Oprah’s yo-yo dieting through the years

To reach her goal weight in 1988, Oprah followed a liquid diet for about four months and did not eat any solid food. She went from this, to…

…this! Oprah shed 30 kilos with the liquid diet. She took to the stage of her show wearing a pair of size 10 skinny Calvin Klein jeans wheeling a wagon of fat to represent her weight loss.

In 1989 Oprah admitted that she had regained 7.7 of the 30 celebrated kilos she had lost the previous year.

Today, the talk show host now admits that this was her biggest mistake.

“I had literally starved myself for four months, not a morsel of food, to get into that pair of size 10 Calvin Klein jeans,” she said.

“Two hours after that show, I started eating to celebrate, of course, within two days those jeans no longer fit!”

Since that point the talk show host’s weight has fluctuated over the years.

Oprah reached her heaviest weight of 107.5 kilos in 1992 at age 38.

After hitting more than 100 kilos Oprah began a weight loss regime, however she wasn’t able to shift the extra kilos.

The talk show queen soon thought it was time to lose the extra weight and set out to bring her weight back down.

In 2005, she stepped out at a toned 72.5 kilos and appeared on the January 2005 cover of O Magazine.

“I thought I was finished with the weight battle. I was done. I’d conquered it. I was so sure, I was even cocky,” she says now of the weight loss.

“I had the nerve to say to friends who were struggling, “All you have to do is work out harder and eat less! Get your 10,000 steps in! None of that starchy stuff!”

Oprah managed to hold onto her trim figure in 2006 but the weight slowly started to creep back on.

At age 53 in 2007, Oprah said she started to have some health issues.

“At first I was unable to sleep for days. My legs started swelling. My weight started creeping up, first 5 pounds, then 10 pounds. I was lethargic and irritable,” she said.

Throughout 2008 Oprah’s weight continued to climb.

Then in 2009 the talk show host revealed in O Magazine that she had fallen off the weight loss wagon.

She was pictured on the cover of the January 2009 issue next to a picture of a thinner version of herself from the 2005 cover which read: “How did I let this happen again?”

Today, Oprah says she isn’t setting out to be thin, but to be healthy.

“My goal isn’t to be thin. My goal is for my body to be the weight it can hold—to be strong and healthy and fit, to be itself. My goal is to learn to embrace this body and to be grateful every day for what it has given me.”