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'The New You'

Aired February 24, 2004 - 08:50   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: It is the final week of 'the new You Resolution Series.' How have the last eight weeks been for our hearty group?
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Tough, I would imagine. We'll find out. Our five participants are here with us from the studio, Kimberly Everett from Atlanta, David Peck from San Jose, California, Kathryn Burkholder, and also from Atlanta, and Pam and Michael Kirkbride live here in New York City.

Nice to see all of you.

HEMMER: Congratulations.

O'BRIEN: Does it feel like a long time, or a short time?

KIMBERLY EVERETT, NEW YOU PARTICIPANT: Short time. It went by quick.

HEMMER: Yes? You lost how much, 10 pounds, Kimberly?

EVERETT: Ten pounds.

HEMMER: And how much in your waist.

EVERETT: Eight inches.

HEMMER: Eight inches.

(APPLAUSE)

O'BRIEN: Congratulations. Good for you. Do you feel better?

EVERETT: I feel good, yes, I feel better.

HEMMER: One of the questions that I want to pursue on this is how you plan on sticking with it, once the cameras are away and the attention is gone.

EVERETT: I have hired a personal trainer. I need one. I need one, just maybe twice a week.

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: You know, you missed a workout, we came down pretty hard on you.

EVERETT: Very hard. Very hard. GUPTA: But how important -- a lot of people have been watching. How important is it not to miss that workout in the first couple of months?

EVERETT: It's important not to miss it, but if you do, just go with the next day.

O'BRIEN: OK. Did you find your family was supportive? Were they helpful? Was there a moment where they went from not believing it was going to work to being like, girl, look at you, you look good, now they've signed on.

EVERETT: Oh, they always believed it. I didn't believe it. They always believed it at all. I was like, I don't see a difference, I don't see anything.

O'BRIEN: I know. You made a muscle at one point. We were like, Kim, we see it, we see that muscle.

EVERETT: I didn't see it, and then I saw the clip and I was like, oh, OK.

O'BRIEN: Here it is.

EVERETT: Yes.

HEMMER: You know, David lost 10 pounds also and...

DAVID PECK, NEW YOU PARTICIPANT: Twelve pounds.

HEMMER: Oh, hey, stand up and be counted, my friend.

Same question from Kim to you, how do you plan on keeping it up?

PECK: Well, support of the family, that's going to be key. And I do have a lot of friends that have kind of joined the bandwagon that are helping out and working out together. So kind of the peer group working together, so excited about it.

O'BRIEN: It was interesting that you see you got a lot of the stress out of your life, too, which was I wouldn't have picked as sort of the most important thing, but maybe in a way it was. Do you think it was?

PECK: Absolutely. The goal was, one, healthy, be around for the family, and two, spend time with the family. So I made some choices during this whole process and found a way to do that. So I'm very excited.

GUPTA: Specifically leaving your job, which required a lot of travel, going to a different sort of job now.

PECK: Right.

GUPTA: Two months -- what was the hardest part. Did you hit a wall at any point? PECK: Yes, the hardest thing for me is going out to dinner and portion control and looking at all the food. We get thrown a lot of food at one time, and you go to some of these restaurants, and that's what they're known for, so it's really tough. So I think the portion control.

HEMMER: A little bit of discipline there, too.

Kathryn, you have some amazing disciple. You were smoking a pack a day. Have you cheated?

KATHRYN BURKHOLDER, NEW YOU PARTICIPANT: No, not at all?

HEMMER: No? How are the urges?

BURKHOLDER: Pretty bad at times.

HEMMER: Still?

BURKHOLDER: Now it's more, I think, managing anxiety and learning to relax, whereas you normally would have gone outside to smoke.

HEMMER: You were worried about gaining weight, right?

BURKHOLDER: Yes.

HEMMER: How much weight did you gain, if at all?

BURKHOLDER: I actually did not gain any weight. I didn't lose any weight.

HEMMER: Did that surprise you?

BURKHOLDER: Yes, it did. It was hard, because you had to think about food all the time, which was not something I'm used to doing. I never thought that much about food, but now I think about it all the time.

O'BRIEN: Me, too. We learn to live with it, after a while.

Family play a big role? I mean, we saw you with your counselors. We saw you taking some medications, but you know, what kind of role did your family play?

BURKHOLDER: The biggest thing was my friends and family, and they were very supportive and very helpful, and willing to put up with me when I was perhaps not very pleasant, and I am still not always very pleasant.

GUPTA: A lot of smokers out there watching -- anything easier than you thought it was going to be?

BURKHOLDER: Probably the easier things were being with my friends. In the past, that's been very hard for me. And this time, it was much easier. And I think it was because I did have a lot more support for them.

GUPTA: Didn't have to smoke around them?

O'BRIEN: Let's talks about team Kirkbride -- and you know, I totally sympathize as a mother of two, and two more on the way -- time, time, time, time. How did you resolve, in the end, the time issues? What did you do?

PAM KIRKBRIDE, NEW YOU PARTICIPANT: We actually found the time at night when Olivia was asleep, when one of us was putting her to sleep, that was the time that we used for ourselves, that was when we went to the gym. As opposed to cleaning up, we went to the gym.

O'BRIEN: Your house a mess, but you lost seven pounds, you lost 20 pounds.

KIRKBRIDE: But it's organized.

HEMMER: Was it easier having a teammate?

KIRKBRIDE: Yes. We were each other's cheerleaders throughout the whole entire time. If I wasn't feeling motivated to go to the gym, he was like, go.

HEMMER: Who was doing most of the motivating over here?

MICHAEL KIRKBRIDE, NEW YOUR PARTICIPANT: She's tough, but I come down hard if she ever misses a workout.

P. KIRKBRIDE: He's a good motivator.

O'BRIEN: You all talked about how much you do it for your family, and I know for my kids, and especially as Olivia gets older, you will start working out, you'll see her say mommy and daddy and working out, you know, she'll get it.

And so, you know, I want to bring in, David, your kids. You brought Taylor and Katie in. Come on, you guys. Come on in. We can introduce them to everybody, because I know, David, you said that this is kind of the real reason -- maybe it's the real reason everybody works out all the end of the day, to be around for the people you love, so that, you know, they are not mourning over you too early when you don't deserve to move on and have a healthy life. Is that fair to say?

GUPTA: They are the motivators, right?

O'BRIEN: Well, they are some cute motivators, I'll tell you that.

GUPTA: Join us as well next hour when our "New You" group takes your questions. They're going to take them here live. They have had hundreds, if not thousands, of e-mails from viewers all across the country, and they're going to tell you all about that, what worked for them and what didn't. That's all coming up, next hour of AMERICAN MORNING. Thank you, guys.

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Aired February 24, 2004 - 08:50   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: It is the final week of 'the new You Resolution Series.' How have the last eight weeks been for our hearty group?
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Tough, I would imagine. We'll find out. Our five participants are here with us from the studio, Kimberly Everett from Atlanta, David Peck from San Jose, California, Kathryn Burkholder, and also from Atlanta, and Pam and Michael Kirkbride live here in New York City.

Nice to see all of you.

HEMMER: Congratulations.

O'BRIEN: Does it feel like a long time, or a short time?

KIMBERLY EVERETT, NEW YOU PARTICIPANT: Short time. It went by quick.

HEMMER: Yes? You lost how much, 10 pounds, Kimberly?

EVERETT: Ten pounds.

HEMMER: And how much in your waist.

EVERETT: Eight inches.

HEMMER: Eight inches.

(APPLAUSE)

O'BRIEN: Congratulations. Good for you. Do you feel better?

EVERETT: I feel good, yes, I feel better.

HEMMER: One of the questions that I want to pursue on this is how you plan on sticking with it, once the cameras are away and the attention is gone.

EVERETT: I have hired a personal trainer. I need one. I need one, just maybe twice a week.

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: You know, you missed a workout, we came down pretty hard on you.

EVERETT: Very hard. Very hard. GUPTA: But how important -- a lot of people have been watching. How important is it not to miss that workout in the first couple of months?

EVERETT: It's important not to miss it, but if you do, just go with the next day.

O'BRIEN: OK. Did you find your family was supportive? Were they helpful? Was there a moment where they went from not believing it was going to work to being like, girl, look at you, you look good, now they've signed on.

EVERETT: Oh, they always believed it. I didn't believe it. They always believed it at all. I was like, I don't see a difference, I don't see anything.

O'BRIEN: I know. You made a muscle at one point. We were like, Kim, we see it, we see that muscle.

EVERETT: I didn't see it, and then I saw the clip and I was like, oh, OK.

O'BRIEN: Here it is.

EVERETT: Yes.

HEMMER: You know, David lost 10 pounds also and...

DAVID PECK, NEW YOU PARTICIPANT: Twelve pounds.

HEMMER: Oh, hey, stand up and be counted, my friend.

Same question from Kim to you, how do you plan on keeping it up?

PECK: Well, support of the family, that's going to be key. And I do have a lot of friends that have kind of joined the bandwagon that are helping out and working out together. So kind of the peer group working together, so excited about it.

O'BRIEN: It was interesting that you see you got a lot of the stress out of your life, too, which was I wouldn't have picked as sort of the most important thing, but maybe in a way it was. Do you think it was?

PECK: Absolutely. The goal was, one, healthy, be around for the family, and two, spend time with the family. So I made some choices during this whole process and found a way to do that. So I'm very excited.

GUPTA: Specifically leaving your job, which required a lot of travel, going to a different sort of job now.

PECK: Right.

GUPTA: Two months -- what was the hardest part. Did you hit a wall at any point? PECK: Yes, the hardest thing for me is going out to dinner and portion control and looking at all the food. We get thrown a lot of food at one time, and you go to some of these restaurants, and that's what they're known for, so it's really tough. So I think the portion control.

HEMMER: A little bit of discipline there, too.

Kathryn, you have some amazing disciple. You were smoking a pack a day. Have you cheated?

KATHRYN BURKHOLDER, NEW YOU PARTICIPANT: No, not at all?

HEMMER: No? How are the urges?

BURKHOLDER: Pretty bad at times.

HEMMER: Still?

BURKHOLDER: Now it's more, I think, managing anxiety and learning to relax, whereas you normally would have gone outside to smoke.

HEMMER: You were worried about gaining weight, right?

BURKHOLDER: Yes.

HEMMER: How much weight did you gain, if at all?

BURKHOLDER: I actually did not gain any weight. I didn't lose any weight.

HEMMER: Did that surprise you?

BURKHOLDER: Yes, it did. It was hard, because you had to think about food all the time, which was not something I'm used to doing. I never thought that much about food, but now I think about it all the time.

O'BRIEN: Me, too. We learn to live with it, after a while.

Family play a big role? I mean, we saw you with your counselors. We saw you taking some medications, but you know, what kind of role did your family play?

BURKHOLDER: The biggest thing was my friends and family, and they were very supportive and very helpful, and willing to put up with me when I was perhaps not very pleasant, and I am still not always very pleasant.

GUPTA: A lot of smokers out there watching -- anything easier than you thought it was going to be?

BURKHOLDER: Probably the easier things were being with my friends. In the past, that's been very hard for me. And this time, it was much easier. And I think it was because I did have a lot more support for them.

GUPTA: Didn't have to smoke around them?

O'BRIEN: Let's talks about team Kirkbride -- and you know, I totally sympathize as a mother of two, and two more on the way -- time, time, time, time. How did you resolve, in the end, the time issues? What did you do?

PAM KIRKBRIDE, NEW YOU PARTICIPANT: We actually found the time at night when Olivia was asleep, when one of us was putting her to sleep, that was the time that we used for ourselves, that was when we went to the gym. As opposed to cleaning up, we went to the gym.

O'BRIEN: Your house a mess, but you lost seven pounds, you lost 20 pounds.

KIRKBRIDE: But it's organized.

HEMMER: Was it easier having a teammate?

KIRKBRIDE: Yes. We were each other's cheerleaders throughout the whole entire time. If I wasn't feeling motivated to go to the gym, he was like, go.

HEMMER: Who was doing most of the motivating over here?

MICHAEL KIRKBRIDE, NEW YOUR PARTICIPANT: She's tough, but I come down hard if she ever misses a workout.

P. KIRKBRIDE: He's a good motivator.

O'BRIEN: You all talked about how much you do it for your family, and I know for my kids, and especially as Olivia gets older, you will start working out, you'll see her say mommy and daddy and working out, you know, she'll get it.

And so, you know, I want to bring in, David, your kids. You brought Taylor and Katie in. Come on, you guys. Come on in. We can introduce them to everybody, because I know, David, you said that this is kind of the real reason -- maybe it's the real reason everybody works out all the end of the day, to be around for the people you love, so that, you know, they are not mourning over you too early when you don't deserve to move on and have a healthy life. Is that fair to say?

GUPTA: They are the motivators, right?

O'BRIEN: Well, they are some cute motivators, I'll tell you that.

GUPTA: Join us as well next hour when our "New You" group takes your questions. They're going to take them here live. They have had hundreds, if not thousands, of e-mails from viewers all across the country, and they're going to tell you all about that, what worked for them and what didn't. That's all coming up, next hour of AMERICAN MORNING. Thank you, guys.

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