Flying the Fatty Skies
Quick blog. This morning at work my Producer was going over the guest segments for our show (we usually have 10 to 12 guests on Saturdays for our two-hour morning show.)
Anyway one of the guest segments was promoting a local female gym (mine BTW) and their special "Bridal Bootcamp" to help brides-to-be lose weight. It's a total scam ($500 for two months.) Well today they brought along a girl who is their biggest success. She's lost total 80 pounds in 3 years, going from a size 24 to a 12. Now my Producer, a tiny guy I mistook for a high school freshman when I saw him, says:
"Well, is that really such a success.. I mean a size 12 is still kinda big right?"
Keep in mind that this is also the guy who was appalled to learn that airlines say the average weight of their passengers is 195. In his mind that is mammoth. He figured the average male weight was around 200, so for the average of all people to be nearly that there must be a lot of severly obese flyers.
So I looked at him and thought "this guy must be joking." But nope, to him dropping to a size half as big as you were before isn't a success. He's a nice guy, but not obviously not very with it. To make him uncomfortable I told him I was almost a size twelve..he turned red ^_^*
Anyway one of the guest segments was promoting a local female gym (mine BTW) and their special "Bridal Bootcamp" to help brides-to-be lose weight. It's a total scam ($500 for two months.) Well today they brought along a girl who is their biggest success. She's lost total 80 pounds in 3 years, going from a size 24 to a 12. Now my Producer, a tiny guy I mistook for a high school freshman when I saw him, says:
"Well, is that really such a success.. I mean a size 12 is still kinda big right?"
Keep in mind that this is also the guy who was appalled to learn that airlines say the average weight of their passengers is 195. In his mind that is mammoth. He figured the average male weight was around 200, so for the average of all people to be nearly that there must be a lot of severly obese flyers.
So I looked at him and thought "this guy must be joking." But nope, to him dropping to a size half as big as you were before isn't a success. He's a nice guy, but not obviously not very with it. To make him uncomfortable I told him I was almost a size twelve..he turned red ^_^*
posted by SassyJill at 12:36 PM
2 Comments:
Gosh, whether or not he thinks a size 12 is fat, he HAS to see that a size 12 is MUCH smaller than a 24.
Weight is a funny thing. At work I joined Weight Watchers with 3 other women. None of us needed to lose much weight and, frankly, I'm the only one who bothered to follow the program. Well, last week was our last week of class. I met my weight loss goal and got this stupid keychain and got awarded special membership to WW from here on out. The other women (who didn't lose any weight over the 13 weeks of class), instead of being excited for me, got really snotty towards me. They are my friends and we usually get along really well. But, whenever my weight loss success comes up they turn on me. Argh! It pisses me off that people get so uptight about stuff like that.
I guess your boss just doesn't know what it's like at all to feel as though he needs to lose a few pounds. Different people have different warped perceptions on weight. It's sad really.
Poor guy has fallen into the media pit of "skinny itsy-bitsy, model-shaped, nearly cadeverous" is beautiful. The average man on this planet wants a bit of cushiness in a woman. What the camera wants, and what real men want, are not the same thing. Sounds like he was only thinking of what the camera wanted. Really, that isn't all that nice of him, more like ignorant, and not altogether helpful (this from a size thirteen whose husband thinks she's nicely cushy).
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