I have seen the ads on Lifetime only and I have to say if that guy wasn't hosting the show I would be interested in watching it but he just gets on my nerves. You'll have to let us know if it is any good. I might watch it.
Its repeat is on right now. I enjoyed it, I laughed cause we were talking about posing in our underwear on the New Year New You thread and here this girl is strutting away in a store and on tv in hers. Then to pose nude. Wow! What a change of mind! I will watch it weekly.
So I just got done watching this and I have mixed feelings. I don't think anyone should hate themselves, but the reality is, she is fat, which is unhealthy and likely on the way to diabetes or heart disease. Perhaps this experience can make her feel good enough about herself that she can lose weight without the psychological barriers.
That said, it was a fun show to watch.
290lbs. on 11/02/07 Goal: 145lbs. or size 14 whichever comes first!
I'm with you 100% chicklady. I've watched this show a few times (the UK version, but I'd say from the sound of it it's much the same) and had the same reaction - enjoyed it, but was left feeling uncomfortable.
There are so many 'big is beautiful' messages and charges are fired around that anyone who says anything bad about fatness is being politically incorrect or 'fatist'. If you stick to certain websites or parts of the internet for example, it's very easy to lull yourself into a false sense of security about being overweight and to start believing that it's the people who don't see fat as a good thing and beautiful who have a problem. But it's not the truth, fat is a health issue and a very serious one.
It's one thing to feel good about yourself and harness that feeling for positive change, quite another to feel good about yourself and think that looking good at the (over)weight you are at makes you somehow immune from the health issues associated with being fat.
Kate
F, 50, 5'5 Start: Sept 5th 2007
Start Weight: 255
MG1: 238 Sept 23rd
MG2: 224 Oct 23rd
MG3: 210 Dec 3rd MG4: 196 Jan 26th
MG5: 182 My Journal
Comment