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WEIGHT-LOSS SPAS
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RESORTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Never eat more than you can lift.
—Miss Piggy
89 | Actor Jeff Garlin lost 50 pounds on his last vacation. Okay, so that's an exaggeration. But
the Golden Globe-winning actor who played Larry David's bumbling agent on the TV series
Curb Your Enthusiasm, did lose 50 pounds, and he did it compliments of a Florida weight-loss
spa that taught him how to stick with an exercise and eating plan. A self-proclaimed “lifetime
member of the Hostess family,” Garlin, who is diabetic and had a stroke when he was only 37,
cranked up the treadmill, filled his plate with low-fat, high-fiber food, attended lectures, and
submitted to twice-weekly physical exams during his week at the Pritikin Longevity Center
and Spa.
“This Pritikin experience came right out and punched me in the face,” Garlin says. “I
thought I knew everything about food and fat, but, boy oh boy, was I wrong.” By the third day,
Garlin was off his diabetic medicine.
Garlin is one of thousands of Americans who are opting to spend their vacation at a
weight-loss spa. Instead of a tan, they're coming home with healthier, thinner bodies. Instead
of tacky trinkets, they're bringing back lists of healthy foods and exercise routines.
If terms like “fat farm,” “deprivation,” and “torture” come to mind, you might as well put
those antiquated notions out on the curb with your old Jane Fonda tapes. Today's weight-loss
spas are luxurious (Pritikin, for example, is located at a yacht club on a Florida island), fun
(Garlin, after his 90-minute daily bout with the treadmill, got in 18 holes at the center's cham-
pionship waterfront golf course), and relaxing.
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