Oprah Winfrey feels that to be her best, her weight must stay down.
“For your heart to pump, pump, pump, pump, it needs the least amount of weight possible to do that,” the media mogul told the New York Times magazine. “So all of the people who are saying, ‘Oh, I need to accept myself as a I am’ – I can’t accept myself if I’m over 200 pounds, because it’s too much work on my heart. It causes high blood pressure for me. It puts me at risk for diabetes, because I have diabetes in my family.”
Winfrey, 63, has had a very public battle with weight over the years and in 2015 she purchased a 10 percent stake in Weight Watchers. Today, she’s lost as least 40 pounds.
“This whole P.C. about accepting yourself as you are – you should, 100 percent,” she said, which is why she flocked to Weight Watchers.
“It’s a mechanism to keep myself on track that brings a level of consciousness and awareness to my eating. It actually is, for me, mindful eating, because the points are so ingrained now.”