Image Credit: MTVI don’t always feel the need to alert people when there’s a new series on MTV, but there’s nothing new on lately, and yesterday Kristen Baldwin and I realized that even though it’ll probably just be The Biggest Loser for teenagers, we’re both “pretty into” tonight’s premiere of I Used to be Fat. (Trailer here.) But seriously, MTV, the timing on this thing? Right after the stupid holidays? I’m about to polish off the last of a Paula Deen french toast casserole that’s been sitting in the fridge since Sunday (gross), and for a mid-afternoon snack I plan on reheating a complicated “brie melt” (featuring: jam!) for no reason other than “it’s there.” These two dishes look eerily alike (SORRY). I Recently Became Fat would have been much more relatable. Stop effing with us.
In more pathetic news, I’ve taken advantage of my parents’ On Demand privileges to watch two episodes of True Life called “I’m Happy to be Fat” and “I’m Addicted to Food.” Um. Hello. Lunchtime poll! Vote for the show you’d be most likely to star in, below.
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Dont worry Annie we have all been there I ate too much over the weekend..but to balance it all out I plan on having more of a liquid diet this weekend LOL
Right on! Food for Christmas, Drink for New Years Eve, and gorging out on both the week in between.
I’m reading this as I eat microwaved leftover ham sandwiches, meatballs, and sugar cookies. Yum.
That picture on the right is seriously vomitworthy.
Tell me about it! I immediately forgot what the heck I was looking at…brie? french toast? They both look like crappola! LOL!
Bad timing and execution and orchestration when most people do splurge a lot on New Year’s Eve. Are they trying to humiliate us or something? For the record, I’m going to eat a lot tonight and IGNORE this stupid show! The most common holiday overeaters are the most fit people, not the ones that are fat! But they do it in a more balanced way.
Well….it *is* New Year’s resolution season, so it actually makes a lot of sense to me.
I send in a write in vote with “I will be fat.”
That’s pretty much what I said last night as I sat eating more of my high carb Christmas leftovers. I told my daughter I’m going to end up on a show called “I’m Gonna Be Fat”, lol. Oh well. It’s once a year, right?
Agree with this. My New Year’s resolution is to work out more but, come on, I’m not going to keep that up.
Ah, more ways that people can justify treating people of size cruelly and with the utmost contempt. It makes others feel better about ANYTHING ELSE messed up in their life; at least they’re not fat, right? Geez.
Instead of doing any actual work I am currently pigging out on the various Christmas cookies I’ve stashed in my office. Also, I somehow find that picture on the right magically delicious looking. So, I choose I’m addicted to food.
If I Used to Be Fat wasn’t neurotic enough, tonight is the premier of My Strange Obsession, where they chronicle eating chalk and laundy detergent and such! Crazy stuff!
I used to eat chalk, but only the Prang brand that came in the black and white or yellow and green boxes. Started in tenth grade then stopped 3 years later because Prang stopped making the kind of chalk I liked. I know it is really weird, but I can’t explain why I was this strange selective chalk eater. Pica does explain it a little bit. It just tasted good.
Seriously? Um… I think that is why they are running the show now. They know people are at their heaviest in winter and especially over the holidays. Everyone makes resolutions to loose weight in the new year. What perfect timing to have such a motivating show on. Biggest Loser does the same thing. I just had my 4th child and started working out when the last season on Biggest Loser came on. It was huge motivation for me. I figured if they could loose 150 pounds I could loose 30. Now I’m only a few pounds from my goal.
I think the show (and the timing) looks great! 
I like fooooood. I’m gonna be fat.
did someone say, “food”? where? i want some cookies!!!
Annie,
Just make lots of doodies and poops and you’ll be fine.
“But seriously, MTV, the timing on this thing? Right after the stupid holidays?”
What’s up, EW? Are you employing teenagers to write this tripe?
@ Cris…I’m with you. “But seriously, EW, not the timing but content on this thing? So stupid, right after the holidays.”