Weight Wonder

[annuin]

So if Dr. Phil is leading the way in weightloss with his tv show weightloss campaign, and book, and no doubt other related merchandise, why is he so fat? I mean, if you're going to admonish people about their bad lifestyles and flabby asses, and motivate the country to lose weight, you can't exactly be sporting what looks to be at the very VERY least a good 50+ excess pounds and a second chin.

The media's hypocritical attitude to weight is also annoying me to tears. Every time I stand in line at the supermarket I catch a glimpse of those gossip rags which always complain about stars' weight. There's a constant media pressure to look thin and beautiful, and if you have 10 extra pounds there's almost an extra issue released to talk about how much this or that actress is "letting herself go", yet now they harrass the Olsen twins and Calista Flockhart and various others for being anorexic and too skinny. Then, on the very same cover as where they're claiming Kelly Ripa is too skinny, they have pictures where they complain that Lisa-Marie Presley is so overweight, coming in at 150lbs with her 5'3" stature. Okay, maybe 150lbs isn't that ideal if you're very short, but I mean, it's not as though she's the size of a whale at a mere 150lbs! It looked like some extra butt, thigh, chest and tummy padding at most, not layers and layers of blubber which would make it hard for her to walk through a door without going sideways.

It's no wonder people have such fucked up weight issues, when you're getting too many conflicted signals.

Comments

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

Bingo!

[lillie-nyte.livejournal.com]

*applauds* Thank you, it really needed to be said!

[ddurkee.livejournal.com]

I've always wondered the same thing about Dr. Phil myself! Very well said, as always :)

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Especially when he's actually getting his own family members on the show to lose weight, and he's no slimmer than some of his sisters, I tell ya.

[ddurkee.livejournal.com]

On one of the shows I saw, one of his sisters looked quite a bit smaller than him. It's so hypocritical!

[sublimecontessa.livejournal.com]

Everything you mentioned was about women, and come to think of it, I haven't seen many tabloids talking about overweight or underweight men. This is why it's okay for Dr. Phil, but not his sisters.

I've never liked that guy anyway. -.-

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

I don't mind Dr. Phil... I kind of like the way he basically makes people confront their own responsibility in a situation. I like how he has few qualms about telling people that they didn't accidentally get into the situations they're in, they let themselves get there, and they keep themselves there (especially in the case of obesity)

Most of his advice, when I see it, is a lot of DUH! common sense advice though. I've never seen him give advice that I was surprised to hear. Funny how common sense is such a novel concept on tv these days.

And on his tv show he does have fat men come on as well... like his 600lb morbidly obese cousin.