Valerie Bertinelli, 61, is committed to working on her mental health as well as her physical health! The actress revealed her dedication to working in both during an interview on The View on Tuesday, January 18. She opened up about her 50-pound weight loss in 2007, but said that even though she looked great, it had a negative effect on her mental health. Enough Already the author talks about the changes he's made since writing his book in a new interview.
Before Joy Behr asked much about her 2007 weight-loss journey, Valerie talked about the importance of losing weight as a child, noting that her father had followed her mother's ups and downs. How did you react to the weight? The actress said that even though she was happy wearing a bikini "for the first time in a very long time," she was still super self-conscious about her weight. "No matter how low that number on the scale, it was never low enough to keep me safe, and when it would rise, and it was higher, I'd think, 'Okay. I'm out in public. Can't go on. People are going to judge me, and I'm ugly, and I'm fat, and I don't deserve anything, 'cause that old lie kept repeating inside me as a little kid," she explained.
She continued to say that she is still trying to stay healthy, but she is no longer largely accounting for numbers. "I haven't weighed myself since I finished the book. I don't plan on weighing myself any time soon. My jeans still fit," she said. "That doesn't mean I won't even take care of myself. I'm going to try and eat more fruits and vegetables, drink less alcohol, eat less sugar, move my body a little bit every day so that I'm in my 80s." I can keep going up my stairs, but I don't want to care what he does."
Earlier in the interview, Valerie opened up about the need to do more than just eat right for the diet to really work. "Diets work! They totally work when you're on them, but if we don't take care of our mental health and our emotional health, no diet is going to survive maintenance because you Lose weight,” she said. The One Day At Time star also said that in 2020, she said she would, amid the death of her parents and the illness of her ex-husband Eddie Van Halen, as well as personal struggles, managed to take the weight off her mind. to the coronavirus pandemic. All those issues really put her body image in perspective. "Why would I give a flying fig that's my weight?" she said.