I finally watched last nights Biggest Loser tonight. Wow I think this is the best season yet. The show is so much more emotional with family members, couples, friends and in general people that have loved ones and have also left loved ones at home.
Often we look at the Biggest Loser as people turning their lives around but in this episode I really got the sense the these people are in a race to save their lives. The reward challenge gave four teams the opportunity to call home and my wife cried through the whole segment of people calling home.
The strange and irritating part of the show happened tonight. The food challenge. Whoever thought of this idea was sick and twisted and can not be part of the show but let’s set the stage. Everyone is craving bad food and know why they are not eating it. The show assembles every bad food that the people would like to have and then tells them that whoever eats the most will get $5,000. It is hard to turn down that much money and why should you get a reward for eating food that is obviously bad? I haven’t been able to figure this out since they first did it in the Biggest Loser Season 1 and they have continued it every season since then.
The brown team tonight was kicked out and it was very sad. As I said before the show is very emotional this season and everyone really and truly felt bad for kicking out the team that is really nice, fighting hard and still struggling over the team that has a guy who’s previous three generations of his family have died by 51. Man that was a tough call and everyone really felt it.
One of the guys, Neill, (what is with Neils on this show) was really showing how lazy overweight people can be. We all know that some people are lazy and get fat that way but lots of thin people are lazy too so let’s not bother with the stereotypes here. The fact is Neill has apparently failed aat almost everything that he has done so it is really hard for him to give it his all when his reflex says
“Take it easy and then you will have an easy excuse for failure”
He confronts it and loses pretty good tonight.
The weight losses for many of the people were bad and so it usually is on the second week of the show, the water weight goes in the first week and then the muscle is being gained as quickly as the fat is going in the second week so we should all expect that.
I can’t wait for next week.
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