Church of Thin on Tyra Show

Daisalana · May 13, 2007

I'm not one for talk shows, but TiVo has been recording the Tyra Show for me. I look at what it's about and have watched a couple of them...

Did anyone catch the one (I don't know when it's from, since I had Tivo record it) about the Church of Thin?

Was really weird.. this lady has a church dedicated to using the power of prayer for weightloss.. plus her little 'program'.

She demonstrated it on the show, and it just made me cross my eyes.

She even mentioned while she's eating 'we don't need the lap-band!'

It evolves around eating everything and anything you want.. but listen to your BODY.

So they have a plate of a burger and french fries, she asks Tyra, what do you look at and want to eat.. she says the burger.. so the lady said, well make the burger count, make each bite the best.. so Tyra loads it with ketchup and mustard, the lady put salt all over it and pepper.. then she cut it into little bites.. she said.. take little bitty bites, and keep it in your mouth longer.

Then she took a french fry, showed Tyra how to cover it in ketchup, then salt the ketchup part, and make 1 french fry take 4 bites.

Oh oh.. and the lady said, the key is.. drinking between each bite. She said she likes diet coke best.. so she would take a small bite, chew a while...then put the food/fork down, get her coke and take a sip. Then she would repeat. And she said drinking makes you stop and decide if you're hungry-plus you need to 'THANK GOD!' for each bite and say "THANK YOU LORD FOR THIS BURGER!!' (and here we are learning that eating slow and NOT drinking will help us feel if we're hungry or not).

It was an hour show, so I won't get all into it, but if anyone else saw it, what did you think?

Daisalana · May 13, 2007

Oh crap, one thing I wanted to find out about, I thought this would hurt you when eating, not help.. the lady said 20m before eating your meal, take a shot of orange juice, because it will raise your blood sugar, which curbs hunger when you eat.. is that true? I thought it would make you hungrier??

WASaBubbleButt · May 13, 2007

Sugar *does* cut your hunger, the problem is the rebound effect. After an hour your blood sugar drops and you are more hungry than when you started.

When your blood sugar is high there are messages sent to the brain saying you are not hungry. But the other side is your pancreas pumps out insulin to drop your Orange Juice'd high blood sugar. As soon as your body does it's job (pumping out insulin) then your blood sugar drops again and you are VERY hungry.

The lady sounds like a wingnut to me.

kyethra · May 14, 2007

yeah I wouldn't be messing with the blood sugar like that... Low blood sugar is scarey and the cycle is awful.

While I haven't seen that show I do occasionally see bits and pieces of her show. Recently she was on the cover a magazine I get (tyra banks, not the church lady). She has been doing a lot of body acceptance stuff lately though which is a good thing. She actual has a normal BMI, unlike most famous women. I suppose that whole issue is another thread though.