Tuesday, August 29, 2006
If you need a quick self-esteem boost, check out this link: http://blogs.sltrib.com/sheena/.
It's a blog written by a Salt Lake Tribune reporter named Sheena McFarland who's trying to lose weight. She's using her daily blogs as motivation to become slim and sexy, a daunting task since she started the weight-loss challenge weighing 290 pounds. Sheena is now down to 262 and looking sexier than ever (if you want to check her out, there are pictures on the blog). After looking at her and reading about her daily struggles, you're sure to feel better about your own life.
I've been tracking her journey for the past few months, and despite my casual contempt for this type of reality TV-ish stunt which cheapens the newspaper she works for, I find myself rooting for her success. Her most recent blog is one of the most disturbing yet, since she talks about eating four pieces of fruit in one sitting and then incurring the wrath of insoluble fiber. Her exact words:
"Yesterday was the "Purge but not Binge" diet day. Good heavens. From now on, I'll keep my consumption down to a piece or two of fruit throughout the day and give my intestines a break."
Yuck. There are few things more disgusting than picturing a morbidly obese woman's chunky thighs rippling over a porcelain toilet bowl as she tries to relieve herself with a juicy fury of fruity diarrhea, complete with the sounds of grunting and splashing as well as the smells that are inevitably attached to the entire process. I've been wondering if it was a similar fruit binge at this same time last year that broke the levees in New Orleans. Hurricane Sheena? That thick brown stuff you saw seeping into the homes...that wasn't mud.
Since I work in the industry, I've observed one cold hard fact about female journalists. They're all man-hating feminist bitches, no exceptions. So here's Sheena, a man-hating 290 pounder making the average newsreporters' salary of 26 grand a year. Does she have anything going for her? Ouch. I want to be nice here, but what can I say? I do enjoy her posts, so that's something.
Sheena, if you ever reach your weight-loss goal of 160 pounds by your 25th birthday (September 19, 2007), then I'll personally take you out for a nice dinner so you can start packing those pounds back on. Because your misery makes me feel happy and sexy, and reading about your adventures is much cheaper than Prozac.
It's a blog written by a Salt Lake Tribune reporter named Sheena McFarland who's trying to lose weight. She's using her daily blogs as motivation to become slim and sexy, a daunting task since she started the weight-loss challenge weighing 290 pounds. Sheena is now down to 262 and looking sexier than ever (if you want to check her out, there are pictures on the blog). After looking at her and reading about her daily struggles, you're sure to feel better about your own life.
I've been tracking her journey for the past few months, and despite my casual contempt for this type of reality TV-ish stunt which cheapens the newspaper she works for, I find myself rooting for her success. Her most recent blog is one of the most disturbing yet, since she talks about eating four pieces of fruit in one sitting and then incurring the wrath of insoluble fiber. Her exact words:
"Yesterday was the "Purge but not Binge" diet day. Good heavens. From now on, I'll keep my consumption down to a piece or two of fruit throughout the day and give my intestines a break."
Yuck. There are few things more disgusting than picturing a morbidly obese woman's chunky thighs rippling over a porcelain toilet bowl as she tries to relieve herself with a juicy fury of fruity diarrhea, complete with the sounds of grunting and splashing as well as the smells that are inevitably attached to the entire process. I've been wondering if it was a similar fruit binge at this same time last year that broke the levees in New Orleans. Hurricane Sheena? That thick brown stuff you saw seeping into the homes...that wasn't mud.
Since I work in the industry, I've observed one cold hard fact about female journalists. They're all man-hating feminist bitches, no exceptions. So here's Sheena, a man-hating 290 pounder making the average newsreporters' salary of 26 grand a year. Does she have anything going for her? Ouch. I want to be nice here, but what can I say? I do enjoy her posts, so that's something.
Sheena, if you ever reach your weight-loss goal of 160 pounds by your 25th birthday (September 19, 2007), then I'll personally take you out for a nice dinner so you can start packing those pounds back on. Because your misery makes me feel happy and sexy, and reading about your adventures is much cheaper than Prozac.
# posted by RBW @ 11:54 AM 
