20 Ways to Slim Down (15-11)
Today I was supposed to write a review of the Lifetime movie Fat Like Me. I, uh...well, fell asleep 
I woke up and missed the first hour and was pretty lost. Plus it didn't seem to be about what the previews showed. I thought it'd be this girl taking on a social experiment by wearing a fat suit, but during the end they kept talking about a documentary and her doing it for the prize money and lying to a lot of people. I was lost. I checked to see if it'll rerun any time soon, if it does I'll give it a full watching.
I'll just continue with the countdown of 20 ways to slim down...
#15 - Trim with Technology
Use technology to fuel your workouts. There are TONS of gadgets on the market to help you avoid boredom: mp3 players, the internet where you can get ideas and info on food plans, pedometers, body fat monitors heart rate monitors etc.
I'm a techie geek so I love this tip most. Plus I'm super competitive, you can use those things to your advantage and rather than see working out as a chore, walk X amount of steps and try to walk XX steps the following week. Lose yourself in music when you are walking and time will fly by before you know it!
#14 - Love the Skin You Are In
Work with what you have and dress your current size. Don't try to hide in super baggy clothes nor wear skin tight clothes. Wearing well fitted clothing can make you look slimmer. Do NOT obsess about the number on the tag, buy your size, whatever that designer happens to call it, and if it bugs you that much, either cut it out, or do like Jerry Seinfeld and his perpetual size 34 jeans, write your fantasy size over it 
# 13 - Size Does Matter
Portions in the US are 2-3 times larger than they should be. A portion of meat should be 3oz, which looks like a deck of cards or should fit in the palm of your hand, not including fingers. Rice should fit into a cupped palm or be the size of a tennis ball. When you fill up your plate, think of it in quarters and put ¼ protein, ¼ carb and the last ½ should be fresh veggies.
#12 - There is No Comfort Food
For most of us, food becomes a way of coping. It's our friend when we are lonely. Soothes us when we are upset. Cheers us when we celebrate. Associated with so many things that have nothing to do with just eating makes it a tough mental hurdle to overcome.
Try to find other things to take the place of food. When stressed, go for a walk, mediate, breathe or pamper yourself. Use food for it's purpose, eat to live, don't live to eat.
#11 - Shape Yourself Skinny
Using a body shapers can make you look and feel lbs thinner. Don't thin of those old fashion torture devices known as corsets. Try Spanx, it's what most celebrities use and I've heard it even got Oprah's seal of approval. Body shapers hold you in, takes care of cellulite and smoothes out dimples. If nothing else it makes your clothes fit better.
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01.09.07 | renee commented: From the little I saw, that's the exact impression I got! The promos were so misleading. The premise had the makings of a great movie, especially the part towards the end where the daughter blew up @ her mom about being ashamed at her all those years.
Oh well, I still have some thoughts in general about being treated differently that I experienced over the holiday, I'll share them some time next week. Thanks for the summary Shelley!
01.09.07 | Paige commented: I made Kirk watch it with me. Granted, it was Lifetime, so I was sort of expecting a fluffy movie. Kirk & I were both pissed of by how the thin girl treated her mother. Kirk also hated the 'tech girl' friend, he thought she was too snarky (I was indifferent).
The writing/acting was second rate, oddly enough StTWA was the best actor on that show! The people making fun of fat people were overdoing it, IMO, and then the fat girl grabbing for her 'secret stash' in the car, just seemed fake.....
It filled the evening, but wasn't a good commentary on life as a fat person.
01.23.07 | proverbs31 commented: Hi! I found your blog through fat guy blog. Acually, I did catch the movie. I thought it was... ok...but not that great.
The idea is that she needed to do a documentary to get a scholarship, and came up with the idea on doing one on whether fat people were treated differently or if they were allowing themselves to be treated differently because she didn't believe her overweight brother really had it as bad as he said he did at school. She felt he was using his weight as an excuse and not standing up for himself. But then as she got into it, the experiment took a different turn and it ended up dealing with her relationship with her mother. She did end up realizing that a lot of people were just plain nasty and rude to overweight people. She did end up realizing why she was so mad at her mom (that she was scared of losing her and mad at her for not taking care of herself or trying to teach the brother how to take care of himself.) However, I still think it left a lot unsaid. I just figured that was because it was a lifetime movie and 1.) they wanted a happy story with a mushy ending, and 2.) they didn't REALLY want to get into it. I did like the angle (that she was doing a documentary on how people were treated different, and that's basically what the movie was addressing, too - how all the kids were treated differently based on what group they fit into. I just thought it didn't live up to it's potential.
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I watched the lifetime movie...and thought it wasn't all that great. I expected a lot more, but then again...I probably shouldn't expect a lot from Lifetime movies.
The whole thing about the lying was that she felt bad about lying about being in the fat suit to the overweight girl in her class...and befriending her and getting her to open up about what it is like to be fat in high school...when it wasn't real and she didn't know she was being filmed.
But overall...I thought the movie could have done so much more than show us that wearing a fat suit helped a thin girl learn more about herself and love herself, etc. I don't know...wasn't a fan.