May 07, 2008 09:23 AM EDT
(Updated: May 08, 2008 09:05 PM EDT)
Hi everyone. This Thursday evening, at 8:00 PM EDT, Gather will be hosting a LIVE chat with actress, singer, dancer, and most importantly, author of "Wear Your Life Well", Marilu Henner.
Marilu's most recent book, "Wear Your Life Well", is an immensely entertaining and informative book, detailing Marilu's perspective on life and health.
In a nutshell, she believes that if you FEEL good about yourself, others will perceive that in you.
Please join me, as I host this event. If you cannot join us Thursday evening, but still have a question, please leave it in the comment section below and I will make sure it gets asked.
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Comments: 172
I will try to make it.
Everyone in Ameica seems to be obsessed with becoming a celebrity. I guess they feel it will somehow make them a happier person. In the long run, is it easier or harder to be happy once someone does become a celebrity ?
I too believe that if you feel good about yourself, others will too. My question is: Today's society standards have changed. Teens are anorexic so they can be thin like models and actresses they see on the screen. How do you think the media, movie industry and authors can help them feel better about themselves.?
Hope you all can be here tomorrow evening for what is bound to be an exciting chat with Marilu!!!
I will announce the chat in the Thursday Edition of Today On Gather. It will be published after 9 PM tonight.
that I have enjoyed her work on TV since Taxi and forward, and admire her for her
turning her knowledge of keeping fit and well over to the people that need her help.
Hello Marilu, incase I don't make it tomorrow, you are an inspiration to many.
:( I look forward to reading it!
I will try to make it but May 8th is Kelly's birthday. If we are staying home, I will be there!
Bev
Marilu, I was proud to read your book and offer my review. I have read so many self-help books and diet books, etc. I was pretty sure I wasn't going to find anything new in yours. But I was so surprised to find many new ideas and a couple of real ah ha moments.
I can only say I am very glad to have read your work and I have begun to make some great changes in my thinking!
So if I am not here, please take my sincere thanks for what you gave me!
namaste
I'm so excited to be talking to all of you in a matter of minutes!
For those of you who can't make it, please don't worry, you will be able to read the transcript!
Talk to you soon!
Marilu
Welcome. I'm so excited to have the opportunity to talk with you about "Wear Your Life Well". I can't tell you how much I enjoyed it, and some passages I have read over and over...for example, the excerpt about your and Michael's relationship.
I want to start the evening off with one of my own questions, and acknowledging right off the bat that this is the first of your books I have read.
My question is: Do your kids embrace your eating habits, or are they typical kids and sneak the junk in every once in a while?
Unfortunately, that's the way Gather works.
Stephanie
To answer your first question Donna, my boys have been raised eating the way I eat. They don't have as many problems keeping up a healthy lifestyle as you would think. Now that's not to say that they don't have birthday cake at birthdays, or some candy at Halloween, but I can tell you this: They have never had a glass of milk, or a cheeseburger made from beef and cheese, or a grilled cheese sandwich, or even ribs!
They are typical boys, age 13 1/2 and 12, and they might have a slice of cheese pizza once in a while, but usually Nicky will scrape off most of the cheese because invariably he will get a stuffy nose, stomachache, and constipation problems.
That is just awesome. I copied some of the questions from earlier, and George Corneliussen asks:
Everyone in Ameica seems to be obsessed with becoming a celebrity. I guess they feel it will somehow make them a happier person. In the long run, is it easier or harder to be happy once someone does become a celebrity ?
Here is my dilema....my 7 year old has some very bad eating habits. Mostly my fault....it was easier to go through McDonalds drive thru after working 12 hour days....now I am trying to get him and the rest of the family to embrace better eating habits but it is a struggle with him...any suggestions?
I was not always this health conscious, but after my father died of a heart attack at 52, and my mother the dance teacher died from rheumatoid arthritis after having her leg amputated, I decided to take charge of my health and completely changed my lifestyle.
Losing your parents, both in their 50s, was a major wake-up call.
You book parallels many instances in my own life, including changing my eating habit, I lost 60# after he died, changed my hair, lifestyle etc...
You have to make the new healthy food as much fun as the drive-thru. The thing that's very difficult is that children are being pumped up with so many chemicals, dyes, sugars, hormones and steroids - and then when they can't sit still in school, we say they have behavioral problems and then we label them ADD and ADHD and feed them pharmaceuticals. Your son is at the age where he is learning to read. Teach him how to read a label and have him eat only real food.
The transition may be difficult at first, but it will be well worth it!
I lost it, but I did not say I kept it off....I met my dear Bill, and he realized I'm a good cook, and I began cooking all those "down home" foods and gained most of it back in the past 4 years. We have begun eating vegetarian(for the most part), and I have not weighed myself, but my jeans sure are fitting better..lol
Thanks for that. It has always worked for me, and I am very productive and successful at work, but I just cannot keep a tidy desk for the life of me.
Maybe your next endeavor should be about sexuality...I think every man in the country would buy it, and give it to their sweeties..
Which leads to my next question, What's next for Marilu?
I also have a television movie on Lifetime sometime this summer - I recently heard August or September.
And teaching my classes at Marilu.com. We have one starting Monday, based on the Booty Camp Blitz!
Putting together my club act!
Lecturing around the country.
And of course my two most important jobs - being a wife to Michael and mother to Nick and Joey.
... and writing! Always writing! I have three more books in mind.