And I had this big, long list of what I wanted in a guy but I realized I didn't stack up to the list myself.
And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.
Barbara did the selecting and that's probably the most brilliant thing was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.
Because, you know, well first of all I like people to know that what you see here is the end result of two and a half years of a lot of work.
But there was a point where I reached morbid obesity and as I've talked to women over the last two and a half years when we share with each other what we are doing we talk about using those words and the bad stuff, like not being able to put a seat belt on, on the airplane Larry.
I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food.
I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.
I found that nothing that anybody else said to me would work.
I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway.
I had always had faith but I had stopped relying on God the way I was supposed to.
I had started losing weight. I mean he didn't know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my highest weight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds.
I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married.
I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation.
I remember from the 2000 election I felt like maybe the one place that I always held in my heart as above reproach is not as above reproach.
I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.
I want people to make the same choice I made to get healthy.
I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.
I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.
I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.
I went from full figured to fat, from fat to obese, from obese to morbidly obese.
I'm fairly in tune with what's private with my husband and with me.
In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.
It was a foundation that helped me become the person that I am and helped me go where I'm going because I'm not there yet. It's still a journey.
It was in one of the tabloid newspapers and my husband and I we don't deal with the B.S. any more than you deal with B.S. in your life.
Let's say this I needed the help of doctors in all aspects of my life. I needed the doctors to do everything for me, fair enough.
My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.
No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all.
No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.
Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.
Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.
One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.
Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.
That's sort of what started the process after one of my girlfriends confronted me with the weight. She wasn't intimidated by Star.
The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.
This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.
Today I chose a half a piece of roast chicken with rosemary and broccoli for lunch and I chose it and I felt very proud of myself.
We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.
Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.
Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.
You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.
You don't want to just buy something because it says it's Ralph Lauren. What you want to do is find the really good quality stuff.
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