With the help of a nicotine patch, she also went from three packs of cigarettes a day to none. So she joined a gym, slowly working up to an hour a day on a stationary bicycle plus working out with weights. She had quit smoking following her mastectomy, and her immediate worry was not how to take off the pounds, but how to keep any more from piling on. The change in her diet has brought about a slow but steady loss of weight, although that was not her original intent. The woman who once said her favorite food was "something with potatoes or a good cream sauce" now will eat a whole head of steamed broccoli or a bowl of couscous for dinner. She also eats foods recommended in anti-cancer diets _ fruits and vegetables high in vitamin A, as well as such grains as bulgur wheat and couscous. To begin with, she slashed the fat in her diet to a bare-bones minimum _ a real accomplishment given her Texas upbringing, "where the three basic food groups are barbecue, Mexican and chicken-fried steak." Grilling and steaming are now her cooking methods of choice, whether at home or eating out. "The phrase "Knock some sense into the woman' comes to mind."
"Four years ago, when I quit drinking, I should have done it, but it's hard to see alcoholism as life-threatening as cancer." She pauses. Since the diagnosis of cancer, Ellerbee overhauled her diet in a way that she knew she should have done a long time ago. As she is the first to admit, she loves food, loves to cook, even dreams of doing a cookbook "someday." She's also done a PBS Smithsonian World show on one of her favorite subjects, food. She also enjoyed a sweet revenge of sorts with her book And So It Goes, skewering TV news. Her irreverent, caustic wit was appreciated by a loyal cadre of viewers, but not by network honchos.Īfter her last show, Our World, was canceled by ABC six years ago, she formed her own company, Lucky Duck Productions. "All these people called to say how great I looked," Ellerbee says, adding, "but when you've had cancer, they're just glad to see you, period."Įllerbee, 49, is savoring both her health and her success after a dozen frustrating years in network television news.
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