TV show on BBC called You Are What You Eat

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Watched this show over the weekend on BBC from England called You Are What You Eat. They basically take over weight people and humiliate them into eating better and working out. It was awesome. They don't hold anything back. I love the brits.

Get this though...they make these people drop a deuce in a friggin clear plastic container and analyze it. WOW. Anyone else watched this?
 
I've seen a few of them, but it's rarely a pleasant experience. Gillian Mckeith really gets on my moobs. Not only is her voice unbearably excrutiating, but she's also laughably under qualified to even consider referring to herself as a doctor. Plus she has a disturbing fecal fixation, as you rightly pointed out. I do agree that there's nothing better for the victim, nor my own viewing pleasure, than a cold hard slap in the face with the hypothetical kipper. It's just a terrible shame that it isn't presented by someone remotely tolerable.
 
no i havent seen it..! but would love to look at this negative strategy for weight loss, i hope it works!
 
In Canada we get these 2 shows called "Last 10 Pounds" and "Bulging Brides" starring Tommy Europe, a pro football player-turned-trainer. He works with the people with his nutritionist and I just love it! Very inspirational. We also have this show here called "X-Weighted" which is the same idea. Next to Biggest Loser, these are my fave shows to work out to! I have seen the BBC one you are talking about. I found the poo fixation...er...rather strange?? :ack2:

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Hmm i watched the first episode on youtube. I wasnt overly impressed with the diet.
They make out by going vegetarian its the only way you can loose weight and be healthy. He should have not changed his diet so drastically, but learnt to eat meat in moderation with the veges etc
 
The thing with the diet in the show is that its supposed to be a detox, its not meant to be as a real-life diet, which they have only explained in one or two episodes. The poo thing is gross, but it does tell a lot about our diets, and thats part of why the show it (the other part is because of ratings). Overall i find the show pretty good, but i can definatly see why its not running anymore new episodes.
 
I hate to admit that this is one of my favorite shows lol. I TIVO it at my parents house because at school I do not get BBC and when I come home Its literally all I watch even though ive seen like all the episodes at least 10 times. I dont know why im fascinated with it, I know shes not that credible of a nutritionist/dietitian because she doesn't have her RD but seeing how normal people eat andthen putting them on a huge extremely vegetarian diet is just ludacrious but Im always amazed with the results, not mention she is so outspoken with people im surprised they actually listen to her. I also own her book, because some of her points are valid, but mostly for entertainment purposes.

Defitnely a guilty pleasure though...:leaving:
 
yes that bits almost too grosse to mention...:ack2:

shes not even a real doctor!! she does not have a medical degree...her degree is in linguistics...she has to have a disclaimer now saying so in the UK on all of her products.

plus she is the most unhealthy looking healthy person i have ever seen...very wan with no spark to her at all...she just looks/seems bloody miserable.


from wiki...

'Lorna Slater took part in McKeith's programme in 2005, lost twenty-one pounds, but regained it afterwards. Slater said, "she demoralised me totally ... she gave me a balloon - put two drinking straws underneath it and said: "That's what you look like" — I ended up in tears. Then she gave me a completely unrealistic eating plan which involved very little meat or fish and lots of food that disagreed with my system like avocado — which makes me sick — and cucumber. I had to boil mung beans all day long, which took hours, made the flat smell horrible and tasted more like the gravel at the bottom of a fish tank than food. Although I tried hard and did lose weight, it was totally unrealistic.'

there has to be an easier way!! LOL
 
Michelley85 said:
=/ Psst, you already are one.
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Yeah, but not because of what I eat.

I'm just a pussy because I'm terrified of tiny bugs. Especially those silverfish things. AAAAAHHHHH, I fucking HATE those fucking things. Everytime I see one on my wall, I get all tense like a bitch and flop around in my chair like a fish out of water. God, I'm totally going to have one crawl on me tonight while I'm sleeping. Then, I'm going to wake up with the fucking thing waltzing on my cheek and then I'm going to slap the shit out of myself and cry.

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Or... maybe one will crawl in your ear when you're sleeping and lay eggs. Did you know that actually happens about three times a month in the ER?!?! DISgusting.
 
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YES. I watch "Last 10 Pounds", "Bulging Brides", "X-Weighted", "You are what you eat" and "turn back the body's clock" TV shows all the time. Especially when I'm doing my basement gym workout sessions. To me, these are excellent TV shows to help change people's existing diet, exercise and stress exposure lifestyles. IMO. Some of their items are a little "over the edge" (like analyzing some person's poop) but overall, each of their sessions share great ideas. Ideas for their viewers to apply to their current lives - if they want to. And, each of these shows share the same theme. re: Eat better, apply more exercise, lower one's stress and bring more "work-home-life" balance into one's life.

If wondering, my body has T2 diabetes. Mostly due to "too much" improper eating and "too low" of exercise since early teenage years. My previous 30 years of wreckless lifestype did catch up with my body. Today, I apply many of their lifestyle improvement ideas and when all is said and done, many of their lifestype improvement ideas work. Already dropped 60 lbs, my fatty liver is gone, I can now jog 4 miles every other night, my BP is now 110/73 and my cholestoral counts are better then normal body. Win-win across many different lifestyle improvemt fronts. All because I apply many of their lifestype improvement ideas - during the last 12 months.

Hope this helps others...

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Do any of those shows make people take a shit in a box? That has to be the wildest thing I have ever saw. I would have laughed my ass off if I had to drop a log in a tupperware container at my weight watchers meeting.


"oh...looks like you had corn the other day"....omg wtf.:puke:
 
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