@Toxoplasmosis I guess AL is like the prelude - the longest one ever - to MSHPL.
We see them getting hosed down on the porch, cut out of the house or frying chicken in bed and can never understand how they got there, how all the warnings like doorframes fitting somewhat snugly were somehow just built in to everyday life.
I think that many of us have come from a place where we felt sorry for AL, even though her personality is obnoxious its a bit chicken-and-egg; does the obnoxious fuel the flab or the other way round? But we see her taking the most ludicrous, convoluted paths to explain away all those same warning signs we think would be a wake-up call and, although she talks the talk, its as if she doesn't truly see any connection between food and this end result. But every time she just bulldozes her way through another massive warning flag it almost offends her followers, especially when we're then expected to swallow an utterly stupid explanation. Ultimately, she's offending plain logic and gets so much "hate" partly because she's asking us to be complicit. You can only sympathise for so long with someone who just fucks that sympathy off.
God knows what her rock bottom would be. I'd've thought that rubicon would've been many, many embarrassing or life-affecting situations ago, but I guess as long as she can spin a story to convince herself - and I reckon a huge part of why she can't stand any difficult questions is that they might make her question her own paper-thin obfuscations - then she'll never hit it. 'S mindblowing, innit?