While I agree with eliminating fake foods from the food supply and getting junk food out of schools (because non-nutritive, sugar laden foods negatively effect children’s behavior, NOT their weight), it’s quotes like these that ruin miss meme’s credibility for me:

““Women commit fraud on their wedding days — they weigh-in for the walk down the aisle with no expectation of maintaining that weight year after year,” said anti-obesity advocate, MeMe Roth.”

Fraud. So if you gain weight after your wedding, you’re committing and/ are a fraud. How dare you dupe your husband into thinking he married a thinner sexier you, you criminal??

To me, she seems like the type of woman who hates other women, is very competitive with them, and has only male friends.

Also, I am pretty sure you don’t “weigh in” for a wedding the way you do for a wrestling match. Not unless you are getting married on a particularly rickety rope bridge.

Well, okay, I’m pretty sure SHE weighed in for her wedding. But I’m equally sure that most people don’t.

My GOD. How small do women have to be before they’re “thin” and then “healthy”?
This is just sickening. That woman’s attitude makes my heart leap right up into my throat. “Think of the children!” she cries, “Think of how the image of her will affect them!” They might be happy with themselves, and have a successful, happy rolemodel to look up to. Jeez, you can’t win for the losing.

Just about every other woman I know who’s gotten married has dieted for their wedding day, except me. I don’t think she meant weighed in literally, but just that they diet down to a smaller size.

My sister dieted down to a size 14 for her wedding using Jenny or some such crap. I didn’t. The difference now that we’ve both been married *mumble, mumble* years. We’re both the exact same size. But my wedding dress is a tiny bit too big for me and there is not a chance in hades that she could even get her’s zipped up.

As for the video itself- I can’t comment because I couldn’t watch more than the first few seconds of it. Even the first few words that came out of that woman’s mouth made me irate.

I didn’t watch the video either, but went to the site to see what type of drivel she was promoting there, which is where i found that f’d up wedding quote.

Jordin probably will get swept up in the diet machine, drop a few pounds in an effort to be more “marketable” (or so the AI producers will tell her). And then in a few years, she’ll be back to her old beautiful self, just as Kelly Clarkson did. She became very thin for a bit, i’m sure at the behest of her producers. Now that she’s out of their clutches, she’s back to her original fabulousness.

I’m just thinking of all the creative and sarcastic ways you could (politely)ridicule/tease a woman like MeMe. Maybe a bunch of happy women wearing their too-small wedding dresses who show up at her public appearances, or counter press-releases to the asinine ones put out by her National Action Against Obesity. Fight her with humor and satire!

Her wedding gown challenge blog is good for many laughs. See this choice quote:
“Back in the 80s when I was Van Halen’s “number one fan,” I did get the chance to meet the band. Eddie Van Halen made me promise I’d never get fat. He said I looked like something out of Playboy. Talk about making a girl swoon… ”

But seriously – where does this woman come from? What’s her background? I’m trying to determine her “credentials” but I can’t find any. Reading her statement on her website she says she comes from a long line of obesity “Growing up, I always knew I’d be fat. After seeing my obese family on my wedding day, the groomsmen wagered how long until the bride would be fat too.” Telling…She hates herself most of all.

I’m sorry… i’ve commented already on this post, but
OH MY…. that Van Halen anecdote?… she REALLY seeks male approval, and fears if she becomes FAT – gasp! she’ll never get it again from ANY man.

I guess it’s the different strokes/different folks thing, but if a man told me i looked like something out of playboy, he’d better be referring to the editor-in-chief’s name that appears on the masthead.

And of course, Eddie Van Halen circa 1985, being such a paragon of healthy habits and husbandly faithfulness, is every woman’s idea of a desirable life partner. **vomit**

I’m sorry, I don’t have time to comment…I need to go pick out a size appropriate coffin. Clearly, I’m going to die tomorrow.

… I’m sorry, I just reread that. Strike what’s in parentheses, please. I’m new (*waves*) and still learning how to verbalize what I’m feeling without demonizing the other side.

Playboy sure does lie – when they publish stats for their models, they, like every other porn mag, trim pounds off the weight.

Even the FAT GIRL PORN MAGS do this. I learned this after being given a big-girl mag, looking at some women clearly both taller and thicker than me (and more well-endowed), and seeing them listed as 165 or 170 pounds when I weighed (and still weigh) over 190.

A light-switch when on at this point, and I realized why the majority of hetero men have no clue what “a 200-pound woman” really looks like. This made the overheard horror-struck comments about women of such unthinkable size a little easier to take, but not by much.

Close as I can tell, Me!Me! is a marketing professional when not promoting her one-woman organization. So, obviously the perfect expert to talk about weight loss on cable news.

I have to wonder for how many years poor Valerie Bertinelli ate absolutely nothing in order to stay as pencil-thin as Eddie Boy liked her.

That’s weird. Try this. If it still acts up, I like to it from my blog.

What is ‘fake food’?

I won’t watch the video. The woman’s a twit. She obviously has issues with her own body and thus can’t accept others who are happy with their own selves.

And just a note about Fat Girl Porn Mags: While it may have been a widely done practice in the past many of them are now reporting the stats of their models correctly. Big Butt and XL Girls are great about it. I have first hand knowledge. My stats were printed correctly.

I watched the video clip when I saw it somewhere and I wanted to curl up and die. As a recently diagnosed (less than six months ago) type 2 diabetic, I’ve read a lot of articles about how my fat did or did not create this within me. I still beat myself up on occasion because it is so easy to believe that being fat made me diabetic.

I’m trying to write this comment articulately, but I’m not finding the words. Here’s what I know. I know this as a woman who is fat and diabetic:

My a1c is pleasantly below the american diabetes association’s recommended guideline. My blood glucose numbers are mostly right where they’re supposed to be. My other important numbers are where they ought to be. Guess what? Still fat. Lost some initial weight at change of lifestyle, but, still fat. Still fat and haven’t changed weight in awhile, and (gasp) still in the get-a-gold-sticker range for being a type 2.

So this woman can see diabetes and heart disease, but I see a blurry woman in a hot dress singing and looking happy.

Also, I know that one of the big factors with type 2 is stress. Stress is the biggest factor when my glucose levels go high. In a completely non-scientific study, I’ll tell you that many of the diabetes blogs i read are from people who are also on anti-anxiety meds. In fact, the majority of type 2 diabetic blogs that I read have anxiety in common way above and beyond our weight. Do you think that telling someone they ought to change their whole look, that they should not succeed based on their talent in a singing competition, that they should be prepared to get ill and die is going to reduce stress/anxiety levels?

Not making sense anymore to myself, but I hope this makes sense to others.