 months ago at 160 pounds and have not dropped a pound. Where can I get information from you regarding what I am obviously doing wrong. Sure don't want to rely on Oprah or Bob Greene. Incidentally, didn't they do this book back in 1994?
Thank you.
17 - sal m
dispensing specific, personal guidance with regards to these issues in an open internet forum such as this is something that i won't do.
there are too many unknowables - from medical history on down to the most minute personal details - to accurately assist anybody.
what i can tell you is that you seem to have fallen prey to all of the classic mistakes and misconceptions with regards to losing weight, gaining capability and being healthy. what i will tell you is that your cardiovascular routine is too much and inefficient and that you shouldn't be focused on how much you weigh.
i recommend reading the book the no sweat exercise program - that i reviewed for this site - by dr harvey simon. this book will give you a great deal of information that should help you to focus your efforts.
18 - Upper East
I LOVE ANN-MARGRET. I JUST SAW HER IN PERSON.
FOR 65 LOOKS SLIM AND AMAZING!!!! SHE SHOULD WRITE A BOOK NOT OPRAH.
19 - Jack
Oprah has a huge audience that are going through the same problems that and emotions that she is
going through. It could be part of the 12 mil is buying advertizing space in her publications, tv spots and etc. How could a publisher go wrong with her marketing capabilities.
And so what if she's been over eating for the before picture. And what a way to get her audience into a buying frenzy with monthly stories on how much weight she has lost.
For me, there is way too much estrogen flying around on her tv show. I can dizzy like a sugar over dose from watching 20 minutes but some people are glued to her.