I am the first to admit that I am not the biggest Oprah fan. Don't get me wrong, I like her and all but I'm surely not one of her devoted followers that hangs on her every word. I do not record her shows or spin offs and watch them when I get home (I only do that for Y&R lol). While I don't run around spreading HER word (I swear that's how it feels sometimes when people talk about her good deeds), I do have respect for her work over the years.

So I write this entry because I appreciate her ability to openly discuss her issues with weight. In the past few months, three folks I know have had some form of weight loss surgery. All three have at some point admitted that they lead into their decision with the fact that they just don't feel like putting in the effort to drop the weight the old school way, by incorporating will power and making life long changes to their eating habits and exercising. They chose the clip and snip road. I'm not totally against weight loss surgery, I just have an issue with those that refuse to try.

Oprah has been in our faces about her struggles with her weight for years. After hearing every horror, success, and failure story regarding others and their experience with gastric bypass, lap band et al, I am more than happy to hear a regular tale of someone who just simply fell off the wagon, has realized their error and is disappointed in the results. Who knows, Oprah may decided to go under the knife one day after all of this. Hell, maybe she has and we just don't know it for sure. Either way, she has been up front about it, has not, to our knowledge, lied or mislead us to believe that she is fine with her situation or had success without the help of others. She even admits that she was on a liquid diet for months to achieve this:






















Also, looking at her upcoming cover with the svelt Oprah next to her larger framed self, I don't think she looks that bad. No she isn't all buffed up but frame wise she doesn't look bad. What is more of a concern, which always should be, is the state of her overall health.