We haven’t done one of these for a while, so I thought I’d share this, from The Onion’s YouTube channel. From what I understand from the comments, the woman who participated as the “guest” may have a muscular disease that simply resembles anorexia. Just FYI.
liz | 12:03 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
I think the makers of that video find the obsession with weight, weight loss and calories offensive; and to that extent I’d have to agree with them.
“I saw the brocade. It had to be inside me.”
Okay, now that is funny.
Eating disorders, mmm, maybe not so much, but their deadpan delivery of sneaky and satisfying caloric savings is high-larious.
And no, as a matter of fact, I didn’t know I could shave off a few fat grams simply by nibbling my car’s gear shifter rather than the upholstery. Delish!
Liz,
This is so hysterically funny! What a perfect send up of weight loss AND those hideous morning “news” shows.
Thanks for the laugh out loud.
Sherry (crying uncontrollably because she can’t get her baby to look young enough–but, happily, who has a half-eaten box of tissues right at hand)
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