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KTVK's Beverly Kidd
Step one: Close your eyes and breathe deep.
Step two: Gingerly take two steps forward.
Step three: Open your eyes and look down.
Step four: Try not to shriek.
Such is the ritual when KTVK (Channel 3) news anchor Beverly Kidd weighs in. And these days she’s tipping the scales at… oh wait, it’s impolite to discuss a woman’s weight.
I guess you’ll have to call me impolite because her weight was the main topic of our last conversation. “I’m chunky,” she told me with an embarrassed laugh. “Look and see! You can’t hide it!”
Chunky might be an overstatement. Most- if not all- viewers of her 3TV News @ 9 would say she looks darn good. She’s never been rail-thin, however athletics and moderate eating habits have kept Kidd around 128 pounds all her adult life. Still, this Spring brought quite a shock for this self-professed workout fiend. “I got on the scale and thought.. maybe 130. It said 141 and I was surprised!”
At five feet four inches, many women would rejoice at 141 pounds. But living life in the public eye, Kidd considers that number a sort of wake-up call. “I’m not at my personal best. That’s a standard we all hold ourselves to. You want to look in the mirror and say ‘I look good.’”
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To get to that “I look good” point, her plan consists of three major components: exercise, diet and support.
Beverly has always been something of a gymrat. “I’ll work out all day; I don’t have a problem working hard,” she told me. “I was working hard at the gym, doing a lot of cardio and I got up to 141 pounds.” Now- the workout would have to change.
Enter Bob Mathews and his “Power 1K” regime. Mathews cut down her cardio routine and told her to spend more time pumping iron. “He has me lifting weight.” She adds with a smile, “And no, girls, you will not get all muscular! The extra muscle will burn fat.”
Next up: favorite foods became felonies. She chucked the cheeseburgers, ditched the doughnuts and vowed: no more nachos! But the munchie makeover doesn’t stop there. Mathews put her on a diet high in fruits, vegetables and lean meat and cut out dairy products.
Those changes helped her drop six pounds in the first week. But the toughest part of the plan was yet to come: going public.
Kidd had started a blog a few weeks earlier. “I thought it would be a great way for me to connect with viewers,” she told me. “To blog or Twitter about the news and connect with people that way. But what I found was, people didn’t want to hear about the news. They wanted to hear about me! So I thought ‘Heck, I can do that.’”
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The second post revealed her weight. I asked how difficult that was- granted she’s far from obese, but putting that number in virtual print for the world to see would be daunting for a lot of women. “It was scary,” she said. “But having done weight loss stories for eight years I knew a lot of people are in my boat. I am what am. I’m chunky.”
That internet blurb - Bev’s Battle of the Bulge- became a turning point. “Most of my clothes don’t fit anymore. I’m……pudgy!,” she wrote. It triggered a wave of support. Friends, family and strangers began reading, writing and cheering as each pound melted away.
She added a video component. V-log, they call it. “I have a Flip video camera and a teeny tripod and I carry it everywhere,” she said. One posting is in her home kitchen, another from her desk in the newsroom. She laughs about becoming such a tech-head. “Everything I do on there is all me. That’s why it’s so shaky! I haven’t figured out how to edit it yet.”
I think we can forgive her for that. In fact we can forgive her for weighing 20 pounds more than she wanted to. But will Beverly forgive herself? For the first time in her life, she has a scale at home. And she’s already pleasing one of any woman’s harshest critics: mom. “One week into it and my mom, who’s living with me now, said ‘Oh my Gosh, you look so much thinner!’”
With words like those ringing in her ears, what woman wouldn’t be glad to be asked about her weight? Maybe it’s not so impolite after all.
What she eats:
- 3-4 servings of fruit per day
- 3-4 servings of low fat protein per day (poultry or fish)
- 4-5 servings of veggies per day
- 80-100 ounces of water a day and 25 grams of fiber
- No bread, pasta, dairy or alcohol
Vital Stats (most of them):
- Height: 5’4”
- Heaviest weight: 141 lbs
- Current weight: 134 lbs
- Target weight: 120 lbs
- Children: 2 boys
- Hometown: Virginia Beach, VA
- Favorite place: Sedona
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