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According to staff, visitors, other inmates, and Mike himself, Mike generally got along okay in prison. He stayed to himself, and as he himself says, it is all about respect, showing it and receiving it.

Of course, okay is relative in a prison.

And there is always someone who has to try the King…

Speaking on his podcast a couple of years ago, Mike revealed for the first time that he did in have have one fight in prison, saying:

“Just one time (I had to put punch someone in prison). Somebody said something and I just went over there and hit him. No, we were locked down for a a long time and it was just something that was irritable and I went over there and hit him. We were locked down. We couldn’t go to the gym. Somebody got stabbed or something and we were locked down. I was just upset and miserable.”

One has to ask why any sane individual would want to say something irritable to Iron Mike Tyson after his history of low fool tolerance is beyond me.

Mike Tyson was having so much sex with female prison visitors and a prison drug counsellor during his three year prison stint in the '90s, that he was too tired to even go to the gym and work out, as much as he should have the retired boxer said. And far from being leery of prison, Mike wrote in the Undisputed Truth:

“Sometimes I just fantasize about blowing somebody's brains out so I can go to prison for the rest of my life,”

Of course, Mike did not altogether enjoy the prison experience

Mike Tyson had all in all, a fairly routine stay at the Indiana Youth Center. He mostly stayed to himself, reading up on the teachings of Islam and working out to stay in shape for a return to the ring upon his release.

But he had minor run ins with prison staff, including Mike threatening a prison staffer, which cost him three days in the hole. His attorney, Alan Dershowitz came to the prison that week, and Tyson refused, at first, to come to the visitors' room because he was embarrassed to have to come in chains and manacles. Finally, after an hour, Tyson showed up, saddened and upset.

Dershowitz said:

“He looked like a character from Roots being brought over on a slave boat, it was the most appalling sight I'd ever seen. The chains were across his chest, around his body. Remember, we're in a (high- medium) security institution. The unit where we meet is utterly escape- proof.

Tyson told his lawyer:

“Why me? Imagine me being chained like this.' "

When asked, the Prison Superintendent said the chains were necessary because :

“Segregated offenders must be secured during visits to protect visitors, staff and other offenders."

Mike repeatedly complained that guards subjected him to rough and embarrassing body searches, and he quit high-school equivalency classes because he felt he was being ridiculed. Mike also refused to eat much of the prison food, fearing it might be contaminated. Jay Bright, a former assistant trainer who visited him said:

“So Mike only eats things that are packaged, like tuna or crackers."

According to Tyson’s former close friend Rory Holloway, he said while incarcerated:

“I don't trust anybody in here,"

But in the end, his difficulties were minor, according to Clarence Trigg, the prison superintendent, who said:

“Tyson has gotten along all right. In general, he's fairly low-key if people leave him alone."

Believe it or not, for a celebrity in prison, Tyson probably did do okay…

However, as with seemingly every venture she takes upon herself, Oprah crushed her weight loss journey, too. Even better, she focused not only on losing weight but on building life-long healthy habits.

 

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Here are just a couple of facts about Oprah’s weight loss journey:

 

She tried a liquid diet back in 1988 and lost 67 pounds. Sadly, this weight came back (and then some!)

In 2005, she managed to lose 160 pounds, but due to health problems and a crazy work schedule weighted 200 pounds in 2009.

Using balanced Weight Watchers meal plan, she lost 40 pounds, but after an ankle injury, she was 17 pounds heavier diabetes.

This crazy yo-yo dieting was following her for decades. Today she is happy to eat a healthy diet, stays with her recommended weight range, and stabilized her blood sugar levels. She follows a carefully balanced meal plan.

 

There are thousands of different diets, and Oprah probably tried most of them until she found the perfect match and overall balance. Finding yours is the great challenge, but, luckily, we have a lot of different ones to try. Like, for example, pretty new product that helps to manage or even reverse diabetes