Queen Latifah has been a long time supporter of size acceptance. "It's good for regular girls because the meter [for beauty] has been a slim white girl. Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades. [In Hollywood] we've definitely gotten better with body type. It used to be just me!" she stated in an interview with People last year. I guess now the beauty meter has embraced the idea of a slim African-American girl as well. Hooray.
"Queen Latifah joins forces with Jenny Craig to communicate the importance of how small lifestyle changes, in the areas of diet and exercise, can have positive effects on overall health." Following Jenny Craig is not about implementing small lifestyle changes. One of my friends joined Jenny Craig and spent $400 a month on their food. She learned nothing about how to eat in the real world. The diet was incredibly strict and if she strayed from it at all, she had to report it to her Jenny Craig counselor in their weekly confessionals.
When I joined Weight Watchers, they promoted it as a lifestyle change, which I completely fell for. Counting POINTS in WW and eating Jenny Craig's sodium-laden cuisine are both highly restrictive forms of eating. The POINTS system is so complex that a good portion of each weekly meeting is spent on clearing up misunderstandings about them. My meeting leader subscribed to his WW lifestyle change so much that he asked his host (for Thanksgiving) to submit all the recipes she would prepare in an email to him. Then he calculated the POINTS for each specific dish. What a fun guest! There is nothing better than having to prepare a menu report for a friend to analyze before they attend your gathering.
WW and Jenny Craig are both diets. Before you subscribe to either one, be honest with yourself about that.
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