Shows tomorrow on E! (http://www.tv.com/e!-true-hollywood-story/ths-investigates-diet-fads/episode/1158994/summary.html)
It has not that much more information, but I definitely plan to watch.

sparkpeople is going to get a mention on the show...

tehy were pretty excited about it...

since it;'s on E i can't imagine that it will have anything really useful but it educates hopefully another audience about what is hopefully the idiocy of fad diets

That's what I was thinking.
Indeed I don't expect any groundbreaking new information, but it's still going to be interesting to see how they bring it.
I didn't know about sparkpeople, I bet they're excited for sure !

What I am looking to see is actual users first hand experience.

I seriously want back the time that i have wasted watching this show... the interview with the blonde chick just set me over the edge.. Oh she's an impulse eater and has a slow metabolism... and she just NEEDED to have liposuction (which she gained weight back after having) and she needed to have lap band surgery at age 13 because she just had issues.

Fix the damn issues - it's not her slow metabolism that's the problem - emotional eating is a problem -that's not corrected by surgery -it's corrected by behavioral changes. She just had one long list of excuse after excuse and her parents supported the excuses...

This was a story on her from the news
ABC News: 12-Year-Old Girl Has Liposuction (http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/Story?id=2631490&page=1)

I seriously want back the time that i have wasted watching this show... the interview with the blonde chick just set me over the edge.. Oh she's an impulse eater and has a slow metabolism... and she just NEEDED to have liposuction (which she gained weight back after having) and she needed to have lap band surgery at age 13 because she just had issues.

Fix the damn issues - it's not her slow metabolism that's the problem - emotional eating is a problem -that's not corrected by surgery -it's corrected by behavioral changes. She just had one long list of excuse after excuse and her parents supported the excuses...

This was a story on her from the news
ABC News: 12-Year-Old Girl Has Liposuction (http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/Story?id=2631490&page=1)

I know I shouldn't scoff, but come the f*%$ on. Couldn't her parents have sent her to fat camp or something? I think her parents are ridiculous to even contemplate the procedure. Now, I realize I'm a grown woman, a woman who has been overweight practically 2/3 of my almost 31 years, but when I started I weighed 221 at 5'4". So, I'm an inch shorter than this little girl and I weighed one pound more than her.

I also question the ethics of any cosmetic surgeon who would perform said operation on a such a young patient. I find this whole scenario and story a bit revolting.

Best quote of the show comes from one o the religion based diets...

Success is found in the process.. if you do not quit you will succeed... :)

No kidding... :D

the ending stat was interesting...

that only 1 in 10 fad dieters take the weight off and keep it off... i'd say that's pretty accurate...

Success is found in the process.. if you do not quit you will succeed... :)D

um... yah!?! I'm guessing that one of the people ON a fad diet that isn't getting enough of something to power their brain said that. I'm watching it off & on while doing housework & am so far not impressed. Its a THS episode though so what did I expect?

Should be good to watch on the treadmill later.. maybe I will get fired up about it & jog faster!

& FYI... its on E! now & then comes on again at 8pm tonight.

Actually I wasn't being sarcastic when I said I liked the quote because it's absolutely true...

Success comes from consistency and not giving up - too many people focus on the end result - get frustrated and quit too soon...

The segment on sparkpeople I thought was awful - they really portrated spark as what a lot of support forums are like -way too enabling - the two members they picked have only lost 20lbs each and both have a pretty far way to go... It just wasn't a good representation of them.. they've had much better success stories... I wouldnt check out spark based on these two member's testemonials... but I suppose it's perfect for the E audience...

better than the tape worm guy....

I just watched & wondered how many people were googling to see where they could get tape worms. I'm so glad I am ok losing slowly & learning new changes.

& the quote made me laugh. It is true but just sounded so basic it was silly.

I wanted to cry watching the kids & hearing the quote about this generation would be the first to have their parents out live them....ug. That's harsh reality.

it really is the basic that is the most effective... everyone wants a magic bullet - cripes I looked for one for damn near 20 years... Tape worms - shudder -now that's somethign I hadn't tried...

I wasn't a skinny kid, but I wasn't obese either (the presidents physical phitness crap in school used to kick my ass because I wans't overly fit but- I was very active doing kid stuff -I really don't understand when kids became such couch potatoes... Don't kids play sandlot baseball or tag or other outdoor stuff anymore?

Tapeworms .... /shudder ... I remember 8am sitting in parasitology class in college ... the pictures of worms in stool samples .... I think I am going to throw up now... 15 years later and I still have way too vivid memories of that class.

Seriously - people are using TAPE WORMS to loose weight? Do they not understand the insanity of that concept? Obviously they don't.

God Bless,
mik

I think people just get so desperate they will try anything. Its hard & its not like having extra weight is something you can really hide so you know others are aware of it, which makes the pressure worse. People expect quick fixes for everything but its the hard work & dedication that is going to pay off in the end.

Our life styles have just changed. Just like in finding information. (about to date myself here & I'm not old!) But I remember when you had to go to a library & open drawers of cards that you had to physically move through to find the shelf & then you had to *gasp* walk to get the book, magazine, movie whatever & usually had to walk to a table & turn pages! Then you had to do it all again.
Now you just sit down & log on or flip on the TV.

Its the little things that add up & our convenient lifestyles are catching up to us.

....I say this as I sit here watching TV & looking up stuff online.... ouch. :)

it really is the basic that is the most effective... everyone wants a magic bullet - cripes I looked for one for damn near 20 years... Tape worms - shudder -now that's somethign I hadn't tried...


A friend of mine had malaria some years ago and she lost a pile of weight, which she has never been able to regain, no matter how much she eats. She is about 100lbs now, for years. I had to admit I wondered if I might be able to acquire a 'safe' bout of malaria myself, to achieve the same results.

you're not serious are you ?

That is rather disturbing.

I just watched the show. It wasn't bad. The one thing I would have liked to see is making sure viewers knew that the healthy options they showed at the end (WW, Jenny, Faith Based, Spark, etc) were NOT fads, but real solutions.

Granted some will say that Jenny and WW etal are fads too - but those programs do teach you how to eat with ongoing good nutrition in mind.

God Bless,
mik

I saw the special. Some of the views were pretty slanted and some were just to show the extreme. I would have liked to known more about the Dr. that combined two prescriptions.. I think he mentioned glucose but I missed it. It got my attention when the woman who had been on the diet was interviewed and commented as to losing quite a bit of weight successfully on it. If anyone knows more, please let me know who the Dr. was and what that was all about.

One thing I liked was at the end the Itrain.com website where you an buy and load workouts onto your mp3 , it's a cool concept.

One thing I liked was at the end the Itrain.com website where you an buy and load workouts onto your mp3 , it's a cool concept.

I seconded that, that's why I have it on my site :)

Regarding the reason why people cant stick with a diet, it may be because people cannot visualise the urgency of a situation and the difference it can make to their lives.

Dieting and exercising wouldn't take the back seat, if people sincerely acknowledge their weight problems.

I seriously want back the time that i have wasted watching this show... the interview with the blonde chick just set me over the edge.. Oh she's an impulse eater and has a slow metabolism... and she just NEEDED to have liposuction (which she gained weight back after having) and she needed to have lap band surgery at age 13 because she just had issues.

Fix the damn issues - it's not her slow metabolism that's the problem - emotional eating is a problem -that's not corrected by surgery -it's corrected by behavioral changes. She just had one long list of excuse after excuse and her parents supported the excuses...

This was a story on her from the news
ABC News: 12-Year-Old Girl Has Liposuction (http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/Story?id=2631490&page=1)

I actually saw this girl on another show just recently...I think it's the same girl, she was a 12-Year-Old and she had had lipo and she was giving her advice to another girl who was 13, and thinking about getting the same surgery from the same doctor...the doctor seemed like a sicko too lol...

The show was called "My Shocking Story: Too Young to be so Fat"...it featured 3 kids, 2 of them decided to lose by going to a private school for obese children (best idea ever and they lost tons of weight and learned so much about nutrition and exercise)...and the other girl was doing this surgery...

Thankfully, the doctor didn't go through with the surgery because he decided she wasn't in good enough shape to make it through the surgery...but I can't believe this girl's mom was going to let her do this. This was the worst parent I have ever seen. In one scene, the mom decided to take her 2 daughters on a "vacation" in which she brought the underage girls to a casino, gave them money, and let them sit all day and eat at the restaurants while she gambled...disgusting...I wonder why her 13-year-old is obese?

The girl and her mom claimed that they had tried everything and lipo was their only option, I don't think so! Obviously there are some major parenting issues there causing her girl to gain weight...

But yeah, I think that school that the other two in the show went to was the BEST idea...every kid that attends this school is obese, so they don't get teased like at their old schools, the desks are bigger, they start each day with a 3 mile walk, all of the meals are measured out for them, they have exercise classes and nutrition classes on top of their regular classes. They should have a government-funded school like this in every province and state in any country that struggles with obesity...I'm willing to bet that would solve a lot of the burdens that these people would put on the health care system in their older age...