Make The Connection

Description for MAKE THE CONNECTION: TEN STEPS TO A BETTER BODY---AND A BETTER LIFE by Bob Greene and Oprah Winfrey: " 'And the nominees for Best Talk Show Host are...' Those five seconds when the announcer is calling your name---no matter who you are or what you've been told about what an honor it is to be nominated---at that moment, when your name is announced before the world, you want to win. Except this night, I honestly didn't care..." So begins Oprah Winfrey's account of her embarrassment when she won the coveted Emmy Award in 1992, ashamed at having to walk onstage at her heaviest weight ever---237 pounds. She reveals her emotional and moving weight-loss saga---her issues with weight, the years of tryting every diet and failing, the yo-yoing back and forth, from a high point of carrying pounds of fat in a wheelbarrow on her show to illustrate her apparent success to the low point of regaining all that weight. But in 1992, Oprah's life changed: She met Bob Greene,