Super Slim Me

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As there aren't too many Brits around I dont know if anybody else would have caught this... it was a one-off show that was on BBC3 the other night.

A woman who was a size 12 was the presenter and subject of the show. She was a UKsize12 and in my opinion a nice shape and size, if anything just a tiny bit of a wobbly belly. But in the show she was going to try to get down to a USsize0 (which is apparently a UK4) after all the fuss about size0 that there has been lately.

Anyway she had 8 weeks to try to do it. She had all the medical tests etc to begin with which said she was a good weight for her height, and healthy. She then went around seeing dieticians, etc that the celebrities go to, and doing what they do to lose the weight. She dropped to 500 cals a day, and started a stupidly intense workout, but by the end of the 8 weeks she was not eating at all, she was just drinking a mixture of honey and lemonjuice and something else (apparently a popular method) and taking laxatives. It was just disgusting to see what lengths these people will actually go to do lose the weight. She also went to LA for a lot of the program and interviewed women on the street; most were very small or aspiring to be, and most people who wanted to be models said they would happily starve themselves to get to a size0 for it.

At the end of the 8 weeks she had lost 19lbs but said she felt awful the whole time.

Anyway it was an interesting watch... it really made u see how bad things are with people wanting to lose the weight... she went to a "dietician" in LA who weighed her etc and told her she was borderline obese (when she was a very healthy weight) and sold her lots of supplements... as she said, this is dangerous for girls/women who would go there and really believe they were that fat.

I would never want to be that thin anyway, but I can't believe anybody would think it was ok to live that way just to get there. :(
 
Hi yeah, I saw it. Fascinating. She looked so ill by the end. I was very frustrated that it ended with her having lost the weight - you hear that dieting like that caused eating disorders and that people gain more fat when the regain the weight, so I would be very interested in a follow up - did she get to a healthy weight again, were there any long term problems from the diet she went on (she had a family history of breast cancer, and her body was being depleted of cancer preventing nutrients that was concerning the doctors) was she able to enjoy food int he same way after the diet - did her energy level recover to what they had been before she dieted? Did she begin to lose hair as you can do.

I do admit it was nice to see someone who had a lovely body and had never dieted suffering a diet, if I am honest. To hear her say how hard it is. I have had a lot less than 500 calories a day in my time! Not that I got the idea that this particular girl had even been anti-fat, and she did visit Guernsey in the programme, so is, or has links to, other channel islanders, so she has to be nice.
 
I saw that too...

It was a really interesting program, like she said she might well have not got down to a 'size 0' simply because her bones would get in the way...
It was shocking to see how that little food effected her mood, you would expect to see her energy levels drop and for her to be hungry, but she seemed really depressed too.
And I really felt for her a Christmas time when she stuck religiously to that diet, amazing some ppl keep that up all the time.
 
I found it absolutely fascinating!! I had to get my tape measure out afterwards to see what a 23" waist would look like. Its absolutely sickening how small that is!!
 
I read about it on the BBC website the other day. It sounded crazy. I can't believe she chose to put herself through that for a TV programme! I have never understood the need to be that small - I suppose you have to have a major image disorder to do that to yourself :(
 
distorted_image said:
I found it absolutely fascinating!! I had to get my tape measure out afterwards to see what a 23" waist would look like. Its absolutely sickening how small that is!!
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It's pretty normal to have such a small waist here though.. since people are usually smaller here.. lol.. :D

Which then makes me look even bigger than I really am.. haha.. :(
 
Yeh I was shocked at her Christmas dinner... I will never, EVER diet on Christmas. :D;)

I think size 0 looks too thin for the majority of people (I can't say all, because some people are bigger built than others etc, I know that) and I think she looked fine before hand. I did notice she had a lil belly bulge that was totally gone by the end.

I think when she took the dress in to the model agency at the end on the skeleton that was quite a clear statement. ^_^

One thing that did occur to me when watching it was that she was doing it "full time"... for the two months, being on the diet and losing weight was her job, it's all that she has to do. In "real life" people have to do that as well as carry on with their lives and jobs, which is even harder.
 
gosh thats really a sickening mentality.. to resort to all sorts of ways just to get down to a size 0.. wouldnt she put on all her weight back once she goes back to a normal diet? i think being over-obsessed simple ruins one life..
 
hayley_cookie said:
gosh thats really a sickening mentality.. to resort to all sorts of ways just to get down to a size 0.. wouldnt she put on all her weight back once she goes back to a normal diet?
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Yeh, but the woman doing it didn't really want to be that thin, she was doing it just for the show, and was making comments throughout about how awful the lengths people go to are. She was sort of trying to expose this way of life and the people who encourage it. At the end she went straight back to eating lots of tasty food and said she would never ever want to be like that again. :)
 
I think it's disgusting people these days would rather take the easy way out, starving themselves, taking laxatives and god knows what else these morons do.

Honestly how hard is it to work out right and to eat properly.
The lack of discipline people have these days is truly disgusting.

This coming from a 17 year old by the way.
 
I know what you're saying, but with sensible excercising and dieting you can only reach a certain weight. These celebrities etc are trying to reach weights and sizes that are far beyond that and not acheivable by any healthy means I'm sure. (I'm not saying its ok or that they should do it, but that is probably the main reason for such drastic measures, along with being under pressure to lose it all asap.)
 
I'm not too familiar with British, or American dress sizes so can you give me a height and weight here?

stuco said:
As a man, I have to say nobody wants to be with a skeleton of a woman. I'm really sick of the anarexia fad.
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Ditto
 
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As a man, I have to say nobody wants to be with a skeleton of a woman. I'm really sick of the anarexia fad.
 
Hey, yea i watched Super Slim Me too although i have to say, i think she looked a bit smaller than a size 12 to start with, maybe it's just me.

I know that the show was started to try to educate people of the dangers of how extreme dieting can affect you but if anything i think it just gave young, impressionable girls "tips" on how to do it. Plus i'm sure somewhere i read an interview where she said that after a while it was addictive losing weight and in a strange way she enjoyed seeing the pounds fall off even though she was a fine size to start with.......shows how a disorder can develop.

Anyone see the show - The Truth About Size Zero with Louise Redknapp, same sort of thing
 
hi i didnt see the super slim me programme. when was it on, might be repeated on cable. i did see the louise rednapp programme. she was very slim to begin with. something like 5` 4" and under 8 stone.didnt she get under or very close to 7 stone. she looked and felt terrible. problem is now a lot of these pro ana web sites are using her doing this as a kind of role model. one person said whenever she feels fat/needs motivation etc, they rewatch the programme for inspiration. scary.
 
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