Mia Tyler talks about her battle with weight

Plus-sized model Mia Tyler, the daughter of rocker Steven Tyler and half-sister to actress Liv Tyler, talks to ET in her first TV interview about the night she almost took her own life!




"I felt like I was so lost and there was no way out and I was tired of being lonely," she tells ET's Thea Andrews. "I was really on the edge and I was ready to do it and I wasn't scared."
Mia has written a no-holds-barred autobiography, Creating Myself, in which tells the unvarnished truth about the night she sat on the edge of a Hollywood Hills balcony and considered taking the leap.

"I remember sitting on that balcony and, for the first time, I just didn't care and that's when I really knew I was in trouble, because I didn't care about other people," she admits.

Mia also reveals in Creating Myself her addiction to cutting, a phenomenon in which one stabs oneself until blood is drawn.

"Cutting is like doing a drug," Mia says. "You cut yourself and there's a moment where you don't feel anything, then the blood rushes and you feel alive … I was a secret cutter. I knew it was wrong, but it felt so good, so I didn't want people to see, so I started getting tattoos to cover my scars."

Mia, who was a very successful plus-sized model earning between $20,000 and $30,000 per shoot, says she still battles the desire to cut herself.

Tina Yothers talks about Weight loss Struggles

Just a little something I found about Tina Yothers

Former Family Ties star and Celebrity Fit Club winner Tina Yothers, 34, gave birth to a baby boy Monday morning, PEOPLE has confirmed.

She and husband Robert Kaiser welcomed Jake Kaiser, weighing in at 8.8 lbs., at 6:08 a.m. at an Orange County hospital. This is the fourth child for the growing brood whose last addition, Lilly, turns two next month (Kaiser has two sons from a previous marriage).




Even at five months pregnant, Yothers was slimmer than before her Fit Club 4 appearance: “I was triple this size when I was pregnant with Lilly since I only worked out my hand and mouth,” she told PEOPLE in April. Her tip for weight-loss success? “Find a cookie you don’t like.”

After reaching a bikini-ready body last October Yothers confessed to PEOPLE in April, “If you’ve ever struggled with weight, you feel like gaining it back is right around the corner.” Still, she has managed to keep on track this time around by sticking to a modified NutriSystem diet and working out three days a week.

New "Exercise Pill' Offers Promise For those with Mobility Issues

This sounds promising for those unable to exercise

	It sounds like a couch potato's dream come true - an "exercise pill" that keeps the body trim and fit without having to budge from the sofa. The drug has already been tested in mice, and scientists are so concerned about the implications they are developing ways to prevent its abuse by cheating athletes.
Researchers made the discovery after studying the biological signals that allow the body to respond to exercise. They found that certain chemicals could stimulate the same pathways to boost endurance and burn up fat. Mice fed the drugs were turned into mini-marathon runners with extra reserves of stamina that did not put on weight. Tested on treadmills, they were able to run faster and for longer than untreated animals. One drug, called AICAR, increased running time by 44% even in mice that did absolutely no exercise. Lead researcher Professor Ronald Evans, from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, said: "We were blown away. This is a drug that is like pharmacological exercise. After four weeks of receiving the drug, the mice were behaving as if they'd been exercised." Sedentary animals given the drug actually ran longer and further than than those which had exercise training, he said. As well as having greater endurance, mice given the drugs experienced other benefits usually associated with exercise. They remained lean even when fed a high fat diet that would normally have caused them to become obese, and their insulin response improved, lowering blood sugar levels.
	The new research, published in the journal Cell, also suggests the drugs might help reverse the muscle frailty associated with ageing, or diseases such as muscular dystrophy. The scientists are now working in conjunction with the World Anti-Doping Agency to develop a blood or urine test for the drugs.