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New You Wraps Up
Aired February 24, 2004 - 09:50 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Final week of the New You Resolution series, watching five people for eight weeks as they make some serious health changes in their own lives. And impressive too.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Here we like to call them the Fab Five. There they are. They join us again to answer some of the e- mail questions. They received many messages of support during the eight weeks. It helped them, I think, that encouragement to meet all the challenges. You guys are nodding yes. I got to imagine that did help out when you started to falter a little bit.
(CROSSTALK)
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Lots of e-mail questions came in. Lots of words of encouragement as well. So let's get right to them.
First e-mail is for you, actually, Kimberly. First of all, you lost ten pounds and eight inches in two months. Worth reinforcing. You're how old again?
KIMBERLY EVERETT, NEW YOU PARTICIPANT: Twenty-four.
GUPTA: Cele from New York asks, "Has it been challenging for you thus far trying to maintain your healthier lifestyle?" Says she's trying to do the same thing, but at times feels she lacks the motivation. So what was the motivating factor for you?
EVERETT: My sister was a motivator. She would say are you going to the gym yet? You should go. She would call me on the way to the gym and say are you there yet? Family and friends calling and checking in.
GUPTA: Weigh yourself? Looking in the mirror? How did that work out?
EVERETT: I didn't weigh myself much. Looking in the mirror now is definitely a motivator. I look in the mirror and say, oh I like what I see. That's my new motivator. I'm going to take a picture and put it on the refrigerator.
HEMMER: David, you lost ten pounds.
O'BRIEN: Twelve.
(CROSSTALK)
HEMMER: When did you weigh yourself last, this morning? That's water weight.
DAVID PECK, NEW YOU PARTICIPANT: I hop on the scale. I'm one of those guys.
HEMMER: Danny from Oklahoma, he has maybe a similar condition to yourself. He writes and wants to know, "I was curious about what type of diet plan are you on now? What are you allowed to eat? When? How often are you having to exercise?"
PECK: Great question. The interesting thing, when I went and saw the nutritionist in San Francisco, he said you can eat anything. It's just how much you're eating, which was a good thing to hear.
But you know what you should cut out, the desserts, high fat foods, wrong fats. The goal is cut out that bread. You can have bread, if that's the only thing with your meal. You're having a salad, have some bread, it's OK. Just don't have a bunch of bread.
She didn't tell me to cut out anything specifically. It was just volume and the ugly fats.
HEMMER: Tougher now or easier now to push it away?
PECK: It's a lot easier, and it's forced me to try different foods. And I've actually developed an appetite for vegetables.
HEMMER: Funny how that happens.
PECK: And it cuts that hunger each I get right before dinner.
O'BRIEN: Three weeks to get a new habit. Right, Sanjay? Isn't that what you said?
(CROSSTALK)
O'BRIEN: All right, Kathy. This is from Donald in California. "I enjoyed your story. I'm looking to quit too. Did you quit cold turkey or use aides like nicotine gum, et cetera?" You talked a little bit about that and we saw over the eight weeks what you used. Which one was most helpful, would you say? Was it counseling? Medication? Friends?
KATHRYN BURKHOLDER, NEW YOU PARTICIPANT: I would say my friends were most helpful, but the medication certainly played a part. It really does reduce your anxiety.
O'BRIEN: What were you taking?
BURKHOLDER: Wellbutrin, Xyban. They're pretty much the same.
O'BRIEN: Are you still taking those? How long do you take it for?
BURKHOLDER: Six months. You take it for a long time. And you probably need to take it for a long time. I quit before and not taken it as long, and it wasn't very effective. HEMMER: Are you going to smoke again?
BURKHOLDER: I hope to God not.
GUPTA: A lot of addiction experts say it's not just the nicotine, but the anxiety that surrounds a certain addiction. If you can cut down the anxiety, that can help you cut down the addiction, whatever the addiction might be.
O'BRIEN: I think it's so impressive when you're able to quit a habit like that. You've done it for a long time. You've tried it before. I have zero willpower. Really, truly. I'm not even joking. To see someone to take a habit, the nicotine is addictive as well, good for you. It's great.
HEMMER: To Team Kirkbride, Pam and Michael. Congratulations. Twenty-seven pounds between the two of you. Motivating factors on both sides.
Jane in Massachusetts has this question. "My husband and I have a beautiful 9-month-old son." you have a young daughter, Olivia, right? "We both work full-time. We just moved into a new home. Sounds like you guys are really managing to get the exercise in on top of the hectic schedules, and I greatly admire that. Question is how do you do it?"
MICHAEL KIRKBRIDE, NEW YOU PARTICIPANT: We honestly didn't think there would be time when we entered this. We were like, all right so find the time for us.
We were in the same situation as this person who e-mailed, and we just literally found the time. I get up a little bit early to go to the gym. We support each other. When one of us is putting Olivia to sleep, the other one of us goes to the gym.
PAM KIRKBRIDE, NEW YOU PARTICIPANT: Use the time when the baby is asleep as your gym time. When she or he is asleep do your crunches.
O'BRIEN: I think when you're a new parent too, it's all about leveraging and finding flexibility in your schedule because there is no more so you've got to create it.
P. KIRKBRIDE: You've got to shift your priorities.
M. KIRKBRIDE: And you just become more efficient. We use our time very well.
O'BRIEN: Don't you look back, before you had a kid, and go what did I do with all that time?
(CROSSTALK)
O'BRIEN: You two don't have children. You need to go and utilize your time.
GUPTA: Thank you all for coming. It's been a fascinating eight weeks.
O'BRIEN: Thank you.
GUPTA: I also want to thank you guys, Bill and Soledad. And our producers as well. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Carol, Claire, Rachel, thank you. We learned a lot from all of our participants.
O'BRIEN: Thanking the boss.
GUPTA: Thank the boss.
You've touched a lot of people's lives. That was the goal of this program. A lot of health changes for yourselves and hopefully for our viewers at home as well.
One thing, I don't think you guys know this yet. You're not off the hook as of yet. We're going to check back in with the Fab Five in six months right here on AMERICAN MORNING. Stick with it, guys.
O'BRIEN: Our cameras are following you again in six months.
HEMMER: You all look much healthier than you did eight weeks ago.
(CROSSTALK)
O'BRIEN: Nice to see you guys. Thanks.
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Aired February 24, 2004 - 09:50 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Final week of the New You Resolution series, watching five people for eight weeks as they make some serious health changes in their own lives. And impressive too.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Here we like to call them the Fab Five. There they are. They join us again to answer some of the e- mail questions. They received many messages of support during the eight weeks. It helped them, I think, that encouragement to meet all the challenges. You guys are nodding yes. I got to imagine that did help out when you started to falter a little bit.
(CROSSTALK)
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Lots of e-mail questions came in. Lots of words of encouragement as well. So let's get right to them.
First e-mail is for you, actually, Kimberly. First of all, you lost ten pounds and eight inches in two months. Worth reinforcing. You're how old again?
KIMBERLY EVERETT, NEW YOU PARTICIPANT: Twenty-four.
GUPTA: Cele from New York asks, "Has it been challenging for you thus far trying to maintain your healthier lifestyle?" Says she's trying to do the same thing, but at times feels she lacks the motivation. So what was the motivating factor for you?
EVERETT: My sister was a motivator. She would say are you going to the gym yet? You should go. She would call me on the way to the gym and say are you there yet? Family and friends calling and checking in.
GUPTA: Weigh yourself? Looking in the mirror? How did that work out?
EVERETT: I didn't weigh myself much. Looking in the mirror now is definitely a motivator. I look in the mirror and say, oh I like what I see. That's my new motivator. I'm going to take a picture and put it on the refrigerator.
HEMMER: David, you lost ten pounds.
O'BRIEN: Twelve.
(CROSSTALK)
HEMMER: When did you weigh yourself last, this morning? That's water weight.
DAVID PECK, NEW YOU PARTICIPANT: I hop on the scale. I'm one of those guys.
HEMMER: Danny from Oklahoma, he has maybe a similar condition to yourself. He writes and wants to know, "I was curious about what type of diet plan are you on now? What are you allowed to eat? When? How often are you having to exercise?"
PECK: Great question. The interesting thing, when I went and saw the nutritionist in San Francisco, he said you can eat anything. It's just how much you're eating, which was a good thing to hear.
But you know what you should cut out, the desserts, high fat foods, wrong fats. The goal is cut out that bread. You can have bread, if that's the only thing with your meal. You're having a salad, have some bread, it's OK. Just don't have a bunch of bread.
She didn't tell me to cut out anything specifically. It was just volume and the ugly fats.
HEMMER: Tougher now or easier now to push it away?
PECK: It's a lot easier, and it's forced me to try different foods. And I've actually developed an appetite for vegetables.
HEMMER: Funny how that happens.
PECK: And it cuts that hunger each I get right before dinner.
O'BRIEN: Three weeks to get a new habit. Right, Sanjay? Isn't that what you said?
(CROSSTALK)
O'BRIEN: All right, Kathy. This is from Donald in California. "I enjoyed your story. I'm looking to quit too. Did you quit cold turkey or use aides like nicotine gum, et cetera?" You talked a little bit about that and we saw over the eight weeks what you used. Which one was most helpful, would you say? Was it counseling? Medication? Friends?
KATHRYN BURKHOLDER, NEW YOU PARTICIPANT: I would say my friends were most helpful, but the medication certainly played a part. It really does reduce your anxiety.
O'BRIEN: What were you taking?
BURKHOLDER: Wellbutrin, Xyban. They're pretty much the same.
O'BRIEN: Are you still taking those? How long do you take it for?
BURKHOLDER: Six months. You take it for a long time. And you probably need to take it for a long time. I quit before and not taken it as long, and it wasn't very effective. HEMMER: Are you going to smoke again?
BURKHOLDER: I hope to God not.
GUPTA: A lot of addiction experts say it's not just the nicotine, but the anxiety that surrounds a certain addiction. If you can cut down the anxiety, that can help you cut down the addiction, whatever the addiction might be.
O'BRIEN: I think it's so impressive when you're able to quit a habit like that. You've done it for a long time. You've tried it before. I have zero willpower. Really, truly. I'm not even joking. To see someone to take a habit, the nicotine is addictive as well, good for you. It's great.
HEMMER: To Team Kirkbride, Pam and Michael. Congratulations. Twenty-seven pounds between the two of you. Motivating factors on both sides.
Jane in Massachusetts has this question. "My husband and I have a beautiful 9-month-old son." you have a young daughter, Olivia, right? "We both work full-time. We just moved into a new home. Sounds like you guys are really managing to get the exercise in on top of the hectic schedules, and I greatly admire that. Question is how do you do it?"
MICHAEL KIRKBRIDE, NEW YOU PARTICIPANT: We honestly didn't think there would be time when we entered this. We were like, all right so find the time for us.
We were in the same situation as this person who e-mailed, and we just literally found the time. I get up a little bit early to go to the gym. We support each other. When one of us is putting Olivia to sleep, the other one of us goes to the gym.
PAM KIRKBRIDE, NEW YOU PARTICIPANT: Use the time when the baby is asleep as your gym time. When she or he is asleep do your crunches.
O'BRIEN: I think when you're a new parent too, it's all about leveraging and finding flexibility in your schedule because there is no more so you've got to create it.
P. KIRKBRIDE: You've got to shift your priorities.
M. KIRKBRIDE: And you just become more efficient. We use our time very well.
O'BRIEN: Don't you look back, before you had a kid, and go what did I do with all that time?
(CROSSTALK)
O'BRIEN: You two don't have children. You need to go and utilize your time.
GUPTA: Thank you all for coming. It's been a fascinating eight weeks.
O'BRIEN: Thank you.
GUPTA: I also want to thank you guys, Bill and Soledad. And our producers as well. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Carol, Claire, Rachel, thank you. We learned a lot from all of our participants.
O'BRIEN: Thanking the boss.
GUPTA: Thank the boss.
You've touched a lot of people's lives. That was the goal of this program. A lot of health changes for yourselves and hopefully for our viewers at home as well.
One thing, I don't think you guys know this yet. You're not off the hook as of yet. We're going to check back in with the Fab Five in six months right here on AMERICAN MORNING. Stick with it, guys.
O'BRIEN: Our cameras are following you again in six months.
HEMMER: You all look much healthier than you did eight weeks ago.
(CROSSTALK)
O'BRIEN: Nice to see you guys. Thanks.
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