Here’s my imaginary letter from Paula Dean to her worldwide fans …
“Dear World,
It’s Paula Dean – your favorite southern deep-fry everything cook. I have type II diabetes. While I could blame a host of factors that might have contributed to me having this deadly-and-debilitating-if-untreated disease the truth of the matter is this. I don’t personally eat in moderation often enough and I overeat the very foods I teach all of you how to cook. I take full responsibility for my weight and my new disease. I created both.
Now I’m going to do something about them both. I contacted David Greenwalt at Leanness Lifestyle. I contacted David because while it’s true that a monkey can figure out what foods are healthy and I could learn in 30 seconds that some component of exercise is necessary to live healthfully I know that actually applying the details of both to my own life is not always quick, painless, hunger-free or easy.
I’ve heard that David and his program are pros at actually helping we who struggle with our weight to actually DO the things we actually do know are right, to learn new things, and re-train the mind in the way we think about ourselves, the world, food and exercise.
I can do this! I’ve made bucketfulls of cash with my made-for-TV personality and showing people in entertaining ways how to eat really tasty, fattening and even addictive meals. Now I’ve got to get my act together, get healthy and once I do that, maybe even along the way, I’ll share with you what I’m doing and once and for all prove that I’m REALLY a good cook. I mean, after all, a LOT of people can make a dog turd taste good with lard, oil, butter, sugar and salt in the right combos – right? Sure they can. So now it’s time to try my hand at making healthier foods taste REALLY good without contributing to America’s obesity epidemic and worsening the health of you – my wonderful fans.
Well, God bless yall, yuns stick around and watch me, with my good friend David Greenwalt’s help, create a REAL bangin-southern body, improve my health and together we can help America get healthier too. What do you say? Will you join me?
With deep appreciation to yuns and yall,
Paula Dean
P.S.: David has a boot camp starting February 8th and while I know your budget might be tighter than a camel’s butt in a sand storm you can bet I’ll be doing it so I hope to see yuns there. David says he guran-damn-tees his program if you really do it. http://www.LLUniversity.com/bootcamp/
Celebrity, 64-year old, southern cook Paula Dean has recently announced that about three years ago she was diagnosed with type II diabetes. In this post I’ll share with you my imaginary letter I’d like to see Paula write rather than the shuffle she’s selling via media interviews.
She gave a litany of “reasons” people “get” type II diabetes on the Today show. I have to imagine the Assistant Professor of Medicine at NYU sitting next to her is missing a good part of the tip of her tongue as she listened to Paula do damage control to her unhealthy, fattening but certainly tasty-cooking dynasty.
Paula says “I’m your cook. Not your doctor.”
She is right that each person needs to take personal responsibility for their choices and lifestyle and just because she promotes fattening, unhealthy, HARD TO EAT IN MODERATION foods and meals it truly does NOT mean any of us has to eat it – or eat it often. True.
But her diabetes? Stop making it sound like a friggin jigsaw puzzle Paula. It’s not. You eat like crap. You are overweight. Genetics MIGHT have loaded the gun but YOU pulled the trigger with your fatty, southern-cooking lifestyle.
Leanness Lifestyle University
Seriously – file this news under “Duh” and/or “No Sh*t, Sherlock!”
I think the saddest thing about this is that she’s teaming up with a pharmaceutical company to make even MORE money than she already is. That’s why she waited 3 years to admit this publicly. I don’t watch her show often because she says “y’all” far too many times than I can handle. That being said, never, in ANY episode does she say to eat any of her recipes in moderation. Who in the world is she trying to fool besides herself?
Thanks for the comment Jeff. And I agree it’s convenient that she found a reason to come forward with the pharmaceutical endorsement.
I don’t watch her show but have caught moments here and there. I do not get the feel that she is going to tell everyone to eat her meals in moderation with any regularity at all.
That being said? She’s human. She’s been very successful. I have no problem with either of those things. What I’d just like to see is her use her massive pulpit to REALLY create some change in the lives of her viewers by being 100% forthright about what created her diabetes. She could probably keep doing a show with plenty of fatty, diabetes-promoting meals, but she could also teach and she could add in meals that really are healthy, balanced and that taste good.
I suspect she’s good people and in my years of spending Summers in Southern Illinois I can speak “southern” if need be. But I can’t lie that parts of it still crack me up. I think it was Jeff Foxworthy who said “What letter of the alphabet does ‘yount to’ start with?” Yount (Do you want) – I get it man – and I’ve heard it 100s of times – funny.
that I could buy , but I did not have money, then I pyelad it all my spare time. From then on, I got some , if I did not continue to play it, I can sell to anyone who want.
Perhaps she meant that they had found their “Hot Pocket”. Did seomone lose their lunch? I mean that in a literal way, in other words, ‘misplaced it’. Or is “finding your hot pocket” a new way of saying “lost your lunch”? For example, “I ate my hot pocket, and then I found it again because your performance was so bad it made me barf.” “Oooh, girl, he be so bad, I found my hot pocket!”