Marissa Jaret Winokur is a former Tony-award winning Broadway star and was a contestant on Dancing With The Stars last year. Now she’s hosting a reality dance contest and weight loss competition on Oxygen called “Dance Your Ass Off.” Marissa has been blogging her “weight loss journey” on People.com, and says her goal is pose in a bikini for People Magazine, but lately she’s been admitting her slip ups. Two weeks ago she confessed to raiding the minibar at her hotel, and now she admits that she put out bowls of candy for her son’s first birthday party about a week too soon – and then managed to eat a bunch of it.
I sit here Monday morning with my PEOPLE.com blog overdue. It was a bad week here, and I kept thinking about how I could spin it! This week was spent planning for Zev’s first birthday – it started off bad and then it turned into a disaster! Every day I literally said, “Okay, tomorrow I will get back on track.” But tomorrow never came!
I did the whole party myself. I had a lot of people offer to help but it really meant a lot to me to do it alone. I came up with a great idea: Instead of one piñata, I bought 10 and hung them all in one tree and put a table of candy underneath it! Like a fool, I set up the candy in huge vases to see what I needed a full week ahead of the party! It was like I had my own Temptation Island in my living room!!! It was horrible and I lost the game.
Because I had both my husband’s family and my family in town, there never was time to work out. NEVER. And we would eat out almost every meal! As the week progressed, it just got worse and worse till I finally just said, “Forget it – this week is a bust!”
By the time Zev’s birthday rolled around on Saturday, I was eating the chips and dip and didn’t care! If the birthday and all the guests weren’t enough stress, my sister is out of the country because she and her husband finally got the call that their adoption went through. So, Saturday night they met their new daughter and I was emailing her all night and eating Doritos for her and hoping everything was going as planned.
On Sunday, the madness continued as everyone came back over to the house to polish off the leftovers from Zev’s first fiesta (and not a healthy fiesta, either)! So, I now sit here on Monday morning with a total sugar hangover and I feel awful!
To be totally honest, all I want to do is sleep – I actually don’t WANT to work out. I feel horrible and scared to step on the scale. Life totally took over and if it weren’t for this blog, I would be wearing my PJs and staying in bed. BUT I am so thankful I have you guys to push me out of the OMG-I-messed-up-big-time funk and I promise myself and you to fix it this week. I still don’t want to work out but I will make myself. The sickest part is the leftover candy is still in my living room!!! OMG, I NEED AN INTERVENTION, FAST … or just a big garbage bag 😉
[From People.com]
I can relate to feeling bad for cheating on your diet. Marissa probably feels an obligation to be honest to the readers, but I hate to see her beat up on herself and I don’t think she’s helping herself with this confession. No one is superhuman and many of us cannot resist it when junk food is around the house. The thing that bugs me the most about this story is that she says she still has the damn candy in her living room! Throw that sh*t out! I think that if you have some junk food in your house and know you don’t have the willpower to resist – you should toss it! There’s no reason to keep stuff around you know you shouldn’t eat and then blame yourself when you chow down. It’s only human to give in. It’s also foolish to declare the week a wash and decide to keep eating whatever you want because you slipped up – there’s always room to change and every little bit counts. I understand what she’s going through and a lot of us fall into these traps of thinking that we may as well continue to eat junk because we screwed up. There are hundreds if not thousands of calories in that junk, and you’re only making it worse by thinking that way. Give your friend the key to the minibar, give the candy away if you can’t stand to throw it out, but don’t keep that stuff around or worse think that you may as well finish it and start over next week or next month.
One year old kids do not need a ton of candy for a birthday party. Give them a cake and some small snacks and they’re fine. Kids don’t need chips and dip and lots of junk either, especially if you find it tempting. If you have stuff for a party, put it aside in a place where you won’t see it all day. She knew better, and she admits as much.
Hang in there, Marissa, and next week I want to hear that you’re feeling better about yourself and getting your family to eat healthy. Don’t focus too much on the negative thinking you’ll berate yourself into changing.
Marissa Jaret Winokur is shown with her family on 5/3/09. She’s also shown on 6/28 (multi-colored dress) and 6/29/09. Credit: WENN.com
i really don’t care what she eats… i find these “diet blogs” and incessant attention on eating so mundane… but zev? that’s retarded!
I totally see what you’re saying about making the right decisions in the first place. As I read the article, my first reaction was–“Honey, he’s one year old. You didn’t need that candy. You wanted an excuse to have it in the house.” I mean, if you’re not going to put that stuff in your body for obvious reasons, then why would you give it to kids? She could stuffed those pinatas with small toys or something instead.
And when she said “This week is a wash” then I knew she isn’t putting herself in the right mentality. A diet is not temporary. Eating right is not temporary. Its not a decision you look at in the long term scope of things, as if it was a goal already completed. Its a decision you make every day. Several times a day. And when you fail on one decision, you have to excel at the next. You don’t sum up “how well you did” at the end of the day–you gauge each and every decision as it comes. If you look too far into the future, you *will* fail.
And you have to learn how to make it work with your life. Eating out every night is not an excuse. Most places, even Olive Garden (helloooo 250 calorie apricot chicken), have healthier choices on the menu nowadays.
I am with fizX on diet blogs.Most of them are women who have no weight problem and act as if they weigh half a ton.
Marissa seems like real person to me. When you are on a diet you do slip,and you do beat yourself up about it-no matter how much weight you have lost.It sounds like she is like most people who have a weight problem-she turns to food for comfort. I am not familiar with her work,but I saw her on Chelsea Lately and she seemed sweet.
I look for her to be the new Carnie Wilson or Ricki Lake. I know Carnie talks about struggling in almost every interview,not sure about Ricki,who BTW,looks amazing.
Why did she feel the need to buy all that garbage to begin with? Who says that you have to have candy and chips and tons of other junk food at a kid’s b-day party? CB, I’d expand upon your point and say that no kid needs a ton of candy and junk food at a party. Have a cake and stock up on healthy snacks. Teach them good eating habits early.
i just don’t get why people still go on diets… they have scientifically proven to be ineffective… it’s one thing to not eat a ton, but putting restrictions on food is just gonna make you tempted eventually… i think the fact that diets don’t work has been proven more rigorously than some theories in physics haha… i wish people would either just accept themselves or eat “normally”… whatever that is…
I find her disgusting.
whatever happened with that airport fight btwn one of the ANTM contestants and this chick’s mother?
now THAT’S a story I’d want to read.
I don’t like her and don’t care whether she’s fat or a size 0. I still won’t watch anything she does.
@ Praise St. Angie! ~ I don’t remember, but think it was resolved. We’ll have to find out. lol
I love how real she is. I can totally relate. Especially the part where she was emailing her sister and “eating Doritos for her.” LOL Just too familiar. Your anxious, we’re all anxious – grab the rocky road!
lol praise st angie, that was a different girl from hairspray. not all fat chicks are the same :/
When genetically skinny people eat “a bunch of the candy” do they have a problem?
wtf is wrong with her mouth?
whoops, my bad.
I guess one of those ladies was in the remake of the movie, and one was in the Broadway play.
sorry!