Fat and Back

Is anyone else watching this f.in show on TLC? It came on after My 600 lb life so I decided to see what it was.

This reporter ( who looks borderline anorexic) is planning to gain 56 pounds and then lose it all within 6 months. All to show all the fatties that it is possible. What makes her think this is even a fair comparison for the struggles we have all faced?

I saw the beginning and switched channels.  It isn't a fair comparison at all and a ridiculous thing to do a television show on.

I'm watching this right now also and came here to post about it. What she's forgetting is that most people dealing with weight has done so for years! Not months. But at least she does finally get that those with an emotional relationship with food is much different than someone who has a functional relationship with food. She has epilepsy and can't control it. Some mo people likewise can't control their food.

I completely agree. I think she's a "shock jock" in the UK. Just tries to say and do offensive things in the name of "entertainment."  They should have made her keep the weight on longer and see what it's like to be around mean, horrible people like her. Then try to get the weight off. Stupid idea, honestly. 

I totally, agree. Longer amount of time with weight and them see how easy it is.

Ok, just googled and found her! She us a total idiot.

What's her name?

I have no****ched the show, but I had heard about it, and so I read quite a bit and watched some clips.  They made me so incredibly angry, and I do not get angry easily. The woman who did it is a totally offensive personality.  Did you see the clip where she is sobbing and says something like, "I hate fat people for making me do this?"

She makes some gross assumptions, because she has a huge ego and huge sense of self righteous self importance.  Like her insistence that overweight people eat all the time like she was eating to put on the weight. She basically says, get off your fat butt and stop being a pig.  She goes around bullying people and making them cry.  So so uninformed.  There are many people whose weight issues are not from lack of exercise and not from poor eating.  Plus, even if people's problems are entirely through their bad choices, why should it be ok to bully and shame fellow human beings.  There are plenty of things about her appearance that could be made fun of.

I think she comes off as a stupid ass.

I totally agree.  That one quote really pissed me off.  It was bad enough up until then but that finished it for me.

Gaining a few pounds and losing it on TV does NOT allow someone to feel what it is like to be affected by obesity and its related conditions: type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, GERD, the list goes on. It does not replicate the effects years of excess weight has on your joints, or the side effects medications and treatments for obesity and related conditions has on a person. It does not take into account the emotional toll stigma, bias and bullying some affected by obesity face. 

TLC giving it airtime ticks me off... so many inspirational stories never get told :( Sad really.