Charles Barkley announced on live air Friday night that he would be attending a "fat farm" after reaching a weight he was uncomfortable with.
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"I have become lazy … I am not healthy." sonofthebronx: Charles Barkley is going to a fat farm NBA TV NBA Finals Postgame https://t.
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Chrissy Metz's character Kate on This Is Us has taken (and considered) serious measures to lose weight, including going to a "fat farm" and looking at the option of getting a gastric bypass.
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Perhaps the biggest indication of the changes at Canyon Ranch — a naturalistic if expensive haven created by Mr. Zuckerman to be, as he said in a phone interview, "a fat farm where people would enjoy themselves" — is the addition of an aesthetics center offering not just Botox but also Juvederm, Voluma and Latisse.
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A fat camp, weight loss camp, or fat farm is a type of residential program where people who are overweight or obese go to lose weight through exercise and lifestyle changes.
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"Fat Farm" is a short story by American writer Orson Scott Card. Originally published in the January 1980 issue of Omni magazine, it also appears in his short story collection Maps in a Mirror.
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The short story "Fat Farm" was made into a comic which appears in the October 2005 issue of InterGalactic Medicine Show. The art for this comic was done by Jin Han and the script was written by Aaron Johnston, who also co-authored the novel Invasive Procedures with Card.
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Her long absence (not shown) is a mystery to Sterling Cooper's employees. One co-worker jokes during a meeting that "Draper knocked her up and she's dropped nine pounds, eight ounces." Pete has heard through office gossip that Peggy went to a fat farm. It is revealed later in the season, through a series of flashbacks, that Peggy's family has covered up Peggy's sudden disappearance from Sterling Cooper.
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At Sterling Cooper, a new copy machine has been delivered, and the creative staff is waiting for Don, who is late as usual in attending a noon meeting. While asking Don's new secretary, Lois, where Don is, Peggy, Don's old secretary and now copywriter, upbraids and humiliates Lois. Meanwhile, the other people in the office wonder why Peggy left work for three months and returned after having lost a great deal of weight. One rumor is a fat farm, another is that Peggy was "knocked up" by Don and delivered his child.
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After seven years at college, Thomas R. "Tommy" Callahan III (Chris Farley) barely graduates from Marquette University and returns to his hometown of Sandusky, Ohio. His father, industrialist and widower Thomas R. "Big Tom" Callahan, Jr. (Brian Dennehy), gives him an executive job at the family's auto parts plant, Callahan Auto. In addition to the new job and office, Big Tom reveals that he plans to marry Beverly Barrish-Burns (Bo Derek), a woman he had met at a fat farm, and that her son, Paul (Rob Lowe), will become Tommy's new stepbrother. However, Big Tom dies from a sudden heart attack during the wedding reception.
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