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About To Be Fat Like Me

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How many times have you heard the saying "It's what's on the inside that counts"? Well, 17-year-old Aly figures everyone buys into that expression like she did - till she goes from skinny to fat overnight!

Pretty, popular and athletic Aly has been banking on a softball scholarship as her ticket to college. But when a sports injury blows out her knee, the teen enters a documentary film contest in hopes of using the prize money for her education. Convinced that her overweight younger brother and mother... More

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does anybody know the song at the beginning of this movie
Posted by butterflygirrl17 Jan 31, 2009 3:13 am ET
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This movie really caught my attention, growing up I was a healthy thin girl. All of a sudden i began gaining weight, I ate healthy and worked out, but I gained. Thats when I began my problem. This movie portrayed Aly's friend as a fat girl who just ate candy bars. Well not all "fat girls" are fat because of their eating habits or laziness, I KNOW BECAUSE I AM ONE OF THEM! Its hard when you are in your teen years, working your butt off and eating right and instead of losing weight you gain, I have a medical condition that prevents me from losing weight, no matter how much i workout or how healthy i eat! I have to constanlty have medication to control my body. I guess what bugs me is the way people treat big girls, they don't care if its a medical condition, they just see fat as lazy. Its so easy to judge and say, " WELL ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS WORKOUT!" THATS NOT TRUE, NOT EVERY PERSON IS DESIGND THE SAME WAY!!!! When they diagnosed me with my problem I took my medication, i continued the way i ate and worked out & I lost 50lbs. People were much nicer & i loved the attention, however, the medication harmed me so much that i had to stop and gained the weight 3years later. What i hope this movie can accomplish is for teens to think twice before they judge "a fat person" but to be honest with you, I'm sure they will not since it doesn't affect them and they don't know what its like to be Big.
Posted by miabella30 Nov 03, 2008 12:38 am ET
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Cool Tv Show
Posted by Icebabby Nov 02, 2008 2:33 pm ET
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Cool
Posted by Icebabby Nov 02, 2008 2:38 pm ET
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Okay, I am aware of what this girl was trying to accomplish. In a small sense I might admire it, but what she did and how this movie was portrayed, well it's shameless. I could tell endless stories about the blantant and insidious discriminations I've faced, especially since entering the Nutrition Program for a master's degree. However, the point I want to make is solely that this movie and the undercover young lady (I use this word in it's loosest possible interpretation) are twisted and cruel. I agree with user kmm4465 on this. Putting on a suit does not mean you understand what I feel or who I am. As I said, the sentiment is all well and good, but the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Frankly, one of the most insulting and gratifying moments in this farce of a film, was in the closing scenes when the main character asked if her boyfriend would still like her if she was not skinny. Here is the only time I thought she might have gained the minutest glimpse into the life she was trying to put on display. He flat out tells her no, but tries to justify it, and in my opinion failed miserably. Also, points to Lifetime for making a movie with the most bigoted and hateful heroine I've ever seen. Maybe if she tried a little harder she could actually have cut out her mother's heart with only callousness and cruelty, if not that maybe a dull rusty spoon.
Posted by pictishpixie Oct 15, 2008 9:42 pm ET
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You just said everything I registered to say. Good Lord, my mother would have long since disowned me if I ever said 1/10 of the things this nasty, vindictive, thoroughly unlikable "heroine" said to her, not that I'd ever have dreamed of doing it in the first place. Aren't most of these movies made with the idea of having the viewers grow to like and relate to the characters? I hated just about everyone in this one. Unfortunately, I couldn't look away; it was such a trainwreck. Ugh.
Posted by Blueline29 Feb 03, 2009 11:45 pm ET
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where are they air this show again?
Posted by RUBYRED1981 Oct 02, 2008 11:49 am ET
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No one knows what it's like to be fat unless you really are fat. It doesn't take a costume on a skinny person to make them fat. You have to get fat to be fat. And you have to have the genes to become fat. I don't think it's a lifestyle choice for anyone. This movie and all like it are an insult to the majority of us struggling everyday to lose weight. So you put on a fat suit and you know what it's like to be fat? I don't think so. That's like putting a halloween costume on of a vampire and all of sudden, you're a real life vampire, or any other costume for that matter. My point is that these people don't know anything about the ups and downs of weight. It's just plain stupid and ignorant.
Posted by kmm4465 Sep 16, 2008 4:04 pm ET
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Its not about what it feels like to be fat its about how your treated when you look fat. So stop feeling sorry for yourself making it seem like this movie is an insult because its not its just a way to open peoples eyes to how fat people are treated not all the 'ups and downs of weight'
Posted by sweetsweetie85 Sep 30, 2008 2:12 pm ET
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I missed the last 15 minutes of the movie and can't find it online. It tells about it on itunes, but I can't figure out how to get it.
Posted by leslielu1 Aug 15, 2008 11:11 pm ET
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This is a terrific movie. I would really love a copy to utilize in my obesity sensitivity training. Being a former obese person myself, I train health care workers in being sensitive in the needs of our obese patient population as part of my responsibility as a Bariatric Program Coordinator in Houston, Texas. I'm always looking for new ways of getting the message across that obesity is a chronic disease similar to diabetes or heart disease. It is also one of the last socially acceptable areas of discrimination in the media, restaurants, airplanes, etc. We would never consider telling a racial joke or a joke regarding a religious preference as being appropriate, so why is telling an obesity related joke okay? I think the girl found out more about herself than she planned while filming this, and I applaud her for completing it although it was painful to do so.
Again, a very terrific and moving movie!
Posted by ZLander Aug 15, 2008 10:18 pm ET
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its find to be fat
Posted by iweather Jun 19, 2008 12:23 pm ET
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she will big
Posted by iweather Jun 19, 2008 12:05 pm ET
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I know how's it's like to be picked on your whole life because your overweight; by friends, family, strangers. It's hard because you want to change your appeareance so bad. You hate yourself for letting people down. This movie almost made me cry, or did rather, because this is real life. You can't be happy, wealthy, smart, or beautiful or famous like you want because others put guilt and shame on you and make you feel worthless. I went through severe depression, suicidal thoughts and attempts, self-harm and neglect, and withdraws from everyone and everything. Eating was my addiction. I couldn't and can't stop. I eat when I'm happy, sad, mad, in love, hated. Everything. It's like being an alcoholic, but worse, because food is everywhere. I wanted to be a singer, but so afraid to go onto shows or tryouts because of the fear of being tossed out and not wanted. I truly relate to this movie and story and others out there like me. Most of us can't change it. Diets, and exercise don't work. If they do we have loose skin. We can't have surgery because a lot of us don't have money. We were made this way and will always be this way. This movie is the cold reality of truth.
Posted by downNout Jun 17, 2008 11:26 pm ET
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I learned a great deal about myself, others' perceptions, and I now think I understand my daughter a lot more. I was "the jock" and then was treated for cancer about 15 years ago. Self-pity and prednisone caused me to gain about 80 lbs. very quickly. I would lose the weight, but the new habit of emotional eating after my mom passed away, teamed with menopause and inactivity, caused me to gain 80 more. Before I viewed this movie, I was beginning to recover and have changed many habits. But somehow this movie opened some new doors that needed to be opened, and closed some doors that needed to be closed. Thank you for this thought-provoking, eye-opening story, that is beneficial for healthy people, overweight people, and mothers/daughters. I believe my daughter's hostility WAS really fear, that I would die. Love can be strange like that.
Posted by gioiaspurlin Jun 17, 2008 11:19 pm ET
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super movie
Posted by june15 Jun 17, 2008 8:07 am ET
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This movie wasn't as good as I thought it would be. I really wanted that skinny guy and that thick girl to get together. I thought that would have been really cute since she liked him.
Posted by dtngfan2008 May 15, 2008 9:38 pm ET
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A LOT OF SKINNY PEOPLE CAN BE A** HOLE I HATE THEM JUST CUZ PPL ARE FAT DOE SNOT MEAN YOU CAN PICK ON THEM
Posted by 11xday May 11, 2008 1:55 pm ET
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I loved this movie, it made me cry when um, I can't remember the other girl's name but she was one of the friends Aly made as a big person, but when she came to talk to her at the bowling alley and said she didn't care if she showed the movie, I thought she was so brave!
Posted by lunargoddess07 Mar 12, 2008 11:43 pm ET
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SKINNY PEOPLE CAN BE UN ATTRACTIVE AS WELL, NOT ON THE OUTSIDE EITHER, THEYT ARE NASTY TO PEOPLE WHO FAT AND THEY MAKE FUN OF THEM
Posted by PATSROCK Feb 23, 2008 3:01 pm ET
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