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Mary Alice Is SKINNY!
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Looks like Alton Brown isn’t the only Food Network personality shedding the pounds these days! I almost didn’t recognize Mary Alice Yeskey in these recent photos:
Congratulations to Mary Alice! I’m happy to present this Top 5 list in honor of her success.
TOP 5 THINGS MARY ALICE
CAN’T DO NOW THAT SHE’S SKINNY:
5. Shop at Lane Bryant
4. The Truffle Shuffle dance from The Goonies
3. Attend a Halloween party as Dom DeLuise
2. Ride a see-saw with Duff
AND THE #1 THING MARY ALICE
CAN’T DO NOW THAT SHE’S SKINNY:
Other posts on Food Network Humor:
---Look A Little Closer: Mary Alice’s Clipboard---Whoa, Alton Brown Is SKINNY
---OPEN THREAD: Mary Alice – love her or hate her?
---Ace Of Cakes: King Of The Hill Characters
---Duff Goldman’s Signature (There’s A HEART Involved, People)
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I still want to throw things at her ’cause of her hair “style” but she looks good skinny!! Good for her!
I think she’s cute no matter what, but good for her! Now grow out those bangs a little and all will be well!
YOU GO MARY ALICE!!! LOOKING GOOD LADY!!!
DITTO on those damn bangs!!! My aunt trimmed my bangs when I was in second grade and they looked just like that. I was totally ashamed! (Don’t let the name fool you. I am a female. George was my dog.)
Good! Now fix the fringe and the hair colour for fuck’s sake.
Leilani; any need for the foul mouth. No matter, judging from your profile picture you’re as dirty as your gob is.
Who died and made you Ms. Manners? It’s the fucking internet, grow the fuck up or get a fucking V-chip. Or better yet, stop trying to censor other people’s replies. I’m guessing it from your use of “gob” you’re British (hardly anyone in the US uses that term)….
Well, this ain’t the BBC honey. Get over it.
I suggest the cock who’s got a problem with the British go fuck off! Its a joke you say this isn’t the BBC when your country treated Janet Jackson like a fucking criminal for showing her breasts!
Good for her, I would say it must have been difficult to lose the weight around all that cake but I have yet to see a Duff cake that looked like I would want to eat!
To me it is all fondant and dry cake!
The bangs are silly. Actress Marcia Gay Harden sports the forehead fringe, too, and it’s so unbecoming.
At first I was afraid to say anything, but apparently I’m not the only one who’d like to see her change her freakin hair. The one inch bang look makes me want to claw my eyeballs out.
If she changed her hairdoo, and got contacts, she would probably look really beautiful. good cheekbones, no double chin anymore. But good for her for losing weight. Now let’s see if Duff can drop a few pounds..
Her ‘do’ is very close to Lucy Ball…”you got some ‘splainin’ to do”….
I think of Mary Alice’s hair as a sort of crazy homage to Kathy Griffin. (I have no reasonable explanation for that connection, it just popped up one day and stuck with me.)
You go, Mary Alice! Now lose the bangs – they flatter no one, and get some new clothes. It’s time for your look to grow up a little.
Amen, everyone! She’s got beautiful features, all she needs is to update her look.
I did some Googling – she lost 35 lbs. with the Medifast program.
http://www.medifastinmaryland.com/?page_id=283#
I wonder if it is like the weight watchers or Jenny Craig programs.
“operate a garden hose.”
But. But. Buuuut……
I’m pretty sure the Bible warns about picking the low hanging fruit, maybe somewhere near the front.
I’m gonna go toss a Banquet dinner in the microwave now before the temptation becomes too great.
Bettie Page did OK with the short bang look:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=bettie%20page&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
“I wonder if it is like the weight watchers or Jenny Craig programs.”
I checked out the “Medifast” website. I’d compare the program to “Jenny Craig” or “Nutri-System” as it appears to be packaged foods and meal-placement shakes. Weight Watchers doesn’t require using their pre-packaged foods, but there are WW products that meet the “points” requirements of the current program.
When I need to lose a few pounds, my personal preference is “South Beach Diet”. The tenets of SBD closely parallel those of Dr. Walter C. Willett’s “Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy” that is a guide to eating for optimum health and well-being.
She works in a bakery. Lets face it, it probably won’t be very long until she regains the weight. She obviously has a tendency to be heavy (genetically predisposed) and the temptation is too great. Her whole work culture is based around sugary, fatty deserts. I give her 6 – 12 months and she’ll likely be heavier than ever. Anyone care to bet?
you are soooo sad,yes she might put it back on but soooo what. It’s not easy to lose weight. Get a life pleeeaassseeee.
“I give her 6 – 12 months and she’ll likely be heavier than ever. Anyone care to bet?”
Ordinarily, I would tend to agree with you. That said, maybe there are some health issues, i.e. diabetes, that caused Mary Alice to pursue serious weight loss, and she will be more disciplined in the future to make sure that she doesn’t regain the weight for her overall health and well-being.
@CherryRose You may be right, but perhaps she needs to find a different job. Being Duff’s office assistant can’t pay that well. But she’s likely full of herself thinking she’s something special because she appears on TV. Fame has become such an important aspiration in today’s society.
Actually she is really nice and down to earth, spoke with her personally when I needed to order a cake. Stardom had not yet swelled her head
well whoop-dee-fricking-doo-doo
If you dont have anything nice to say you should shut your friggin pie hole…I learned that in kindergarten maybe you should go back for a refresher
@Martin No thanks – I don’t like to bet on bad things happening to people.
” If she changed her hairdoo, and got contacts, she would probably look really beautiful. ”
But then she wouldn’t look like MaryAlice anymore ;)
I think she’s darling. Maybe she’ll get her own show, since Duff apparently has turned into a zombie (the video!)
@Di Perhaps my remarks were too cynical, but the fact remains that she works in a bakery. She will regain the weight. She is genetically predisposed. The temptation is just too great.
Can I chime in on this subject. Anyone who looses vast amounts of weight had to be discipled and focused from day one. Not to say there weren’t some instances of ‘cheating’ or ‘backsliding’, that’s human nature. But she’s proven that she can and would and indeed, did loose the weight. Working in a bakery could possibly be an added temptation, but if you look at it from a day in and day out scenario, I’ve gotta think that to a point, being around cakes, pies, cookies, etc would wear thin after time. The temptation would not be like if one of us went in and they said “eat whatever and how much you want”. It would be fun for a short time, then you get sugared out and the ‘temptation’ wouldn’t be so tempting any longer. Not to say that keeping the weight off is easy. That’s actually more difficult than loosing it in the first place. I’m not a fan of these prepackaged diets because you really aren’t learning proper eating habits and portions, etc. The thinking has been done for you so in the long run, harder to keep it off. WW is the best ‘diet’ plan because it’s actually a healthy eating plan. Anyway, that’s my opinion.
I worked in a store bakery in my college days and I STILL cannot eat doughnuts. I loved them at first, then the very smell turned my stomach. They don’t make me heave anymore, but I just don’t eat them, and I’m almost 40 years old. So, yeah, the temptation wears off.
I can’t recall Anne of Green Gables ever having any tattoos.
Either way she becomes way more marketable as an off broadway actress trying out for the freaky redhead girl roles.
@Byrdie: Many good points in your above post. I’m kind of a freak of nature, I guess, in that I love to bake but don’t like sweets. I think it stems from all those hours that I spent in front of the mirrors at the ballet school and having my teacher admonish her students to “stay away from the sweets”. Mind you, I’ve never been anorexic, but I do watch my weight very carefully.
doesn’t look that skinny. i never saw the show so i don’t know if she lost weight or not. i’m guessing she used to be pretty fat.
When I got a job in a bakery at the tender age of 14, I was allowed to eat all the cake and donuts I wanted.
After about a week, I was so sick of eating cake and donuts that I still rarely eat them.
Same thing happens when I am promoting a new Brand X food product today, only it doesn’t take me a week anymore.
I’d say she has a pretty good shot at keeping the weight off.
After all, how many of you have quit smoking? Or drugs?
I have, and I never feel the slightest urge to go back to either pit again.
Cherry Rose, I’m like you. I love to bake bread, but rarely do I eat it. I just know there’s no such thing as one slice, if you know what I mean. Same with sweets. Just not into it. My idea of having a candy is literally eating two or three M&M’s. That’s all the sugar I can handle. Now, olive oil, garlic, anchovies: that’s my idea of a good time!!
Thumbs up on the slim down. Nice.
I agree, bet she’s pretty sick of baked sweets. At 15 I worked in a Baskin Robbins and I still don’t care to look at ice cream, the sight of it can make me feel queasy. I eat it I figure, less than once every few years and I’ll be 30 in a few months. If she puts the weight back on, it’s not necessarily a fair or correct assumption that the reason stems from eating cakes.
Maybe her vice is/was McDonald’s, Taco Bell, deep fried whatever, salad dressing, etc. Who knows? Doesn’t have to be cake related. Some people missed out on the critical thinking skills of their medical program, though do touch on valid points that statistically, people don’t *generally* keep it off.
@SickOfCakes “I agree, bet she’s pretty sick of baked sweets”
No doubt.
But I just applaud anyone who has the discipline to take off the unhealthy poundage. She is young woman who probably noticed she was putting on 5 lbs/year and saw where that what going.
I can do without desserts, fried foods, heavy meat – but omg NOT the bread products of any kind with veggies and cheeses and fruits. And esp. the PIZZA.
Oh and I *heart* the eggs as well. Guess I’m doomed :(
FootLongSausage said, “Bettie Page did OK with the short bang look.”
No argument there. But she was Bettie Page, after all, and she would have looked good in ANY hairstyle; hell, probably even bald.
@FootLongSausage: Mary Alice is no Bettie Page.
@Martin – Did I miss the part where you told us you did genetic testing on MA? Sorry to be so curt with you, but that comes across so seemingly unfairly negative. Granted, she did do what I consider to be a gimmicky weight loss ploy and those typically lead people to regain weight, but we at this point have no reason to anticipate backsliding. And didn’t I read on one of these posts you’re a doctor? Are you just letting off the steam of having to remain neutral in your face time with patients, or are you this negative to them, as well?
@Foot: I agree with your statements. I used to work in a bakery, and being around that food was too much after a week or two. Sweets did nothing for me, but I still love bread lol.
As for her gaining the weight back just because she works there is absurd. Loosing a lot of weight is a hard thing to do. I know this from personal experience, and I still have a LOT more to lose. Any weight that she has lost should be seen as an accomplishment and not grounds for placing bets on failure. She is becomming healthy, which I give a huge congrats to her and hope that I will soon be in her footsteps. She has helped become one of my daily inspirations to lose weight, so if she reads this like most food network people do, thankyou Mary Alice and you look great and happy. Good for you!
Totally agree. In college I worked at a movie theater for a while. It put me off popcorn for years – couldn’t even stand to smell it anymore. I hope since she was dedicated enough to take it off, she’ll be dedicated enough to keep it off.
I own a bakery and my chubby doesn’t come from eating too much cake. I don’t eat cake very often at all not because I’m sick of it or anything like that. But, I don’t want to eat my profits. And if I eat it, then I can’t sell it which is what I’m in business to do. I doubt Duff has cake just around for his staff to eat, especially given that they are a custom business only.
(My chubb comes from stress eating and too much wine.) ;)
I wish her the best in keeping it off. I’ve gained and lost the samed 35 pounds for years as stress does a number on my mind and body.
I always thought she was cute, but I didn’t really notice much difference in the pictures posted on foodnetworkhumor..
My first paying job, at age 16, was at an Italian restaurant and I was the busboy. I lasted two months, but in that time, I was already accused by one waitress of stealing a tip and was treated like shit by the restaurant’s only chef who under cooked the pasta and made the smell of that and overly sweet sauce so unbearable, I couldn’t eat Spaghetti for over a year. I got along there with the bartender and the dishwashers better than that dropout from cooking school.
I still remember that cooks name but if I ever went to an Italian restaurant that had him as cook, I’d jet out of therein a millisecond.
She’s not going to get rid of the bangs. It’s a very popular look/hair style in the rockabilly/psychobilly/punk scene. Bettie Page bangs and tats. That’s just how the rockabilly kittens roll. Pick up a magazine once in your life. From Ol Skool Rodz to Barracuda. Geesh.
I love her look, but I’m also thinking of getting a pin-up girl tattoo.
Thanks, Jills.
Silly me.
I kinda thought everybody already knew that.
I suppose she should get one of those really awesome hairstyles like that hag from John & Kate Plus 8, right? Because ‘the audience’ is just so fashionable! (Which is, in essence… a bunch of slobs watching a FoodNetwork show picking at what some reality show cast member looks like… such a winning endorsement!)
we loved the chubby mary alice… i mean can you even compare???? i know she saw herself on film and said …. omfg!!!!!! but mary alice you have to remember the camera adds way too many pounds… we loved you way more than you thought for who you are M.A. …. we’ll catch ya on the rebound :-)
Way to go M.A., congrats.
She gets two big thumbs up from me:
1. She has a killer job.
2. Her brother’s band kicks serious a$$.