John M

God I was thinking the same thing, I thought that black dress she was wearing on her first date was very flattering to her figure but that white dress was a disaster, it made her look 100 pounds fatter. But speaking of Lycra Tara's trainer, yum.

"I only eat unhealthy stuff because there is no food in the house", I mean besides the years worth of soup you can't go to the grocery store and buy your own food like almost every other 30 year old? You just have no choice but to order pizza? Do fast food places not sell salads where she lives like the do everywhere where else on earth? I don't want to pass judgement on obese people, I am sure they struggle with their weight for all sorts of sympathetic, understandable and complex reasons but Whit's primary issue appears to be that she is just a incredibly lazy narcissist with no real desire to change.

No, I understand but at the same time she is fat and lazy so I'm not going to go ahead an boohoo too much about what might be people's general perception of fat people in context to her when she in fact fat and extremely lazy.

We have previously seen her refuse to clean her room or her car and she bitches and moans about being expected to do a few chores (Seriously, I'll do more chores just visiting my parents, not living with them) including taking her own damn cat to the groomer so I don't know that we should just go ahead and dismiss the idea that the perception of her being lazy is out of line. Let's see, so far we have seen her guzzling wine, eating mayonnaise and white bread, eating pizza, bitching about eating egg and turkey bacon and loading her cart up with cheese and tortilla chips so yeah, I am going to go ahead and say her concern about the soup is not the sodium content.

I'm just now watching the third episode, so her mom eats soup (What is wrong with soup? It's easy and healthy, I eat soup all the time), her dad genuinely seems to care about her food to the point where he goes makes her egg and turkey bacon instead of the mayonnaise and white bread that she wanted to eat and what was Whit loading into her shopping cart because she would rather carry an extra pair of pants instead of actually wearing clothing that fits? I see a bunch of cheese, tortilla chips and god knows what else. Oh and the best part was her complaining that she eats unhealthy stuff because they never have food in the house and then says her mom has a bomb shelter level of soup. EAT THE SOUP!

That's fine but she isn't going to dance herself into 200 pounds of weight loss or this alleged "fit and fat" like she seems to think she can, she is delusional.

Someone brought up in the last episode that her dance partner friend said that she "never had the body for dancing", the with context of how quickly she put on weight in college I'm really suspicious of the idea that she was ever a "dancer" and not someone that danced as a hobby in middle school/high school. I dunno, it's seems like there was some sort of implication that the was headed towards a dance career that was derailed and not that she danced for fun and then in college she started eating a lot and wasn't in some sort of dance program.

It's not so much that for me, it's that she passed very obese 200 pounds ago, she says she put on 35 pounds since the fat girl dancing video. Last episode they showed her eating pizza on her doorsteps and drinking wine. She is simply not going to dance herself into fitness, she is out of breath in a few minutes, I'm a runner and 30 minutes of intense, intense exercise will burn off maybe, maybe a little over 400 calories i.e, probably much, much, much less than that pizza she ate. She really needs to get a grip.

Actually that is an issue that has thrown me a bit with this series, it just seems a bit naive about gay relationships. Maybe I just hang out with a lot of sluts but my experience has always been that there are very, very few strictly monogamous gay relationships as like a formal policy. Like maybe 99% monogamous but from what I have seen there is always an understanding that in the right circumstances sleeping with someone else wasn't completely off the table like it is in most heterosexual relationships. When I think of "open" in gay relationships I think like actively seeking out sexual partners but at least in my experience in gay relationships tend to default to the possibility of sleeping with someone else given the right circumstances instead of the heterosexual default to, never, ever, won't even entertain the idea.

It might be a regional thing, I have personally never heard of "House in Virginia" but I have heard "The High Five" as in "Gurl, you know she has the high five, right?"

Yeah.

People attempting to host a TV cooking show should just assume they are going to have to debase themselves? I mean, sure, they aren't auditioning for the PBS News Hour but it's not Party Down South either, I don't see why he should have just assumed he was going to have to deal with a half-naked fat guy with candy bars taped to him making weird faces and sounds.

If people could just leave a reality TV show when they realized it was going to be a train wreck that was going to probably make them look horrible there would probably be a lot less reality TV, he likely has a contract with major penalties if he refuses to play along, he is there until they tell him he has permission to leave. I don't think he is snooty and above it all for thinking what this show has become is completely unprofessional and undignified, this season is a shocking new low for the series as far as professionalism and how seriously the producers take it. The guy make a mistake, a lot of them probably did but at the same time they likely didn't have any more reason to expect that people like Lenny and Chris would be rewarded for not being able to cut a pepper and stripping half-naked and being taped up with candy bars on a competition ostensibly to host a cooking show than we did.

Appearing in a product placement internet ad for junk food involving a half-naked ridiculous and obnoxious caricature of a cowboy as envisioned through Liberace on LSD has nothing to do with sharing your passion for cooking on TV. I don't think he ducked anything but sacrificing some dignity for a cooking show that clearly doesn't even pretend to be a legitimate competition for on-air cooking talent anymore. I'm still going to watch the show because I hate myself but I'm hardly going to fault a guy for not playing along with something that clearly went completely off the rails this season even by what had become very forgiving standards.

I think he is probably just a conservative and straitlaced guy personality wise that takes his career very seriously and is trapped in a show of foolishness with these whacky characters who really don't seem to know much about food and just doesn't know how to deal so he takes a very defensive posture. It seems like a reasonable question to ask didn't he see the show before but I think we are all in agreement that this season is even more ridiculous than usual.

I always cringe at that commercial because as he is extolling the virtues of fresh fruit they basically just say buy this preserved shit anyways. I get it, I don't have a sophisticated palate, I'm not above eating preserved fruit but when I see that commercial all I can think is Bobby Flay is telling me to stop being so damn lazy and cut up some fresh fruit from the grocery store. Oh he was, it was palpable and I felt so bad for him. He kind of reminded me of myself in that. I'm not a shy guy but there is like a built in part of my personality where I am like physically incapable of letting go of my inhibitions and acting in a way that could be described as silly. I wish it wasn't that way but it is so I am sure he was to the point of being physically ill.

Chris slicing that pepper, again, I'm not a chef, I'm not an amateur chef, I don't even like cooking and he was cutting that pepper like he was trying to demonstrating bad knifes on an infomercial. Ruben got rid of some of that ridiculous beard and hello hottie. Shut up Lenny and put your damn shirt back on, ugh.

So glad Luca is gone, did he do the show on a dare or something? I got the impression that not only did he not want to be there during the show that he didn't want to be there in the first place. Why are you even on the show? And I'm So over Lenny, the cowboy affectation is just too much, too, too much. And the lady adjusting herself outside, actually the whole thing. First of all I do not believe you are heterosexual, maybe you are, that is between you and your lady but I'm not buying what you are selling so just don't. And I have zero skill in the kitchen, I don't cook so I'm not even sure why I watch so much Food Network but you are not some sort of kitchen Jesus because you figured out to put the flour in the onions to save it, that was my first thought. Actually when Reuben told him to put the flour in the onions after they made such a big deal about him screwing up I thought that was Reuben fixing the mistake. Actually I still think that is what happened so I don't know why it got stretched into such a thing.

They really need to tone down the everything about Luca is gorgeous and perfect angle, I mean he isn't ugly but I don't think he or his accent is remarkably attractive either, certainly not more so than Christopher or Rueben. I get everyone has a type and I'm sure plenty of people find Luca very attractive but they really need to stop beating us over the head with it, male model or movie star is not his backup career if the whole TV chef thing doesn't work out.