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I prefer a knitting needle. I didn't get the sense that Buddy lived with Heather but that he sometimes spent the night. Maybe when she didn't have her kids?

I can't believe I have sunk to detailing the finer points of this plotline but... I believe that, technically speaking, she could reach her nether regions with the rag on the stick. The problem was that the rag soaked up the lotion rather than rubbing it into her skin. Donna started early - she began running when she saw Whitney pull out the tube of chub rub cream and the stick. Does anyone remember that scene in Silence of the Lambs, when the senator's daughter is being held in the well by Jame Gumb and he says in a monotone "it rubs the lotion on its skin???" That was all I could hear when poor Todd was administering to the chub rub...

I usually like Ashley but I wanted to snatch up her cute little baby and then beat Ashley over the head with the stroller when she was telling Heather that she could see that she was still in love with Buddy. What everyone should be telling Heather is that it really doesn't matter how great you think the relationship was or how much you love Buddy or how lonely you are or any one of the million reasons you can dream up to hang on to Buddy. Buddy is a drug addict and an alcoholic. He has just accepted this about himself one month ago and started to work on it. You don't know how successful he might be. You do know that every professional around him is telling him to avoid stressful relationships and romantic entanglements for quite some time. And even if he never used with you, you have to know that you were and are a trigger for him. Buddy used drugs to cope with stress and his relationships with Heather was stressful. But for me, here's the kicker. Adults - feel free to fuck your lives up in whatever manner you see fit. Live and let live. But Heather has small children and they should be her first, top and only priority. It's fine for her to date. It's fine for her to be in a relationship. But because she has kids, she needs to be very, very, very picky about who she brings into her life - and consequently their life. Heather shouldn't even think about staying friends with Buddy. She knows she can't do it - she will always be waiting for him to change his mind and decide he wants something more. She has to cut him out of their life. It's what is best for everyone involved. She was more focused on her foot. Owwwwww meyyyyyya fuuuut just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Frappuccinos would slide right down a straw...

What do runners do with that? Don't both make you incredibly thirsty?

Maybe we just need a massive Intervention/My 600 Pound Life/My Big Fat Fabulous Life/My Strange Addiction mashup show??? I think that Heather thinks their relationship went south because of his addiction - so now that his addiction is being "fixed," they can be together. I think that Buddy thinks the relationship was rocky separate and independent of his addiction and he is smart to recognize that he needs to stay away from Heather and avoid any romantic relationship for a long time. And he's probably sick of Whitney bringing it up because a) none of her business and b) his very serious addiction should be a bigger concern for Whitney than Heather's wee broken heart.

I didn't think that Glenn should have lied but I also thought Whitney was wrong to back out altogether. She could have just done the first 5K and called it a day. Promise kept.

Todd earned every penny of whatever he has ever made on this show tonight. Cash out now, bro. I'm glad Buddy is sober and looking well but he was just pissing me off at the end. He does 30 days in rehab and suddenly he possesses the wisdom of the ages? Whitney may have addiction issues but pulling out some sort of success-by-hero crawl across the finish line isn't symptomatic of them. She wailed and moaned and gnashed her teeth but she did work through the pain. an addict would have left the race and used his substance of choice to numb the pain. I can't wait for Buddy to just go work on Buddy without philosophizing about how everyone around him is an addict and he can show them the way, the truth and the light from his vantage point of 35 days sober.

A marathon is 26.2 miles. This was an 8K, which is about five miles. I don't think she exercises on a daily basis at all - or even a regular basis. I agree that water based exercise would be fantastic for her. I felt sorry for her - I genuinely did. But it was tempered with the knowledge that she has made one bad decision after another regarding her overall health and fitness. She tried to go from an almost entirely sedentary life to walking an 8k overnight and then was surprised when she couldn't do it? Please. I felt bad for her the way that I would feel bad for anyone who is obviously suffering but I'd feel worse for someone who was struggling through no fault of his/her own. It is plainly Whitney's fault that the walk was as difficult for her as it was.

From the "training" she was doing with Glenn. Which... wasn't enough and didn't start far enough in advance, or she would have had a much easier time of things - or at least built up some callouses. No but I continue to be shocked by the degree to which parents can be in denial about their contributions to their children's problems - or even the existence of their children's problems. Glenn and Babs seem to have no insight whatsoever into the ways that they have led Whitney to where she is today. For one thing, if all her "helpers" would stop "helping" by shaving her legs and tying her shoes and putting lotion where the sun don't shine, she would have to face the consequences of her obesity much sooner than she has. They need to knock off the enabling, but at the same time, Glenn also needs to realize he can't beg or bribe her into a healthy lifestyle.

It was totally the shoes.

More importantly, where has that stick been?

Buddy is pissing me off. This is not addict behavior. This is perseverance. If Whitney applied this same approach to general health and well-being, she wouldn't be struggling to much to finish this race. Or walk to her car, for that matter. I think that's part of her problem, actually. She loves these grand gestures but she can't hack the day-to-day grind of skipping the Frappuccinos and whatever else she eats/drinks.

She won't. She will be focused on the fabulosity of finishing at all - not the extreme and inappropriate difficulty it was... I know. Whitney must be half comatose if she isn't throwing herself all over that sweet Army guy...

She must change shoes at some point in the race. I'm guessing her sneakers get too tight when her feet start to swell.

OhmyGod - Todd. YOU CAN SAY NO!!!

Ugh. You know, typically when you break up with someone... you are broken up. No one is supposed to have to keep saying "you're not going to get back together." So it's not Buddy's job and it's not Whitney's job. Buddy does not owe Heather "closure." The whole 8k.

And chub rub makes Excuse Number 4!

She also does that sort of side-to-side waddle instead of striding forward. I wouldn't have noticed but it was highlighted on one episode of My 600 Pound Life - because the patient after losing weight was still walking that way out of habit and had to literally learn to walk properly all over again.

I can't keep up. Can she not do the 5/8K because of impending panic attacks, her feet, her PCOS??? Man I wish she could pick an excuse and stick with it.

Babs is squicking me out so far in this episode... I think the water is only waist deep...

Uhhhhh - Babs??? Are you in there?

I'm not revolting - I'm fabulous! Why doesn't it occur to either one of them that Whitney could simply walk the first 5K then stop if she can't finish. Then she keeps her promise to Glenn, thereby earning her bribe.

She can't shave her legs or tie her own shoes.

People with orthorexia also will exercise to the point of, or despite injury and can cause themselves serious harm. They will also often exercise to the exclusion of everything else - school, work, social relationships, etc. We're talking hours and hours and hours a day. It's actually one of my (many) issues with The Biggest Loser - the amount of exercise they have these people doing isn't healthy or sustainable.