- Joined
- Apr 2, 2016
The hell of this is, Chantal is actually in a better place, foodwise, than most people her size. Hear me out before you think I'm insane, but if you walk up to a 350+ pound woman in the USA and ask her to eat baked eggplant, buffalo cauliflower, couscous, vegan cheese, peanut stew, and other foods that Chantal enjoys, and they will gag or carry on or act like there's some virtue in being an asshole who only eats hamburgers, pizza or piles of french fries washed down with soda.
Chantal, with the most basic effort, could create an interesting menu and lose weight. She eats veggies and salad without complaint, she has a willingness to eat all sorts of healthy foods from non-Western cultures. She's also gorging on fast food behind the scenes, probably with milk cheese and meat, but that she even goes through these motions on screen shows that she at least doesn't hate or have an aversion to healthy, good food. All she needs to do is measure what the fuck she eats and record calories and maintain a calorie budget. After two weeks of doing it, it would be second nature. It would take her longer to spray paint her hairline than to measure her food and record it.
As an aside, her relentless spending reminds me that almost every extremely fat person is in debt and is terrible with money. The care they apply to taking care of their diet is similar to the care they give their money - they don't budget money or food. There have been studies done, mostly in Europe, that show that people who are in terrible debt begin to lose weight when they get their finances under control, and that fat people begin to save money when they diet. It's like developing the awareness to balance your checkbook or count calories and track weight spills over into other areas of your life. Chantal's financial life, which she sort of shows us in her willingness to throw money at her obesity in terms of gyms and clothes and bottles and supplements and weird vegan meals, is probably as bad as her health.
