Aretha Franklin diets in a bid to lose weight before her wedding

**SnuffMaker** · June 22nd, 2007, 10:27 PM

A month? She has a looooooooooooong way to go. I think she can make on small calories she just needs to up the fiber intake if she wants trick herself into thinking she just ate a 5 course meal. Hey and she'll get a good shit in the process!

**MrsMarsters** · June 22nd, 2007, 11:54 PM

how about a year?

**MsDark** · June 23rd, 2007, 01:16 AM

Originally Posted by Makedah24

I eat 1600 to 1800 calories daily and i'm perfectly fine!!Eating less than that would drive me crazy,lol!!But i'm 22 and 5'4 and i know women are all different so...I admire you for sticking to a restricting diet.You must be super disciplined.

Edit to say...i exercise regularly too.

Exercise is always the key. There's no way around it. Heck I might even could live off 1000-1200 cals a day too if I didn't do much more than sit all day and never broke a sweat.

**nycgirl** · June 23rd, 2007, 10:45 PM

wow Aretha sure has a huge belly button... You can see it through her pants.....looks like a big hole of some kind

I do love her though....

**RevellingInSane** · June 24th, 2007, 01:46 AM

Originally Posted by pacific breeze

She thinks 1,750 calories per day is starvation? I haven't eaten that many calories in a day, much less every day, in my entire life.

I wish her well, but I'm not optimistic.

A woman needs at least 1500 per day just to sustain normal body function, including breathing and cardiac function.

**PinkCadillac** · June 24th, 2007, 01:28 PM

It's impossible to lose all that weight in just a month

**Laurent** · June 24th, 2007, 01:42 PM

When Aretha goes back to her beloved pigs feet and ribs, she's going blow up bigger than she was when she started.

She needs to get her weight under control for her health, not for some temporary goal like a wedding, otherwise she's going to yo-yo until her body gives out.

**RevellingInSane** · June 25th, 2007, 01:03 AM

If she would scale back to the 2 racks of ribs instead of four and only half a dozen donuts instead of twelve, she would lose all that weight in no time.

How can people not realize they are becoming obese? When someone reaches 400 pounds and then says,"I thought it was time to do something about my weight." I am thinking,"Yea, at least one hundred pounds ago!"

**missbazilb** · June 26th, 2007, 06:34 PM

Eeps! I exercise a lot, and I'm tall, but sweet merciful jeebus, I couldn't live off 1,000 calories a day. I'm at probably 2,500 - 3,000 calories a day right now (and my stomach is growling), and while I'm not losing anything, I'm not gaining either. My stomach is getting firmer

I eat pretty healthy, so the quantities I eat are very large. Oh my god, I feel like a big pig compared to you guys! How do you do it? I can't give up my food! I'll just have to keep exercising.

I feel bad for Aretha, being that big, but I really don't understand how she could let herself get to that point before dieting. Hopefully she'll adopt healthier habits.