Categories: just-life
Date: 16 January 2008 22:16:05
Last night I ended up watching the programme Superskinny Me: The Race to Size Double Zero, in which two female reporters, Kate and Louise, undertake an experiment (with full medical and pyscological supervision) to see if they can get their dress size down to size double zero (UK size 2 - 31.5:23:32).
It was an honestly scary show. Both women took on a different diet each week (five in total) and their daily calorie consumption was slashed from 2500 down to 150-250 calories per day. They also started a daily, hour-long exercise regime to burn off even more...
Needless to say both women became irritable, listless and tired. One of them was taken off the experiment after four weeks for the simple fact that she had actually developed an eating disorder during the process of the show. Though I did learn from her that laxatives do nothing to help weight loss, but a colonic will help you lose two to three pounds.
The other reporter did last the full five weeks, she did seem to have the better support around her, and she was just able to squeeze into the size 00 jeans at the end of the show. I suspect that as she then dived into a chocolate cake that she didn't last there long!!!
I have recently been looking at getting a personalised top to go shooting in. Currently looking at a darts shirt maker who's chest measurments mean that I fall smack into the middle of the XL, or bottom end of the XXL. Forty-six inch chest isn't that large... maybe a week on watercress soup is for me!!! ;o)