Fat Land

[chocolate chick]

Did anybody watch Fat Land last night on ITV1 at 8pm?



I got on the scales last night and I was 8 stone 7 and I feel fat, I
could not even begin to imagine being 26 stone and what that would feel
like.

[smurfboy]

I didn't watch it but I heard there's been complaints about it, as the woman running it is spouting all this 'be proud to be fat' guff and ignoring how unhealthy it is to be that overweight.

I know what you mean Choccy Chick - I used to be 15 stone (12st 4 now) and I felt hideous then; I can't imagine how anyone could get to nearly twice that.

[chocolate chick]

The lady who was 26 stone, when she spoke her chin wobbled and she was
saying how much she hated being the way she was. She was also saying
about all the bad food she liked to eat. I like bad food too and I will
eat 2 chocolate bars in a row and I will get half a big bar of
Cadbury's when I buy one. But I also weigh myself one a week or
fortnight to keep a check on it and if I see the weight going on I will
up the exercise a bit the next week or cut out the treats until I am
back down to what I was. So it really is hard to understand these
people. 

[goldencup]

Although it's obviously no excuse in that lady's case, it is definitely harder to lose weight as you get older!  Sadly I remember feeling fat at 8 st 7, but now think 9 st 7 is ok!  26 stone though?  Never!  Did anyone see that programme about the fat kids a few weeks ago?  There was a 13 year old boy who was 26 stone and he was truly repulsive.

[chocolate chick]

I do agree it's not easy losing weight and I do understand it's harder
as you get older. I have witnessed it with my mum. But 26 stone is very
extreme.



Yes I see that programme. Did you see the next episode where the 13
year old girl had her stomach stapled to stop her over eating. She did
actually lose a lot of weight.

[smurfboy]

There was a bloke in the paper at the weekend who has lost 22 stone - Britain's biggest ever weight loss apparently - but he's still 22 stone. He said he wanted to get down to 15 stone, which he reckons is 'just right for my 5ft 11 frame'. Er, in what world? I am 6ft 4 and would be overweight at 15st! That just shows how blurred some people's perception of reality is.

[chocolate chick]

Is he the one who is being featured on This Morning this week. He was 44 stone?

[smurfboy]

That's him. He ate 26,000 calories a day - ten times what a normal male should.

[chocolate chick]

What on earth was he eating? 

[smurfboy]

His wife and children

[chocolate chick]

He must have been eating a hell of a lot of food to get to that many calories.

[loulou]

I bet his local supermarket and take away loved him.

[smurfboy]

I heard the chippie across the road has had to shut down since he started dieting

[Cherry_Ripe]

I got on the scales last night and I was 8 stone 7 and I feel fat.

I think TV shows often make people often focus too much purely on their weight and not how their body is made up. Dare I say (as much as I dislike the woman and think she looks unhealthy herself) I like Gillian McKeith's approach.

But I think it's a shame on Gillian McKeith's show all the people who contributed were overweight; there were never any underweight people or people of appropriate weight who ate badly. For me it just faded into the mass of shows about fat people.

[chocolate chick]

It's true, no matter what weight you are you are made to feel fat by TV and magazine's.



Gillian should do a programe for people who are only a couple of stone
over weight. Say for example a lady of about 5 foot in height, weighing
around 10 - 11 stone. i would find a programme like that interesting.