Ricki Lake

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The other day I saw Ricki Lake on Ellen's show. She's so little!

I googled her and found the following in an Access Hollywood article (now I feel a little dirty).

“I started doing (a new routine on) February 7, so it’s (been) just two months and I lost 24 pounds,” former talk show host Ricki Lake told “Access Hollywood.” “I’m a size 6 you know. I mean this is as good as I get basically.”

So what was Ricki’s biggest size?

“I was 260 pounds and a size 24. Now I’m 120 something and this is me,” Ricki enthused. “(I’m) less than half my size ... This is the thinnest I’ve ever been in my life.”


Isn't 24 pounds in two months a lot? I mean, good job and all, but why isn't she letting us know?
 
I saw her on a show and it said she is a size 2....but she did look more like a size 6 to me.

24 pounds in two months is alot........hmmmm
 
no, its really not alot, its only 3 pds a week, thats pretty average I think.

Oh i can't STAND people who say they are one size when its obvious they arn't! its like " um, do you think i'm dumb? " lol!
 
Yea, Kristy Alley was one of those. She was quiet a bit bigger than me but said she was wearing a size that was much smaller than mine...I was like ....WHATEVER!
 
remember when kirstie alley was bald in star trek

(that was a random post)

and quite off the ricki lake topic.....

you know who looks amazing since she was on dancing with the stars? Jennie Garth...I saw her in a Lifetime movie today and she was a little heavier..but man she looked great after dancing. Maybe I should take up ballroom dancing. I always wanted to do that.
 
lol @ bald K.Alley...can't say I saw that, lol

I'd LOVE to do dancing too! What a GREAT way to excersize!
 
newbride02 said:
its only 3 pds a week, thats pretty average I think.
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Three pounds a week is a *lot* - you need a 1,500 calorie per day average deficit to lose at that rate. Even at 260, that's very fast weight loss.

I just checked the loss rates through week 5 for the Christmas Challenge, and among the people who were below start at that point, average (mean and median) weight loss was just a bit below 1.5 pounds per week. No one had a 3 pound per week loss.
 
i cant find a google picture

but here she was as a vulcan
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I read that Ricki has a fresh diet delivery service that brings all her meals. I've done those in the past, once I had the zone diet delivered for a while after a surgery. They're often around 1400 calories for women so not a lot of food. Not so easy to stick to as you would think, but if you get in a serious mind set they can be helpful.

I agree that's a lot of weight to lose very quickly and when it happens like that, its still very unclear and untested whether or not she'll manage to stay at this size for long. My bets are that she'll put back some of the weight. How do you go from having weight issues for EVER and then all of a sudden you're a size 6 in 2 months and all your weight issues are magically solved.

Did y'all see the pic of Jennifer Love Hewett where she tried saying she wears a size 2!! She looks more like a 6 or 8 to me. How can she go around touting how "a size 2 is NOT fat" when she so very clearly is not a size 2?
 
Did y'all see the pic of Jennifer Love Hewett where she tried saying she wears a size 2!! She looks more like a 6 or 8 to me. How can she go around touting how "a size 2 is NOT fat" when she so very clearly is not a size 2?
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Haha - This seems to have y'all really irritated!
 
Trevor M. said:
Haha - This seems to have y'all really irritated!
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What's irritating is that she should be saying a size 6 or 8, or whatever she really is, is not fat rather than saying a size 2 is not fat, which we all already know is definitely not considered fat. Or maybe they somehow doctored the photo to make her look wider than she actually is?
 
well, i don't think 3 pds a week is alot, personally, when I was on my 1200 cal diet, I was loosing 3/wk.

Yea, the JLH thing is really annyoning too! No, shes certainly not fat, but come on, don't treat people like we're dumb, if your a 6, say so!
 
newbride02 said:
well, i don't think 3 pds a week is alot, personally, when I was on my 1200 cal diet, I was loosing 3/wk.
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And you found that maintaining that rate of weight loss for several months wasn't particularly difficult? If you lost nothing according to the scale one week, you saw a drop of 4-6 pounds in some other week(s), so it all averaged out to 3 pounds a week? I think that's great, but it's not "average."

Not meaning to pick on you, but my weight-related pet peeve is unrealistic goal setting - IMHO, it's setting oneself up to fail. And at least for me, it's a lot easier to fall off track completely when I miss goal by a lot - aiming for 7 pounds in a month and losing 6 isn't particularly demoralizing, but aiming for 12 pounds in a month and losing 6 would be.

reports on a metanalysis of 493 diet & exercise studies. They found that the average weight loss over 15 weeks of diet combined with exercise was 20 pounds. So 1.33 pounds a week.

I've averaged 1.75 pounds a week over the last 32 weeks, and in my experience, maintaining that rate of weight loss long-term isn't easy. Even with diet and exercise as a full-time job equivalent, I suspect most people could not maintain an average 3 pound per week loss for very many weeks at all.
 
And you found that maintaining that rate of weight loss for several months wasn't particularly difficult? If you lost nothing according to the scale one week, you saw a drop of 4-6 pounds in some other week(s), so it all averaged out to 3 pounds a week? I think that's great, but it's not "average."
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I started heavier than most did but for the first year of my expedition, eating at 2500 calories or so a day, I was consistently losing 3-4lbs each and every week and if I didn't have a loss that week, which was rare, I had a reason why...

3-4lbs a week was slightly above 1 percent of my body weight for most of those weeks which is a good range to shoot for...
 
Again, I think that's great. Do you think your experience was typical of the "average" person trying to lose weight, either in terms of start weight or in terms of rate of loss?

I'm not saying 3 pounds a week isn't possible; I'm saying it isn't "average." And for the "average" person, IMHO it's not a realistic goal.

1% of body weight a week, I have no issue with whatsoever, although I do believe that to be higher than typical weight loss. That's about the rate I'm losing at, too.

Just out of curiosity, I went back through 2 screens in the Newcomers section, and noted start weights / highest weights for everyone who posted theirs. 24 people, ranging from 144 to 347. Mean of 201, median of 186. So for the "average" person among them, 1% of body weight per week would be right around 2 pounds per week. So I stand by my statement that 3 pounds per week isn't "average."
 
Do you think your experience was typical of the "average" person trying to lose weight, either in terms of start weight or in terms of rate of loss?
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Absolutey do think it was typical... if a person is a little bit conscious of what they are doing..

I didn't start with 20lbs one week and then 1,2, 5, 5, 1 - it was consistently 3-4lbs a week...

3lbs is not average for most people - 1percent a week is....
 
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I guess when it comes right down to it, everyones body is different. For me, and mal it sounds like, 3 a week is normal (when I'm on track) for others 1 or 2 maybe. Doesn't mean anyone is right or wrong, everyones avg. loss will vary.
 
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