Cover StoryMakeover of the Year: Oprah!

Find out how her red-carpet diet triumphed over a decades-long battle of the bulge

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Winning a Daytime Emmy at her heaviest – 237 lbs. – "I felt so much like a loser," Winfrey wrote in the Februrary issue of O. Now she looks for moral support in her weight-loss struggle. Last month, still aiming to reach her "safe zone," in the 150s, she recruited four Oprah staffers for a 12-week "boot camp" program.

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