Kirstie Alley Shocked By Weight Gain

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Kirstie Alley was well aware that she'd gained back much of the weight lost during her Jenny Craig spokesperson gig - she just didn't realize how much. In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Alley describes stepping on the scale for the first time in over a year.
"I started screaming," Alley says. "It said 228 lbs., which is my highest weight ever. I was so much more disgusting than I thought!"
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While surprised by the number, Alley says she is not shocked that the weight piled back on. Despite slimming down to a svelte 145 lbs during her three years with the company, Alley's post-Jenny Craig lifestyle was anything but healthy. "I fell off the horse," Alley says, admitting that her exercise equipment moved out to the garage and her eating habits veered off course.
"My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter," she shares. "A lot of butter. If I'm at the movies, usually I eat popcorn without butter, but I'd say, 'I'm at the movies, so who cares?' And toast with butter. Or let's say I had two cups of pasta and six tablespoons of butter on it. There was a lot of butter going on."
Alley claims that her trouble began when her partnership with Jenny Craig ended, saying,"When you're a spokesperson for Jenny Craig, there's responsibility. You have a person every week standing over you when you get on the scale... But the first nail in the coffin was that I didn't have to weigh in. I just sort of went wild."
"I'm totally inhibited," Alley says, explaining why a new weight loss plan is a top priority. "When I'm overweight I will not go out. With my closest friends, yeah. But you wouldn't see me at a premiere."
"I'm ready to work. I messed up along the way, but I'm not going to concentrate on that," she says. "I'm gonna go, 'You know what? Get back on the horse, lose the freakin' weight, and then just move forward!'"
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