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Just a quick thanks for all the great posts. I had to work tonight and my DVR is down (thanks to the inept house painters and Time Warner's inability to resuscitate it until Friday) so I missed this episode, but reading the comments is just as good, if not better. I'm at work and y'all are making my middle of the night shift much more pleasant.

Chiming in on the BMR and BMI tests - My gym is a wellness center so there's access to one of the machines that tests it. I do it once a year since I've been on my weight loss journey. It involves breathing into a tube for 10 mins with a clamp over your nose. The dietician administers it, I get the results all spelled out nicely as well as the rest of the dietician visit for any specific concerns of mine. I'll do my next one sometime this summer. Last summer, my BMR dropped around 400 points from my only doing cardio, with very little strength training. I got a trainer for a few sessions, learned my way around the weight room and now lift a few times a week, so I'm curious to see what the next test will show. The scale hasn't moved much for me this past year so last month I did a BodPod test at a local university. It's considered the gold standard after a DEXA scan and comparable, if not better, than the one where you go underwater. It was $80, which was the highest I've seen (read $40-50 in online forums for other areas), but highly worth it. It gives you an accurate weight, body fat %, non-muscle mass %, and how many pounds each of those are. They also gave me two projections of what I could get to if I lost 9-12 lbs more. I'll definitely redo the test. For the record, I'm the same height as Whitney, 5'2", plus at 52, I have 20 years on her. I also have PCOS. My highest weight was 248 lbs when I started this, it was a 2-3X, 22-26 in clothes, so I highly doubt she's fitting into those, even the spandex. PCOS definitely makes weight loss harder, BUT not impossible. I'm down 108 lbs, approx 6 to go. My BMI is just into the overweight category at the moment, at 25 point something, but it was 45.4 to start - morbidly obese class II. The BodPod showed my BF% at 26.8, which shocked me, and the projected goals are for 22%. I remember caliper measurements 7 months into this had me at 44%. So Whitney's excuses annoy me. Yes, it's hard to lose and easy to gain, much more than for someone without PCOS. But it's possible. I do this with calorie counting with My Fitness Pal, portion control, preplanning my food for the day - not going low carb, but keeping a careful eye on the numbers (PCOS diet is high fat, moderate protein, low carb), lots of water and regular exercise. I'm far from perfect, I just went to NYC and tried to eat my body weight in bagels and pizza and enjoyed every bite. It takes work, but it's not a lifetime of deprivation, nor is it a temporary thing until I reach my goal. Watching the show is a way for me to see what can happen if I backslid and why my quality of life has improved so much in these past 1290 days (My Fitness Pal tracks this). If she wanted to stay the way she is, said as much and made no attempt to appear like she's working on it, I'd have more respect for her than these pathetic failed attempts and excuses. <climbing off the soapbox and going to log the afternoon snack>

I can't get my brain to function enough to choose right now. But looking at them, I doubt Whitney is capable of recreating those moves at the present time, especially from the Muffin Top video. Watching this season, it doesn't seem like she's got even that much energy at this time. Hoping those images fade from my brain before it's bedtime

I'd have to rewatch (ugh) but didn't Whitney say "see you next week" when she left the radio station? All that moaning about the early hours for a once a week gig? I work in a labor and delivery unit, so we're pretty casual about a lot of things (and sometimes over the line) but on your first day?? Big no no. You don't know people enough to know how far you can go, what you can say. If she had jobs that weren't weekly or short term, she'd have a better idea of workplace etiquette.

Rewatching the original video for the first time, probably since the show started. I wonder if she could do those moves now. Based on this past season, I think not.

I keep seeing Heath Ledger as the Joker. It just popped into my head a few episodes back and now I can't not see it.