For some people it probably is, but I think most people are simply used to seeing you one way, and have a hard time getting used to you looking different.
Too late to edit: I also think that a really large percentage of people have no idea what a healthy weight looks like.
The thing I always notice after someone loses a lot of weight is that they look like they’ve lost muscle (whether they really have or not). Usually they look better after they gain a little muscle weight.
The reason I say this is that I never saw Brown when he was fat, and, yet, to me he looked a bit too skinny when I first saw him after he announced the weight loss.
I find myself wondering how this will change his recipes. I’d have to assume it would change them in some fashion… right?
I don’t think it will, necessarily. It’s not like he’s Paula Dean, frying everything in a pound of butter then serving it between two Krispy Kremes. He has his unhealthy recipes, but most aren’t too bad, and he doesn’t seem like the type to suddenly go gung-ho on the health food, at least not in his shows & cookbooks.
I first saw “skinny Alton” on the Good Eats anniversary special a few months ago. He didn’t just look thin, he looked gaunt. I was truly afraid he was ill.
(And, I should note that this is coming from someone who has lost 50 pounds himself, and has become far more vigilant about what he eats.)
I was surprised to find out that Alton (a guy who considers himself a filmmaker, not a chef) is a born-again Christian. I would never have guessed that in a million years.
Are they really mutually exclusive? One can’t be both?
In the culinnary world, the term chef carries some very specific meanings and/or connotations, none of which Brown identifies with or qualifies for. Since his exact quote is “I consider myself a filmmaker, not a chef. I just happen to make films about food”, then I think it is safe to say that he isn’t both.