Friday, December 26, 2008

Fat Joke

Alright, I don't know how many of you truly enjoy reality TV.

I do enjoy some of it, there is some decent drama on there that may actually be real, instead of scripted, that's always good for a yuck or two...but some things get a little out of hand.

A show on that point would be this new one called "Ruby".

It is about a extremely large lady and it looks into her life on he is losing all this weight and the troubles she goes through and yadda yadda yadda.

Now...this just infuriates me to no end. There are hundreds of thousands of people out there who are dealing with weight issues...most of them because of their own lack of ability to put down the fork..and other because of a certain disease or genetic effect or whatever. Why they chose this lady is beyond me.

I say, if you're going to make a show about someone like this, you find someone with an actual "problem" not someone who nearly ate themselves to death because they couldn't control their own habits.

A line that really got me was when Ruby said something along the lines of "once I got to 700-some-odd pound, I knew it was time to do something."

....Really??

You mean at 400 pounds you thought it was ok?

At 500 pounds you were just a regular overweight person?

At 600 pounds you figured what would another 100 pounds mean?

Cmon.

If you eat yourself to that state, you don't deserve to have TV crew come in and make you a star on cable, you deserve a kick in the ass and a "What the hell are you doing to yourself?!"

Great, she's losing weight, SAVING HER LIFE. But she doesn't deserve a TV show for it.

This kind of topic really gets to me, it really does. I can understand feeling bad about yourself, getting into a funk, losing a loved one, your job, your house...sometimes shit happens and eating is a way people deal with it. I can almost understand gaining 50 pounds to 100 pounds (huge stretch for me), because of all that I mentioned. But 200? 300 pounds? There is nothing you can say, past a genetic effect or disease, that makes that right...ever.

If you weigh in access of 400 pounds and you aren't 7'5"...then you need to get some help. There are offensive lineman in the NFL who close in on the 400 pound mark, and they are considered fat, and out of shape...if you're a normal person, with a normal desk job, that's unnecessary.

Diets aren't for everyone, running isn't for everyone...but getting up and walking for a half hour is easy and "for" everyone. You don't need to go run 4 miles or workout at the gym every single day of your life for 3 hours to stay at a normal weight.

"Put down the fork"

I'm sorry if this offends someone. But cmon. If you stand by and let a loved one or friend eat themselves to death, then you're just as much to blame as they are. Ask them what's going on, see if you can help. It's time for some tough love. Americans are getting larger every year...I mean I love food, I love to eat, in excess, but tell me you don't look in the mirror at 50 pounds overweight and go..."Wow, I need to cut down a bit."

Tell me at 100+ pounds overweight you don't get in the shower and think "What am I doing to myself?"

You can't tell me a normal person wouldn't be able to see what he/she was doing. You cannot be blind to things like that.

Maybe Ruby will give people at her stage in life a fighting chance...but the fact of the matter is, it should of never gone to that point, ever. 700+ pounds is laughable if you did that to yourself.

When you need more than a normal person scale to weigh yourself...you have to get a clue...

..not a TV show.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I agree 100%, keep up the good work sir.