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It's official! Jessica Simpson confirmed that she's going on Weight Watchers to lose her baby weight. "So excited to be part of the Weight Watchers family!" the 31-year-old tweeted Wednesday. The new mom, who gave birth to Maxwell Drew (her first child with fiance Eric Johnson) on May 1, joins other celebs who've used the diet program successfully; read on to find out other stars who are fans of Weight Watchers!

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Jennifer Hudson

The singer may be one of the diet's most successful spokespeople. Since 2010, Hudson, 30, has kept off the 80 pounds she lost following her pregnancy and credits Weight Watchers and her trainer Harley Pasternak for her success.

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Jenny McCarthy

The 39-year-old joined Weight Watchers following the birth of her son, Evan Joseph, 10, and she has credited the diet plan for helping her learn portion control. Since then, the actress, author, and mom has also gone dairy- and gluten-free.

Ginnifer Goodwin

Talk about devoted! The Once Upon a Time actress has shared that she has been on Weight Watchers since she was 9 years old and continues to use the program after especially indulgent periods in her life. "It's the only thing on the planet that doesn't dehydrate you or just make you miserable," the 34-year-old has said of the diet.

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May 31, 2012, 15:04 GMT

Jessica Simpson with baby Maxwell Drew in People magazine

Jessica Simpson plans to make 'lifestyle' changes to shed her baby weight.

The singer-and-actress - who is the new spokesperson for Weight Watchers - gained over 60lbs when pregnant with her four-week-old daughter Maxwell Drew and because her shape has fluctuated in the past, she's going to diet sensibly.

Jessica - who is engaged to Eric Johnson - said: 'I think anybody who's gone through a pregnancy, after they have the baby, it's like, 'I need to do something about this.

'For me, I really want to do something that is a lifestyle, because in the past, I've been known to yo-yo diet.'

The 31-year-old beauty also insisted she hasn't set herself a target amount of weight to lose, but will measure her progress according to her shape.

She added: 'There's not a goal weight - I just want to feel normal and fixate on inches. I really want to set small goals, so I'm constantly reaching goals and not looking at something so far ahead.'

Despite gaining a lot of weight during her pregnancy, Jessica insists she ate healthily but indulged her cravings because she wanted to enjoy the experience.

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June 1, 2012

Potato chips. Chocolate chip cookies. These are both examples of junk foods that people consume. A new study, published in a recent edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that limiting peoples choices for junk food helps them cut back on the amount of calories they eat, but doesnt help them lose weight as people can make up the calories from restricted food groups by eating other types of food.

These results show that dieters cannot just limit their food variety; they also have to be aware of all the other calories that they are consuming.

Limiting variety was helpful for reducing intake for that type of food group, but it appeared that compensation occurred in other parts of the diet, said lead author Hollie Raynor, a professor at the University of Tennessee, in an article by Reuters Health.

Raynor also mentioned that people who tend to have less variety in diets are usually more successful in losing weight and keeping it off. With the study, she hoped to better understand if limiting options for high-calorie, low-nutrition foods like ice cream, cookies, and chips could be beneficial for people. 200 overweight and obese participants were asked to make adjustments in their diet and physical activity to help them lose weight. With the project, the participants attended regular group meetings to discuss their behavior, increased the amount of physical activity they did every day, and consumed a calorie-reduced diet. In particular, half the participants were asked to restrict their diet options as monotony can help inspire a lack of interest in food.

Its clear the more variety you have, the more you eat, noted Alexandra Johnstone, a researcher at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland unaffiliated with the study, in the Reuters Health article.

The experiment was completed over an 18-month period and those who were asked to limit the types junk food ate less treats (two to three a day) as compared to the group that didnt have that restriction (four a day). They also consumed fewer calories from junk food; in the six to twelve month period, the group with limited variety of foods ate 100 fewer calories from junk food a day while the other group ate 88 less calories from junk food a day. Both groups were able to lose weight due to the decrease in total calories consumed over the 18-motnh test period.

However, the total weight loss and the reduction in calories consumed were the same in both groups. Both lost 10 pounds over time, highlighting that reducing choices of junk food did not necessarily have any additional advantages or aided any other lifestyle changes. For a limited variety diet to be successful, people must also focus on limiting portion sizes during meal times.

It makes sense to try and reduce the amount of variety in the diet, but human beings enjoy eating, so they will find other food components to consume than the ones that are being limited, Johnstone explained to Reuters Health.

The researchers believe that more testing needs to be done to better gauge how peoples behaviors adjust when they are limited from having a specific type of food.

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Reducing people's options for junk foods helps them to cut back on the amount of calories they take in, but it doesn't reduce their overall calorie load or help them lose weight, according to a U.S. study.

"Limiting variety was helpful for reducing intake for that type of food group, but it appeared that compensation occurred in other parts of the diet," said Hollie Raynor, a professor at the University of Tennessee and lead author of the study.

The results of the study, which appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, offer a cautionary note to dieters who may be limiting their food variety - such as by cutting out carbs - to be watchful of all calories coming in, not just those from the targeted food group.

Previous studies have shown that people with less variety in their diets tend to be more successful in losing weight and keeping it off, and Raynor said she wanted to see if restricting options for high-calorie, low-nutrition foods, such as ice cream, cookies and chips, could help people lose weight.

Raynor's team asked 200 overweight and obese adults to make lifestyle changes aimed at losing weight. These included taking part in group meetings that discussed healthy behavior, eating a calorie-reduced diet and increasing physical activity.

Half of the people were also told to limit the junk food in their diet to just two options with the idea that monotony in the menu leads to a lack of interest in the food.

Over the 18 months of the study, people in the limited junk food group ate fewer types of treats each day - two to three - than the other group, which ate about four. They also ate fewer daily calories from junk food.

At six and 12 months into the study, the people in the low-variety group ate about 100 fewer junk food calories each day than the other group. By the end of the study, they were eating 80 fewer junk food calories each day.

Both groups ate less total calories over the course of the study, and lost weight. But the overall reduction in calories and weight loss - around 4.5 kilograms (10 lbs.) - was the same in each group.

"It makes sense to try and reduce the amount of variety in the diet, but human beings enjoy eating, so they will find other food components to consume than the ones that are being limited," said Alexandra Johnstone, a researcher at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, who was not involved in the research.

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Jessica Simpson plans to lose her baby weight by making ''lifestyle'' changes.

Jessica Simpson plans to make ''lifestyle'' changes to shed her baby weight.

The singer-and-actress - who is the new spokesperson for Weight Watchers - gained over 60lbs when pregnant with her four-week-old daughter Maxwell Drew and because her shape has fluctuated in the past, she's going to diet sensibly.

Jessica - who is engaged to Eric Johnson - said: ''I think anybody who's gone through a pregnancy, after they have the baby, it's like, 'I need to do something about this.

''For me, I really want to do something that is a lifestyle, because in the past, I've been known to yo-yo diet.''

The 31-year-old beauty also insisted she hasn't set herself a target amount of weight to lose, but will measure her progress according to her shape.

She added: ''There's not a goal weight - I just want to feel normal and fixate on inches. I really want to set small goals, so I'm constantly reaching goals and not looking at something so far ahead.''

Despite gaining a lot of weight during her pregnancy, Jessica insists she ate healthily but indulged her cravings because she wanted to enjoy the experience.

She said: ''I was like, 'I'm going to enjoy my pregnancy,' and I did.

''I ate very healthy, but I did indulge some of my cravings - and that's okay because I know I can work it off now.''

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Overweight women face a multitude of hardships such as discrimination in the workplace that arise from the stigma surrounding obesity. While weight loss may seem like the solution for women hoping to escape anti-fat prejudice, it may not be that simple after all.

New research out of the University of Hawaii at Mnoa, The University of Manchester and Monash University, has revealed that anti-fat prejudice still persisted against former obese women, even after they had lost a significant amount of weight.

Previous research has shown that the harmful nature of obesity stigma crossed many domains, Dr. Janet Latner, the studys lead author at the University of Hawaii at Mnoa, told FoxNews.com. So we designed an experiment to look at whether obesity sting persisted once the weight had been dropped.

Published in the journal Obesity, the study asked young men and women participants to read various stories about a woman who had lost about 70 pounds, or a woman who was currently obese or thin who had remained stable. The participants were then asked to rate the womens attractiveness and then give their opinions on fat people in general.

We were surprised to find that currently thin women were viewed more differently depending on their weight history, Latner said in a press release. We found that people who had lost weight were viewed more negatively in terms of attractiveness than people who had remained stable regardless of whether or not they had remained thin or obese, Latner told FoxNews.com.

Negative attitudes toward the obese targets also seemed to increase when the participants were falsely told that the persons weight was easily controllable.

Though the researchers cannot explain exactly why the findings were the way they were, Latner and her colleagues theorized that people are perhaps more judgmental towards the obese, because they believe that it is something the person can easily manage.

There are several theories as to why anti-fat stigma persists, Latner said. The leading theory is controllability theory suggesting that stigmatized conditions are despised more when they are perceived as easily controllable, a widespread perception about obesity. Our findings partly supported this theory by demonstrating that reading vignettes describing weight loss led to greater obesity stigma than reading vignettes describing weight stability.

Because of their staggering findings, Latner and her team agree that government intervention is necessary to reduce the prejudice against the overweight and obese.

We really need public policies that combat obesity stigma, said Latner. Findings on effective interventions to reduce weight stigma are limited. Some evidence suggests that social consensus approaches, cognitive dissonance approaches and intensive education approaches can be effective in reducing stigma.

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Its official, Jessica Simpson will be the new spokeswoman for Weight Watchers.

The singer made the announcement on Twitter today: So excited to be a part of the @WeightWatchers family!

The new mother is adding to her coffers with a reported $3 million deal from Weight Watchers to lose the baby weight

Weight Watchers said in a statement, Were thrilled that Jessica Simpson has chosen to join Weight Watchers to adopt a healthier lifestyle and inspire others to do the same.

Simpson just released her first photographs with daughter Maxwell Drew in the latest issue of People magazine.

She told the magazine that giving birth to her first child May 1 has changed her life forever.

When I look at her my heart melts, Simpson, the pop star-turned-fashion designer, said in an interview appearing in the June issue of People magazine. I didnt realize how much love I could have.

Maxwell, known as Max or Maxi, arrived two weeks early, by C-section. She weighed 9 pounds, 13 ounces.

As one of the nurses exclaimed when Max was born, Shes a chunk, People magazines Suzanne Zuckerman told Good Morning America. But she is a beautiful baby.

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Fat women are subjected to the painful stigma of obesity, even after they lose their weight, revealed a latest study on the subject.

An international team of researchers have found that fat women prejudice persist even after their weight loss.

The finding was the result of a study among a group of young women and men which examined whether anti-fat prejudice against women persisted even after they lost significant weight and became thin.

The participants were asked to answer a questionnaire about a group of women who had either lost weight (70 pounds/32 kilograms) or had remained weight stable.

The team found that participants in the study expressed greater bias against obese women, who had currently lost her weight compared to women who had chosen to remain stable.

"We were surprised to find that currently thin women were viewed differently depending on their weight history. Those who had been obese in the past were perceived as less attractive than those who had always been thin, despite having identical height and weight," said Dr Janet Latner, researcher at the University of Hawaii.

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One of the more disturbing findings from the study, the researchers noted, was that negative attitudes towards obese people increase when participants are falsely told that body weight is easily controllable.

"The message we often hear from society is that weight is highly controllable, but the best science in the obesity field at the moment suggests that one's physiology and genetics, as well as the food environment, are the really big players in one's weight status and weight-loss," said Dr Kerry O'Brien, researcher at the University of Manchester's School of Psychological Sciences and Monash University in Melbourne, in a statement.

"Weight status actually appears rather uncontrollable, regardless of one's willpower, knowledge, and dedication. Yet many people who are perceived as 'fat' are struggling in vain to lose weight in order to escape this painful social stigma. We need to rethink our approaches to, and views of, weight and obesity," he added.

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SAN FRANCISCO, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Office workers are getting fatter, not fitter, according to recent reports showing obesity rates skyrocketing.

But a new wireless phone headset can help office workers lose weight simply by walking around when talking on the phone. The average person who adds 1,500 steps a day can lose up to 500 calories a day, which translates into 1 pound a week or 50 pounds a year when they use the OfficeRunner Wireless Headset System from Sennheiser.

"The less you sit, the happier and healthier you'll be," said Mike Faith, president of Headsets.com, America's leading provider of office telephone headsets for large companies and small businesses. "The Office Runner makes staying in shape simple and natural for people who use the phone every day."

To see Mike exercising effortlessly with the Office Runner, check out this video.

"If you're like me, you find it hard to go to the gym every day. But it is easy to walk around and lose weight if you aren't chained to your desk by a corded phone. With the Sennheiser Office Runner, you can make and receive calls up to 400 feet from your desk -- and the battery lasts 12 hours, so you can walk around wherever you want in the office," he said.

Many people say they get bored by exercising at the gym, but nearly everyone finds walking easy. And most people have to talk on the phone. By combining both of these fun activities, people stand a fighting chance to lose weight, improve posture and be more productive, he said.

Headsets.com is sponsoring a contest with winners receiving a Fitbit Ultra, the market-leading wireless all-day fitness tracker that also monitors sleep. The Fitbit Ultra monitors all-day activity to provide real-time feedback on steps, distance, calories burned, and stairs climbed to encourage people to walk more and be more active.

"We want to find -- and reward -- the fittest office worker. This gives new meaning to people who can walk and talk at the same time," he said. "For people who want to lose weight, this is a chance for them to walk their talk."

Having an office staff that is physically fit can also lead to a healthy bottom line.

A research report by Richard Yonge, Ph.D. entitled "Movement in the Workplace -- Ideas for Boosting Health and Profits" shows, "There is increasing evidence that prolonged physical inactivity is not just bad for health it is also bad for the bottom line."

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Titans' Shaun Smith teaches yoga: Titans defensive tackle Shaun Smith teaches a yoga class Tuesday at Hot Yoga Plus, where the temperature was 101.5 inside. Titans defensive tackle Shaun Smith, right, teaches a yoga class to raise money for charity on Tuesday. / jaE S. LEE / THE TENNESSEAN STACKED POSITION

Defensive tackles competing to win roster spots with the Titans: Shaun Smith. Now surrounded by talented youngsters, the veteran Smith needs a solid offseason in order to stick. Jurrell Casey. A third-round pick last year, he was a big impact player on run defense. Karl Klug. A fifth-round pick last year, he has a knack for getting to the quarterback. Hes looking to improve his run defense. SenDerrick Marks. Heading into his fourth season, hes in a battle to make the roster. Zach Clayton. He was inactive for most of his rookie season, but will get more chances in Year 2. Lamar Divens. The former Lincoln County standout will try to stick with the Titans after several other NFL stops. Mike Martin. A third-round pick this year, the Titans expect him to be a force immediately. DaJohn Harris. Was regarded as a potential mid-round pick before medical questions kept him from getting drafted.

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