Shopping with Susan Powter

The voice.

It’s amusing that she is literally COMPLETELY wrong and was scamming everyone at the time as she later revealed. She was drinking a case (!) of beer a day, chain-smoking and eating nothing for years. Wasn’t she bulimic too? What a mess. I feel bad for all the people who believed this malarkey.

She saw an UFO over Northwest Highway in Dallas.

Amazing she got away for so long as a diet guru with advice like pretzels, chips and bean dip, and nachos are good, while vegetables and fruits are unimportant.

I did, too, R3, in 1997.

She is now a militant lesbian, having left men behind. I saw one of her clips sometime back and she was quite sour, never smiling once. What an attitude!

She looks like a barely closeted lesbian in the above clip.

What gives it away? The shaved head?

Think how huge she was. She was so annoying. Even more so in retrospect.

Such a damn scam artist

[quote] I did, too, R3, in 1997.

Was it the same one Susan saw?

[quote] She is now a militant lesbian...she was quite sour, never smiling once

Isn't that redundant, R6?

R12 No, Mr. Sour Puss!!

It's funny how at the time everyone was on the "low fat" kick, so were eating these low-fat foods full of sugar and starch.

Beat me to it, R14. SnackWells, anyone?

Yup, those were exactly what I was thinking of, R15.

I think she even attended a few Michfests.

WHET Snackwells? I used to love them lol.

Say what you will about her, she was phenomenal at selling. I enjoyed rewatching this. Haven’t seen it in 25 or more years lol

They still make them, believe it or not.

I'm surprised she's still at it. Well, trying to still be at it...

Sociopath.

I haven’t seen Snackwells in a store since like 1999.

You've gotta EAT, you've gotta BREATHE, and you've gotta MOVE

So sad that I missed this historic tour which took place during Susan’s Animal-fucking period.

Oh, and if “sour juice” is a euphemism for something, please don’t feel the need to explain!

[quote]Bitch and Animal are back in full-touring action, bringing sour juice, rhyme and all sorts of surprises to a stage near you. One of those surprises is exercise guru Susan "Stop the Insanity" Powter, who will be performing excerpts from her one-woman show, "The Politics of Stupid" on select dates. This combo platter of feminism, political awareness and music has been rightly dubbed the Pussy Primary Tour. "No more erection elections...this is pussy primary time," as Animal so eloquently states. To see if the Pussy Primary Tour is rolling through a town near you, point and click yourself on over to www.bitchandanimal. com/tourdates.html.

She was right though. “Fat don’t make you fat!” Excess 1. sugar and 2. calories does. Get that under control (in that order) and POW - the weight comes off naturally and you look great. People just don’t want to believe/follow that shit, but she lived it (and looks great btw).

I'm guess she didn't spend a lot of time in the hair-care aisle on that shopping trip.

OMG is she still around?

All that starch had to have made her box reek!

SnackWells Devils Food Cake Cookies were my childhood obsession. I could eat BOXES a day. When they had the annual buy one get one free I used to make my parents bring me to all the local grocery stories so we could buy every box.

R30, are you still a great, big fat person?

Our loss is your gain.

It's fine, really.

The only thing insane are those horrible extensions at r21.

I don't know that to say, but low-fat has always worked best for me for losing weight and keeping it off Not processed food low fat, but all fruits and veggies (even sugary ones with plentiful carbs) lean meat, but not a lot - and even whole grain bread and cereal, pasta- thus more carbs. Fat - a little dairy, cooking oils, nuts, some butter.

While this probably doesn't surprise anyone, I've found some people get insanely upset for some reason if you don't worship at the alter of protein and don't eat bacon and burgers like it's nothing because "fat doesn't make you fat."

STOP THE INSANITY!

she looks like her balls stink.

she didn’t say fat doesn’t make people fat, she said fat DOES make people fat. That’s why she advocated buying fat free products on her shopping trip. She was full of crap because on one of her cooking segments she said “it’s OK to be hungry!” which is the same bullshit that 70s and 80s diet plans would have you believe, like The Beverly Hills Diet for instance.

She took nonfat chicken stock and added floor to it and called it gravy. “Looks like gravy, doesn’t it??” That’s the problem with these non-fat Frankenfood concoctions, they ‘look’ like (but don’t taste like) the real thing and you’re still going to be eating unbalanced. Powter would have you eating egg whites cooked in a Teflon pan with no fat and with some steamed veggies. Unsustainable.

r36: Oh! I remembered wrong (very wrong lol). Then her advice was total bullshit! good riddance

She always seemed like someone who was majorly into drugs. The way she over-dramatically says the simplest of things ... annoying.

I loved her duet with Aretha Franklin.