In this video, join Dr. Oz as he sits down with Wendy Williams for an intimate health check-in. Wendy opens up about her recent health challenges, and her journey towards recovery, and shares insights that many can relate to. This candid conversation sheds light on resilience, wellness, and the human spirit.
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00:00 (audience cheering)
00:03 She's a diva of daytime TV who's not afraid to say it
00:09 like she means it.
00:10 Today she's revealing the big changes she's made
00:13 to her diet and her secret to her weight loss success.
00:16 Say how you doing to my friend, Wendy Williams.
00:19 (audience cheering)
00:22 (upbeat music)
00:25 Oh, I love having you here.
00:38 Thank you for coming.
00:39 Doesn't she look great?
00:39 Look at this.
00:40 Thank you.
00:41 (audience cheering)
00:42 Look at that.
00:43 I mean, I do what I can, Dr. O.
00:46 Oh, please, I can't be here.
00:47 I do what I can.
00:49 I sit in this chair or that one?
00:50 You can sit in the far one, the close one,
00:51 whatever you wanna sit, I'm gonna move away from
00:53 wherever you sit and then make you comfortable.
00:54 Do you want me to move?
00:55 Okay.
00:56 It's exhausting walking over here.
00:57 It's like a workout to get from that entryway.
00:59 Yeah, I call it the walk of shame.
01:01 (laughing)
01:02 Because if you fall, uh-oh.
01:04 It's bad news.
01:05 Well, yeah, that's a long walk.
01:07 Why do I have this microphone?
01:08 I have a microphone here.
01:09 Because we're gonna talk to the audience in a second.
01:10 Oh, okay.
01:11 We have a very, very important segment coming up
01:13 where you're gonna talk to the audience
01:14 to get your questions ready here.
01:16 So let's talk about you for one second.
01:17 Last time you came on, you just turned 50.
01:18 Yes.
01:19 What have you learned about yourself in the past year?
01:21 I have learned that 51 is even better than 50.
01:25 (audience applauding)
01:27 I turned 51 in July.
01:30 I've never felt better, stronger, or faster in my life.
01:34 Physically speaking, I have not weighed approximately,
01:37 and I'm not sure the exact number,
01:38 I think it's like 145 pounds that I weigh.
01:41 Is that what you weigh now?
01:41 Yeah.
01:42 Oh my goodness!
01:43 Yeah.
01:44 Oh my goodness!
01:45 It's a good weight for me at five feet 11
01:49 with heavier bones.
01:51 And I lost 50 pounds, which I didn't realize that
01:56 until I was talking to your show producers.
02:00 And they said, "Well, how much did you lose?"
02:02 I said, "Well, when I went to my endocrinologist,
02:04 I have the thyroid, but three years ago,
02:07 he goes, 'You weigh 195 pounds.'"
02:09 And I was like, "Oh my God, what happened?"
02:11 You know, in my mind.
02:12 And so I concentrated and concentrated,
02:15 and did it slowly but surely,
02:16 'cause I've been on every stupid diet you could possibly name.
02:19 But walk me through this.
02:21 What did you do?
02:22 I mean, losing 50 pounds, 55 pounds is a big deal.
02:25 Yeah.
02:25 Slow and steady is the name of the game.
02:29 I stopped getting on the scale
02:31 because I'm my own worst enemy.
02:33 And if I see that I've gained weight,
02:36 I feel very bad about myself.
02:37 But recently, me and Mike Heavins,
02:41 you know, my husband and son,
02:42 we- Mike Heavins.
02:43 We are vegans with an alkaline twist.
02:48 So we're, yeah, I don't eat meat.
02:50 Your favorite fatty.
02:51 Yes.
02:52 I don't eat meat anymore.
02:53 It's been a life-changing thing.
02:55 I have very bad lower leg psoriasis.
02:58 You do?
02:59 And it started to, well, I use leg makeup,
03:00 and you know, I wear nude color fishnets.
03:02 That's the trick, girls.
03:03 But I have very bad lower leg psoriasis.
03:07 Yeah, and it started to creep up past my thigh,
03:11 or past my knee, and before it crept any higher,
03:14 if you know what I'm saying.
03:15 (laughing)
03:16 And I think you do.
03:17 I said, "Well, we have to do something."
03:20 And then my husband is asthmatic,
03:22 and he has eczema, but his eczema is much better, you know.
03:27 And then our son has very bad eczema.
03:30 And so we said, "Let's do something."
03:31 And I'm the oldest out of all of us.
03:32 I'm older, I married a younger man.
03:35 Good for you.
03:35 (audience applauding)
03:37 He has very good taste in women, by the way, your Kevin.
03:39 Thank you.
03:40 But I'm the oldest out of all of us.
03:42 And I said, "At 51, why not try?"
03:44 Like, I wanna live, life is good.
03:46 I wanna live, Dr. Oz.
03:47 And I don't take any medicine right now,
03:49 except for a pill a day for thyroid.
03:52 My cholesterol and my heart and everything is good.
03:54 And before everything gets bad, you know,
03:56 because people on the other side of 50,
03:59 of which John Likwesama calls it,
04:01 being a half a century old.
04:03 Like, why do you have to put it that way?
04:05 (audience laughing)
04:06 You know, I wanna live, and I don't wanna take pills.
04:09 And I wanna live.
04:11 So has it helped being on that strict of a program?
04:14 I get the weight loss part,
04:16 but you are seeing, in general, joint pain,
04:19 the things that most of us start to suffer
04:20 from after age 50,
04:22 which I suspect you're probably experiencing as well.
04:23 Have they changed with this program?
04:25 No, because I never had the joint pains and stuff before.
04:29 Like, I'm like 21, Dr. Oz.
04:31 I don't know who you think you're talking to.
04:32 I can see it.
04:33 (audience applauding)
04:34 I am like 21 years old.
04:36 I've got a very healthy libido.
04:39 I've got a very, very good recovery.
04:42 Like, when I do my Pilates,
04:43 I fell off the stage the other week when I was doing,
04:46 well, don't laugh, okay.
04:48 Falling is always funny.
04:50 I walked to the end, this is during my standup,
04:53 and I fell off the stage, and they put it on the TMZ,
04:57 so you can Google it and find it.
04:59 But I recovered like nothing.
05:01 And I was not black and blue,
05:03 and I did not ache the next day.
05:05 And before those things start to happen to me, Dr. Oz,
05:08 I just felt like a change in diet would be good.
05:12 Why not?
05:13 Yeah.
05:14 You know, you've been very open,
05:15 and I really appreciate it,
05:16 but I think everyone else does as well,
05:17 about the ups and downs in your weight,
05:19 the struggles that you've experienced,
05:20 'cause we all do them.
05:21 So I would love, if it's okay,
05:23 everyone wants to know exactly
05:24 how they can have results just like you.
05:26 So we're gonna start a new segment on the show.
05:28 Okay.
05:29 It's called, "How You Chewin'."
05:30 Oh!
05:31 There you are.
05:31 Hi, guys.
05:32 How you chewin'?
05:33 How you chewin'?
05:34 (audience applauding)
05:35 Come on over here.
05:36 Grab your mic.
05:36 Okay.
05:37 We're gonna find out if the audience can stump you
05:40 with how you're chewin' questions.
05:42 Are you guys ready for your question?
05:43 I warned you ahead of time now.
05:44 All right, who wants to ask the first,
05:46 how you chewin'?
05:47 Come on up here.
05:48 Let's do it.
05:48 Come on up here.
05:49 Can you make it here?
05:50 Uh-oh.
05:51 I'll support you.
05:52 I always will, you know.
05:53 Uh-oh.
05:54 There we are, there we are.
05:54 Do you think that was a walk of shame over there?
05:56 (Wendy grunting)
05:57 There you are.
05:58 All right, dear.
05:59 What's your question for Wendy?
06:01 Hi, Wendy, how you chewin'?
06:02 How you chewin'?
06:03 You can go ahead and stand up.
06:05 Wait, Dr. Ross, don't let me go.
06:07 I'm supporting.
06:08 Can I go?
06:08 You can hold on to me.
06:10 I'm a woman of a certain age like you,
06:12 and I've been a yo-yo dieter my entire life.
06:15 And I was wondering,
06:16 how do you keep from falling off the wagon
06:18 and eating junk food?
06:20 Well, now we make our own junk food at home.
06:23 You know, I know how to make homemade potato chips.
06:25 We only use sea salt.
06:26 We don't use regular table salt.
06:29 I know how to make homemade plantain chips.
06:30 I make my own ketchup.
06:31 I make, now it's easy
06:34 because we've been doing this all summer.
06:35 But prior to that, I had already lost a lot of weight,
06:39 and I didn't deny myself of anything.
06:41 What I say is tomorrow will be a better day.
06:45 And I promised myself that.
06:46 And it worked.
06:47 Okay.
06:48 Yeah. Thank you so much.
06:49 Thank you. Yes.
06:50 A how you chewin' question over here.
06:50 You got one?
06:51 (audience applauding)
06:52 There you are.
06:53 How you chewin'?
06:54 How you chewin'?
06:55 I said, how you chewin'?
06:56 How you chewin', Wendy?
06:59 Is it hard to eat healthy and stay,
07:01 I forgot my question.
07:05 You're gonna take your time?
07:06 Wait a minute.
07:06 You were at my show earlier today.
07:08 She was?
07:09 Yes.
07:10 Oh, I loved it.
07:10 Oh my gosh.
07:11 I loved it.
07:13 I recognize your pin.
07:14 Yes.
07:15 They're making the rounds.
07:16 I love that.
07:17 Yes.
07:18 Is it harder to eat healthy
07:19 and keep the weight off after 50?
07:22 No, it's actually easier.
07:23 I'm gonna tell you why.
07:24 Why?
07:25 Because I am very aware that metabolism slows down.
07:28 And I am really loving being at my optimum at this age.
07:32 And I don't wanna undo it.
07:34 So it's easier now to keep the weight off
07:36 than it was, say, if I did this when I was 25 or 35.
07:40 You know?
07:40 Yes.
07:41 Wonderful.
07:42 Thank you.
07:43 Thank you.
07:44 One more how you chewin' question.
07:45 Thank God.
07:45 Come on down.
07:46 Can you make it down?
07:47 (audience applauding)
07:48 I don't know, Dr. Oz.
07:49 Can't support you.
07:50 She's making it, she's making it.
07:52 Okay.
07:52 Wendy, how you chewin'?
07:54 How you chewin'?
07:55 (audience laughing)
07:56 I have read all the celebrity fad diets
07:59 and I even heard Beyonce went vegan.
08:04 Should I do the same?
08:05 I say do what's right for you.
08:08 'Cause here's one thing that I will tell all of you all,
08:11 and I don't care.
08:12 You know, I am somewhat of a celebrity.
08:14 Even I cheated.
08:17 You know, in 1994, liposuction, breast implants.
08:21 After we had our son, I got a tummy tuck.
08:24 So I already had something to put me on a track
08:26 to wanna keep it off.
08:28 You know, celebrities are constantly doing things.
08:31 Don't believe the hype.
08:33 Okay?
08:34 But do what works for you.
08:36 Thank you for watching.
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