"Twenty sugar-free Popsicles. Twelve grape sodas. Chips. Two burritos. A tostada. I was eating six, seven, eight thousand calories a day," said Cheers actress Kirstie Alley describing the out-of-control eating habits that caused her weight to balloon.
"I had a holiday mentality. I ate with wild abandon," said the star who lost 75 pounds on the Jenny Craig diet this year.
Alley says she was desperately trapped in a vicious cycle of binge eating and consumed massive amounts of food every day. The star unveiled her trimmer figure on The Oprah Winfrey Show yesterday wearing a mauve-colored bikini.
Alley says the motivation to start losing weight began with a simple thought, "I'm old, I'm fat. What am I worth?"
The star tells Winfrey that she has more confidence now than she did in her younger years adding, "I was so introverted about my body. When I looked back on my movies and things (I thought), 'Wow, you had a really nice body.' But, at the time, I was (feeling) not good enough."
The star insists her life is back on track adding, "I feel happy with the way I look and feel. For me, that's the greatest thing that's happened."
