#supersize me

[animentality]

[mrstealyourcake]

This shirt is losing the battle...

[fatfantacies]

Picture my wide overfilled frame filling up the loveseat as I continue to stuff my face. I dont know what im addicted to more; eating or getting fatter. My stomach hangs to my knees and sometimes, depending on how full I am, over the the sides of my huge thighs. A thick layer of cellulite covers my oversized love handles and my thighs. My ham sized upper arms have stretch marks that match the ones on my lower stomach. All of my tattoos have been stretched out beyond belief. My cheeks are swollen so I perpetually look bloated. My double chin is so fat it overflows my actual chin.

Do you want to get me another cheese burger or some red velvet cake? Then again get me both, and some fries!

[blobification]

Still packing on the pounds. Hopefully I’ll surpass five hundred pounds before 2024. I would *love* some help from a skilled feeder to get to even higher weights as rapidly as possible.

[knightscanfeeltoo]

It was Fun watching "Supersize Me" back in High School and I'd like to watch that Documentary again someday...

(also just be glad that mcdonalds never supersized the grimace milkshake...)

[lavenderlatt3]

Jared from Subway...Who Knew? Who covered it up?

[weepingfireflies]

If you're cool with it, put the general area (Northwest, Midwest, Northeast, etc.) or the state where you went to middle/high school or saw the movie.

[adamwatchesmovies]

Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! (2017)

I distinctly remember the 2004 release of Super Size Me. It shocked the world - despite telling us all what we already knew - and was released shortly before I started working at McDonald’s. As part of my training, I was told that if anyone asked us to “supersize” something, I should inform them that we no longer offered that option. If anyone wanted to shoot footage or requested an interview, I needed to call a superior immediately. Since then, I've seen many people looking for ways to discredit the experiment but the point remains: it made us think about what food we were eating, whether or not food as unhealthy as the one sold to us should be allowed and whether McDonald's might've had something to do with the health situation of those teens who tried to sue them. Since then, what’s changed?

Having noticed many differences in the way fast food chains brand themselves and their food, Morgan Spurlock decides to take on them on again, this time by launching a fully-transparent fast food restaurant.

As before, Supersize Me 2 isn’t really telling us anything we "don’t know" but it’s what we might've not thought of that’s surprising. Chickens have been specially bred to give us more meat faster than when they were first domesticated. How far has that breeding gone? Those rumors of four-winged and beakless birds are just rumors, aren’t they?

As Spurlock demonstrates, the food hasn't changed but the presentation has. Burger chains with fireplaces, lots of stonework, word collages and big inviting photos on the walls. It’s like walking into a completely different place and that's the idea. Food seems healthier through the use of color, photography, and word choice but it’s not like the menus have taken away the family buckets, the Whoppers, Big Macs, Baconators or Fillet-o’-Fish. New, greener items have been introduced but no one would call any of them “classics”.

In a way, the film does feel like Spurlock trying to find his way back into the spotlight. Though he’s had success since 2004, none have ever been as big as the movie that made him a name. The film acknowledges this. In fact, it’s the reason him opening a chicken restaurant would “work”; you know him. You associate his name with food and with an effort to be healthy. His presence also works with the film in other ways. He’s seen how bad this can get, what it can do to you. We believe his intentions are good, that he might even feel partially responsible for the trend of marketing bad food as "good for you". It’s an ongoing battle that I expect he will return to in the future. Someone else might take on the task someday but will they be as amiable and charismatic as Spurlock?

Although Supersize Me 2: Holy Chicken is a sobering experience, it is also a comedy and comedic sequels rarely measure up to their predecessors. You kind of go in knowing what to expect so you cannot be surprised the same way we were in 2004 - even when the film covers new facets of the industry. In a way, it wasn’t essential for this film to be made but then again, why not? Aren’t we still happily gobbling up unhealthy, deep-fried meals full of fats and sugars? Aren’t these big companies still using insidious tactics to make millions at our expense? In fact, why don’t more documentarians come back for “round two”, particularly when they make a splash big enough that their targets notice? (August 3, 2021)

[rebuildingrob]

Return of the Clown

[mysticalcoffeequeen]

Getting real tired of these Documentaries by upper class hippie schmucks using the topic of consumption to essentially crap & place blame on the poor or disabled for “ruining society” by purchasing cheap & readily available essentials, while they make it a point to pat themselves on the back for engaging in “ethical” consumption which is available to those (financially) privileged enough to afford or attain it!

[fatfantacies]

Ive blown up like a house the last few years. There isn’t an inch of me that isn’t swollen with fat. Ive puffed up to over 700pounds and my girlfriend keeps feeding me.

I remember when i first starting gaining weight. Back when I thought my 265 pounds was huge! If my former self can see me now! Im enormous compared to what I used to be!

I remember thinking 500 would be my goal I always wanted to be extremely fat. I finally started to indulge and i quickly put on weight. With the first year alone i put on over 115 pounds. I absolutely exploded that year. I gained heavy in my stomach hips and ass. My neck disappeared under a large roll of fat. My cheeks started to puff out. And I started to waddle.

I was nearly 400 pounds when I met my girlfriend…shes put at least another 320 pounds on me. Im getting weighed next week, i hope the scale can handle me

[blobification]

Blowing up like a blimp but still not gaining fast enough 😈

[meganlynnhostetler]

Happy National McDonald’s Day! This little guy arrived in the mail last night all the way from the 1970s! Very excited to have him in my collection.

[sleepy-cephalopod-studies]

Supersize Me is still a dogshit documentary that's incredibly biased, but I'm pleasantly surprised at Eric Schlosser's book Food Inc. so far. Maybe it's because it goes into the other insidious aspects of the fast food industry aside from the big focus of the film being how a solely fast food diet can be detrimental to your health. It's just more in-depth than a documentary can be (even one that ISN'T flawed like his was) and it's much more interesting every time he goes into the devious aspects behind marketing and how companies will offer brand sponsorships to struggling schools, or how fervently anti-union and anti-worker these companies are while exploiting vulnerable groups like children, immigrants, and the disabled.

Plus this book wasn't shoved at me the way Supersize Me was, did any other fat kids that had to watch this in health class feel the way other kids would glance at or sideye you or develop eating disorders afterwards? No? Just me? OK 🥲

[unrealityliminal]

august 2009

[mybrainthinks]

we could have bigger frozen pizzas if the plastic bags at the cash register were bigger too.