Tune in this Monday to watch Rachael boost her heart rate with Jillian as they bounce on a massive trampoline and also encourage the younger audience members to jump aboard and get in a workout. And listen to Helen and Ali as they share with Rachael how they are managing to keep their weight off and stay healthy.

Also featured will be healthy and Biggest Loser-approved recipes from celebrity chef Rocco Dispirito and entertainer and autism advocate Jenny McCarthy sharing the Weight Watchers Lose for Good campaign.

Check your local listings for exact show times.

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Tune In: Jillian Michaels with Biggest Loser Winners Helen Phillips and Ali Vincent on Rachael Ray Premiere

Weight Watchers is doing its part in this dual battle with its Lose for Good program.

The second annual Lose for Good Program launched August 30 and runs through October 17, 2009. The Lose for Good program is a Weight Watchers’ initiative that addresses two global health needs: Obesity and malnutrition.

As you and other Weight Watchers members lose weight during this time, the brand will donate up to $1 million to their charitable partners Action Against Hunger, an international network to prevent hunger, and Share Our Strength, an organization that seeks to end hunger in America. For every pound of weight lost by a member, Weight Watchers will donate the cost of one pound of food up to one million dollars to these two organizations. In addition, local Weight Watchers chapters and members will organize their own food drives where anyone can donate non-perishable foods for those who need it.

Here are some last year’s successes:

• Weight Watchers members and Weight Watchers Online subscribers lost 4 million pounds of weight
• 1.5 million pounds of food was donated to organizations throughout the country
• $1 million was donated to charitable organizations like Action Against Hunger and Share Our Strength

You can join the fight against world hunger and also overcome your own dieting struggles by joining Weight Watchers. Consider that just a 5- or 10-pound dip on your scale will help provide nutritious food to a hungry family and will give a boost to your own health by lowering your blood pressure, reducing cholesterol levels, and minimizing your risk of other weight-related diseases.

The Lose for Good program is bringing new meaning to the adage: Think Globally. Act Locally. Weight Watchers is encouraging everyone to participate by donating food to Lose for Good organized drives in your area, even if you’re not a member.

Your (weight) loss is truly someone else’s gain.

To find out more about this program, visit the Weight Watcher’s website and see Weight Watchers member and health advocate Jenny McCarthy inspire others to join the fight on hunger.

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Join Weight Watchers to Lose For Good

Jenny McCarthy giving up sugar. (via Oprah.com)

So exactly what is Jenny giving up? Sugar and eating past 7 p.m. And she’s blogging and twittering all about it. As a self-professed sugar addict, Jenny is nixing the sweet stuff just for 30 days and encouraging other readers to give up a vice of their own choice, be it chocolate, gossiping, or coffee and share with others how awesomely well or how devastatingly bad they are sticking to their Give It Up Before Summer challenge.

As an ardent advocate of the Gluten Free, Casein-Free Diet as a way to quell her son’s symptoms of autism, Jenny definitely knows a thing or two about nutrition. But when it comes to sugar, she is just as vulnerable as the rest of us.

Jenny’s blogs about detoxing from sugar are as colorful, comedic and unabashedly honest as her television candor. From providing us with details about how her PMS-induced acne has tempered since giving up sugar and how elated she was after finding fruit juice-sweetened cornflakes at Whole Foods to extolling the praises of agave nectar in green tea, it’s no wonder that both Jim and Oprah are smitten with this dynamo.

So why is it that Americans have such a sugar addiction? Sugar is surprisingly ubiquitous in not just the sweet and obvious sources like soda, juice, candy and sweetened cereals, but it is hidden in our packaged foods. Spaghetti sauce, salad dressing, beef jerky, lunch meats – it’s all over and worse yet, it’s often the second or third ingredient on the label meaning there is a lot of it!

It’s not so much that sugar is bad for you by its own but its the frequency of our consumption of the white stuff especially since half of the time, we don’t even know we’re eating it (sugar in my rigatoni marinara?). Sugar hasn’t been directly linked to obesity, diabetes or heart disease, but a diet high in sugary foods is associated with these weight-related conditions since foods that have lots of sugar are often loaded with calories, empty carbs and fat.

So if you’re like me upon reading about Jenny’s Give It Up Before Summer Challenge, giving up sugar for 30 days has peaked curiousty and offered inspiration. If I do decide to join Jenny and all of her sugar-free, caffeine-free, chocolate-free pals on Oprah.com, you’ll be the first to know.

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Jenny McCarthy’s Give It Up Before Summer Challenge