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This whole weight loss mission pretense is just sad.


Watching Kirstie be mad about being fat and take it out on Jim (who loses more weight despite eating more) is so...sad. He is fat. She is fat. She lost some weight on Weight Watchers and gained it all back right away. Watching her carry on about the difficulty of losing weight and lecture Jim about fatness is like watching complete futility personified. Seriously, some people are just fat. She obviously really, really, really wants to not be fat, and hates herself for being fat, but she still is fat. She needs to accept herself. There is no thin person inside her. The idea of her selling chemicals for weight loss is absurd in so many ways. Who on earth would be dumb enough to buy that junk? Her history clearly shows that weight loss for her is brought by constant restricted eating and hard exercise, not special mysterious expensive fruit-flavored drinks. It's sad that she seeks to make money by lying to and exploiting other delusional, desperate fat people.

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The whole show is sad, and obviously the entire show is written. I feel badly for anyone who has to play out the script by these hideous writers. Even Fat Actress, which was scripted, feels more organic than this nonsense. They need to stop giving Kirstie time on television... it's not working out. Since Kirstie was on "The Marriage Ref" recently, and looked the same, she obviously has not lost weight. The whole show is an exercise in futility.

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There are just some people who will never be a size 0. And that's not a bad thing. Not everyone can be skinny. As you said, she has no thin person inside her. She was only able to maintain her thin self as an adult via drugs and alcohol.

Some people are naturally fat. Back at the turn of the century, women used to be much larger than they are now. I don't mean in height, I mean in weight. If you look back at some of the photographs of the time period, you can see that women were much heavier.

Today, in this skewed society, it has become the dream of every teenage girl to be a size 2 at the most. It's no wonder young girls are becoming anorexic at younger and younger ages. As long as they hold such an unreasonable size as their ideal, anorexia will continue on.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with being a size 12, 14, or 16, depending on your height and bone structure. To rather be dead than be one of those sizes, just goes to show how destructive our society has become. And it's hard to tell your 10 and 11 year olds that they aren't fat because they aren't stick figures when they see beautiful, THIN women on the covers of magazines or on TV. Of course, most of these women are airbrushed to look perfect in the magazines, but try explaining that to a child.

People, as a whole, are gaining weight. It's not just in this country, but in every country around the world. I just watched a documentary the other night that discussed China's struggle with weight issues.

Who knows, perhaps it is the future of mankind to be a heavier person in the future. I don't know. I just know that if more people like Jessica Simpson, Jamie Lee Curtis, and whoever that other woman was who posed without makeup, came forward to be photographed how they truly looked, that young girls might get a better and more realistic look at what beauty really is.

Beauty is loving yourself and not being ashamed of a few extra pounds. Not everyone can be a size 0 and be healthy while maintaining that weight.

What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.

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You are correct Rightbackatya - in fact, back then it used to be a sign of class and wealth if a woman was "plump" and thin women were considered peasants and the underclass really. Funny how the times change..

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