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RUSH: You know, this really is mind-boggling. I mean, I\u2019m sitting here minding my own business, bothering nobody (yet), doing daily show prep; and about ten minutes ago, 15 minutes ago Cookie sends me the audio sound bite roster; and I find out looking at the audio sound bite roster that they trashed my diet on Good Morning America today. Then the babes at The View got involved trashing the diet and me. They even had some female doctor, their medical correspondent on Good Morning America, come on and talk about my diet. If they want to talk to me about it, I would be glad to tell \u2019em but they didn\u2019t. They just play a couple of little sound bites and react to it anyway. Greetings, folks. I\u2019ll play the audio for you as the program unfolds. There frankly are things more important than my diet. (laughing) Telephone number if you want to be on the show today, 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

Screw it! Let\u2019s just get it out of the way now. The poor people at Quick Weight Loss! I said I was only going to mention it one time, last Friday, and those poor people have been overwhelmed. Their website shut down for a couple hours and they\u2019re still having trouble with all the phone calls. Look, I don\u2019t know if you people watch Good Morning America. I don\u2019t. So I didn\u2019t know about this \u2019til I got the sound bite roster. Co-host Robin Roberts talking to their correspondent, Yunji de Nies, about me and my weight loss. Robin Roberts says, ‘For months we didn\u2019t know what was going on as the pounds came off.\u2019 I didn\u2019t even know they noticed or cared! ‘But radio host Rush Limbaugh\u2019s now revealing he\u2019s down nearly 90 pounds,\u2019 no, 80, ‘in less than five months.\u2019 No, it\u2019s not less than five months. I can say six: March, April, May, June, July. I guess it is five. All right. They got that right. ‘How did he do it? Can you do it? Is it safe?\u2019<\/p>\n

DE NIES: Rush Limbaugh is big. Big voice, big audience, big opinions, and simply a big guy. But the radio giant is getting smaller thanks to his diet secret.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: It\u2019s the easiest one, and it\u2019s the fastest, and I\u2019m 58 years old.<\/p>\n

DE NIES: That secret? Quick Weight Loss Centers, a Florida-based company that combines a low-calorie diet, office visits, and supplements; including protein boosters, carb blockers and appetite suppressants. Doctors say diets like this do work but often the weight loss doesn\u2019t last. That\u2019s because to maintain it you essentially need to stay on the diet forever. <\/p>\n

RUSH: (groans) Ugh, gee.<\/p>\n

DE NIES: Hours after Limbaugh revealed his secret weight loss weapon, the company\u2019s name became the fastest-rising search on Google. Like the host, many in his audience are undoubtedly looking for a quick fix.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Gee! (laughing) All right. Now, we\u2019ve got three more, four more sound bites here. Let\u2019s just take this one. The appetite suppressant, that\u2019s early on. It\u2019s hoodia and it\u2019s a multiple vitamin pill and I don\u2019t know that it worked. I\u2019m not hungry on this diet! It\u2019s a lot food. It\u2019s more food than I\u2019ve ever eaten on a diet. It\u2019s about 1500 calories a day but you don\u2019t add them up. That\u2019s not how you did it. The point… You know, all these people are out there saying obesity is a big problem, right? ‘Get on a diet! You gotta lose weight!\u2019 So I get on a diet and lose weight and they say, ‘It won\u2019t work! He\u2019s going to put it right back on. He\u2019s been starving himself.\u2019 I have not been starving. These people — these doctors, these medical people — can\u2019t get it straight. <\/p>\n

Either we shouldn\u2019t lose weight or we should, and when we do it — and I\u2019ll guarantee you this: If Obama were on this diet, they would love it. It would be the best diet that the media had ever heard of, and they\u2019d be reporting it coast to coast, and they\u2019d put Obama\u2019s picture on the Quick Weight Loss Centers logo and so forth. The point about staying on the diet forever, I made that point last Friday. This is a diet where you can do that. It\u2019s real food! It\u2019s just… Everybody says you gotta relearn how to eat to keep your weight off. That\u2019s what this diet does. Now they went out and they got their medical babe, Dr. Marie Savard, and Robin Roberts said, ‘What\u2019s your take on the diet that Limbaugh used, Dr. Savard?\u2019<\/p>\n

SAVARD: I do applaud him for making the attempt. I call it ‘the four S\u2019s,\u2019 but in fact what we\u2019re talking about first is Starvation. To lose that much weight — and he talked about losing as much as a pound a day, which is not safe — <\/p>\n

ROBERTS: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

SAVARD: — you need to severely cut your calories, which means you\u2019re in the starvation mode, has potentially dangerous health effects. Second is the notion of structure, and he talks a lot about the structure. That means limited choices in the diet — and as he described, he wasn\u2019t allowed to have two proteins together like chicken and beef — <\/p>\n

ROBERTS: Mmm-hmm!<\/p>\n

SAVARD: — on the other hand he contradicts it by saying for breakfast, ‘I have both a milk and an egg product.\u2019 So structure helps people, but it\u2019s limited and that\u2019s the opposite of what we need to learn to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) That doesn\u2019t make sense to me. The diet works. It works and it works well, and it\u2019s solid. Of course there are going to be limited choices on any diet. Life has limits! These people are so contradictory. Here they are targeting obesity as one of the main things we\u2019ve gotta fix in order to bring down health care costs, and then they trash virtually every way people come up with of losing weight. ‘It will never work, doesn\u2019t keep the weight off,\u2019 and there is no starvation (zip, zero, nada) and there was no contradiction on the two proteins because at breakfast you can combine say a cottage cheese with an Egg Beaters&reg; or whatever, but that\u2019s the only time. Other than that you\u2019re not allowed. I don\u2019t know why. I didn\u2019t question it. I tried it and it worked. Robin Roberts said, ‘What about the supplements, Dr. Savard? Usually there\u2019s something extra.\u2019<\/p>\n

SAVARD: Third S: Supplements, both herbal supplements and vitamins along with food supplements. So the herbal supplements that they\u2019re promoting — and they make a big point saying, not ephedra, not the high stimulant ones.<\/p>\n

ROBERTS: Mmmph!<\/p>\n

SAVARD: But it does have hoodia. Also vitamins, minerals, fish oils in the diet, and then food supplements — things like shakes and highly processed powders that you kind of mix into liquids. So supplements are costly. That\u2019s a third factor. And fourth, a good thing: is support. So if you go in, you have personalized counseling, you can do it online. That fourth S is really important.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, support. Like the kind I\u2019m getting now from Good Morning America. ‘It won\u2019t work. It\u2019s too fast. You starved yourself. You\u2019re going to have health problems. You\u2019re gonna die. You shoulda not even done it.\u2019 Finally, Robin Roberts says, ‘Men we know lose weight a little bit faster, a little bit better. It\u2019s not fair, but it happens. It happens.<\/p>\n

SAVARD: He\u2019s still losing up to a pound a day, which is a lot of weight loss and it\u2019s unsafe. He\u2019s not going to keep that off. Sustainability is the ultimate bottom line. He can\u2019t do it with that type of a diet. What is key and is missing is exercise. He admits that he golfs but otherwise does not exercise. <\/p>\n

ROBERTS: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

SAVARD: That\u2019s the foundation. It builds muscle mass. That\u2019s what works. It\u2019s kind of a lifestyle pill that we don\u2019t want to swallow.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. So I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing. In fact, I cannot do what I\u2019ve done. I didn\u2019t really lose the weight — and, by the way, it\u2019s 80 pounds. Now, that\u2019s five months times 30 average days in a month. Five times 30 is 150 rebuke right? Eighty pounds in 150 days is not a pound a day. What I said was, ‘Up until about 30 it was pretty close to a pound a day,\u2019 and I was amazed by it. So I can\u2019t do it what I\u2019ve done. What I\u2019ve done that I can\u2019t do won\u2019t work — and even if it does work, it won\u2019t last \u2019cause I\u2019m going to not exercise enough to satisfy Dr. Savard. And so I\u2019m going to regain the weight. It\u2019s just automatic. This also came up on The View today. Whoopi Goldberg, Sherri Shepherd and Joy Behar have this exchange about the diet.<\/line><\/line>GOLDBERG: Rush has dropped 90 pounds in less than six months thanks to the Florida-based Quick Weight Loss Centers. That\u2019s a short amount of time to lose that much weight.<\/line><\/p>\n

SHEPHERD: He\u2019s taking appetite suppressants.<\/p>\n

BEHARD: Yeah, which are dangerous. It screws you up.<\/p>\n

GOLDBERG: Looks good.<\/p>\n

SHEPHERD: Thing is you don\u2019t keep that weight off.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not taking appetite suppressants. But anyway, there you have it. They wish I was dead anyway! All these people wish I was dead anyway so why aren\u2019t they celebrating here? I\u2019m going to die! I\u2019m starving! I\u2019m not going to be able to keep the weight off. I\u2019m engaging in terrific health risks here — and since they all do want me dead I think it maybe would be good if they were just happy about all this. As I say, folks, it kinda… In all seriousness here, these people… I\u2019m going to be repetitive. These people, whoever they are — be they in the media, be they in the medical community — are really focused on obesity how much it\u2019s costing us health care-wise how unhealthy it is. They\u2019re out there urging people to do something about it and then when somebody like me goes out and does something about it, ‘Bah, it won\u2019t work! He won\u2019t keep it off. It don\u2019t work, that diet!\u2019<\/p>\n

They say that about every diet. I have yet to hear a medical person on television tell me the diet that works. I hear \u2019em say, ‘Well, reduce your calories and exercise.\u2019 Well, I\u2019m doing half of that, and it\u2019s not like I\u2019m sitting around vegging. (laughing) At any rate, what bothers me about this is that these poor people at Quick Weight Loss Centers are having their diet maligned and I just want to reiterate to you — and I\u2019m not being paid for this. This is one of the reasons I didn\u2019t mention this at all during the whole process of being on the diet was that I didn\u2019t want to have any official tie-in, and I don\u2019t. I\u2019m just telling you — and I\u2019ve done every diet that there is. I have done every diet there is. I\u2019m 58 years old. This is the first diet that I have not felt deprived, have not felt sorry for myself because I feel like I\u2019m in denial because I\u2019ve been satisfied. I\u2019ve lost weight faster than I ever have at age 58, and I think it\u2019s probably the healthiest I have been eating in years. <\/p>\n

So you can believe me who has done it, or you can believe them who haven\u2019t done it. (interruption) They said I couldn\u2019t do it. They said you couldn\u2019t do what I\u2019ve done. Well, they\u2019re talking about keeping it off. They don\u2019t know what they\u2019ve done now. They don\u2019t know what they\u2019ve done now. They say I… (interruption) No, no, no. I\u2019m not going to exercise. No! I\u2019m going to keep it off. I\u2019m not through losing. That\u2019s going to bug \u2019em even more. They\u2019re just mad that I look studly. When you get right down to it, they\u2019re just mad that I look good. That\u2019s why they hate Sarah Palin, and now they can add my good looks and my studly behavior and appearance to all the other reasons that they hate me. I mean, they used to make fun of my weight all the time, and now I\u2019m losing it too fast. You cannot… That\u2019s why, folks, you can\u2019t go through life trying to please other people. You can\u2019t open yourself up to the approval of others for anything that you do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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