I love you.

That is all.

Also, this show fits into the whole stereotype of fat slobs eating and eating and eating. Using calorie challenges for immunity is sickening. The very fact that they imply that these contestants are fat because they eat too many peanut butter cups is distressing and only skims the surface of the many factors of why people gain, maintain and struggle to lose weight.

Overall, it’s a show set up to promote diet and exercise products. It misrepresents and promotes misunderstanding of why some people are fat and HOW MUCH EFFORT people put into making themselves healthy and not necessarily thin.

For example, early in the season when the Losers are at their heaviest weights, they are paraded into the weigh-ins with the women in skimpy bikini exercise tops and the men shirtless (there’s that shame thing again). But towards the end of the show when they have lost loads of weight they have “earned the right” to cover up their bodieswith t-shirts. Perhaps that’s to avoid having to show the actual results of massive weightloss, ie. excess baggy skin as opposed to the “sleek hot body” that is supposed to be the reward at the end of all the effort and starvation.

I honestly sometimes wonder if that’s what they are trying to do. I guess it boils down to shaming. Because if these people are losing 10lbs in a week and you can’t lose 2lbs in your real life, well gee, how shameful!! I think it’s a way to increase shame and stigma. It makes it look totally “possible,” but it isn’t a reflection of real life in any way, period. And you see these people for a short, short period in their long, long lives.

When will they figure out that stigma and shame are counter-productive, especially in the long-term? Not only is it shown to decrease activity, I’m sure it’s associated with a diminished quality of life in general. I dream of a “biggest loser exposed” national news piece.

“We’re bringing chubby back”

because in my head it is followed with

“Them other people don’t know how to act.”

Sure, I could lose a shitload of weight if I put myself through the ridiculous amount of training that they do on the show. And then I’d end up in the hospital!