Oprah’s Weight Loss Show

The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

From November 22, 1993: Oprah reads entries from her personal journal about her emotional struggles with weight. She explains how she came to understand that her battles with weight are really internal issues that have manifested themselves physically. Oprah also reveals the deep fears that took her 15 years to face and shares the questions she had to ask herself to get to the root of her problem. Then, exercise physiologist and fitness expert Bob Greene gives tips to lose weight the healthy way and lists the best overall aerobic exercises for weight loss. Also, Oprah shares a special message to Stedman for standing by her.

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0:00.0	Through 25 seasons, 4,561 episodes.
0:06.4	I believe the Oprah Winfrey show
0:07.8	was one of the greatest classrooms in the world.
0:10.2	I really never thought of it that way.
0:12.2	The aha moments, the breakthroughs, the connections, the occasional ugly cry.
0:18.0	I'm missing so terribly, I'm missing every single minute.
0:21.0	The LOLs. The L-O-L's, the moments that matter, the eye-opening life lessons.
0:28.0	Never allow them to take you somewhere else. I'm bringing them back. It's time to open the vault. I personally
0:36.6	chosen these classic episodes to share with you again. Every single person you
0:41.8	ever will meet shares that common desire.
0:45.0	They want to know, do you see me?
0:48.0	Do you hear me?
0:49.0	Does what I say mean anything to you?
0:52.0	You are listening to the Oprah Winfrey show, The Podcast.
0:57.0	This is what I wrote in my journal on the night of November 15, 1988.
1:05.0	I had such anxiety and exhilaration pulling out that wagon effect.
1:09.6	I can't believe those genes finally fit after this 10-year struggle with weight, it's finally
1:15.8	over. Or, so I thought, it was really just the beginning of a real physical and emotional
1:22.4	battle against weight and all that it has meant to me.
1:26.2	If weight has been an issue for you, today's show will hopefully lead you to win your own battle.
1:30.8	That's why I'm doing it.
1:32.0	I'll take you through all the steps I've been through,
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