I Lost a pound this week. I can genuinely say though, I was more excited this morning when I saw my body fat hovering around 25%. That's down 2% from where it was a couple of weeks ago. My general apathy for the scale has also been affected by this FASCINATING show I stumbled on a couple of days ago. If you have ever seen Super Size Me, and are at all intrigued and or fed up with Hollywood's standards of the Size "0," you've got to see this. This is the preview and I'll be listing all the segments in parts on this post. If you get a chance today or this weekend, give it a look see. Feel free to come back and chat about it. (Warning: Once you start it, it's kind of hard to stop...)
(fyi, the show in it's entirety is about an hour long)
PART 1
PART 2
PART 3
PART 4
PART 5
PART 6
Have a great weekend everyone!
37 comments:
I saw another version of this on BBC America with the two reporters attempting to get down to size 0. Scary, scary stuff.
I just don't understand why in the world people would try to kill themselves to be that thin. It doesn't even look good! (unless, you're naturally that tiny...)
I'm perfectly content in my 12s and will be perfectly content in my 10s and 8s...
Oh, and congrats on the poundage loss!
Oh my god -- I know what I'm watching this weekend.
The preview totally hooked me!
I''' be back to discuss. :)
glam.
I know what you mean. It doesn't look good, the girl in the BBC version limited herself to 500 calories a day. 500 calories!! INSANITY!
haley- oh good! I watched the rest of it last night and was dying to talk to someone about it.
Oh that was so good. I just sat at my computer for an hour amazed.It's really sad that people have to subkect themselves to that kind of pain to be "in".
Haven't had a chance to see the show yet but that preview is SO intriguing. Thanks for posting it.
chelsea, I know, I wonder what the real story is behind the actual health of a lot of those women...
sagan, no prob, let us know what you think!
Very interesting! I think it is really interesting how she got sucked into it. I also saw the show that glam saw with the two reporters. That one showed a little more about the health scares these girls went through by doing such a crash diet.
Something that I don't really get is that she lost 18 pounds in 8 weeks. And did some really extreme stuff to do it. She could have lost 16 (two pounds a week) by busting her ass at the gym and eating maybe 1400 calories, which would have been a perfectly healthy way to drop those pounds. So basically, doing the crazy extremes doesn't necessarily produce better results.
I do really wish that someone could put a stop to the glamorization of being skeletal. I hope that the fact that more people are talking about it is a good start.
OOOooo! thanks for the videos! I heard about it and wanted to see it! That's my lunch hour today!
oh. my. gawd. she looks fabulous as a size 6! a culture that frowns upon a body like that is so completely messed up!
Robin, I was totally thinking that the whole time. Girl, at LEAST 1200 calories! I think her point though was interesting though, because you KNOW there are so many girls who do exactly what she did. She was so healthy before hand I bet going drastic was the only way she could have realistically lost enough weight to be THAT thin in that amount of time.
I was hungry the whole time I was watching it though!
I agree, it would be nice if it had a similar effect that super size me had on the fast food mentality.
randi, your welcome! Can't wait to hear what you think.
mimi- YES. I thought she looked so fab. (especially when she went to that holistic "guru" and he mentioned the word "obese" in a consultation with her...)
holycrap - i just finished the rest of the segments (at work, thank you). i want every young girl to watch this!
I CANNOT wait to watch this! Maybe I can take the laptop and lock my self in the bathroom and Kid won't bother me...
Thanks for the reality check. I watched the videos with rapt attention. I really never have understood why the fashion world has to uphold such impossible standards. The majority of women in this world are not zero. I think the real challenge would be to create clothing that looks fabulous on average body types. Even when you go to a store at the mall clothes are pinned and tucked so that they look better on a mannequin and the truth is people don't wear clothes like that in reality. I could go on and on but I should get off the soapbox now. Oh and another thing, just think about how Dawn's health deteriorated b/c of a poor diet.
Damn you. I have legitimate work to do today! And I really want to watch that. I'll be back later.
mimi,
ok, just so you know, I said this, "(especially when she went to that holistic "guru" and he mentioned the word "obese" in a consultation with her...)"
in relation to your observation about culture "frowning" at her normal weight. NOT about her looking fab...lol, just read that back and felt the need to clarify.
The scary thing is, I really wonder if some young girls would watch it and perceive it in the wrong way...like still seeing her getting so much smaller as something positive...
Dude, total insanity. For me SERIOUS restricting is 1200 a day. And that's the absolute lowest I'll go, only if I have some huge event coming event or something. I can't maintain that, it's like a crash diet for me. I'm young and have a decent metabolism, work out pretty hard almost daily, take the stairs and walk everywhere I go, so I just need to cut back to between 1600-2000 to lose. So I was SHOCKED that she didn't lose more weight eating only 500 calories a day...totally shocked. Her body must have been in starvation mode, holding onto every little piece of nutrition that went in.
So fascinating! It's amazing how much a lack of food affects you emotionally. I'm moody just after a 1 day fast, I can't imagine doing that for 8 weeks.
i just sat and watched the entire thing. wow. makes me almost want to quit weight watchers for trying to lose that last four pounds. i feel like a loser because 120 sounds so good to me. i am nuts. i feel sick after watching the entire thing.
So I juat finished watching it, and all I wanted to do was give the poor thing a muffin. :(
I was psyched for it, but a little underwhelmed by it in the end. I agree with the other commenters who noted that she could have accomplished the same loss through healthy means -- I think the plateau she hit from starving herself is what slowed her down (and thank goodness the body protects us from ourselves sometimes...).
Katieo, I wrote more about it over at my blog. :)
I wish I didn't watch it. It made me hungry all day... I wanted her too eat some of that cake so badly. Then hand some off to me!
sorry maggie! :(
(I'll be back later tonight!)
amber,
ugh. I loathe the mannequins with their pinned and tucked clothing!
Oh and another thing, just think about how Dawn's health deteriorated b/c of a poor diet.
Did you see the part about her white blood cell count going down? SCARY stuff.
LMAO!! okay, so I just watched it. Hands down my favorite part: during the first bootcamp session, "I think I'd just rather be a fatty!"
My thoughts exactly!
and no, I didn't mean to say the concept of the show was funny just that her methods were so insane it caused her to make that comment!
Mamacita, I KNOW. It just left me wondering whether most of the hollywood crown does the same thing...and how she came up with 500 calories, you know?
and amyr, AMEN sister.
ok...I really have to go, but I'll be back in a couple of hours!
I watched the whole thing. What was never mentioned is that many (if not most)super thin stars abuse drugs... which helps them to both decrease their appetites and elevate(although briefly) their moods... one might think that a constant starvation might actually encourage them to start using drugs (even if they hadn't been before) to help alleviate all the symptoms that Dawn suffered from. Might explain the rampant rehab visitors...
Wow! Just watched it all. The scariest part was when she said she felt PROUD of feeling hungry. That's how anorexics often feel.
She just looked so awful at the end---starvation will do that to you, I guess. I have no idea how she got through those workouts with the trainer.
HOLY CRAP. I just watched that entire thing (all the segments) with my husband and we are in total shock. That girl was funny! And I was so happy to watch her eat a slice of cake at the end. Honestly--that was a real eye opener. I don't know how people do it though...
mrsneyman,
It's interesting. I kind of felt guilty through parts of it just wanting to be smaller. (Even if my "smaller" is her starting point, LOL!) But I just reminded myself I am totally healthy, getting healthier and fitter every day. Not sicker and sicker. And if I had to stop losing weight TODAY, I'd be fine with not getting smaller but I'd be really disappointed if I had to stop FEELING so dang good about all the other changes in my body. Obviously, the opposite was true for her! I think it's a good reminder for all of us to stop and think about our motivation and how good we feel about ourselves right where we are.
Haley,
here's the thing though. Do you think she really could've gotten down to a size ZERO with healthy weight loss? I think at some point serious deprivation is called for when you are trying to get skeletally thin.
Glam, I LOVED that part!! In fact, I was hoping for a cessation of the 500 calorie madness...I thought she'd stop reevaluate and maybe bring her calories up to 1000 after realizing she couldn't get through that tough of a workout on lettuce. But no!!
And I thought she was totally funny, although she was talking about something really serious, she was so entertaining and easy to watch.
Mrs. F,
You are so right. Glad she didn't take up a cocaine habit along with the calorie restriction. Feeling so moody and isolated, not being able to sleep, etc, -it's easy to easy how the drugs would seem to make it easier to deal with all of those unpleasant side effects.
Donna,
the proud of hunger thing? I KNOW, I thought the same thing. Like, "Ooo, you're getting into dangerous territory there!" I wish they'd do a follow up show to see how she adjusted after going back to eating normally. If all of the bad side effects went away, or if there was some collateral damage that will stay with her longer...just curious...
Rae, I actually wish they would've shown more of her eating at the end. That was one of the best parts for me!
Thank you so much for this video, I watched it all at once yesterday! And later I stumbled upon this article so I have to share:
(from Life&Style)
Katie Holmes, 29, and Victoria Beckham, 33, at Madeo Restaurant in LA. which is known for its decadent pastas, didn’t indulge during a recent dinner together. In fact, the two split a meal meant for one person, sharing a green salad sans dressing, one piece of fish and one side of steamed spinach. They also ordered one regular Coke and two glasses of ice. “Katie poured half the soda into each of their glasses, then filled up the rest with bottled water,” says a Madeo regular. “They do it all the time. It’s how they control calories.”
It SO proves the point of the video!
Hi girls! I'm so glad I came across your blog! My friend and I started our own blog a couple days ago in the hopes of encouraging each other in our quest to loose weight! I love your posts and will keep checking back! Wish us luck!!!
Wow, fascinating preview--I have to say, I really don't get the fascination with Size Zero. It's insane what people will do for the sake of some artificial goal.
That said, congrats on your great numbers! (Arrived at much more sensibly).
Wow, that is so crazy. You were right, I had to watch the whole thing!I will never be a size zero, I think my actual skeleton is bigger than that... It is so scary though, that message being sent over and over that anything more is fat.
Oh my goodness! 500 calories a day?! I couldn't do that, nor would I want to. Yet, how many women actually do this and think it's glamorous? Scary!
I'd prefer taking the healthier route to fat loss and improved fitness, even if that means going at it slowly!
Interesting video!
Oh my gosh. This makes me so sad. she was so miserable at the end. Why would we want to put ourselves through that? Yet so many people do.
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