anyone watching this?
what do you make of it?
publicity stunt or what?
Louise Redknapp investigates the current obsession among women for excessive slimming to achieve the size zero look. Ignoring the advice of celebrity nutritionist Dr Adam Carey, she enrols in Bootcamp Barry in Los Angeles and begins four weeks of exercise and starvation. She talks to Denise Van Outen and Melanie C about the pressure on public figures to conform, and visits patients at a London eating disorders clinic before dropping in to her old stage school to warn students of the true horrors of crash dieting

anyone watching this?
what do you make of it?
publicity stunt or what?
Louise Redknapp investigates the current obsession among women for excessive slimming to achieve the size zero look. Ignoring the advice of celebrity nutritionist Dr Adam Carey, she enrols in Bootcamp Barry in Los Angeles and begins four weeks of exercise and starvation. She talks to Denise Van Outen and Melanie C about the pressure on public figures to conform, and visits patients at a London eating disorders clinic before dropping in to her old stage school to warn students of the true horrors of crash dieting

Yep - Cos she aint any good at anything else really is she ! :D

I'm going to watch it... and so is my 12 year old Sister, before she gets designs on starving herself for fashion.

I saw Louise on This Morning and she said that she had survived on less than 700 cals a day... :o

I'll be watching it to get some tips :hihi: Only kiddin'!

*awaits being slated again for being obsessed with the way she looks*

I mean, Im watching it so that I know not to go TOO far, if you get me, not so that I can get tips!

Kirsty.... :nono:

Kirsty.... :nono:

:o what have i done now?!

I said NOT to get tips! :nono:

anyone know what time its on? i'm really intrested in it :)

9pm... :P

...Was just wagging the finger Kirst... Just cos I felt like it lol!

anyone know what time its on? i'm really intrested in it :)

9-10 i think :)

9 til 10.30... Get comfy ladies... I'd suggest not sitting there with a bar of choc while this is on... lol

thank you! x

9pm... :P

...Was just wagging the finger Kirst... Just cos I felt like it lol!

haha ok, i like that smiley :nono:

:hihi:

haha ok, i like that smiley :nono:

:hihi:

Haha so do I! Its mine, gerroff! :nono: :hihi:

Haha so do I! Its mine, gerroff! :nono: :hihi:

:wow: Ok... chill out dudette, you can have it! :hihi:

oh my gawsh this program is making me cry *sobsob*

when i saw those girls like teenagers in that recovery house i was crying so much...
its so sad...emotions running high here lol

what is anyone else thinking?
makes you think a lot

Holly mother of god......

Sat watching this tucking in to a huge dinner (after 2 hours training before you all acuse me of being lardy ) felt right guilty!

Why? Ok I dont particulaly have a soft spot for louise (she has about as much tallent as a toasty maker) but come on girl have a sandwich and tell em to sod off. Bledin hell. Nice house tho...

Weird aint it one week they have the 1/2 ton man the next week its size zero... anyone would think the nation is obssesed:rolleyes:

well, if it does anything to provoke the general public into revulsion over this haggard half dead look - she's done a good job

Has anybody seen how fit Kate Moss looks since she ditched the corpse look and got a few curves? :love:
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i watched it,whilst i admired her determination,i think she was a bit silly to do it,
i did feel sad when i saw the young girls with eating disorders,this is the next generation as well.

It was very sad seeing the young girls in the clinic esp the one who was only 12.she just look so young to be worrying about the way she looked .they should all be enjoying their youth not worrying about what they look like.I hope they manage to come through it bless em.

I watched it, it was really interesting and yes I was crying at the bit with the teenage girls on :( Its sad but it happens so much nowdays.
I cant believe how teeny some of the supermodels were they kept showing, its no wonder so many people feel under pressure to lose weight when people like Denise Van Outen are being told they need to lose weight!!!

I thought the bit where her worried husband said 'men don't like skinny women' was quite telling, after all she was skinny before she started the programme ... she just looked skeletal and ill by the end.

Although I didn't actually watch it, just saw the clips on various other programmes... :rolleyes:

I always though when I saw these pasty, hunched up, bony, dead eyed girls on the catwalk that they were just acting a part. Now I realise that they are actually like that ... very sad.

If women are under pressure to be size zero, how come I see so many lady lardbuckets walking around Sheffield?

If women are under pressure to be size zero, how come I see so many lady lardbuckets walking around Sheffield?

Some of those people may be that size because they simply eat too much but others may have medical conditions making them like that or an eating disorder where they binge eat due to depression or other stressful events in their lives....these 'lardbuckets' as you call them do still have feelings and probably feel under greater pressure than most!!!

If women are under pressure to be size zero, how come I see so many lady lardbuckets walking around Sheffield?

oh basil, you've got such a way with words :D

Lady Lard-Bucket ;)

Some of those people may be that size because they simply eat too much but others may have medical conditions making them like that or an eating disorder where they binge eat due to depression or other stressful events in their lives....these 'lardbuckets' as you call them do still have feelings and probably feel under greater pressure than most!!!

Don't take him so seriously sam1984, he's such a kidder :D

Some of us may have 'conditions', some of us just have men that appreciate a few curves in the right places ...

I thought the bit where her worried husband said 'men don't like skinny women' was quite telling, after all she was skinny before she started the programme ... she just looked skeletal and ill by the end.

Although I didn't actually watch it, just saw the clips on various other programmes... :rolleyes:

I always though when I saw these pasty, hunched up, bony, dead eyed girls on the catwalk that they were just acting a part. Now I realise that they are actually like that ... very sad.

He said she was curvy... I always thought size 8's generally werent... 2 of my size 8 friends have no booty or boobs... Its only the size 12s among us who have them...

But once again its just the media moving the goal posts for womens aspirations...

I watched it after the football and found it quite an interesting programme.

Too be perfectly honest, I think the only negative impact it could have is overweight young women now will see this as a justification to their unhealthy lifestyle. I am a firm beleiver in exercise/sports and the benefits you can derive by being active and taking in a balanced diet.

As Jamie Redknapp said in the programme - Skinny birds who diet are grotesque! Anyone who knows me may see that as hypocritical of me as my girlfriend is ever so slender but she eats like a horse and her issue (or luck as many others call it) is medical but aslong as she gets a decent meal and plenty of exercise I do not mind :thumbsup:

He said she was curvy... I always thought size 8's generally werent... 2 of my size 8 friends have no booty or boobs... Its only the size 12s among us who have them...

But once again its just the media moving the goal posts for womens aspirations...

I kept thinking that every time they described her as 'Louise, a curvy size 8!'
All my friends below a size 10 have no boobs at all and the tiniest backsides ever, I wouldnt call that curvy!
Basil, Hope you were kidding ;), I got on my soapbox a bit there! Lol

I agree she was pretty thin already but she was relatively curvy, I mean her boobs were I think a d cup to begin with.

I agree she was pretty thin already but she was relatively curvy, I mean her boobs were I think a d cup to begin with.

No way!! but are they real??

I thought that was why so many have fake breasts now ... they diet down to some tiny child like size and then have to pay some charlatan to give them back some shape ... :hihi:

why does this duplicate posting always happen late on?

Could it be the wine? :suspect:

In order to see just what effects the crash diet had on her body, we really should have seen Ms Redknapp naked before and after the diet.


Only for scientific purposes, obviously.

Its a good example of a good looking woman turning herself into an ugly, skeletal mess for the sake of fashion.

Women are doing this all the time, thinking that it makes them look attractive when in actual fact it makes them look like an inmate of Belsen. Thanks to the media, and vacuous celebs, normal women seem to think that being a skinny wretch is going to get them somewhere in life, or at least get them to feel good about themselves.

anyone watching this?
what do you make of it?
publicity stunt or what?
Louise Redknapp investigates the current obsession among women for excessive slimming to achieve the size zero look. Ignoring the advice of celebrity nutritionist Dr Adam Carey, she enrols in Bootcamp Barry in Los Angeles and begins four weeks of exercise and starvation. She talks to Denise Van Outen and Melanie C about the pressure on public figures to conform, and visits patients at a London eating disorders clinic before dropping in to her old stage school to warn students of the true horrors of crash dieting
watched it and personally thought it encouraged people to diet-showing how easy it is to starve and get thin. what a stupid thing to put on TV for teens to watch. and that stupid fitness guy saying how fab she looked? idiot. She was a lovely Size8 and looked awful at size 4. And at the end where it said she had returned to her normal weight and was loving her curves? not being funny but she didnt have curves b4-she was an 8!

Did anyone see Size Zero on Wednesday night, what did you think?

I think that Louise looked too thin and gaunt before she started.

theres another thread on this already chucks xx

theres another thread on this already chucks xx


What's it under?

"the truth about size zero TV" under entertainment x

I too was confused by the definition of 'curvy'! Five years ago, curvy meant a size 14 or something... ie normal. Curvy used to mean natural curves, a voluptuous healthy figure. I would say curvy = Charlotte Church (or similar)

Now it just seems to mean this type of 'perfect' image that is glorified - very very slim but lucky enough to have big boobs and a perfectly formed bottom. Many celebs have this through a mixture of harsh dieting and implants up top and lipo to sculp their backsides. But it isn't realistic!
Slightly off topic but I do think it's relevant as 'curvy' kept getting mentioned and I think their definition of 'curves' is a bit off tbh

I also found it heartbreaking to see those poor girls in the place for anorexia but hopefully that served as more of a shock for viewers... Louise was in the weight range that would lead to diagnosis of anorexia but people need to understand what that really means: Illness, of the body and mind. Not just a skinny body.

Mod note: Threads merged- please search before starting a new thread ans post new threads in the appropriate section.

I found this programme interesting. I do feel the same as you Natalie about encouraging people to diet - showing how easy it is to get thin in only 4 weeks.

I dont know how she went to that rehab/clinic for girls suffering from the illness, when she was doing it to prove a point!!??? how could she give advise to them when she was doing it??? what must she have looked like to them?

Something i cant understand is how could she run 3 miles a day and do that excercise video on such little food?

I would love to get a copy of that excercise video tho (barmy bobs was it?)

Yeah that did make me chuckle when they said she'd gone from a "curvy" size 8 and a start weight of 7st 13lb, thats scrawny in my eyes!!

Yup 7st 10 is curvy.... hmmm! Not in my book it aint!

Chico has got on board the whole size zero issue and is releasing a song called "coca Cola Bottle Body" about it. Think it's really good how celebs are helping to raise awareness on this subject! What they are doing could be saving lives!!

He has done a short interview about his single and size zero --> uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LS7ieK-Lkb4

chico,record,yeh money involed so release a record to raise awareness,no,no,no,:rant::rant: