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Considering Oprah’s weight gain was the impetus for her Best Life Series that kicked off the new year, we weren’t surprised to flip on the TV and find her still talking about the struggle, as she’s done in so many shows over the decades. Monday’s show had an unprecedented focus, however, as it featured about a dozen obese teens who had participated in an experiential program that helped them address the issues underlying their immense size. Through massively tearful exercises led by counselors Yvonne and Rich Dutra St. John, the kids and their parents dug deep to figure out what emotional void each teen actually hungered to fill. The most telling of activities were also the simplest, as both teens and parents shed armor to fill in the blanks: “If you really knew me you’d know____” and “I’m angry that___,” the latter of which often causing an eruption repressed turmoil in each kid. As we lay on the couch watching this in sniffly sobs, we hoped Oprah had some purpose to all this soul searching other than to rip out our hearts and send them through a paper shredder. Luckily she did, as Dr. Oz joined her on Tuesday with a show full of healing antidotes.

Last week Oprah gave us a five-point instructional checklist on how to live our best life, and on Monday she gave us a pop quiz to make sure we’d paid attention. First thing’s first, we all know Oprah’s madder than Faith Hill after losing her Grammy for once again falling off the wagon and putting on weight, and clearly, misery loves company. Oprah invited a handful of former weight loss success stories who have recently bulked up again to, as she did, face the truth and get back on track. Her featured guest was Erik Chopin, who lost 214 pounds and won his season of The Biggest Loser. He once told the Oprah camp he wasn’t able to appear on a recent show due to a busy work schedule, but in truth, he was afraid to show the world he’d regained more than half of what he’d lost. But Erik, as well as with various chubbed up Skypers, forgave themselves and began anew, and Oprah sent them running along towards a better year. Oprah also peeked in on our sex lives, and viewers raved about Dr. Laura Berman’s foreplay map, which can of course be downloaded at Oprah.com, although we think hands-on learning may be the more appropriate approach.