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Watched this tonight. Am I the only one that thinks that these personal trainers go way over the top in pushing these people so hard?

Saying that the Hula Hoop looked fun and as for the pole dancing .. only poles are outside holding up carport I can just see the neighbours laughing fit to burst.

I didn't see it no, but the very idea of myself pole dancing has exercised my belly muscles quite well just laughing at the mental vision of me slithering around my clothesline pole . That is the only pole I have got to practice on!. The hula hoop .. well, not sure if there would be one big enough to swivel around my hips either!..
Did you see the cute little girl - 6 I think she was , performing on NZ has Talent last night ? Now, she could sure spine those hoops - WOW ! -

I only watched one of those downsize me shows for 5 minutes once. I thought they were a bit demeaning. I couldn't imagine what would induce me to "star" in one. I think it would also put a lot of stress on the person downsizing. Hula hoops and pole dancing... well I have just done my belly exercises too.

After watching the programme "The Truth about Beauty," in which Fearne Cotton examined the trend for super -slim women as encouraged by the beauty and fashion industries - I am so very, very thankful that I can love and accept myself and can look in a mirror and see myself as a worthy woman , just the way that I am. Bulges and all !.
I was sickened by the sights of the skeletons shown on the programme. Many of these women belong to 'pro - ana' websites, and meet each other on them to encourage anorexia as a life choice . And, they have dieted themselves to death some of them. They actually believe they are not beatiful unless they have no flesh on their bones at all really. It was a horrible , programme to watch. It turned my ample stomach. That programme brought back to me, sad memories of the young anorexic lass I once tried to help and was so sure that I would be able to. I took her into my home, a few years ago. What a heartbreaking experience that was. I failed abysmally. Shelly was never fat but she was convinced in her mind that she certainly was. If she ever did eat anything other than a lettuce leaf, she would rush off to climb One Tree Hill or some such thing to burn it off. She is still alive, that girl, but still fluctuating between 32 kg and 40 kg I have been told. She has been on the brink of death a few times and she has never been employed again since anorexia took over her life. Her years at university, and her degress, and wonderful career, all gone. Father died a heartbroken man, and the mother, has become almost a recluse since. What a waste.

yes, it's not only the anorexic person who suffers, but the rest of her family & loved ones.

Truly a soul destroying illness, that devours the mind, body, & spirit.

It only ends when they starve themselves to death.

A blessed relief.

I read where 2 sisters are in competition with each other, to see who can lose the most weight(before dying)

Actually, ...obsessing with weight loss, is a mental illness in itself.

Much like any other addiction or obsession.