Celebrity Fit Club 2

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Registered: 03-15-2004
Celebrity Fit Club 2
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Mon, 07-11-2005 - 5:13pm

I seem to have an insatiable appetite for all TV shows centered around diet and fitness so I Tivo'd this one last night and watched it this morning. Have any of you watched it? (Last night was the premiere of season 2 - I didn't catch but one episode of season 1.) There were a couple of things that really bothered me...

There was a middle aged lady who was obviously overweight and her body fat was around 40%. Yes, that's high but considering the type of clientele I work with, it's about average for a middle aged lady who is not exercising. I always aim to get them down between 25 and 30%. The MD on the show tells her she needs to be around 18%. 18%!?!?!?!?! I could hardly believe my ears.

And then, there's a girl on there who is a plus sized model and she's absolutely beautiful. She has a nice figure for someone who doesn't exercise. She admits she'd like to lose a little weight, but for the most part is happy with herself (which is so rare these days). The panel of "judges" (which included the previously mentioned MD, a counselor, and "drill sergeant" posing as a personal trainer) completely condemned her for her weight and told her how fat she was. I think for her, this challenge was about health and the all-too-helpful judges made it about weight loss.

Guys, I have to get out of the house. :) I don't go back to work until next week but wow that seems so far away....

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Registered: 03-20-2003
Mon, 07-11-2005 - 5:42pm
I think I saw a commercial about it but didn't know when it was on. I'm also drawn into any type of fitness/diet show.





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Registered: 03-20-2003
Mon, 07-11-2005 - 5:43pm
Was there a Celebrity Fit Club 1?





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Registered: 03-15-2004
Mon, 07-11-2005 - 7:22pm

Yep, there was but I only caught part of one episode and don't honestly remember who the participants were.

If you're interested, here's the url for the current season:

http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/celebrity_fit_club_2/series.jhtml

I was so irked by what I saw this morning that I took it off my Tivo schedule. I don't think I'll be watching it.

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Registered: 08-05-2003
Mon, 07-11-2005 - 7:26pm
I saw an episode or two of last season- totally retarded. And I did not like the "goals" these so-called health experts set for the celebs. They were trying to get them to lose ridiculous amounts of weight in a very short amount of time. One woman was supposed to lose something like 15 lbs in 2 weeks- last I checked, short of liposuction, that's pretty hard to do! And if you DO lose that much, it probably isn't something healthy that you're doing to lose that weight. Obviously, the poor contestants couldn't usually hit the more ridiculous goals and the docs would just ridicule them! Obviously, not real medical professionals.