I hate to admit it, but I am a regular watcher of “The Biggest Loser.” I use it to motivate myself to keep on a good eating and exercise program, but I have some problems with the show.
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Problems I have with this show
First of all, trainer Jillian is a real witch. She’s really mean to people, then she does pop psychology on them. She seems like she has a split-personality. On one hand, she is nasty, then she puts on her happy face and sweet voice. (She calls everyone sweetie when she’s being nice.) I really hate when she gets contestants to drag her around as a weight. Plus, her smile is crooked which gives her a devious look.
On the first episode this season she threw most of her team out the door and told them to consider leaving. (The poor people were all throwing up because the tasks she made them start out with were too hard.) Did she have to start them out with such difficulty? Several contestants considered their options and went home. Can you blame them?
Last week she made some poor woman go in a coffin for a few minutes. It was to help her realize that she needed a new lease on life. She was fooling around with serious stuff. It’s a good thing the woman, who is claustrophobic, didn’t end up going crazy.
The other trainers are easier to take. Why Bob has tattoos going all over his arms and everywhere is beyond me. Why get your body in shape, than disfigure yourself. I like Dolvett, who is the boxer. He seems to have his head on straight. He, like Bob, have a more positive approach then Jillian.
The challenges
I have to hand it to the writers for thinking up those bizarre challenges. Traveling through bubble gum, slogging through mud. throwing them off heights. Contestants on that show are either desperate for money or attention. Some of the stuff they make them do seems downright life threatening. Last week they had to hold up weight, and when they couldn’t anymore they were dumped into water.
It does manage to hold my attention, so I guess the writers know what they’re doing.
The weigh- in
What kind of person would get up with all their flab hanging out to millions of people? All the contestants on “The Biggest Loser.” The weigh-ins are really odd. Who loses 12 pounds in one week? Either they’re starving them to death or working them too hard. They make it seem that this is a healthy weight loss. If someone loses 4 or 5 pounds in one week, you’d think the world had come to an end. I think this give people the idea that losing 10 to 12 pounds a week is normal. I wonder how many of the contestants end up with eating disorders after the show is over?
You know, some of those people are going to regain most of their weight after the show is over. They never talk about that.
Although I find some real serious problems with this show, it does manage to motivate me. I think about what I look like, my health and what I’m eating.
I do like the promotion of exercise, but at my age, I’d never attempt half the stuff they do on the show. I do a lot of water aerobics, elliptical machines, and walking. I would never be willing to leap off of high places. Not even for money.
They added kids this season
Thank goodness they’re not making the kids put on embarrassing clothes, and put them on the scale. It’s mostly a promotion of exercise and healthy eating. Naturally, some of the parents of these kids are also overweight. Last week, they showed a teenager pleading with her mother to also try to lose weight, so she won’t die. Wasn’t it real exploitation to show this on national TV?
Do you think this show is exploitation or it’s an earnest attempt to motivate the viewers? Or just get ratings? Is it ethical to humiliate people on TV to get good ratings, and people like me watch?
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