I Can Make You Thin Through The TV
I am now super into the new tv show “I CAN MAKE YOU THIN.” This dude, Paul Mckenna, is all in your business talking about how he can make you thin – through the television! It is very exciting. I have only seen the first episode, but I am hooked already. There is a studio audience filled with people of various sizes who are also hooked on this Paul Mckenna – who can make you thin if you are within earshot of him! I like his diet ideas because basically, it isn’t about dieting. You eat what you want, when you are hungry. That is it. Sounds too good to be true? It totally is, because you have to eat super slowly, which is very hard. Also you cannot have any distractions from your food. So no watching tv while eating. These two things are very challenging because I love to watch tv and I love to eat fast! I eat so fast sometimes that I will bite my tongue and all over the inside of my mouth! Not only that, I love to watch tv while eating fast. Especially good food shows like Anthony Bourdain’s “NO RESERVATIONS” – even though he has a tendency to eat a lot of organ meats. I think it so awesome to eat food while you are watching food! It is like porn during sex, but way more fun!! So now I am totally trying to eat as slowly as I can, completely savoring every small bite, and what happens is I get so bored of eating because it is taking so long, I get sick of the food. It isn’t even that I get full, I just get over it and I don’t want to sit there with the stupid food anymore. I think this is all a good plan and I am excited about the man who can make you thin through the tv. Now I want to do a spin off show called I CAN MAKE YOU HAPPY where I just smile at you through the tv!! You can be made happy through the television!!!
March 26th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
I think you’re a miracle worker cos I’m happy just from hearing your idea. HAPPY! MIRACLES! TV! wait…
March 26th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Hey Girl you always make me happy, you have me laughing just reading your blog, you all bite your tounge and the inside of your mouth. I thought I was the only one who got crazy with food. Peace
March 26th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
After every meal my parents say “how can you eat so fast?!?!”
maybe that why i eat hardly anything but still find it really hard to lose weight, cos i eat it so fast?
I guess i can try it, I dunno, i just dont want my food to get cold.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Seen it, tried it, doesn’t work. I just went bonkers trying to eat rapidly cooling meals really slowly. The whole pleasure anchoring thing never helped either. Much better to just eat three meals a day and do chinups.
March 27th, 2008 at 3:17 am
you know what would really make me happy?? You touring in Paris ( France) and i promise you don’t have to learn French first, you have a lot of fluent fans here
A Canadian friend of mine introduced me to the wonderful world of Margaret Cho a few years ago..and i Think…you are fabuleuse !
please!
please!
A bientôt?
Juliette
March 27th, 2008 at 5:06 am
Is it me, or do I ALWAYS see Ian in your pictures? Like nearly every single picture of you, Ian’s in the background, lol. Perhaps it’s my puppy dog crush on him (only, not quite as innocent as a puppy dog crush)…
OH, I LOVE.. LOVE No Reservations. It’s such a good show. Not just about food but about culture. I love to travel even though I rarely get any chance to do it and to get a feel of a new place through the food and sights on his show is amazing. I also adore Anthony. I used to think he was a total bitchy, cranky curmudgeon. And he is but he’s endearing at the same time. I want him for my friend. If he yells at me, I wouldn’t take offense. I love friends you can yell at (and be yelled by) comfortably.
Food Network is totally porn for the epicurious.
You know what works for me for keeping thin? I know this is going to sound soccer mom-ish but Weight Watchers really does it for me. I rolled my eyes at the idea of Weight Watchers at first because I thought I was too cool for it. But, seriously, I have lost 20 pounds already and it wasn’t hard. I don’t do the meeting thing, just get yourself a point calculator and keep track of your points. And you can still pig out once a week. Like, every Saturday, we get a huge-ass meal (usually Mexican or Chinese) and even some ice cream. So I don’t feel that deprived, really!
March 27th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Is this how you’ve lost so much weight? I just now saw your “I’m the One That I Want” special, and then soon after saw “Assasination”. I was surprised at how much weight you lost. As someone who’s been fighting the “Battle of the Buldge” my whole life, I am always interested in anything that actually works for someone.
March 27th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
TELEVISION is MAGIC!
March 29th, 2008 at 11:06 am
While I get the feeling there is sarcasm afoot, really, the guy in that show sounds like he’s on to something.
I’ve always been a skinny fu—ok won’t use that phrase since I’m not sure how you take to that kind of language on your blog, but yeah, always been very skinny. What this guy says here is pretty much exactly what I do naturally for the most part. I can’t eat very fast most of the time except on the very rare occasion I’m voraciously hungry (sometimes leading to a to a “you’re so lucky you can eat whatever you want and not gain weight!” comment, which then leads to a repressed desire to punch someone in the face, since no, no I can’t) and the fact that I have to stop what I’m doing to prepare/get/eat food often keeps me from eating in the first place. I don’t eat while doing other things very often, or at least, most of the time I’m TVing or computering I don’t feel a need to eat out of habit. This is important when you’re as sedentary as I am 
Though if I may, Margaret, and I hope you read these comments since I hope this reaches you, while I totally appreciate and admire your crusade to tell women they don’t need to have terrible self esteem just because they don’t fit one particular and unrealistic beauty standard (even the supermodels are airbrushed and enhanced to hell and back, remember!), I ask that you are careful of one thing. Please be careful not to cross the line and start backlashing against us skinny chicks! I get some very hurtful comments sometimes from larger people, mostly in the form of backhanded compliments or just going on and on about how skinny I am, loudly, in front of other people. If I did the same to them–”LOOK AT YOU YOU’RE JUST SO CHUBBY! WHEN I POKE YOU IT JIGGLES HEHEHEHE!”–I’d get bitchsmacked into oblivion. You’re a beautiful woman and I’ve heard your quip about “if I was 120 lbs I wouldn’t be able to get out of bed, I’d be too weak!” a bunch of times on LOGO bumpers, and while it’s a cute quip, don’t forget that some of us ARE 120 lbs, and our genes and body composition are such if we weighed, say, 190 we’d have joint problems, or like in my case with my family, at a huge risk for diabetes, and probably just wouldn’t even look that great since some of us just don’t carry it as well as others. Just like you’re happy with your size, I’m happy with mine, and both of us get crap for it, and neither of us really should. PLEASE keep in mind the goal of helping boost the self esteem of *ALL* women, and don’t fall into the trap of trying to boost one group’s self esteem over the others. I may be skinny but I very much resent the implication that as such I’m part of the problem–I’ve dated and dove between the sheets of all sizes of women (and I can’t say I’ve enjoyed one particular size or shape more than any other!), and spent countless hours one on one trying to help some of my curvier friends get out of the emotional funk they’re in over their weight and realize that they are and can be beautiful at their size, even if they aren’t comfortable with it.
Anyway. I’m gonna hafta add this show to the tivo though, I might be thin but that also ends up with me dispensing weight loss advice; I know so many people, several in my immediate family, who have lost a lot of weight and I’ve lived through it with them so I know far too much about it.
Then again, healthy eating, proper portion sizes, and good habits are important to understand no matter what size you are or want to be!
March 30th, 2008 at 5:18 am
Eating slowly is supposed to help because it takes a while for the human body to realize it is full. If you eat fast, you eat more extra food.