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Start!

Can you believe we are 1/2half into the first month of the New Year? How are those resolutions coming along? Don't give up yet, there are 50 weeks left in the year, lose "just a 1/2lb" a week will make you 25lbs slimmer this time next year. Lose 1lbs, 50lbs slimmer!

Here's something to get you motivated.

I caught a blurb for Start! one morning and checked out the website.

Start! is an American Heart Association movement calling on all Americans and their employers to live longer, more heart-healthy lives through walking and other healthy habits.

And check this out:

Why walking? Because we know that walking is the easiest, most convenient form of activity — and it’s free. You don’t need special skills, the training of a marathon runner, or a membership at an expensive gym to benefit from walking.

When you join up, you can find out the following:

- Learn why being fit and getting at least 30 minutes of physical activity on most days is important to your health. - Though becoming fit takes you in the right direction against heart disease, eating right creates the balance you need for an overall heart-healthy lifestyle. Use our tools to eat right. - Read inspiring stories from survivors of heart disease. Through these stories we hope you'll understand why it's so important to Start! supporting the movement - Join MyStart! Online and become part of the movement. It's free and you get access to our fitness tool, newsletters and more.

Good stuff fellow fat fighters. I mean if nothing else, I'd LOVE to get a celebrity wake up call. Hey, it gets me one degree closer to Kevin Bacon

Be F.A.T.

I know we are fatfighers, but in this case, I like their use of F.A.T.

Mo'Nique's F.A.T. Chance Full-Figured Beauty Competition

If you're a larger than life beauty queen, we want you!

Oxygen is looking for 10 full-figured women to star in our 2nd Annual reality TV beauty competition, Mo'Nique's F.A.T. Chance… the winner of which will be crowned America's newest "Miss F.A.T."--that’s Fabulous And Thick!

Want a piece of the plus-sized action? More info

they have a movement too.

Not just women

In Best Life magazine, Hollywood hunk Dennis Quaid revealed that during the mid '90s he suffered from anorexia. At the time he lost 40lbs for the role of Wyatt Earp in Doc Holiday.

"My arms were so skinny that I couldn't pull myself out of a pool," Quaid admits, describing what he suffered from as "manorexia." "I wasn't bulimic, but I could understand what people go through with that."

He also appears to have suffered from distorted body image.

"I'd look in the mirror and still see a 180-lb. guy, even though I was 138 pounds," he says.

He tells the magazine:

"For many years, I was obsessed about what I was eating, how many calories it had, and how much exercise I'd have to do."

I've always heard in passing that a percentage of men also suffer from eating disorders. To this day, my mother swears Brad Pitt has anorexia. After seeing Ocean's 12 she couldn't stop commenting on how gaunt he looked. I can't really see that stuff, not to say it's a relief that men suffer from this crap too, but maybe if it proven that it hits both sexes, treatment won't be casually dismissed as a "woman" thing.

As for Dennis, today he is still trim but with one difference, he is fit. I'll forgive him for Jaws 3-D

Sweet

Altogether now...."Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww!"

'Biggest Losers' Find Love

It's official: Matt Hoover and Suzy Preston, who together lost a combined 252 pounds as contestants on NBC's "The Biggest Loser," tell PEOPLE they're a couple.

"I think it's going to be great," says Hoover, 29, a former wrestling coach. "She is awesome."

The way they met was anything but normal. Suzy was a bespectacled 227-lbs. and Matt was a burly 339. "I saw him at his worst, absolutely," says Preston, 29. "And he saw me at my worst. He saw me sweating and passing gas."

Hoover thinks their shared experiences as finalists on "Loser" (he won the $250,000 grand prize, and now weighs 182 pounds; she took home $25,000 as second runner-up, and weighs 132 pounds) gives their romance a unique foundation.

"We have a lot in common. Going through something like we went through is life-changing. We are not the same people we were before all this and we are both at a point in our lives where we know what it's like to be fat and miserable -- and what it's like to be happy and healthy."

Hoover, who lives in Iowa, said he is contemplating a move to be closer to Preston, a hairstylist, in Seattle.

Long live the happy couple. May they have the longevity of Halle Berry and Eric Benet...wait...I mean Tom Crusie and Nicole Kidman... dammit...I mean Nicole Richie and DJ AM...sonofa@#$....how 'bout Brad and Jen....no?...fine Nick & Jess...ah fughedabout it...just hurry up already and elope so you can get divorced by next Tuesday...

Just teasin', good luck kids.

They're like the Rob & Amber (Romber) of NBC, both winning prizes merging funds. Hmm...now all that's needed is a merged name...Smatt? Muzy? Decisions decisions...

Confessions

Ashlee Simpson's career may at times have resembled a roller coaster, but now the young pop star reveals that her personal life has been an equally rough ride.

When she was 11 and taking ballet classes, the 21-year-old Simpson tells Cosmopolitan magazine, she had a brush with anorexia.

"I was around a lot of girls with eating disorders, and I actually had a minor one myself," says Simpson, who at one point stood 5'2" but only weighed 70 lbs.

"My parents stepped in and made me eat," she goes on to say, adding that it was " about six months of not eating too much at all." The family support, she says, "really helped a lot." [source]

In spite of the fact that I don't follow this girl's career in the least, in a way it's cool that she admitted this. So many little girls look up to her and girls her age relate to her I'm sure it will have an impact. Perhaps knowing that she went through and survived something they are dealing with, will make them get help and have hope.

Doc needs a lawyer

"Dr. Phil" McGraw admits in damning E-mails he had "no expertise" in making the line of diet products he endorsed and is being sued for.

When those weight loss products he came out with first came out, I knew this would end badly. This should've set off alarm bells everywhere:

The recommended dosage of Shape Up! supplements was 22 pills a day and cost $120 a month.

And it looks like the doc left a very telling e-trail:

"... I HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR WEEKS AND WEEKS THAT RICHARDS WAS NOT GOING TO WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE AND THEN PRESSURE ME FOR CONTENT AND REACTION....

"... THEY NEED TO REDO THE ONE THAT SAYS I CREATED THESE PRODUCTS B/C I HAVE NO EXPERTISE....," he wrote.

In another E-mail that night, he wrote: "...we need to kill or redo all of those.... All of the press releases, or whatever they are, are way too Phil-centric."

In another E-mail that night, he wrote: "...we need to kill or redo all of those.... All of the press releases, or whatever they are, are way too Phil-centric."

Nearly two weeks later, Dr. Phil was still displeased with the promo copy.

"With regards to the brochure, we want the STRONGEST of disclaimers and instructions about consulting physicians. ASSUME a litigation in our future, and put on the warning label what we would want if we were having to defend ourselves," he wrote on July 19.

Things got worse on Sept. 25, when Dr. Phil saw the preliminary TV ads.

"SURELY THEY HAVE ALTERNATIVES? ... THE TV STUFF WILL BE A TRAIN WRECK IF IT RUNS. TV IS WHAT I DO ... AND TRUST ME THOSE ARE BAD, BAD, BAD," Dr. Phil fumed in another all-caps diatribe.

[source]

Kate sues mags

Hollywood honey Kate Hudson is taking legal action against several publications including The National Enquirer that printed pictures that make her look anorexic. [source]

Patiently waiting for Mary-Kate/Ashley/Jessica/Nicole/Paris/Calista/Lara-Flynn to follow suit.