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Melissa Joan Hart loses weight the way we do
Last week, everyone thought I should write about Kirstie Alley and the fact that she gained back all the weight she once famously lost.
People thought that was a ‘women’s issue.’ To me, it was a Kirstie Alley issue. She seems like a hyper lunatic who is going to spend the rest of her life going up and down in weight and sharing the details with us whether we like it or not.
A few years ago, she lost 83 pounds. Now she weighs 228 pounds.
Her weight loss was always suspect to me. First, she went on a Jenny Craig diet with the full support of the whole Jenny Craig staff, probably Jenny herself. That’s just not something real women get to do.
Real gals also do not go on Oprah in a bikini after weight loss as Alley did.
Now the celebrity I really can get behind is the one People magazine is highlighting this week: Melissa Joan Hart.
Hart has always seemed down-to-earth and normal to me. She’s been in the public eye for years and you rarely see her in Star or Us doing anything foolish.
But last year, after the birth of her second child, she had a lot of trouble losing the baby weight in a community where other celebs lose their weight in days. (Not an exaggeration: Nicole Kidman said she lost her pregnancy weight in 10 days.)
Very unflattering pictures of Hart ran in tabloids. She could’ve run to Jenny Craig or any other diet guru who wanted to make some bucks of her own off the transformation of a celebrity, but Hart did something really relatable.
She dieted. She exercised. She lost the weight slowly.
She probably even hated it; unlike Alley who bellowed at us in Craig commercials about the delicious chocolate and lasagna she was eating on the Craig diet.
Hart took 14 months to lose 42 pounds. That’s real. That’s a real women’s issue, not a celebrity issue. I have a friend who lost 40 pounds in about a year. Another friend has lost 19 in about three months. I’ve lost 10 in two months. It isn’t fun. Thanks, Melissa Joan Hart for not telling me it is.
“It didn’t happen by magic - it was as hard for me as it would be for anyone else,” she says to People. The fact that it took a little longer doesn’t bother her. “I didn’t want to take any time away from spending it with my sons,” she explains.
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Realistically it takes 3500 calories to lose a pound. That’s why so many people can’t stick to a diet…it takes a while for just one pound if you are only cutting back 300-400 calories a day.
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