I wonder if she ever considered weight loss surgery? She seems like she might be a candidate.

Perhaps she should alter some of her recipes to reduce the fat content. I'm sure her food tastes great, but there are behavior reasons for why she is where she is at the moment, the same as the rest of us.

I don't know if she has tried any kinds of diet or whatever. To me, WLS is a last resort way to lose weight.

Maybe if she didn't use all her receipes with 2 sticks of BUTTER......just sayin'

Maybe she couldn't cut a deal with lapband or wls like she did with the insulin company!! Money and fame over health.

She makes those for her show, not as an everyday meal. She's had this for over 3 years, and just recently came to terms with it. She is actually on a diet for it. The media is making her out to be some horrible person, when *if you watch her* she always stresses moderation. Just saying.

I'm hardly going to be wagging my finger at Paula Dean. She isn't much different than the rest of us, except that she found a way for her love for fatty unhealthy food to make her a heck of a lot of money (when the rest of us just got fat). I wish her the best in her quest for health.

To stateofzen, Thank you. I'm not sure how I forgot myself but you reminded me. Not one of us would be in the situation we are in if it weren't for our bad habits, food or otherwise. And like most of us, it takes something unsettling (diabets diagnosis and other health complications) to make us wake up and realize what we have to do for ourselves. I would like to join you in wishing her the best. I dfinitely spoke out of turn.

i feel for her but its not that she just recently "came to terms with it"...it came out to the media and she had to fess up. I sure dont blame her for the obesity epidemic though! I dont like how she plays it off like its caused by so many factors...it is rarely anything besides a disease of the overfed!

i feel for her but its not that she just recently "came to terms with it"...it came out to the media and she had to fess up. I sure dont blame her for the obesity epidemic though! I dont like how she plays it off like its caused by so many factors...it is rarely anything besides a disease of the overfed!

Sure, but there are so many factors that lead people to seek out food in excess, right? Or are we all really just lazy and too weak to push away from the table?

Obesity is a complex disease, one in which we certainly all do our parts to contribute (I'm not going to make excuses there), but I don't think Paula Dean made anyone but her (and maybe her family) obese. And now, like the rest of us, she has consequences associated with it. We're just lucky that no one in the media cares enough about our personal medical history to make us "fess up" in public On that point, I'm glad I'm not a celebrity.

Yep ! She is correct....

Also I believe that this plays a key factor for her and everyone..

"YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT!"

and the same goes with quantitey as one said "EVERYTHING IN MODERATION."

My Husband and I went out for Soup, and 1/2 sandwich for lunch, and he looked at me and said:

"EVERYTHING IN MODERATION, RIGHT ?" I thought I was going to fall out of the Booth !

I said Yep ! That's the way to do it.

Were never to OLD to stop learning..... Even he listend and learned, I don't think he wants a Band....

He is dropping weight also. So YAY! for the Hubbie.