Rush Limbaugh's Weight Loss - Quick and Confusing

Posted on Jul 31st 2009 11:30AM by Jacki Donaldson

Filed Under: Diet & Weight Loss, Celebs & Entertainment

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Rush Limbaugh says he's lost almost 90 pounds since March and seven pounds since Saturday. That's some quick weight loss -- the quickest ever for the 58-year-old radio host and conservative political commentator -- but don't ask him exactly how he's done it, because as he shares on The Rush Limbaugh Show website, his program is just too intricate and detailed.

"It's too complicated," he tells American Superstar. "I mean putting the menu together is a jigsaw puzzle every day. It would take me 45 minutes every day to tell you what the diet plan is and answer all your questions about why it works." Still, he tries to explain.

Limbaugh, a known dieter, reveals he's slimming down with Quick Weight Loss Centers. He says he consumes about 1,500 calories a day, but how those calories get put together, he's not really sure. "For example, you cannot have two proteins at one meal," he says. "So I cannot have one night Surf and Turf. I can have five and a half ounces of fillet, seven ounces of chicken or fish, but I can't combine it. I can't have three ounces of beef and four ounces of fish. I don't know why. I just follow it and it works."

While Limbaugh says his diet includes protein, complex carbs, fruit, fats and some supplements -- not bad -- it's never a good idea to follow a quickie diet too complex to explain or understand. Sure, it's great that the guy is down to 211, with his sights set on 200, but isn't a sustainable diet a simple one, really?

What do you think: Is Limbaugh headed for good health or is he on a path to diet destruction?

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 22)

sunny 7-31-2009 @ 11:45AM

Ive listened to Rush for years, he's been known to do this before. Eat real low in calories, drop WEIGHT fast, and then after awhile he gains it back for awhile. I don't agree with it, which is one of the few things I disagree with him about. I would love to see him do it healthy but I don't know if thats ever going to happen.

nycasey 8-01-2009 @ 10:24AM

I've lost all my weight (25 pounds) on the Quick Weight Loss Home Program. The diet is actually a food plan that is balanced and nutritious. It is really not that complicated. It does take some concentration only at first, but this is a good thing because you really start to notice and think about food planning. Being in NYC I ate out at restaurants and was still able to lose all my weight. The products which help with the program are completely natural and food based. There are no shots and no medicines.

Rapid weight loss usually is a 300-600 calorie diet which is unmaintainable. QWLC plan has plenty of calories, as Rush explained, and I easily maintained my weight loss for 2 years.

It seems to be just sour grapes to begrudge someone who working hard and steadfastly to take back their life and health by losing their weight.

BTW, for an obese male with starting weight close to 300 lbs, losing an average of 15-18 pounds a month is not that radical.

Weight loss is non-partisan. Congratulations Rush.

sam 8-02-2009 @ 10:27AM

His addiction was to drugs he was no longer having legally prescribed for him. He used his housekeeper and committed a felony in obtaining these drugs that his physician no longer prescribed for him.I don't care what he weighs,be it 500 lbs. or 2300 lbs. He broke the law,he pled no contest,stop rationalizing for him.

CARMEN 8-02-2009 @ 12:48PM

RUSH'S DIET IS HEALTHY. HE'S TOO SMART TO EAT ANYTHING BUT GOOD FOOD. RUSH IS FUN TO LISTEN TO & MUCH MORE INFORMATIVE THAN 'OBAMA-DROOLING MEDIA'...

Ted Fortenberry 8-03-2009 @ 8:01AM

It's a healthy food diet and it's working for him very well. You Go Rush!

lee 8-03-2009 @ 8:37AM

I would ask Rush.....Has he asked himself why he substitutes food for love? and Does he eat for nourishment of the body or is it his soul that needs nourishment? These are the most important questions that anyone can ask of themselves when weight seems to be an issue.

Dr.Linda 8-03-2009 @ 5:40PM

Whoever said Rush is too smart to lose weight in an unhealthy way cracked me up. Rush is too smart???? ROFL
This is the man who takes Oxycontin. This is the man who thinks all drug abusers should be in prison except for him.
He's a dangerous man. I only hope that this diet makes him too sick to speak so he stops infecting the airwaves with his hatred of everything that he disagrees with.

sieben13 8-03-2009 @ 9:14PM

Junkies lose weight fast, this is a given . rush limbaugh is a JUNKIE

kimbucsue 8-03-2009 @ 10:20AM

Most of his weight is in his big mouth. Hope he loses that too !!!

dkzk 8-03-2009 @ 11:21AM

g'odd bless him, butt even if he gets down to 150, he's always gonna be a blessed little piggy.

John Douglas 8-03-2009 @ 3:03PM

He needs more physical exercise than just jawing, otherwise the pounds will return.

joel robbins 8-03-2009 @ 12:30PM

Having a hard time figuring out how Rush lost ninety (90) pounds so quickly. Let's see: (1) shed conscience: 1 ounce; (2) relinquished sense of fairness: less than 1 ounce; (3) gave up integrity: 1.5 ounces; (4) while being chased by police and his probation officer, threw his bag of Oxycontins in the nearest Dumpster: 90 pounds. Eureka!

aLachman 8-03-2009 @ 12:36PM

Sunny, 1500 calories is not a low-calorie diet. If one is eating the right foods this can be very filling, or two hot fudge sundaes with nuts and whipped cream will fill the bill for two meals and you need to go to more calories to make up the difference, sabotaging the whole limited calorie concept. He says he is satisfied with the amount of food he is eating and is not feeling deprived. This is the key. If you feel deprived, you WILL cheat.

Richard 8-03-2009 @ 2:32PM

Rush is no different than anyone else that wants to lose weight. I agree he is a smart man, I'm sure that he has put thought into what he is doing regarding his diet. Good for Rush he has the fortitude to stay on a diet. I hope that he stays heathy and keeps telling it like it is.

Rosalie 8-04-2009 @ 1:08PM

I have been a lifetime member of WW International for over 40 years, and I initially lost about 60 pounds and since then I have lost an additional ten pounds and kept it off. It's not difficult if you eat the amounts of food you need to sustain life, but not gourge yourself to the point you appear as a pig. We eat anything we want, in normal human bites, and if a small weight gain happens, we cut back for a couple of days, and we're back to our normal weight.

Getting started is always the difficult part, but put your mind and heart to it, and it can be done. It's not a diet, it's a way of life.

Stephanie RL 8-17-2009 @ 1:40PM

It's called Cocaine, once an addict, always an addict.

Bradstar54 8-17-2009 @ 8:33PM

If you can disagree with Rush on a diet and not with the clearly false hyperbole that he clearly spews everyday then you are truly a member of his crowd of assholes.

Pamela 9-29-2009 @ 11:35PM

He lost weight before with oxycontin addiction and he's currently used drugs to slim down. Notice his eyes and speech patterns, movement, on Jay Leno? Not normal. Not caffiene. Speed? Can't pinpoint, but drugs for sure.

Sharon Kamp 8-02-2009 @ 7:08AM

loosing weight and maintaining that lose is a LIFE TIME COMMITMENT!! And there is no other way to maintain! So find something that works for you and keep telling your self this is forever and my health and life style are worth it!!

April 8-02-2009 @ 5:18PM

I have been stuggleling with my weight on and off all my life. The only thing that has worked for me and others I know is exactly what you said. That's the only real way to get it done right, On top of working out 'that is'. I have five chidren. Ages 37 through 22. I was Fifteen when I got married and refused to let having children keep me from having a normal sexy fiquire. I couldn't believe that We (as women) was put here on earth to lose our bodies. The one thing that really turns a pig man on, only because we're the ones designed to carry the babies. There's nothing fair or right about that. We just have to work harder at it. To get back into to shape. Excuse me for calling men pigs, they can't help it. The way they sterotype mothers and assume that the only truly attractive women out there are sixteen year olds, women that look like tramps and models. (Really, don't get me wrong thier are some great guys that can look and love from the heart first) They are just few and far between. What my mother would call them the cream of the crop! So if any of you have one of those men by all means treasure them. Because I can tell them something too! Real women that have babies, gain,& loose the weight and put up with them looking and wanting other women ( just for fun Even) Are far and few between too. So be glad for what you have. It takes a Hell of a Women to have Children and still come back, Still looking sexy! Try picturing a man going through all that strecthing, having thier whole body pulled in every directions while vomiting thier guts ups. This just before having to get ready for company and pretending that thier feeling fine and praying that they can get through the night without anyone noticiing that thier feet are so swollow and in such pain they can barely walk. Yet, while doing so thier feet are hanging out of thier shoes. Now, Can Anyone imagine this sight, just alittle something we all women have to go through...Not Minding Now as long as we have a man that understands and doesn't keep checking out the other women! We'll Do everything to please THEM as long They See Us! "Now" Eat Healthy, Workout make sure it's your new life style. Look good for your man but esspecally for you! P.S. Remember After all your hard work, Your Life Change we'll say for your sake and his. If he doesn't notice or care. Try to join you in your quest for fitness, maybe? Leave him alone. Just what ever you do Don't let him pull you down to his level. He'll love you for looking great! You'll love him for loving you. Believe it or not. I know this for fact.And, It's The truth! I'm leaving now, signing out. P.S. As far as Rush goes "I guess good for him' I'd rather see him pregnant and then try his little diet plan. Or yet, maybe he is pregnant, Ah!