Sherri Shepherd Shares Weight-Loss Secrets (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC1MuNVXlZ0-7k3z6q25AQCVfXrPc98ana8mfJnu032HxWEla2mCPSQs3u6PY3mGpDBtv9RSe7qbNg81H6KTS-oRUmvweod9Xjy-JP9tPM23kJDu_ztyj5ie4TCSE8Lc5krK4r6KSAYp0/s1600/GTY_sherri_shepherd_tk_131223_16x9_992.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC1MuNVXlZ0-7k3z6q25AQCVfXrPc98ana8mfJnu032HxWEla2mCPSQs3u6PY3mGpDBtv9RSe7qbNg81H6KTS-oRUmvweod9Xjy-JP9tPM23kJDu_ztyj5ie4TCSE8Lc5krK4r6KSAYp0/s320/GTY_sherri_shepherd_tk_131223_16x9_992.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.453125px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Sherri Shepherd has reached another weight-loss milestone.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.453125px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"So far it's been about 20 pounds I've lost," she told ABC News last week.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.453125px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"The View" host is on a roll. This comes after she <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20726350,00.html" style="color: #005490; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">told People magazine</a> in August she had already lost more than 40 pounds after years of working out.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.453125px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">What's her secret?</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.453125px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"I do Zumba every night. I find a Zumba class, or put in my DVDs," she said of the dance fitness routine she's been doing for more than two years.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.453125px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Shepherd, 46, also has a strategy to avoid overindulging at restaurants, especially over the holiday season.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.453125px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"I tell people eat before you go to a restaurant," she said. "A lot of times, you go to a restaurant and you're so hungry. I eat before I go, cause the point is to have great conversation. So, I'm already full and that helps me."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.453125px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">She added, "And you got to have a plan so keeps some snacks and stuff in your purse … I always carry apples and peanut butter in my purse to give me that boost of energy to get me through the day."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.453125px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Shepherd spoke to ABC News after she had just overcome one of her biggest fears.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.453125px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Align Probiotic has created a <a href="https://getgutsyalign.com/" style="color: #005490; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Get Gutsy campaign</a> for people to enter in what they think would take guts to overcome. Shepherd knew immediately what she wanted to do.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.453125px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"I said I think I want to try horseback riding because I hadn't done it before," the host, actress and author said. "We went to an equestrian center and they taught me how to ride a horse!"</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.453125px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Not only did Shepherd conquer that fear, but she said she would love to ride again with her son Jeffrey, 8, who has his eyes set on electronics gifts for Christmas.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.453125px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"Jeffrey just now decided to give me an updated, revised Christmas list," Shepherd said. "He wants a Kindle Fire. I am going to get him an old Kindle. He wants an iPod, I am going to give him one of my old iPods."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.453125px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">As for her husband Lamar Sally, who she married in 2011, he's your typical football fan.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.453125px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"He's into the Patriots, so I already got him a signed jersey, signed football, all I can really do is get Tom Brady to show up at the house," she joked. "I would be wife of the year."</div><br />YahooNews</div>

Sherri Shepherd Shares Weight-Loss Secrets (BLOG)

Sherri Shepherd has reached another weight-loss milestone. "So far it's been about 20 pounds I've lost," she told ABC News...

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