Has anyone been watching this on Channel 4? It was on at 9pm yesterday and today and I think the final part is tomorrow. I saw last nights but haven't seen tonights yet though I have recorded it. The people on it have to walk from Cornwall to Edinburgh in 8 weeks. One woman had to leave it last night due to illness, it was such a shame as she really wanted to go on with it - another girl left as she'd just had enough.
I've been half watching it (I've had it on while I've been doing other things). There's a bloke in the US who did something similar but far more impressive I think (did he walk right the way across? I can't remember now. Not in 8 weeks though ) I haven't really got into it though, some of them seem to be far too willing to give up. You would have thought they'd realise that it's (a) a long way and (b) not going to be easy before they started. It was a real shame for the woman who was genuinely ill, but some of the others seem a bit whiney!
Just saw the first one. They were moaning they wren't losing weight but they were only doing 6 miles a day and no-one seems to have told them how to eat, before they set off! No doubt because a load of slobs eating bags of chips then getting into trouble for it is better TV... I thought it would only confirm people's prejudices about the overweight as lazy, chip-and-sweetie-scoffing whiners.
Last edited by PhatPhoenix; 11-08-2006 at 04:42 AM.
I saw about 15 minutes of it and in that time, they went out for a curry, stuffed themselves with fish and chips and the whingey girl got a massive cake from her Dad!! It made me laugh, to be honest, and they were all too whingey for me too.
Yes, it must be really hard, but to be that negative so early in.... why did they agree to do it for goodness sake??
I've watched this and its made me feel so sad. These people have been given the opportunity to do something extraordinary and have been given all the help and advice they need - so they just ignored it. I can't believe they didn't think the whole thing through before they started - maybe work out the calories they'd burn on their walk and then know that they'd need to eat accordingly. Not chips, burgers, kebabs, etc - and that cake .... well - what WAS her father thinking about!
I really didn't like the bloke wearing glasses that didn't want the camera crew to film him chosing and then eating a huge fry-up breakfast. He is such an arrogant idiot.
I don't think Moaning Myrtle will be back for tonight's show - the kid-thing was just an excuse - I think most people would accept that its normal for a three year old to not recognise someone over the phone.
IMHO to get fit you need to be in the right frame of mind and really want to - and only one or two of them really feel that way.
I agree with you all regarding the moaning, I couldn't believe that people had signed up to walk 500 miles and were then moaning after having done 1 mile. I think the programmers were trying to prove a point by letting them eat what they wanted to in week 1 to show that even if you're doing the exercise and you're still eating too much of things you shouldn't then you're not going to lose weight. In week 2 the trainer then told them they had to eat healthily but wasn't that adamant about it and then again they didn't lose weight - didn't help that they cheated and ate and drank all that they wanted to.
They're now at the stage where the penny seems to have dropped and they have cut down their eating and have upped their walking and the effects are now showing on the scales.
I wish the one who skived off because of her feet and then whinged the whole way round would just give up as to be honest I'm fed up of listening to her moan
I like it, it's better than the usual 9pm channel 4 brat camp programme I prefer moany fat people to moany teens. Of course they are going to moan they all all 20 stone plus people walking a lot and I think 6 miles is a lot to an unfit fat person (and to unfit thin people). I've walked 80 mins today and I'm moaning.
I don't know what alternatives to takeaways they had in the first week I presume the producers gave them takeaway menus at the end of the day myself.
I don't think that any of us think that it's "easy" for them, just that they should have realised that it wouldn't be easy before they set out, and it shouldn't have come as such a surprise!
I do agree about the takeaway menus though, the producers obviously intended that sort of thing when they said they could eat like they normally do for the first week. The producers could quite easily have said it was healthy food from day 1, but they presumably thought it would be better tv this way.
I've enjoyed it too Veggie, wish it was going to be on for longer and that it would follow them on their weight loss until they hit a healthy/healthier weight - was mainly just that one woman who's voice I'd had enough of listening to, did think it was really funny when that guy caught her when she was about to go out to the pub
It is/was the bloke with the glasses and the fry up brekkie that annoyed me - he obviously knew that what he was doing wasn't going to help him but he still did it anyway.
Okay, its better than the other TV stuff (no Z list celebrities) but as a help to those of us going through the same trials and tribulations I think it would have been nice to ask the group to do some required reading before setting out so they would have had some kind of idea of how to make the most of the experience.
I have been watching it keenly too, I would love to be given the chance to do something like that (and its not just cos I want to lose weight). What an achievement that would be. Last night they were in worcester and on the malvern hills, that is very close to where I live!
They were walking and eating the same as before and they werent loosing weight, however with the introduction of a diet they all met double what they had to loose! It just goes to show that exercise alone wont contribute to a great amount of weight loss, you need a diet too.
It is quite an emotional program at times, those people must be getting so pissed off with one another. If i was with the same people every day for 2 weeks I would do my nut let alone the amount of time they are together.
Sorry, but even if the producer gives you the curry menu, given that you've signed up to this experience to better your health it can't be too hard to walk to the nearest shop and get yourself a half decent option.
Just can't feel too sympathetic about this, sorry! I respect the decision they took, more power to them, but it seems so few of them were actually willing to put the effort in and knuckle down to it when it meant change or pain, whether physical or emotional.
I sincerely hope I'm wrong and it's just the way it's been shot, but that's how it's coming across.
Have been watching this one myself and was brought up with a shock because moaning myrtle (hayley I think)was as fat as I was when I started.... Jeeks I was really shocked by the way she walked, the way she held herself and the way she was b****y moaning -she reminded me so much of me I could have wept.The programme has actually made me think a little, because I come from a very active background and can so remember being like she was. Brought back some terrible memories. Glad I decided to make the change and to begin the difference in my life. You go girls, every pound makes a difference to your fitness and to your lifespan. Well done to everyone for their achievements so far and for not whinging xx
I've just watched the final episode now, I'm so glad that the four of them finished, I felt so sorry for Vince as he really did give it his best shot but in the end he just couldn't do it - I'd doubted earlier as to whether Stacey would but good on her that she stuck at it, and it was very 'big' of her to apologise when she knew she'd been acting like a sulky brat, I do hope she and the others continue onwards and downwards.
Starbrite - I agree - I think it was the whinging that really got to me. Maybe I was like that - I can't really remember - but DH says I used to moan like **** when he couldn't get a parking space close to the supermarket door so I had to walk across the carpark (how things have changed!) I know when I started walking that I could only manage a mile and it took me about an hour to walk it.
Like Katie, I'm glad that four managed to finish, especially the bloke with the two little children. Its sad the very big man couldn't finish because I think he needed the boost to his self-confidence that finishing would have given him.
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) I haven't really got into it though, some of them seem to be far too willing to give up. You would have thought they'd realise that it's (a) a long way and (b) not going to be easy before they started. It was a real shame for the woman who was genuinely ill, but some of the others seem a bit whiney!
Of course they are going to moan they all all 20 stone plus people walking a lot and I think 6 miles is a lot to an unfit fat person (and to unfit thin people). I've walked 80 mins today and I'm moaning. 
