Queen Latifah: Jenny Craig Diet
Queen Latifah wants to lose about 5 to 10% of her weight and she officially started her diet. Queen’s diet of choice? Jenny Craig. If fact, On Jan. 10 she confirmed that she is a new Jenny Craig spokeswoman.
Her weight-loss goal might seem modest, but Latifah says, “If you lose 5 to 7 percent of your weight, you cut the chances of diabetes in half.”
Her grandmother died of diabetes by the way. In a recent interview, Queen answered some questions about her new diet gig.
“Jenny Craig ads? Why? I know people wonder, because I’m quite comfortable with myself. I’m trying to be an inspiration to people who just want to get healthy.
What was your biggest diet downfall? Portion size. I don’t eat bad food. I eat organic; I eat vegetables. I probably just eat too much.”
Organic food and vegetables is always a good thing to eat, of course; I suspect, however, that she did not gain weight eating organic vegetables. Just because cookies, candies, white bread, fruit juices and many other foods are made from organic ingredients, does not mean they are good for you.
These days, anything organic is marketed as healthy food, in reality though, you will quickly gain weight if you eat that kind of stuff. [source: People]
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01-22-08 at 12:44 am
I just love her for some reason. I think she’s a big, beautiful woman, and if, as she says, she’s just trying to be healthier, good for her. What a role model!
01-26-08 at 6:23 pm
I did Jenny craig and I noticed my health improved.
It is expensive and so if someone is going to pay you to go on the diet I say all the power to her.
It helped me learn tools to continue losing weight on my own after I lost my 10 percent. If I could have afforded it longer I might have joined it longer but I also found there is only so much of the jc cuisine I can handle but the point is it taught me better eating habits, it got me back on my exercise program and how to deal with my mind when it comes to the issues behind food.
Maybe the Queen will learn this too or other things.
Why people have to go around putting diets down especially when they haven’t tried it themselves is beyond me. I am also suprised about the big focus on yo yoing. People have to try things and if they don’t work try something else. I did research on the yo yoing being worse than staying overweight and they linked some evidence which means it is partly inconlusive because other factors may be involved either way they can’t prove it. Anyway there is way more proven evidence about how being overweight and obese can cause serious illnesses such as diabetes therefore I think it is safer to try and lose weight.
If you don’t want to lose weight than fine, why must people who don’t, put it all down. People can call it what they want but everyone is on a diet. Whether it is a fatty one, a healthy one, a diet just means how a person eats. People can use the word lifestyle for psychological purposes because the name got a bad rap but lets be realistic any weight loss regiman requires the same process portion control, not giving in to cravings, exercise, and a lot of hard work to keep with it regardless if we changed the name or not.
As for Q Laifah, I think it is nobody’s business to judge her, nor to lose respect or decide if she is wrong or right to promote JC, she is a person who can do whatever she wants just like you and I and because she is part of the public eye PEOPLE THINK THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO COMMENT ON WHETHER SHE DESERVES THEIR RESPECT OR NOT AND I SAY SHE CAN LAUGH AT YOU ALL ON HER WAY TO THE BANK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS NOBODY’S BUSINESS BUT HER OWN DEAL WITH IT
02-10-08 at 9:25 pm
So she wants to lose 5 – 10% of her body weight and it is supposed to cut the chances of diabetes in half. Let’s see, if you weigh 300 pounds and lose 5%, you will weigh 285. But you have half the chance of diabetes! So if you go ahead and lose the full 10% you’ll be 270 lbs – yay! Except someone who is 270 pounds is ALSO supposed to lose 5 – 10% of their body weight. So you start at 270 and lose 5% and you’re down to 256 pounds. Yay! Half the chance of diabetes. Except someone who is 256 pounds is supposed to lose 5 – 10% too. And someone who weighs 320 pounds is supposed to get down to where the first person of 300 pounds actually *started.* This makes sense to anyone?
Also, nice way to stereotype – she tells you she eats a lot of organic vegetables and such, but you just “doubt” she can be fat unless she’s snarfing down big amounts of processed carbs. Why not just call her a lying pig to her face? Better yet, why not learn that people’s bodies each have a natural setpoint, and that their bodies will fight to stay that weight, one way or the other? Or that the genetics is the most powerful factor in body size to begin with?
And shona, it is absolutely my right to lose my respect for her because she was obviously already watching out for her health and chose to take the ride to the bank anyway, at the expense of fat acceptance and human dignity for people who don’t fit your cultural mold for acceptable body size. It most certainly becomes my business when she’s all over my television pimping diets and trying to get people to buy them. Soon as you push it on the public, it becomes everyone’s business.
“Why people have to go around putting diets down especially when they haven’t tried it themselves is beyond me.”
Do you actually, seriously believe in this fat-hating, diet-obsessed culture that there is a fat person who has NOT dieted – repeatedly – year after year? Are you kidding me? Children as young as four MONTHS OLD are being put on diets. The only thing you can usually be completely sure of when you see a fat person (since you can not tell anything about their health or their eating habits by their weight) is that they have DEFINITELY done a lot of dieting.
“I am also suprised about the big focus on yo yoing. People have to try things and if they don’t work try something else.”
Ah yes, the definition of insanity. Keep doing the same thing and expect different results. How’s that working for you?
08-19-08 at 5:08 pm
Missing the point. She is doing her own thing!!! JC’s diet got her down to where she maybe comfortable. Black people( and some white ) have what they call (BIG BONED). They may weight the same that are not over weight. Check out there height also. I am a soild woman and I weight 240, people never belive me when I tell them my weight(like imma lie and say I weight that much) I wish i could get down to 195-200.