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Season 3, episode 8, is where Whit announces to her dance trainer that she would only be able to actually WEAR the dance shoes for three minutes before she would have to change into non-dance shoes. Edited to add: The next episode, number 9, is where the actual competition takes place.

I literally let out a Whit-sized guffaw when I saw that the photoshopping was so extreme it even skinnied up her massive bingo wing arm.

Thanks so much for that link! I've known generally that darker urine means dehydration, but that was the extent of it. Bookmarked!

Selfie stick with toilet paper wrapped around the end for wiping!

Fact checks and continuity errors... Transcript of the Cheetos convo: (Whit takes a phone pic of Todd and the camera is closeup on the phone screen and Whit's thumb holding it. There are oily smears on the glass of the screen.) W: We can use these for...we should do a web site. My Cheeto fingernails, I still have Cheetos under my fingernails. T: From YESTERDAY. W: I'm a disgusting person. T: Or two days ago. W: Yesterday. In the car driving to the balloon fest, Whit lies right to Tal, Glenn, and Babs. When asked by Tal how the dance class went..."It was amaze. We had, like, fifty people." The widest shots of the class from the camera, especially in the tight circle at the end, show that no more than 31 to 33 people were present. In the car trip with Todd before the class, Whit claims to have no idea how many people were going to show up, but her Facebook post advertising the class required pre-registration, presumably because they needed to know how many filming releases to provide (also required). Those who noted the continuity error in Whit's talking-heads segments, good eye. In some of the segments her hair is especially pointy and in those, she is wearing a necklace. In other segments her pointy hair is a little bit flatter, and in those she is wearing no necklace. If they were continuous THs, there would be absolutely no reason why her necklace would go missing. Oh, and I am mad as heck about a MASSIVE LIE perpetrated by Whit and Buddy's friend Zach in the episode "Who's Your Buddy." In that ep, Whit pretends to be surprised when Zach introduces her to Steve Purrwin, who he claims just showed up at the house while the Thore family was in Hawaii. NO. NO. NO. I was looking back a ways on Whit's own Facebook, and right there for all the world to see, she says SHE found Steve Purrwin, and it was well AFTER they got back from Hawaii.

I have two acquaintances who wanted to adopt some years ago, and they were turned down flat by every American agency they went to, specifically because they were morbidly obese (they very much were). The reasoning always given was that their obesity contributed to both current and future health problems that would impair their ability to raise an adopted child through to adulthood, and no agency worth their salt would willingly put a child into the care of people who might well need that child to take care of them before even reaching its own adulthood. They did end up adopting, but only because they went through an agency in China, which itself only let them adopt after they spent tens of thousands of dollars, went through rigorous background checks, and had a boatload of medical professionals sign off on paperwork that they PROBABLY wouldn't die in a few years. You can bet your boots that no agency would look at MBFFL and let a child into a home where the agency workers would have to say, "We refuse to let you adopt a child who is going to have to rub its mother's inner thighs with chub rub cream every day."

Here's a thing to know about Whit. Ever since her first episodes, and very much in evidence on her social media postings outside of the show, Whit has made it clear that she's a Sprinter. By that I mean she's someone who, when endeavoring to prove that she has Ability and Skill to do whatever she's doing, she will definitely go ALL OUT...initially, for like a minute. This has always been true and will always be true. Look at any of her dance videos, exercise, stunts like the hikes, stair climbing, all of it, even from the first posting of Fat Girl Dancing. She leverages the concept of "Oh, but you only see what the camera shows" into only doing what the camera can see, and no more. So even if we see her "working out" in these exercise videos, I'm certain that the bulk of the workout is indeed what you see, and barely more than that.

(sings) Everything I do...I do it all for you.

There's that part where she lays there on her back doing nothing but breathing. I also observed three times when she was in danger of popping out of her bra on the left side and she took a moment to adjust accordingly. Edited to add: At 1:21 she takes a break to be sort of on her side and stomach, not positioning herself, then shortly after at 1:48 she has a few seconds of rest because, apparently, the 20 or so seconds of activity in between those breaks was just too much for her.

I don't know how fast the original video was when sped up, but when I slowed it down, I specified it should be at I think 25% of the original, maybe 10%. I'll check. What I can do is, we all have a pretty good sense of what Whit's general, oh, how can it be put, "cruising speed" is. You know, how fast she tends to move generally. I'll see if I can figure out a percentage that comes near to her general speed, and see what the video yields then. Edited to add: Okay, original video was what it was, my revised original was 25% of that, I'm about to post a version at 12% of her original IG posted speed, seems to be close to what you would have seen live in the gym. For comparison, the video posted previously by cherenkov of the guy from Scott Herman Fitness has him, at full speed, doing a burpee in about two seconds. In this revised Whit video, it takes her about fifteen seconds.

I'm not a person who infuriates easily, but I edge towards infuriation when I just noticed that in a real burpee, you conclude the individual rep by doing a sort of modified jumping jack which, you know, involves jumping off the ground while throwing hands up in the air. All Whit does is raise her arms in a Rocky pose. So what was the purpose of that video she did where she was "learning" to jump into the air even a couple of inches with the help of a pullup bar? You're supposed to build on your increasing strength and ability, not just say, "Well, did a few pullups, mission accomplished."

Good eye!

I'd take bets that she couldn't even lift her torso off the ground a little if Jessica were holding on to her feet to keep them flat on the floor.

Let's slow that action down a bit, shall we? Edited to add: Ah yes, the strict-form situps, that involve feet flying up in to the air when most fat-shamers would show off by keeping the soles of their feet flat on the floor.

And yet, Whit has been adamant about emphasizing her view that Babs has not only had “stroke brain” in the past, but that it’s a continuing problem existing to the present day. With that viewpoint, why would Whit risk bringing on such emotional devastation to Babs that it might trigger yet another stroke?

As Whit has mentioned many, many, many times, the family has been through a LOT of pet deaths (dogs, hamsters, Whit said in an early episode that Glenn had dug a grave for a horse which I guess they must have had at some point), most recently the dog Tori early in 2017 who was described as having "died suddenly" at the relatively young dog age of 9, so it's frankly puzzling why they'd be devastated at the death of a pig they had a so-much-shorter relationship with, with the also-puzzling factor that the pig died at a tremendously young age, since they got him as a tiny piglet in the winter of 2015-2016. Pigs raised in a healthy domestic environment have an expected lifespan of six, eight, even more years, way more than one and a half years. There had better be some reasonable explanation for this, I hope.

In season one, episode four, Glenn also bought Whit a variety of 13 bathroom scales which he piled up on a counter in the kitchen and lined up carefully on the floor, followed by his reveal that he had also bought yet another scale, this being one of those professional medical stand-up kind you see in actual doctors' offices. It was on that scale we saw Whitney weighed, as of that episode's filming, 382 pounds, and her measurements were 52, 50-ish, 70. (Whit's observation...."And this is only 500 pounds capacity. I don't know how much longer to go before I can't get on this one.")

I don't know how this is going to look, but I figured out based on the various landmarks in the show where exactly Whit was at the significant portions of the "run," so you can get a sense of what kind of ground she was covering.

What a piece of work. Dragging out her panic attack to justify not running an 8k? A panic attack that had nothing to do with running at ALL?

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OMG, just saw that. It's awful to contemplate.

A tiny and revealing moment took place when Whit was on the beach preparing to get on her stomach to practice “surfing” on a board. She dug herself a pit in the sand to accomodate her stomach.

That’s a thought, except that walking makes them de-swell because leg movement decreases fluid accumulation, not increases it, as she sideway notes when saying her feet swell on airplanes where she can’t move her legs at all. But also, we see her wear those same shoes during those brief SM videos she posted recently, so they do fit in general, plus, her feet are not swollen in the flip-flops. Edited to edit: I understand that swelling can take place during prolonged exercise in average-sized people, too. But the point stands, there is no reason to expect the reveal that Whit's shoes hurt her so badly specifically because of swelling and/or plantar fasciitis that she had to shove her extremities into the worst kind of footwear she could have chosen for a timed stroll on a modest amount of flat ground, with many, many, many benches along the way to pause and sit on.

There’s got to be some odd explanation for those flip-flops. The preview shows she starts off with actual running shoes (New Balance brand). But at some point she gets rid of them and changes into the flip-flops. The preview shows Glenn holding the New Balance shoes while Whit is in flip-flops and with her feet taped in a way that those with plantar fasciitis do for comfort. The question, of course, being...why would she remove supportive shoes in favor of ones with zero support, if she was experiencing pain? (Another odd observation: You know what Whit isn’t doing while she’s in agony and leanng on a concrete parking lot block? Sweating. Why, it’s as if she’s not actually expending energy, but acting out take three or four until she’s got just the right amount of suffering on display.)

I looked for mitigating factors concerning wave size and such, but nope, in this current episode, Whit is very adamant. "Even though these waves aren't huge or anything, they're still waves, and they still really scare me."