My Big Fat Fabulous Life 2016 Season

[Inner Surfer Girl 12,015]

I wasn't going to watch this show anymore and here I am watching the first episode of the new season.

Bless her heart.

Whitney is still: delusional, annoying, crass, starved for attention, and frustrating.

She is also still: not fabulous.

[shrinkingkimber 200]

I decided not to watch this season just from the previews.

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[Icantbelieveit 955]

I decidex not to watch when I seen a grown adukt woman living with her mom and was a slob, not funny and vasically getting money to be on a show about being fabulous and fat but complaining about losing weight whike shoving everything bad down her throat and drinking.

She is everything that I hate and is just giving ammunition to people to mock overweight people.

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[Sophie74656 1,572]

Very mixed feelings..on one hand good for her for having a positive self image and trying to make it "ok to be fat" and from the few episodes I've seen she at least talks about trying to make healthy decisions. But, and i hate saying this, a small part of me feels like it shouldn't be ok to applaud someone making constant unhealthy decisions. But I was that person making constant unhealthy decisions

[Daisee68 2,493]

I missed it. Is Whitney the person from the other show "big fat fabulous life" or whatever it is called?

[rydersmama 804]

I think the thing that bothers me the most about her is how she blames her weight on pcos....not on the fact she eats white bread and Mayonnaise sandwiches

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[Read2016 658]

Part of her weight is due to PCOS... I would think she would Celebrate larger size people if she had an actually full time job and some direction in life... Instead I think she just reinforces negative stereotypes about obese people...She's been enabled by the parents... It's easy whine about being obese harder to choose to do something about it

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them"

Einstein

Edited June 9, 2016 by nyteacher125

[Daisee68 2,493]

I missed it. Is Whitney the person from the other show "big fat fabulous life" or whatever it is called?

I totally misread the title. I thought "My 600 pound life" and was excited Whitney was on the show! Oops!! Sorry!

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[Read2016 658]

That would be too funny, reality show cross over...

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them"

Einstein

[Sophie74656 1,572]

If she did have surgery it might help shed some of the negative stigma...if she showed the struggles and how surgery is not "cheating"

[Read2016 658]

Maybe one day she will but right now she is living under the delusion that she present obese people in a positive way...

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them"

Einstein

[KeepCalm 223]

Hmmm I can not find this show on Netflix - guess I'm going to have to try to find it on the fire tv when I get home...

[lisacaron 5,075]

I have watched the show, though I have not watched the new season yet....I'm sure I am going to catch up on it at one point or another. I must say that I do get a kick out of her Mom and their interactions on the show.

I think that said the show is a dichotomy of positive body image and obesity prejudice along with a bit of disillusion about what exactly being obese truly is versus being a "healthy" weight. To be fair they do try to portray the very real struggles of obesity along with all the health issues that stem from the disease such as PCOS and Diabetes. Making light of things such as "chub rub" and aching feet and joints and holes in spandex.

In many many ways the life that Whitney is living on TV is the life many of us may have lived. We have been in the denial stages where we thought we were "healthy" or that it was our illness that caused us to eat and eat and then eat some more.

I know for me I am an emotional eater and when I have days where I want to just sit locked in my bedroom in front of the TV and eat a gallon of ice cream the fact that I can't do that anymore actually adds to my "stress".

I want to believe that I am healthy even if I am obese and the truth is that I am not. However the truth is also that the lady that sits next to me and is the "perfect" weight and body size is also not healthy. The young lady that goes to my Dr. office is only 22 years old and looks like a movie star, she's not healthy either. In fact on paper my health out weighs hers and she is half my age and weight. So who is to say what is healthy when it comes to size and weight?

I applaud women like Whitney who stand up for themselves obese or not and let others know it's not about weight, size, skin color, religion, choice of wardrobe or what I put in my mouth. It's about ME, about who I am and what I have to share with the world.

The show is entertainment television, that's the category you find it under if you are searching for it along with my 600 lb life and others. If you can relate to something positive or negative GREAT you got a takeaway for your time and if not..there's always the Bachelor? LOL

[Daisee68 2,493]

@Inner_Surfer_Girl - are you watching this? I just turned it on and they are talking about doing an intervention with Whitney. That will NOT go over well and I gotta say it wouldn't have gone over if someone had done it to me either. So sad!

[Inner Surfer Girl 12,015]

I just got home so didn't see it tonight. I have it on my DVR so will catch up with it later.