Super Skinny

I watched a television show last night called Super Skinny on the BBC channel. Two journalists volunteered to participate on an experiment that called for extreme dieting and weight loss to become a size 0. They both were already healthy weights for the sizes with one weighing about 137 and the other 142. They were both in there late thirties one single and the other in a relationship.

They both started out by trying virtually every taboo extreme diet out there along with grueling exercise. The journalist involved in a relationship started to put a strain on their relationship by exposing her boyfriend to the whole grueling regimen. Who could not understand why she wanted to put herself through all off it.

The single journalist went to a detox spa for a week to try some treatments, which consisted of three juices a day and two colonics for the entire stay. This is when she started to go down a much darker path and when she began to bring up some old demons. She apparently went to boarding school when she was younger as a heavy girl. During her stay at the spa she became a little addicted to the colonic treatments, because she could loose two and a half pounds immediately after her treatment. She had five colonics during her stay when it was recommended for an individual to only have two.

When she went back home she also started to abuse laxatives. She had weekly visits with her doctor and she even lied to him about making herself vomit. She did not admit this to him until the last week of the experiment after she got the diagnosis from a psychiatrist that she had an eating disorder. During the whole experiment, which was supposed to last six weeks she started to think that she was heavy and could loose more weight.

Both ladies did not make it to the required six weeks of the experiment. However, they both made it to five weeks with alarming results. The journalist who was in a relationship celebrated her weight loss success with friends, her boyfriend, and family. She got into her size zero jeans but she was uncomfortable with her new look, because she claimed that she liked having curves. She lost 14 pounds during this extreme experiment.

The other journalist lost a total of 18 pounds, but she also realized that she had some things to work on pertaining to her own self esteem and an eating disorder to get under control. Weeks after this experience she appreciates the life she had before and what women will put themselves through just to be thin. She however, does not regret participating in this program, celebrates it.