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When you look back on certain 19 Kids and Counting episodes or memories, it’s hard not to cringe, wince, or even watch the episodes through your fingers with your hands over your face. That’s the case for an old 19 Kids and Counting clip on Reddit, where Josh Duggar’s plans to eat healthy mean that Anna Duggar has to change her own lifestyle to suit his.
And, surprisingly, it’s a clip that has people actually feeling bad for Anna. For those who snark on the former reality TV family, feeling anything but annoyance and cringe for the Duggars is usually a no no. Do you know this has got to be a tough one to watch, if only for the food choices Anna makes at the behest of her husband.
Anna Duggar was always putting her marriage first.
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During the episode in question, Anna supports Josh in him eating healthier. In order to do that, though, she has to make sure that she and their kids are also eating healthy foods. This includes tilapia for lunch. For toddlers. Yeah, I don’t know a toddler in this world who would willingly eat that fish for lunch, but OK.
“Honestly it makes me sad for Anna,” someone commented on the Reddit post. “She made all these changes for Josh, constantly put him first, practically worshipped him, was running around D.C. in the WINTER in FLIP FLOPS just to ‘save money,’ but he was spending thousands on hookers and disgusting material.”
Another person added, “Felt the same way, like she’s trying to be a good wife and help him but you know he prob hated this meal and was completely careless about her.”
There are plenty of people who feel little for Anna, though, years after she grew up a little and got some autonomy and still chose to stay with Josh. For some, it’s the kids they feel bad for. And this clip from 19 Kids and Counting is another example of the kids being caught in the crossfire. Because, healthy or not, flaky fish is way too ambitious for a healthy lunch.
Josh Duggar’s weight loss challenge meant a new lifestyle for Anna too.
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Anna explains in the clip that she is feeling healthier during her current pregnancy because she and Josh are eating healthier. Whether or not Anna actually wanted to make a lifestyle change at that time is really overall unclear.
“Josh’s weight loss program has really inspired us to make healthier choices,” Anna says in the clip. “And so, we’re gonna do, like, baked sweet potato fries, and then tilapia, and a fruit salad for lunch.”
Mind you, this lunch has nothing to do with Josh. But if he’s on a weight loss journey, then apparently so is Anna as she follows his lead.
“All I think watching this is that I feel sincerely sorry for those children. For many reasons,” a Redditor commented on the thread.
But, someone replied to them, “It’s okay. They will grow up to be awful adults soon enough.”
Josh was trolled for the Duggar weight loss challenge
During the weight loss challenge in the 19 Kids and Counting episode, Josh and Jim Bob workout together and make a deal to eat healthy to see who can lose the most weight. But even the editors of the TLC show do them dirty with dramatic music and unflattering close-ups of the men. Even now, years after the episode aired, people talk about Josh’s edit in the episode.
And, in another Reddit thread about that particular episode, someone wrote that Josh has “no impulse control.” You can choose if that refers to his multiple scandals, his food intake, or both.
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