Her father, James Guidroz, was a boat captain and part-time carpenter, while mother Gertrude grew her own vegetables. In addition, she spent most of her childhood with her five siblings in the United States. She belongs to the Scottish-English heritage. Jenny Craig studied at Southwestern Business School and worked as a dental hygienist for a time, but by her late 30s, she was married to a building contractor.
She was the mother of two young daughters, Michelle and Denise. After the baby was born, she remained 45 pounds overweight.
Craig resolved to take action. She went to work, wanting to live a long and healthy life with her family. Within a few months, she had lost 30 pounds. She then went to work for the health club in New Orleans and was eventually promoted to management. She began to see a need for health and diet education. Craig met future husband Sid Craig in when he arrived in the New Orleans area to expand a chain of failing fitness centers he had just bought.
It's a win win. I have lost 43 lbs in 6 months and have reached my goal weight. I have been maintaining within 4 lbs of my goal weight for 3 months now. Walking and going to the gym are now part of my life which never was before. Thanks Jenny Craig and the dedicated staff. The best weight loss program ever. I loss 10 pounds in 4 weeks.
Was never hungry and the food is delicious. I love this program. Sadly I rejoined in and it felt off. No one weighed me. Talking down to me. Lecturing me. I was so disappointed I had to quit. I always dropped weight The previous tones I was on program but I never went back.
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Display as a link instead. Clear editor. Upload or insert images from URL. How Jenny Craig was founded In the early s, Mrs. Q: Why is the human touch so important during the weight loss process? So I went to my dentist.
And he said he couldn't tell, but he said, "I'll send you to a TMJ specialist. That's temporal mandibular joint. And he told me that my jaw was chronically dislocating. He sent me to another specialist who sent me to another specialist CRAIG: What happened, because I had stripped all the muscles in my face, I was using my tongue to hold my jaw up, so I was trying to talk and do that at the same time, and my speech became very garbled.
So I kept going from doctor to doctor. I went to 18 doctors all over the country. And they all kept telling me the same thing.
I've never seen it before. So I continued to search for an answer, and finally, I heard about this doctor who was performing surgery on children who had disabilities, you know, that had cleft palate, cleft lip, and There was a term when we were kids, we used to hear a lot of -- lockjaw. You had to rebuild the muscle? CRAIG: He had to use dissolvable screws to attach them to my cheekbones, and it was a lot of surgery. In the beginning, right after surgery, he suggested I start having speech therapy, which I did.
And in those days, I was practicing speech exercises like four and five hours a day. He said, "You have no muscle tone whatsoever in your face. KING: Now, it wasn't money. You could have afforded anyone. Did you travel outside the United States? Every time I heard of a doctor that could possibly supply a solution, I said I'm on the plane. And I -- I see my therapist once a week.
In the beginning, she was coming seven days a week. She did that for a year. And let's show you part of what they do down there each morning. I watch what I eat. Challenge yourself. You'll like the change. She's -- she is -- she teaches, in fact. It's called focal dystonia, which sort of concentrates on a particular area. KING: What, then, do you think happened while you were sleeping? What happened in that second? We'll talk about her business and diet, and lots of other things -- some controversy she's been embroiled in, and this amazing recovery.
We'll be taking your calls as well. Don't go away. We're going to start with the exercises, I think you know them. We've had a lot of ups and downs on things. Sometimes it seems that things go along very well, and then she plateaus for a little bit, not much.
She doesn't plateau often. Jenny's a tenacious worker. She is very diligent. She always guarantees me, no matter where she is, what she's doing.
And if I'm not there, she practices every day. Now, she's doing it to look great every day. Georgia Matera ph called Jenny Craig to lose weight for her year reunion. Now, she is doing it for her daily reunions. Losing weight for a big event is a great reason for you to call Jenny Craig, but don't forget the biggest of event all, your life.
Sometimes, like this morning, we were doing the ch's. When my therapist comes, she usually talks to me and she'll say, uh-oh, we have to work on the ch's. One of the things I learned, I think it gave me a deeper insight and appreciation as to what our clients go through.
You know, they try a diet. It doesn't work. They go to another diet, it doesn't work. They keep trying things, and it's very frustrating. I experienced the same kind of thing. And, so I really empathize with them. I understand the challenges they're facing. And, you know, there is nothing I can do to change what happened.
Jenny, why don't you just accept it. I said, I will never accept it. I'm going to keep trying until I find an answer. I know somewhere out there there is a solution. He donates all of his time to children with these deformities. None of them. I went to physical therapists. KING: This could mean that other muscles could lock in the body. Can people have a knee that locks?
For instance, Sid had surgery on his knee. He had a torn meniscus, which is the same thing, it's a torn muscle. So, you know, it does happen to other people. KING: So really, what you have to learn do is you learned a muscle again, like learning to walk? Just nothing. You couldn't feel them. I was born in New Orleans, and the interesting thing is that it's probably a lesson in So, that's good. KING: Now your husband was in another business; right? He was in the fitness business when you met.
And so we decided we were we were too young to retire, so we went to Australia and we started the Jenny Craig program. CRAIG: Well, there was no comprehensive weight loss program there, and they have the same obesity problem that America does.
Their lifestyle is pretty much similar to ours. KING: But what did you know that other people didn't know in the field? What made Jenny Craig catch on? I have learned the things that work and the things that don't work, and we have a very good medical staff that advises us along with our dietitians, the staff dietitians, who put together the program based on the latest research on nutrition, on weight management, and disease control. We will be taking your calls.
Of the national programs, one had food rated highest in taste, texture and appearance. It also had a knowledgeable and supportive staff, and the cost was reasonable. Now which program was it? KING: How did you get the idea that you'd participate in your own, that you'd do a lot of television commercials, that you would sell this through media? You know, we've often used clients to show the before and after, to just to show people that, hey, if they can do it, then you can do it. But of course, we didn't have success stories the first day we opened.
So, I said, well, I'll go out there and do it. And I did, and it seemed to be working so I just continued to do it. Our program is based on nutritional eating, on an active lifestyle, and on having a balanced approach to living. CRAIG: But it's not just about fat, Larry, it's about the support, the support system and learning how to make the necessary lifestyle changes that are conducive to a healthy body. KING: One thing, maybe a rap against you, was didn't you not, for a time, endorse fen-phen?
CRAIG: Well, when we heard that, you know, that was a very good thing to do, it was -- it was effective, and our medical staff said, you know, as far as we know, there's no reason not to. We have always tried to give clients every benefit. You know, if we could supply something that would help them to do it easier and quicker, we would do it. CRAIG: So we introduced and as soon as we found out that it wasn't as safe as they had originally thought, we immediately pulled it.
CRAIG: Well, you know, any drug only works with a combination of active lifestyle and common sense eating. I mean, you know, to take a drug and think that you can eat anything you want and sit around and watch TV all day, it doesn't work. KING: Do you work psychologically, too? Do you deal with why people overeat? Now, stress comes in all different forms, but usually when people are stressed, they turn to comfort foods to sort of make them feel better.
We have found that that is the most responsible for weight gain and overeating. KING: Why is it so hard to lick? I mean, it's not a drug that, like a tobacco or a you know, a something like heroin or liquor that you're addicted to.
You can't -- you're not addicted to food, are you? You don't have to do those other things. They're options. You don't have an option with eating. You have to eat to live.
And so to see it there in front of you all the time, to be exposed to it, it is a temptation, and that's why it's important to learn how to make the right choices so that you can eat all the food you want to be satiated and yet at the same time, not expose yourself to health risks. KING: I would imagine you have had offers to buy Jenny Craig, and one would think that with the illness, you gave it some thought. Did you?
I really love what I do. I -- it's extremely motivating to me. You know, I go out, I see people who have been successful on the program or they know someone who has been successful.
I hear these wonderful stories, how their whole lives changed, not just the way they look. At the bottom of the hour, we'll go to your calls. Her company has been one of the most notable weight loss establishments in the world. Jenny Craig Inc.
Craig uses counseling along with a healthy but delicious menu which has a controlled caloric count. She prepares the menus that meet the USDA dietary guidelines and includes fruits, vegetables, milk products, whole grains, healthy fats, lean meat, fish, poultry, eggs, nuts and beans. She does everything according to the client; first she analyses every aspect and then prepares the menu. For the elderly and Type 2 diabetics, for example, she creates meatless menus.
The meals are delivered directly to the clients from their centers. In Jenny Craig Inc.
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