LordOfLotion

I'm going to apply Whitney's Razor. She's doing it for attention.

Almost anything on a computer would probably involve reading. So I can buy into them using the slide projector, but then they're making slides from film that involves a chemical process that involves producing waste. You could use the slides for a lot of presentations, but that's a assuming the projector never breaks. Does anyone even know how to repair a projector in Gilead, let alone make a new one?

It's from when she lost that 100lbs the first time years ago.

"Hi, I'm Will Powell! Are you a 90 pound weakling? Gain weight and feel great as time goes by with the Will Powell Weight Gain training program! You'll gain fat, barnacles and your own TV show while you stuff your face with junk food and wash it down with coffee milkshakes as you cry about the haters and tell off your fans all day on social media! Make all the excuses you want! I'm just here to listen and look like a chump! Gotta go-- I'm in beast mode! Don't forget to hit that paypal donate button on your way out!"

I'm still watching because of time invested and it leads into The Royals. I can't remember any character names other than Kyle and Megan, either. It's a very good premise and they have some good ideas, but the writing has been so boring. I don't even have any insults for it, and that's a bad sign from me.

This is, ah, charming.

The glam squad came through, but whoever shops her jawline is slacking.

I've stayed out of the discussion on the Powells for the most part because I don't know anything about exercise. Criticism and animosity are two different things. We have some people in this discussion who have, or have had in the past, personal training certifications and experience. They are expressing opinions about the exercises they see Whitney doing under the Powell's supervision. Sometimes this is done creatively, but I don't think it approaches animosity. This is how Whitney has gotten into "someone called me fat, and that means they told me to kill myself" territory. The diet videos are another can of tuna. Whitney is totally off the rails with this "I only eat after 9PM" and "I need to eat more" nonsense. A 400lb person does not need to "eat more." You've got 3 or 4 other panelists talking about their weight goals in these things. They talk about building muscle mass, or cutting, or whatever they're doing. They're measuring portions, they're talking about what and when they eat, and you don't hear about them shoveling in cake or secret eating in their cars. Setting aside whether those protein bars and shakes are natural and organic, most of what they say sounds logical, and what they look like seems consistent with their narrative. Then you get to Whitney, and we're through the looking-glass. She doesn't get into specific details about what she eats like the other panelists. She's just all over the place, but frankly, her body seems consistent with that narrative. What she tells us, combined with what we know about healthy eating, and what we see her eat, is going to result in the body she has. The irritating thing is that Will doesn't call her out on this. She doesn't belong on a healthy eating panel and everyone knows it. The only reason to appear on anything with her is to make yourself look good. That's hard to mess up, but Will has managed to do it. Whitney is a highly visible person associated with him who has not made any progress toward fitness or losing weight. She appears to be doing exercises in Will's gym that may not be beneficial, and may be harmful if what she has said about her physical problems is true. She says that she is not interested in losing weight and often helps promote things for fat acceptance. She seems to be disinterested in a personal chef and nutrition to the point of opposition, and whenever things get rough lately, she defaults to "but they told me to kiiiiiiiiilll myseeeeelllllffff!" So, call me a fruitcake, but I just don't see how any of that helps the Powells, unless they just want to cater to 400lb people in denial. Maybe you can explain it to me.

I think I'm just going to ask God WTF was all that back there...

Hey I've had to change my eating habit. My thyroid is hyper so I've had to switch to protein drinks and stop inhaling the entire box of Ritz Bits every week. I'm HAWNGRY.

OK... These people telling her to kill herself? I'm done. Screen shots or it didn't happen. I am tired of seeing these allegations with no proof. I am not going to spend my time to go digging for them. Time to put up or shut up. Otherwise, this is desperation for attention, pure and simple.

Oh hell yes. People posted a link on Facebook and there's a small hurricane in the comments section.

Yeah I think I'm going to have a water instead of anything with sugar in it this afternoon.

OMG... Jasper's dad/Count DooDoo... I can't stop laughing at that. I watch The Crown too, and don't get me wrong, I love the bizarre stuff they do here, but I would love a royalty show that that landed somewhere between the two. All the women Liam dates look alike. I love William Mosely but let's just have Liam disappear or something. Or put him on a bus with all those cloned blondes. I need Cyrus back in the palace. It's fun watching him fumble around at the embassy, but I like him plotting better.

I'll take a stab at this... maybe she really does click with people at first. Maybe in person, initially, she's incredibly likable. At first there's all the oohing and the ahhing. She's all cute and cuddly at first, but then she changes. Eventually she's making all these demands like "put on my shoes, knave," and taking you on hikes in the woods that may just kill you. Then there's the running and the screaming. Or in Nada or Alison's case, maybe just the screaming. Then you haul ass back to Egypt or wherever, and hope to the deity of your choice that she doesn't follow you there.

I knew what the bug was for the minute they pulled it out. They did it to Chekov in Star Trek II. I hate that crap.

I love pizza but I won't eat it any more. Not after seeing so much of it eaten by so many morbidly obese people on this show. Especially Steven Assanti.

The point is that Whitney can lose weight, even if everything you say about PCOS and a shot metabolism is true. It may be slow, but it's possible. She did it once-- 100lbs, as she always reminds us, but it was like a David Blaine magic trick. The trick isn't to just quit because of an eating disorder. The trick is to stop the unhealthy behavior and to keep up the weight loss with healthy eating. But, like David Blaine, she just sat there instead of trying to actually do something. I think the snark on her clothing comes from the fact that she seems to deliberately choose pieces that are unflattering and expose or emphasize her body or body parts, when even a lot of thin people wouldn't do it. I'm not sure what's flattering or appropriate at 400lbs, but what she wears isn't it. The giant flowers make her look like a couch. Nobody should be running around in a sports bra and leggings. I don't care if soccer moms do it. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. I don't hate Whitney's body. I would argue that anyone who does hate Whitney's body doesn't hate it more than Whitney does. Whitney is the one who is actively doing bad things to her body. She's killing herself, and it's not because anyone online told her to do it. She is eating herself to death and those exercise videos are a scam, just like those diet videos with Will. She is getting fatter and she is going to die young, not because someone else hates her body, but because she hates it. Heather is an idiot.

To change up this show, I would like to see then do a segment exactly the way they do it now-- I want to see the wake up, shower, ginormous breakfast, and sob story. I would dump the cheesy narration and make them do a sit down interview with a regular journalist, Chris Wallace style, and make that whole thing shorter. The interview could be partially done as a voice over to the whole living montage to keep it short. We know what they do and how they do it. If there's something sensational going on like a back porch hose down or a five year old doing the laundry, don't worry; we'll show it. Then for the second segment, I would bring in a nutritionist shitlord and a home health aide, and kick the enablers out for say the next two weeks, or however long they need to film it. Send them to a hotel or something. Maybe bring in Gordon Ramsay if you need someone to yell. Have them do what we always say we would do-- give the 600+ pounder three nutritious meals a day, ask them what the hell is going on here, maybe bring in a clean up crew while the aide washes those dirty feet and brings in some underwear. My 600lb Boot Camp. Therapist makes a home visit to pre-empt all the idiotic diet waffling over feelings. Third segment, we go to see Dr. Now. In the meantime, the enablers have seen the therapist themselves so they know how to deal with Mama Cass or whoever. Dr. Now says his Now-isms and tells the patient you've done the pre-diet, now go home and do this diet. You can do eet! Going into the fourth segment we see them doing the diet, and then the final weigh in. This is pass or fail for the second episode. If they fail, Dr. Now might continue to see them, but no surgery for now and no second episode. If they pass, they get the surgery and they get a follow up episode the next season. That's probably medically unethical about 50 ways and I tried to do it to make it just one hour so it would never fly. But I am kind of tired of the same stuff every episode, even though I realize that for re-runs certain elements need to be in there.

Yeah I hear you. I've been checked out of this show since season five or so. It was sometime around when Mike turned into a whiny toolbag over Rachel's ex boyfriend's surprise kissing her or something. This show was so much better when Mike was selling weed and they were coming up with clever solutions to legal problems. Anyway, I still watch by proxy because my husband watches. I could go along with maybe one colorful metaphor from the assistant for comedy value, or for hammering a point, but it's like she googled different phrases so that she could say something different every single time. Really this whole story with Louis and the ex is idiotic. I get that a lot of these people have messed up personal lives, but they've kind of made him the butt monkey of the show in just about every way. They're showing him as someone who never learns, and I'm just not buying into it. I wish Donna would have gone to work someplace else and let us follow her being a huge success there, instead of this COO nonsense. It would have been a lot more believable and it would have made Harvey appreciate her. Wait-- did she do that at one point? She's like Harvey's pet hamster who's really good at organizing papers. If she gets out of her cage like she did here he just leaves his office and puts her back in, just like he did this episode. I am so tired of watching that dance. Plus he's always doing stuff that undermines her dignity, and she lets him get away with it. The way it was done with the therapist girlfriend was kind of a turn-off too. This is an educated woman who should have been able to know how to deal with her feelings better than that. And if she couldn't, she should have broken it off, not do what she did. So yeah I would turn it off if hubby wasn't watching.

Absolutely I do.

Nobody hugs me Except my mom and Mr. Lotion. Even my grandpa and I shake hands.

Aaaand it's not babyvoice! Yes!

Nothing to stop you from deep frying a turkey in there, either.

"Taco yachts." I'm dead.