The Biggest Loser

I know a lot of people who are absolutely obsessed with this show. I watched it once with some friends and I love the idea of a show where they are helping people lose weight. I don't love the idea that they are eliminating people and having them lose WAY too much weight WAY too fast.

It's ridiculous to think that people can be eliminated for not losing enough body fat. Well, put them up against somebody who is either male and/or has way more body fat than you do, and guess what? You're not going to lose as much body fat compared to them! So I guess the logical thing is that you're not working hard enough and you get sent home. Really? Also, one of the contestants lost 100 lbs in 7 weeks or something like that. Again, REALLY? Here I was under the impression that 2 lbs a week was healthy weight loss. Yeah, yeah, most of it was water weight at first, but, COME ON! The trainers should KNOW BETTER! They also should know that half the crap they have them do at the gym is NOT GOOD FOR THEM TO BE DOING AT THEIR CURRENT WEIGHT AND FITNESS LEVEL!!! Is that what I have to do to be a successful trainer like Jillian Michaels? I can do unsafe things, put my clients in danger of injury and scrunch up the left side of my face whenever I talk too, but that isn't me. I don't know, for some reason I like to err on the side of caution and not hurt people.

I think I'd like the show better if nobody was eliminated and they encouraged healthy weight loss. It also wouldn't hurt if Jillian stopped the scrunch face routine too...