Slim. Need some inspiration in the new year . She was on top of the world then things went downhill. I realized at that moment that my run for the olympics was over. Lindsey vaughn opens up about her grueling battle to make a come back, and love off the slopes with tiger woods. How did the relationship develop . Olympian anomiemy. Paralyzed in a devastating accident, shes determined to walk again. There is no being lazy around here. A first look at her new life at home and her new challenge. Im on boararlowed time, i better make it awesome. And be prepared for whatever challenges the new year brings you. Well show you how to survive, trapped in your car, trapped in your trunk. Very easy. Or even wrapped in duct tape. Oh my gosh. This guy has control of my entire life right now and i dont know how to stop it. And computer hackers. Weve seen the damage they can do. Wait until you see what one did to her. So changing your clothes. I was completely naked. A new threat in the new year, keep it from happening to you. Tonight, starting over. Good evening, im lester holt. As we start the new year, a special first hour of date line for you tonight. Break new years resolutions already . We have tips to help you keep them and stories of people facing immense challenges and winning. We start with a new years resolution everybody makes, lose a few pounds. Dont you wish there was a trick to doing it . Maybe there is. Its the new year and were throwing some parties, complete with food and drink but what our guests dont know, this is really a test to see if we can trick them into eating and drinking less. How we eat and how much has almost nothing to do how hungry we are. Brian is an expert on eating behaviors and the author of slim by design. To start over after the holidays, you dont need to rely on will power, there is an easy way. Its january and so many of us said im going to lose weight, eat less, drink less but youre saying thats the wrong attitude. You can almost trick yourself slim. Its about the order of the food, the size of the plate. Thats how much we eat from 15 to 25 . You guys ready to eat . Yeah. To test the theory, we invited everybody into lunch and split them into two groups. For the first group we layout the buffet like this, fruit and salad first, then fatty pasta at the end. We give them nineinch plates smaller than normal and modestsized serving spoons and right away, we see a pattern. They are piling on the healthy stuff, not much room left on the plate for the gooing pasta. Why did you like the fruit . Healthy. The first feed you see is a trigger food. It triggers every decision after that. If its healthy, Everything Else will be more likely healthy. They have no idea but behind the scenes. Six and a half pounds. Were tracking how much they eat. You guys ate healthy and had fruit and lettuce. We had seconds. When they are done, we reset for group two with some changes. Now well switch the order of the food so the healthy stuff is at the back and fatty stuff at the beginning. Were giving group two slightly bigger plates and bigger serving spoons. Okay. Time to bring then in. Remember, the food itself is exactly the same. I dont have enough room on my plate. They dig in. This mac and cheese is amazing. This is to die for this is the best. They are binging on that pasta because its the first thing they see and thats the trigger food. Exactly where you start in the buffet line matters. Same thing at home. The food you see first at dinner changes everything. What we find is 70 of what people take end up being the first three foods they see. When they are finally full, we bring both groups together for the big reveal. Weve been secretly weighing the food in the back to see what you guys ate. This group here with the bigger plate and the bigger spoon at 56 more food. Wow. Jaw dropping, i know, 56 more food. Most of it pasta. The group with the smaller plate and the smaller spoon, an average of 890 calories per person in pasta and group number two with the bigger plate, 1520 calories per person in pasta alone. Going to the gym today. Starting a diet tomorrow. But its not just food packing on the pounds. Tremendous how many calories we take in drinking, 10 of what we drink before a meal. But he says we can cut the liquid calories but starting with something as simple as this, the shape of your glass. The shape, why . Its crazy, here is two glasses that hold the same but with a glass like this, youre going to pour 30 more in your short wide glass than a tall skinny glass because you dont account for the width. Poor them and look for the but nobody poors looking at the width. Can that make a difference . Seeing is believing and you know i love to throw a party. For this bash were serving up sugary punch and soda in tall, narrow glasses ready to be filled. Meanwhile, im in the back with the professor watching it all. Look at that filling it up half way. Half way or 60 , they always stop there. It doesnt matter if they are a man or woman, its all most the same. After 45 minutes, we cleared them out. Then we invite a second group in. Ready to party . Yes. Same drinks, different glasses, short, wide ones. The guy on the second glass, both glasses filled right to the top. Exactly as you predicted. Thats the second glass in like five minutes, too. Okay. Time to size up the damage. Counting the empty bottles and pitchers from both crowds and crunches the numbers and break the news to the unsuspecting drinkers. First, we tell them how much punch they drank. Group number one out of tall, skinny glasses 366 ounces of punch. Your group out of the shorter glasses but wider drank 620 ounces [ laughter ] 70 more. [ cheers ] and thats not the worst of it. Remember, there was soda here, too. But wait, there is more. Group number one out of these tall skinny glasses have 34 ounces of soft drink, soda. Your group had 112 ounces, that is 267 more. Wow. Party animals. It makes you think twice what kind of glass to serve at your party or home. By the way, same goes for alcohol, too. You tend to pour more into a wide red wine glass than a skinny white wine glass. Its simple, thinner glasses, smaller plates, thinner smaller you. I mean, its really hard to become slim by will power because its a 24hour seven day a week thing so change your environment to become slim by design. Ill see you at this Time Next Year 10 pounds lighter . Deal. Happy new year. Coming up, amy van dyke in ruin beat the odds at olympics. Shes determined to beat this. Im now a paraplegic and i aim to not be one one day, thats what i am. A first look at her new life at home. Also, how to get out alive. Whoa. Surviving the new year. 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The story of how she got here is one of determination, hard work and courage. Before this what was the biggest adversity you face in your life . Im severe asthma, thats nothing compared to this, nothing. At the age of 41 amy is in the fight of her life. She was one of the greatest olympian champions of all time. Im a parapa lee jik. It was an atv accident that damaged her spinal cord and left her paralyzed from the waste down down. This is the last picture of amy taken before the accident soaking up the sun with her dog. When i look at it now it breaks my heart because that was my old life. That was the last day of my old life, and the first day of my new life. Hi, matt. How are you . Doing awesome. I met up with amy and her husband three weeks after the accident. Am i allowed to sit here . Come on up. We talked about the mount she learned she would need dangerous surgery and might not survive. For some reason what jumped into your mind is tom. Yeah, i wanted to tell him that if i dont make it, like live your life and, you know, move on. What was it like to hear those words come out of her mouth at that particular time . It was tough, and one of the things that i told her was if she wanted to if all this was too much and she wanted to go, she could go and i would understand. And that was tough to hear, but it was also, matt, a challenge. Dont tell me i cant do something. Dont tell me to give up. There is no being lazy around here. After surgery, amy dedicated herself to long punishing hours of rehab pushing through excruciating pain. Ive got rods and ive got screws putting me together. You assume when you become paralyzed its just all numb and its not. Im sitting here now and my legs feel like im stand income a fire. Amy left the hospital in august. She was thankful, optimistic but worried what day to day living would be like back home in scottsdale, arizona. The way my house is right now, i will not be able to take a shower, even cooking i cant see if pots are boiling. I cant reach the faucet to do the dishes. I started looking into the changes that need to be made. I got in touch with george. George is george is host of the Home Improvement show george to the rescue. Amy didnt know anything about george and his army of volunteers doing the renovations and when she finally returned home three months to the day after her accident, it was overwhelming overwhelming. Thank you for everything. Amazing. Because of all the changes, amy can do many of the simple things she used to take for granted. Oh my gosh. Now i can cook, i can do the dishes dishes. For her transportation tom wanted to trade in amys camero for a van with a lift. No, no, no, the camero is sexy and rock n roll and hello, sexy and rock n roll is totally what i am. Her welcome home tour ended in the garage where amy got the Biggest Surprise of all. Ready to go. Oh my gosh, are you kidding me . There was the camero retro fitted with hand controls, still hers to drive. You got your freedom back, babe. People dont understand when you pass me, you dont know im handicapped. Thats the one time where im normal. But she wants so much more. You love to set goals, so what is your goal . To walk. Doctors say its unlikely shell ever walk again but thats not stopping her from training harder than ever. I hate you. You can do it. Go. Amy says shes able to face the pain, the good day s and the bad bad, starting with her rock, her husband tom. Hes the inspiration. Together tom and amy want to inspire and help others. Just last week tom and amy launched a new website and foundation to help people with spinal cord injuries. Our mission is to give necessary medical equipment to people with spinal cord injuries that cannot afford it through their own means or insurance. For amy, its the best way to give something back. I hope people can look at me and know listen, im going through what would be considered hell but doing it with a smile so maybe your monday morning meeting doesnt suck as bad as you think. Everything is in perspective. Yes, everything is in perspective. Amy van dyken ruin knows something about perspective and what it takes to still be a champion. These are days i wasnt supposed to have, and i am here, so im on borrowed time, i better make it awesome. Coming up, you can kick out a window and its easier than most people think. How to make a great escape. Yeah. Also. I love my job, skiing with her. Gold medalist Lindsey Vaughn after a string of setbacks she shows her grip and opens up about life after a ski with tiger woods. Life lessons with ziploc. Tomorrows science project requires 150 cats eye marbles. If this bag breaks emmas chance of impressing the teacher could slip away. Life needs ziploc. Sc johnson. 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First a quick recap on how to get out of duct tape. Our expert who teaches escape techniques through his spy escape and evasion company told us why it works. So youll notice right now im tearing the duct tape. I tore it very easily. You can sit there and try to pull it apart but when you lift your hands high above your head and come down hard, you create a similar angel i created. One, two, three. There you go. Is it just physics. Its creating the right angel to tear tape. After we posted the clip, our followers wanted to know what happens if youre duct tape from behind. Youre very unlikely to do that because yaw cant get them closer together. So that would be more like a dumb criminal then to tape you from behind. Exactly. Youre going to pull a handout, lift one up high. Okay, that was all of, what, one second . Right. Hanson says another material commonly used by criminals is rope, there is a trick for that, too. Ill show you how to escape in two seconds. Tie me up and make it as tight as you want. All right. All i got to do is pull my hands out straight and shimmy and pull out. The secret is keep your elbows apart like this to create the false space, have your wrist curve out and pull one of your hands out of there. There you go. So, you know, less than 30 seconds and youre out. The odds of being tied up are small but here is something that really does happen. Kids getting locked in trucks. In fact, so many children were inadvertently trapping themselves and dying that Car Manufacturers were mandateed to put in a safety release in all cars made after 2001 so anyone with kids, here is an escape to teach them. Kids get in trunks playing hidingoseek. Teach your kids this, just pull this down and they can get out. It seems pretty like it would be pretty easy for a kid, too. So im going to give it a try. The lever release is very obvious, glowing in the dark right in front of me. Ill put it and hopefully the door is up easy. There is another way to escape a trunk, especially in late model vehicles. Newer cars have these leverers and pull them out and when you pull this out, it unlocks the seat to go kick it in or crawl through it. To show just how easy this is, i brought along two of my children to demonstrate. Anna is five and charlie is four. Weve left the backseats down so the girls arent really locked in the trunk. See this, this will glow in the dark if the trunk was closed. Okay . So it would light up. So pull it and this trunk will go open. Okay. Ready . Think you can do it . Yeah. Okay. Anna. Pull the lever, good. Look how easy that was. And they have no problem pulling the releases for the backseat. And crawling right through . Nice job. And for our final escape, how to break a car window if youre ever trapped in your car after an accident or your car is submerged in water, here is what you need to do. Kick out a window and its easier than most think. What you want to do is kick out in this corner area right here. This is where the glass goes into the frame the tightest. Dont kick it into the middle because it can absorb the kick more. I feel like this would be the natural spot. You want the glass the tightest so its easier to shatter. Weve heard about so many kids being trapped. Whats the best way to get into that car. Grab anything you can, a rock, pipe, same thing. Hit in this area. This is really the sweet spot, then. Yeah, right here. Our expert says this works easily in older model cars but can be tougher in newer ones. Sunglasses for any glass shattering. So here it goes. Whoa, definitely wasnt as hard as i thought. Awesome job. You were hitting right in that corner and thats exactly what you want to do. That was only three or four kicks. It is empowering, like you said, when you can figure outweighs to save yourself. Heaven forbid it ever happens. 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