Down Size Me: the other documentary

What happens when you make a highly successful, opinionated documentary? The detractors come out of the woodwork and they’re militant and aiming to take you down.

Annoyed by Spurlock’s blatant irresponsibility in eating McDonald’s three times a day for 30 days straight, not exercising between meals and then belly-aching about gaining 24-pounds, seeing his cholesterol level rocket out of control and generally feeling like shit, fitness expert and muscle-bound bodybuilder Chazz Weaver has taken up the challenge of the 30 day McDiet himself, claiming at the beginning of the experiment that he won’t only avoid the danger of becoming Grimace as Spurlock did, but he’ll actually lose weight in the process.

Looks interesting has anyone seen this? I’ll take 2 apple pies with that. In theory it can work, but…..

One comment

  • October 24, 2008 2:37 pmPosted 3 years ago
    determinedtobefit

    I think calling the Super Size Me experiment "blatantly irresponsible" is a bit much given the lifestyle of most Americans. A whole lot of people do not ever exercise and eat a ton of fast food. Maybe not 3 meals a day but 5-7 times a week of bad choices are hard to overcome. If you gobble up 1500 calories at lunch alone it is hard to exercise enough to overcome that one meal. I don't think the average person understands this and that is the audience targeted in the documentary. I'd still be interested to see this though!

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