To be outraged 2008 supersize vs skinny ?

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Ok so I just randomly came across this on prime video. I used to watch this show when I was at uni and had lots of free time .

It is vile and fat shaming , Gillian McKeith just went round a town centre feeling women's bottoms , staring at them , judging them telling one woman it was like dough! Looking horrified . Then got a load of women into a building and got them to take their knickers off so she could judge them! Calling them the flabby bottom parade !

What really stood out for me was she did not stop any men in the town centre and no men in the take your knickers off stage !

Did anyone watch this and AIBU to think this was all in very bad taste ?

It was fascinating how much rubbish some people ate

It was usually underweight people drinking 15 cans of Diet Coke a day and chain smoking and overweight people eating massive portions (and often a reasonably balanced diet just farrrrrrr too much of it)

"who was that robot woman who used to give people fucking surgery and stuff to make them look younger?"

10 years younger? there was a new series on Channel 5 recently. I'd love to go on that to be honest. You really can look younger if you have loads of money and have surgery!

"I agree - seeing them follow a healthy plan for a few days would have been helpful."

It would have been really boring!

I used to love Style challenge back in the day when I was at uni. Anyone old enough to remember that?!

"That was the good one to get on as they paid for surgery/dieticians/makeovers, the lot."

As opposed to the old 'makeovers' where they used to brush someone's hair and give them a new outfit and they quite often looked worse than to begin with.

@katienana

Didn't she used to get people to shit in a box then act outrage when it smelt bad?

Yes!!

Cant stand the woman. And she looks about 20 years older than she is so she's got a real nerve

They used to drop all their food into a transparent tube, I remember, to make it look particularly revolting.

The healthiest and most balanced diet in the world isn't going to look great all slopped together in a tube!

@Gwenhwyfar

"I agree - seeing them follow a healthy plan for a few days would have been helpful."

It would have been really boring!

Not necessarily - there'd have been mileage in them saying 'I'm starving' or 'If I eat all this I'll be sick' or 'I hate broccoli' or whatever.

I used to love these programmes!

Supersize vs super skinny
How to look good naked (he called boobs “bangers!”
You are what you eat (the poo obsessed woman)
10 years younger (the surgery one)
What not to wear (trinny and susannah)
Fat Famillies (Steve Miller who used to love saying “massive fatties!”)

How things have changed in the last 10 years or so.

I haven't watched it in years, I think it was more healthy to be able to address being overweight, rather than now where you are accused of being fatphobic for suggesting someone would be healthier if they overhauled their diet.

I thought Dr Christian Jessen did Supersize v Superskinny?

@underneaththeash

Fat shaming IS not a thing. It is not healthy to be fat. Obesity is a leading co-morbidity in almost all major health conditions. It’s not great to be underweight either, especially as a woman.

If you Google "what is fat shaming" the result (from the Oxford dictionar is the action or practice of humiliating someone judged to be fat or overweight by making mocking or critical comments about their size.

So I'd say the comments I've had shouted at me whilst out walking (to try and lose weight,) such as "ewww fattie", "are you walking to McDonald's you fat bitch" and "I wouldn't if you were the last woman on earth", are most definitely fat shaming. They were not yelled at me by random strangers who were concerned about my health and wanted to help me improve it. They were yelled at me by people who wanted to make me feel ashamed/ugly/bad. and people wonder why my anxiety got so bad I don't go out anymore

@Gwenhwyfar

"I agree - seeing them follow a healthy plan for a few days would have been helpful."

It would have been really boring!

No more boring than "How to eat well for less"

Naked attraction is pretty appalling too. Fair enough, the people on there have no problems being judged for their public hair, penis size, labia size etc. but the same can't necessarily be said for impressionable young adults who might be watching. The show tries to make it better by giving facts about the percentage of people who've got this or that physical feature, but some of the comments would definitely have made me feel insecure about my body if I'd heard them as a teen.

"Not necessarily - there'd have been mileage in them saying 'I'm starving' or 'If I eat all this I'll be sick' or 'I hate broccoli' or whatever."

I don't know. Eat well for less isn't half as good.

@yvanka omg yes! Fat Families!! That evil vicious presenter who used to call the families taking part degrading names such as “The Tubby Turners” and “The Flabby Flanders” he was really savage and abusive! A zealot for shaming!

Does anyone remember the one about fat kids and a really smug Z-lister hosted it. She audited what a family ate in a week (turkey twizzlers etc shock horror) then would show them a "predicted" aged-up picture of what their children will look like when they're older based on if they carried on with the diet.

Cue horrified parents in tears.

They'd then spend the programme learning about healthy eating, and at the end they'd show them the "new" picture of the aged-up kids, based on the family's new diet.

But what made it ridiculous/hilarious was when they showed the first "bad" aged up picture the smug presenter would then shout at them "YOU'RE KILLING YOUR CHILDREN" and in the picture the "older children" would have grey skin, look miserable, have greasy flat hair, be impossibly overweight, and very un-human like. In the new picture they'd be all veneers, grinning like loons, really sparkly eyes and fabulous hair. It was absurd!!

"If you Google "what is fat shaming" the result (from the Oxford dictionar is the action or practice of humiliating someone judged to be fat or overweight by making mocking or critical comments about their size.

So I'd say the comments I've had shouted at me whilst out walking (to try and lose weight,) such as "ewww fattie", "are you walking to McDonald's you fat bitch" and "I wouldn't if you were the last woman on earth", are most definitely fat shaming. They were not yelled at me by random strangers who were concerned about my health and wanted to help me improve it. They were yelled at me by people who wanted to make me feel ashamed/ugly/bad. and people wonder why my anxiety got so bad I don't go out anymore"

Yes, fat shaming definitely does exist.
There are also people who accuse people of fat shaming when they haven't e.g. a doctor asking someone about their weight, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

I remember Gillian meeting people to change their diets etc and this victim of hers going for a full fat latte and 2 bacon cheese toasties beforehand. She wasn't impressed

The Jiggling Johnson’s etc

I'm reminded of that documentary film ' 'Supersize me' where a bloke went round eating at fast food places, with the rule that whenever he was offered a supersize portion, he had to eat it. After a couple of days he was throwing up in the car parks.

"Clearly me saying that no average woman should be eating as much as her average husband hit a nerve for you to remember so much."

This is a biological fact and not fat shaming, I agree.
Nothing wrong with cheese and crackers though if that's the thread we're talking about.

Gillian McKeith was an horrendous person. God knows how she got that gig but I’m glad she is out of the limelight nowadays. She had zero qualification to talk to people about diet.