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| QUOTE (Katd @ 28/9/2020, 21:54) I am going to back track a little on my comment about not understanding Covid weight gain. I do understand how a few pounds happen but what I mean is I don’t understand how between 30-50 happens! I saw a friend the other day who’s gained somewhere between that too. Like whatcha all eating to gain so much!?!? In my case Covid allowed me more time to cook better and prepare healthier snacks. Being home all the time with no outside commitments made it possible for long daily walks, then once it got hot out we were always swimming. I ended up losing around 15 pounds being more intentional with working out, I’m finding now as life is easing back to not normal but busy again I’m struggling to maintain working out 
Oh I knew what you meant! It depends on body type and blah blah but IMO a 20 pound weight gain in a few months is cause for HUGE concern. It’s a real problem and both Kiera and Vanessa are so casual about it... especially Vanessa, who just keeps giggling and brushing things off as “not the healthiest” in her grocery hauls. |
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| QUOTE (Mommaof5 @ 28/9/2020, 16:57) QUOTE (Katd @ 28/9/2020, 16:27) I don’t really understand anyone gaining weight because of corona 🤷♀️ In March is when everything locked down , I get it’s tough.. I was also home for months with 3 kids but I don’t understand why everyone thinks that all those moments had to be filled with food. Truly don’t get it!! Ugh, I have gained 12 lbs. since March. 😭 And I am so pissed because I had just lost 50! But the main reason is I stopped breastfeeding in July, and I'm not kidding, I instantly gained 8 lbs. I'm still reeling from that. It was shocking. The other 4 lbs. I've slowly gained and I blame it on Covid because every freaking 5K has been cancelled in my area this summer/fall and it has put a damper on my motivation to run on my own. I still jog and bike, but not with the same frequency or intensity as normal. By my estimation Lemon has gained 40-50 lbs. That I cannot understand.
Grrl same. At the end of February I had finally gotten below my pre-pregnancy weight and then it was just me, a toddler, and a lot of PB&J. The only exercise I got before Covid was walking (I’m in NYC so it is a lot of walking, in my lazy defense) so staying home has been a little hard on me and my yoga pants too.
But I’m not over here blaming it on a pandemic - sometimes I go to the park and share a bagel with my kid while we watch other people jogging. Have I been sad and stressed? Yeah of course. But any weight I gain is because of my choices.
None of us should feel bad for putting on a few pounds during an extremely stressful time, is my point. Shit is crazy and we have to deal and it’s okay to go a little easy on yourself in some areas so you can keep it together in other ones. BUT HOWEVER ANYWAY, as someone up above pointed out, nothing really has changed for either of these broads. And the amount of weight both of them have put on is from way, way more than just a little stress eating. They’re totally off the rails. |
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| 1. While on the hunt for video footage of kiddos going bonkers for DT loot (based on advice from someone on here whose username I can’t remember but thank you for the tip/diversion), I just watched Kiera’s 2019 Christmas recap and now I’m depressed. Poor 50 - Instacart and Ryan’s World’s mom conspired to ruin her holiday. I didn’t catch any kids going bonkers but I did wonder how long she let slime sit on the carpet in her old house before she cleaned it up for it to leave permanent stains to the point where she figured it into her asking price.
2. I thought she looked really cute in the purple shirt in her video today, but when she says things like “Maybe I’ll lose weight, but who can say?” I want to poke her real hard in her cold shoulders. YOU can say, Kiera. Corona didn’t “do you dirty” because you used shutdown as an excuse to go hog wild on processed foods. I’m sorry you had to give up some shopping trips because of all the death, that must be really hard for you, but for the love of bread please just make the time to log in to stitch fix and go back up one size. |
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| Just once I would like to see footage of any one of those kids “going bonkers” and/or “getting a kick out of” ANY of the crap they haul. For what their moms spend on literal garbage, they could each get one or two actually cool new toys every month.
Or like, they could have college savings accounts or tutors or something, you know, whatever though.
It makes me so sad that Vanessa put her kids back in school so she could sit on her bedroom floor and be sad and weird to a camera. And that she and 50 have been planning Halloween since August, ostensibly “for the kids,” meanwhile they both continue leaving the kids at home while they dollar tree/grocery shop and film nonsensical, rambling hauls for hours on end. Their stupid DT Halloween party sounds like it’s going to be awful, honestly. |
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| Has Lemon ever said anything specific about her “hard” pregnancies? The way she always talks about it makes it sound like she was bedridden, or something, and I just find it odd that such a dramatically hard pregnancy hasn’t been made into its own video.
Even if she had a typical pregnancy with no complications or syndromes or anything, she’s still allowed to say that being pregnant was hard. Lots of perfectly healthy women with healthy babies are miserable pregnant (HI, ME!) and it’s fine to say it sucked and you hated it. But it’s not fine to pretend like you were really ill, like she seems to be doing.
She can’t just tell the truth and say “I didn’t like being pregnant,” she has to make it sound very serious and difficult because most women don’t use pregnancy as an excuse to fart around and not have any responsibilities like she did. |
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| 50 has been talking about bread for AT LEAST 10 minutes and I’m uncomfortable. This is the closest to “50 Shades” as I’ve ever seen her channel and I DO NOT ENJOY IT.
If she loves bread so much why doesn’t she make her own bread? She can even spend money on a bread machine and at least bread recipes would be somewhat interesting content. |
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| QUOTE (Sunshine08 @ 22/9/2020, 16:49) 50 starts out her Trader Joe’s haul telling everyone how the cashier at TJs told her that due to covid, people are not buying up a lot of the holiday themed items that they would normally buy when they hosted get togethers.
I wonder if 50 and Lemon asked him what on Earth he was talking about?
Lemon mentioned it too, and I hope so hard that the TJ employee was being snarky when s/he told them that. People who work with the general public right now are subject to so much, and grocery store employees probably see people in all sorts of crises because everyone needs to grocery shop. Times is rough, and then in walk these grocery-shopping-on-vacation clowns foaming at the mouth for orange cookies.
TJ employees are always super friendly, so that’s probably the closest that person could get to telling them to go F themselves. |
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| I can’t handle the repeated “Picked this up because it might not be there when I go again a few weeks from now.” The literal last god damn thing either of them need to be worried about is missing out on a loaf of pumpkin brioche.
Setting aside the fact that neither of them works outside the home and all of their kids will eventually go back to school, leaving them plenty of time to bake homemade pumpkin everything because it’s not THAT difficult to source a can of pumpkin any time of year if you really need it bad enough my GOD... the shit that is going down in the real world right now and these broads are traveling for no reason even remotely resembling important and filming mouth-breathy videos about pumpkin spice cookies.
It’s vile. You know what “might not be there” in a few weeks for most people? Their paychecks. Their loved ones. Their mental health. But yeah no take a break from filming shopping hauls so you can go on vacation and film more shopping hauls. Fucking morons.
I hope swearing is allowed on this site because I’m a glass of wine and a full day with a toddler in and I just can’t you know? I know you know. |
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| QUOTE (3DogMom @ 19/9/2020, 22:08) QUOTE (Old Rotten Twat @ 19/9/2020, 21:35) I enjoy a good vacay meal as much as the next person, but that looks disgusting!!! 🤢
There are three different parts of the pig pushing those poor lil berries off the plate.
I LOVE an indulgent breakfast - the best part of working from home has been having time to make French toast on weekday mornings - but that plate looks like it was put together by a frat guy with a hangover. |
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| ETA: I didn’t realize an entire new page of posts had been written before I wrote this ha!
She threw the news into a dollar tree haul. I had it on in the background while I was cleaning my fridge and almost missed it. Apparently there was a lot of crying involved in the decision and it took her approximately four hundred words to say that she’s NOT going to talk about it.
It was like Christmas morning! We get to cackle and the kids get to learn something. GOD BLESS US, EVERY ONE. |
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| QUOTE (Flowerchild01 @ 15/9/2020, 04:49) QUOTE (Sunshine08 @ 9/14/2020, 10:40 PM) I’m glad Jake got to share his portion of 50s video. But I’m watching her grocery haul and she keeps calling it a recipe. Did i miss something ? They made different color jello and poured it into small Petri dishes. What was the purpose of this “science” project? I don’t get it. Making jello is not a recipe.
50 definitely has a food obsession. It’s not normal to go to that many grocery stores and buy that much food. It’s like her life revolves around it. And her second obsession is melatonin. The entire family takes it? Odd. Everything you just said is right on the money. I don't know why she kept on sticking her nose into his "experiment" thingy. Why couldn't she have just set the camera up for him, let him do his thing, and then do the editing if need be? She's jut a controlling b**** just like the Lemonloser.
The melatonin situation is horrifying. On so many levels, obviously the first being that she’s straight-up drugging her kids to the point that they can’t get up and use the bathroom. And then casually talking about it on the internet.
If she put the mental energy she uses for figuring out the best coupon deals on Goodnites toward making sure her children are stimulated and learning and exercising throughout the day, she wouldn’t have to buy melatonin OR Goodnites and she’d probably have enough money to pay for an actual homeschool program or for a couple of hours of tutoring a week.
The excessive food hauls, the overuse of melatonin, and the drinking all seem rooted in some pretty gnarly control issues. It makes sense, especially if their financial situation is as precarious as it appears to be and if her husband has a habit of sexting outside the marriage. She presents herself as a “queen of the house” type mom and really pushes the Italian matriarch thing, but unfortunately is too lazy to actually BE that. Running a household full time is work if you care to do a good job, and she just doesn’t seem to want to put in the effort.
I feel for her as a woman, especially this year - I’ve been working my office job from home with a two-year-old since March and am no stranger to a nice box of wine, you know? But most of her problematic behavior started way before this year and I don’t know where I’m going with this thought but I’d like to start a fund to get Jake his own camera so he can start his own channel and have a window into a world of people who don’t consider Jello a science experiment. |
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| I made an account here specifically to talk through my feelings re: the video where we spend the day doing science with 50 and her kids.
I just. What? Kiwi boxes are cute and fun and designed to be educational, but they’re not meant to be used as a substitution for school - homeschool or otherwise, things like subscription boxes can be great as supplements but they need to learn the theory behind what they’re doing. Like: Rainbows for a kid Maya’s age can be a jumping off point for an ACTUAL science lesson about weather or light or something, and all I saw - unless I missed something - was that she successfully stuck felt to a pillow and repeated the word “indigo.” Are the rainbows and whatever claw thing Mason built being worked into a larger curriculum? How can 50 be three children in and still not grasp the significance of repetition in kids learning anything?
What really made my eyeball twitch out of my skull was when Jake was doing his jello thing. I agree with other posters that he seems like a sweetheart, and I’m sorry if what I’m about to say sounds harsh but it’s pretty clear that the boy is a little stunted. Sixteen is old to have your “mommy” - I can’t be the only one who cringed at that, yikes - coordinating your cooking crafts for you. He’s sixteen, not six. Why didn’t he go on Amazon and pick out his own Petri dishes? Choose his own candy? Figure out how to film his little segment by himself without his mother slurring interjections every four seconds?
At one point she said she “didn’t want to mess with the chemistry of the jello” by halving the recipe. She didn’t want to do MATH or MESS WITH CHEMISTRY in her video with SCIENCE in the title.
I’m so sorry I’m done now. Normally I also find 50 entertaining in the sense that it’s a little like getting an inside look at that one weird neighbor we all have, you know? But I’m sincerely sad for those kids. They’re all so cute and it’s not fair that their parents are actively stunting them. |
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