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ITA. And I can't believe it would last long if they are wed. Chase seems as passive as Lennie was. He has never dated "a plus-size woman" as Twit said. I wonder how long it will be before he gets to wondering what she'll weigh in 5 or 10 years. A fan asked if they would be adopting children. Chase was totally startled; it's obviously never occurred to him that he might not be a natural father. Twit quickly stepped in, said she has recently been having her periods & changed the subject, with Chase mumbling, "TMI."

I'm not sure I can explain why they seemed a couple. Frankly, the way Twit was crawling all over him as she has done with Buddy, Cam, Jacob, Tal, etc., was not that different. I guess I would say it's the way he seemed to be accepting of her. Lots about the holidays & blaming it on Chase's new job which seems to be a sore point with Twit. (BTW, Chase still works as a bookkeeper for a construction co., too.) They didn't spend any of the holidays together. But at some point since the engagement, both families have met. No details except that supposedly Chase's father is "a silver fox" & Babs and Glenn love Chase. (Of course they do -- he's a gainfully employed male to take her off their hands.) A part of the problem with Chase's new job is that it ties him down to Wilmington & Twit apparently thought he would be moving in with her in Charlotte. He quietly pointed out that she really has no reason to stay in Charlotte & could move to Wilmington. She gave him the stink eye on that.

@Ketzel, Chase did talk but, of course, Twit interrupted him. And she called his comments "cheesy" several times, so I guess this is a standard for her. The live-feed was an IG story & I noticed it was still available earlier this morn. I haven't reinstalled FB yet, so I don't know what either one of them posts there. A fan asked Twit which scent she preferred: cat breath or beard. She chose cat breath. Chase was most animated when the two were sharing how they got together. They met at a 2018 NYE party where Twit spotted Chase & was annoyed that Ryan kept introducing nubile young women to Chase but not her. There were a few casual meetings in passing over the next couple of months -- not dates. Then Chase exercised with her & Ryan and they began seeing each other socially. This was around March 2019 IIRC.

Twit did a live-feed last night with Chase. Ostensibly to answer Qs from fans, she spent much time smelling Chase's beard, wiggling all over him & braying. OMG - the constant, loud braying. My ears hurt from it; I don't know how he could be in the same room with her, much less with her big, wide mouth so close to his ears. Twit sez they haven't chosen a wedding date yet, maybe summer. She for sure wants it televised -- honeymoon, too -- since TLC would pick up the tab. I don't know what to make of this. It was actually quite believable that they are a REAL couple. But I still can't believe it. I dunno. Time will tell, of course. But I know this: Twit better get him married to her pretty soon before he tires of her antics. They had only dated 7 months before he asked her to marry him. There was other stuff about their relationship. If you have a Q, let me know & I'll give you an answer if there is one. BTW, Twit's forehead is HUGE. Her hairline is receding at an alarming rate.

Ratings for this episode: 28th of Top 50 Tue shows 0.24 share 862,000 viewers, down from the usual million+ of last year

Throwing weights to the floor seems to be a part of wgt-lifting, and gym floors are constructed with that in mind. What I can't understand is throwing dumbbells on that very expensive flooring she put in to turn her Greensboro home's garage into a dance studio.

This is what Twit looked like in Jan 2015. She has lost wgt, no matter how many times she claims she is not trying to. It was obviously possible for her to carry thru with the show's initial premise: a fat woman works at losing wgt while not letting that excess wgt prevent her from enjoying life's pleasures. She could have been a real role model, not a person who espouses dangerous ideas to gullible fans.

(Not many) Random Thoughts 📌 Not much to say about this 1st episode of the new season since it was 1:44 minutes of sheer boredom. How many times does the producer think we'll want to watch Jessica add wgt to the barbell, then watch Twit lift the barbell? Wash, rinse, repeat, yawn. And almost every other scene was just as tedious. 📌 No, Todd, Heather is not still mad about Buddy. What's not understandable is why she's letting the scriptwriters present her as so pathetic. 📌 Busy, busy, busy: Twit says she's "stretched pretty thin." (Umm, not noticeably, Twit.) 📌 And Babs concurs that "it's something all the time, isn't it?" Well, no. See first item above. 📌 So Chase doesn't like clurbs? Then he must be miserable these days at the clurb he manages in Wilmington. 📌 Ryan only dates 22-27 yo women. So why did he contact Twit on a dating site? Tal says Ryan is "slick, cocky & arrogant." I'd add opportunistic & manipulative. 📌 Twit says her old Greensboro pals are "a bunch of bitter people." I wonder how they felt when they watched her say that on TV last night. 📌 I'm as tired of hearing about the 100-# wgt loss as I am about PCOS. 📌 That fiction that Twit espouses about not eating enuf dates back to a YouTube panel discussion hosted by Jessica's dad. Search for it at Will Powell Eating Protocols. 📌 Wilmington is on the coast, a half-state away from Charlotte. And Chase just drops by occasionally to visit with frat bro Ryan. Yeah. Right.

Swipe to see the second photo. So, you maybe think her choice of using this swim suit as boxing trunks was ill-conceived?

Don't read the spoiler if you don't want info about Buddy's job & Heather's emotional state gleaned from their IIG pages.

Thereis a lot of Pike stuff visible in Chase's IG photos. I recognized them be cuz my dad & brothers were Pikes.

And not wearing high heels as well. And, 3girlsforus, I think Natalie has achieved barnacle status at least by late 2019.

I've spent the day reinstalling this & that. At least one good thing came out of it. When I re-installed Instagram, I changed my name. So I can again read the accounts of the 2 barnacles who blocked me. HA! 😂

I should add that my tablet blew out when I was watching a live feed with Twit & Buddy. Karma?

Shit. My tablet went kaput & had to be rebooted by Amazon tech mostly to factory specs. Meaning I lost all my browser bookmarks, along with apps & other stuff. It's gonna take hours to replace as many bookmarks as I can remember. Worse, I pay most of my creditors on-line -- I don't know their email addresses, much less the passwords to get into the accounts. I repeat, shit. Anyway, take this as a word of warning: if you pay your creditors on-line, keep a record of their web addresses & your passwords on good ol' PAPER. Computers are wonderful -- until they aren't & they betray you.

Yeah, @3girlsforus, I do think Ryan is a scammer. Look at how he's played Twit to get himself -- and his buddy Chase -- on TV, to increase his "elite" on-line training subscription base, to have nice vacays in Paris, in SoCal & on a cruise ship. Do you think any of these would have happened for Ryan if he hadn't realized how desperate Twit is for male companionship & played her accordingly?

Both Powells, father & daughter, have been letting Twit get away with this myth since she first proposed it in a YouTube panel discussion moderated by Will Powell. Watch it if you want to see Twit mouth that & other excuses she uses for her gross size. Search for Will Powell Eating Protocols & select A Panel Discussion. It's pretty easy to skip forward to Twit's comments.

I doubt he is a QUALIFIED kickbox/boxing trainer. He is opportunistic, not necessarily talented.

The Face Time photo was in Twit's NYE IG story & it's gone now. I can only think that @Irate PandaPANDA has named where the conversation in the forum occurred since I don't remember one.

@Irate Panda explained Face Time to me, so I am now trying to figure out what Twit was trying to convey on NYE. You'll recall her selfie with Ryan labeled Face Time with a small photo inset at the top right. (I'm assuming that was Chase but my tablet is too small to be sure.) Anyway, Twit's face was screwed into a pose that I think was supposed to illustrate how sad she was that Chase was not with her. That is, she was close to tears over their separation that eve. Is that how y'all read it? Or is there some other interpretation?

Just to clarify: Tal is the owner of the house tho he & Jon moved in to it together.

One Reddit comment is "what college? what frat?" about Ryan & Chase's earliest relationship. I'm reasonably sure Chase is a Pi Kappa Alpha since his IG photos show lots of frat banners, etc. So, is Ryan also? Ryan spent Xmas 2018 with his Ohio family. His 2018 TG dinner with Twit was in a house or apt with a huge Ohio State banner on the living room wall. Was that Cam's house or Ryan's? If Ryan's, which seems likely, how did he meet up with a guy from WVA? Is Ohio St also Chase's alma mater? It seems unlikely.

Patdon my ignorance, youngsters: what is Face Time?

Accotding to her current IG story, Twit is celebrating NYE with Keith Abelle. He's the guy who massages her feet & hands, so I assume he's part of the PMG film crew. No Chase, of course, since he's off in Wilmington being an "entreprenuer" behind the bar in a saloon full of college-age cuties.

The PCOS conference wasn't the only one Twit misinterpreted as being all about her. She's never been invited to participate in CurvyCon again since appearing on a panel there a couple of years ago & waving her book around.