More to Love

There's a new reality series by FOX called More to Love and basically is "The Bachelor", but for PLUS SIZE people. Meaning the bachelor himself is a plus-size man, and all the single ladies are plus-size babes.

At first i thought it was really cute. In my mind i thought, "AW. Fat people can find love too"...and that's always been my philosophy seeing i have been chubby/fat/oh-so-heavy all my life. Its only been about 2 yrs or so that ive finally been lesser on the fat side, but leaning very much into the THICK/MEATY side of things. Anyways, because i've always been on that side of the fence- i know how it feels to have guys not look twice at you, creating mountains of insecurities resulting in believing that "fat girls can never find love let alone a date.". So after seeing this show being promoted, i was extremely "FOR" this show until i noticed two things that made me feel a lil offended.

1. The show is portraying the message that: plus size girls want a plus size guy.
Ah, totally UNTRUE. This misconception always comes up because ppl assume if your partner is overweight like you are, you have something in common. No hahah. That is completely false. They totally showed this by choosing a MEATY/PLUS Bachelor and of course, all the woman are equally/or bigger than him. Giving off the message that love can only found between two big people is just plain ass stupid. They should cast a less meaty bachelor, it would make things more REALISTIC. I dont understand why they cant cast a less meaty guy. I mean opposites DO attract haha True it may be pretty hard to find a guy like that out there but I KNOW HE EXISTS. Look at the mister. He's PRIME EXAMPLE. muah ah ah ah.

2. The show is about "real, normal" woman
That's really offending to a lot of fit/skinny girls out there because the producers are basically saying they arent normal lol I dont think they should say that this show features "real" woman, but rather focus it in a light where they arent bashing skinny pretty girls and focus more on the fact that these meaty girls can be just as fun as any size girl. haha unless America considers being big, than obviously i have no say on that haha

A quote directly from a forum debate on this:

"While it may be difficult for many people to believe, the average size woman in the US is a 14. Until size 0 and negative 2 size women started being praised in the media, that was normal. It still is normal. Being a size 14 does not mean unhealthy. IT'S NORMAL. We've just been bombarded with unrealistic and unsustainable photoshopped pictures for so long that we forget, IT'S NORMAL! Size 14 is not fat. Can I say it again? It's normal! And btw, anyone who resorts to name calling just shows that they are not intelligent enough to debate with facts."

I cannot have said it better myself.



--- Contradicting myself now, i am still going to watch it despite its sending the wrong message. lolol


Also on the subject of weight issues, i recently joined Goodlife Fitness because i felt myself getting big again and im really sick of that pear-shaped body i have ( i blogged about a couple of weeks) and i really should do something about it instead of always complaining how fat i am to LX. On top of that, my cousin really motivated me to join so i gotta give her lots of credit for that.

So far ive been really good, i go three times a week (b/c thats all that my membership permits me), two of those days i attend classes back to back (Body Pump, a class that involves cardio&strength training, Body Combat, a class that mixes cardio with karate&boxing and Body Jam, cardio&dancing) and on Sundays if i dont make it early enough for one of the Strength Training class, i'm going to do my own strength training in the weights section with all the intimidating boys. Shocking isnt it seeing ive never done any weights/strength training yet i am willing to go join the strange sweaty boys.

The things i will do to ditch this pear-shaped body! Hopefully it pays off. Normally people would try to lose weight to have a "beach" bod for the summer, but seeing that we dont really have a summer *sad face*, l'll just work towards a refined birthday body!

Wish me good luck.................its going to be mad hard cuz i still love (bad) food.



Anyways this weekend is full mode, Project Debbie Travis on a Budget! Will explain and show that later. Sadly though, Operation Special Project will be on hold........for quite some time.


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