UGH WIIFIT NEEDS AN I HAVE AN EATING DISORDER MORE

i decided to do my usual wii yoga. usually i ignore its demands to
weigh me, but after a week or so it gets stroppy and insists. so i
give in and say ok, after all it just tells you your BMI and you can
choose not to look at the actual weight. i could handle that better
than seeing the KG.

next thing i know its telling me i have gained 1.5kg in the last
however many days and that its not healthy to gain that much so fast
and presents me with a list of options and a question as to how i
gained the weight. the options were eating too much, drinking too
much, not exercising, and other such options

and no option to skip it or any other way out without turning the
whole thing off, after its already told me how much ive gained and
that its not healthy. and i wanted to do my yoga!

UGH

all i wanted was yoga

 

A former Ralph Lauren model whose image in a roundly criticised advertisement was digitally slenderised claims the apparel maker did not renew her contract because she was "too large".

Polo Ralph Lauren Corp is contending that it dismissed Filippa Hamilton because of a contract dispute and that the photo was mistakenly released.

"They fired me because they said I was overweight and I couldn't fit in their clothes anymore," 23-year-old Filippa Hamilton, who worked for the company since she was 15, told the Daily News. She said she considered Polo Ralph Lauren her second family.

The company acknowledged in a statement that the image of Hamilton that appeared last week in a Tokyo mall had been digitally altered.

She went public after the photo surfaced.

Hamilton, a New York resident who is half-Swedish and was raised in France, has been looking for another job since she was let go in April, said Jesse Derris, her spokesman at Sunshine Sachs & Associates. She has not decided whether to sue, Derris said.

The photo's emaciated depiction of her, with hips about as narrow as her head, could make young women "think that it's normal to look like that - and it's not," the 1.8-meter, 54-kilogram model told NBC's Today show.

"I saw my face on this super-extremely skinny girl, which is not me; it's not healthy, it's not right," she said.

Polo Ralph Lauren claimed she "was too large," she added, saying that she's a size 4 and that her weight has remained constant during eight years as a model for the iconic American brand, which has dressed US Olympic teams.

In recent years, designers have typically sought models that fit into clothes that are a size 4, or even 2 or 0.

In a statement, the company said the "very distorted image of a woman's body" - Hamilton's - was "mistakenly released" and displayed in the Japanese department store.

Bloggers also posted the photo on several websites, fueling the controversy.

On Tuesday, Polo Ralph Lauren released a statement that read: "We take full responsibility. This error has absolutely no connection to our relationship with Filippa Hamilton," who is a "beautiful and healthy" woman.

That relationship ended last April "as a result of her inability to meet the obligations under her contract with us," a contract whose terms are confidential, according to a Polo Ralph Lauren spokesman.

Derris said Hamilton was not available for an interview with The Associated Press.

Ralph Lauren fires photo-chopped model for being too big

Filippa Hamilton, the model who Ralph Lauren's ad people crudely photoshopped, is looking for work. Ralph Lauren fired her, she said in an appearance on NBC's Today show this morning, due to her inability to fit into his clothes.

She's 5'10" and 120 lbs.

Update: NY Daily News has a statement from the company:

Polo Ralph Lauren said in a statement Tuesday night that Filippa is a "beautiful and healthy" woman but their relationship ended "as a result of her inability to meet the obligations under her contract with us.

In the same piece, reported by Carrie Melago, her lawyer says that he fears Ralph Lauren's treatment of Hamilton "will be extremely damaging to her."

The woman who hates food

American TV presenter MeMe Roth has attacked everyone from her own mother to Angelina Jolie in her one-woman campaign against obesity. She tells Gaby Wood why shaming people is the best way to a thinner world

MeMe Roth in Times Square, Manhattan. Photograph: Andrew Testa

MeMe Roth is on TV. She is swishing her long blonde hair from side to side, widening her eyes behind sexy-secretary glasses, holding up a large pair of trousers to illustrate the size of the average American woman's bottom, and generating hate mail. Daily. "I'm called the C-word more than anyone I know, and they don't say 'cute'," Roth tells me when I meet her. "People have wished cancer upon my kids, I've had death threats ..." She's been compared to Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot and Stalin. YouTube, to which Roth directs me unflinchingly, boasts a clip entitled MeMe Roth is a Psycho.

That's not her official title. Technically she is president of the National Action Against Obesity, a one-woman campaign run out of Roth's home in Manhattan. An intense, sweet-voiced - and yes, very thin - mother of two, Roth, 39, has elected to combat the number one threat to global health, and has landed herself in the middle of one of the hottest political and economic debates of our time. While she does not enjoy the hate mail (as she meekly puts it), Roth sees herself as the bold purveyor of uncomfortable truths.

But is she taking on the fast-food industry? The sugar barons? The government? No, she is taking on Jennifer Love Hewitt in her unflattering bikini ("She'll be doing some serious squats from now on") and Angelina Jolie ("Every picture of Angelina Jolie shows her children eating a bag of Cheetos. How dare the richest, most educated people who have access to everything do this to their kids?"). While every media outlet of the relatively new century makes at least a token effort to help women of all shapes and sizes feel comfortable with their bodies, Roth manages to be swashbucklingly offensive. But she has a rationale for this. "Love it or hate it, whatever socio-economic category you're in, we are a People-magazine society. So if you get it right with Angelina Jolie, the kids will listen and everything will change."

I meet Roth in New York for not-lunch one afternoon. I had invited her for a meal but she suggested we meet "after lunch" instead, at one o'clock. The place Roth had chosen was canny, if a little soulless: the lobby of a large midtown hotel, where we could sit for hours without having to consume anything. As she intimates later, she is a master at finding ways to meet people that do not revolve around food.

But chastisement is not the same as persuasion, and some of Roth's formulations are of such questionable sanity that they can't possibly help her cause. For instance, she tells me: "The defence has been made in the case of sex criminals that there is pleasure on the part of the victim. The same is true with what we're doing with food. We may abuse our bodies with food, but it's incredibly pleasurable. From a food marketer's point of view, when your quote unquote victim is so willing and enjoying of the process, who's fighting back?"

Roth's mother, father, grandmother and uncles are all obese. Her father weighs 300lb. Her mother is diabetic. Her grandmother needs 24-hour nursing care. When I ask what her family thinks of her crusade, she acknowledges that "it's hurtful", but says they are "highly supportive". The thing is, Roth doesn't just see her parents as victims of obesity: "I've been to obesity," she says, "and I don't want anyone else to go there."

Her suffering was apparent early on. "When I was in kindergarten," she recalls, "no one taught me to be ashamed of obesity, but the day, on my birthday, that my mother was to bring cupcakes to my class, I put my head on the table because I knew that within minutes my mother would be there and everyone was going to know that my mother was fat. I felt ashamed. I was grateful that down the block there was another mother who was fatter than my mother."

When I ask Roth what her greatest fear is, she replies: "That my children will become sick, because this culture refuses to foster healthy children. Thank goodness my husband, who also comes from overweight people, also feels the way I feel." She wonders who Mason, 10, and Julia, seven, "will partner with. It scares me. And it's Darwinian. This isn't just my opinion: males with obesity have lower sperm counts and sperm motility; females have higher rates of infertility, higher rates of pregnancy complication and a higher rate of birth defects. So don't listen to me, listen to Darwin!"

What does Roth do? When I ask her if she's ever been anorexic, she gasps: "No! I've never even been on a diet!" So I ask her what she eats in an average day. On this, Roth is reticent. She now runs a private nutrition counselling business, she says, and because of that, "I don't spend a ton of time telling people what I do personally. What works for me may not work for other people."

That's fine, I say, but just as an example?

"I eat beans like nobody's business," she says hurriedly. "I eat more black beans than anyone else I know."

I try to pin her down to something more specific. Let's just do a sample day, I say. What about breakfast? Roth grimaces. "I hate to say this, because I think it's counter to what most people should do, but I never in my whole life have enjoyed breakfast. For me, it doesn't work as well as other things."

Right, I say. So how about lunch?

She squirms visibly. "You're taking me where I don't want to go ... What works for me doesn't work for a lot of people."

Well, you've said that, I insist, so taking that into account: lunch? Roth hesitates. "I discovered when I was in college that I work best when I get a workout in and eat after that. Sometimes I'll delay when I eat until I get a workout in. But I don't let a whole day go by without running four miles."

OK, I go on, but supposing you couldn't work out until four o'clock in the afternoon - would you not eat until after that?

"I might."

I look at my watch. It's 3.30pm. Alarm bells start to ring in my head. How about today, I ask. Have you eaten at all today?

Roth is a little quiet.

"No," she says.

There is a pause.

"But I feel great!"

now this is one person who makes me angry!!!