Weight Loss Toronto

Actress Kirstie Alley is setting up her own weight loss plan after parting ways with diet giant Jenny Craig.

The star, who shed 75 pounds on the Jenny Craig plan, split from the company after three years as their spokeswoman.

But instead of shunning the dieting limelight Alley, who has recently struggled with keeping the weight off, has announced plans to launch her own weight loss brand in the next two years.

Alley, 57, said she: “Hopes to develop and pilot my own weight-loss brand that I hope to launch in 2009.

“My experience with Jenny Craig  was extraordinary. I want to create something new that will help millions of people end the seemingly never ending fatty-roller coaster ride.”

The actress, who starred in Cheers and such movies as Look Who’s Talking, before poking fun at her weight with her recent TV show Fat Actress, released a huge statement in the US explaining the reasons why she was starting her own diet programme.

She also paid tribute to Jenny Craig and its two new spokespeople - Valerie Bertinelli who has shed 40 pounds on the plan and Queen Latifah, Jenny Craig’s new spokewoman

The weight-loss field is wide open and not immune to new ideas and improved solutions for the fat problems that plague many of us Americans every day. I want to create something new that will help millions of people end the seemingly never ending fatty-roller coaster ride. I am especially passionate about seeing to it that our next generations are not struggling with the same weight issues that my generation has struggled with.

Jenny Craig offers clients personal weight-loss plans through more than 600 centers mostly in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, with over 10 locations in the Greater Toronto Area.

Clients pay a membership fee and purchase prepared meals from the company. More than 150,000 people follow a Jenny Craig program in an average week, according to the company’s web site.

While Alley’s statement didn’t provide any details about her plan to create her own “weight-loss brand,” it suggested the venture was inspired at least in part by the vast following she accrued over the past three years as the face of Jenny Craig.

“Somehow, I’ve also fallen into the position of ‘accidental’ role model for, apparently, millions of people out there losing weight by whatever means,” her statement said. “This was something I did not bargain for, or foresee happening. Nevertheless, it is something I’ve grown to embrace and something I intend to continue to pursue.”