Biggest Loser Jumped the Shark
This year’s drama filled Biggest Loser is becoming more a game of “Survivor” rather than an inspiration for those looking to lose weight. With the Biggest Loser contestants now competing as “Trios”, Neil sabatoged the weigh in last night by drinking 2 gallons of water and gaining 17 pounds of “water weight” from last week. His former blue team members as part of a conspiracy voted off Jez.
You may be surprised but I don’t blame Neil. It’s the system and incentives that the producers of the “Biggest Loser” created that is to blame. Currently it rewards those who know how to “play the game” rather than those who are successful at weight loss and deserve to remain. It seems every week that the real role models for weight loss are voted off because they are viewed by the other contestants as threats. Weight loss and eating healthy is tough enough as it is. Rewarding dishonesty and game playing, seems not in keeping with a positive health message this show is purportedly trying to convey. The Biggest Loser is rapidly sinking into insignificance. The Biggest Loser is turning into a “loser” of a show and frankly it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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I was truly angry about the results of last night’s Biggest Loser. I agree that the whole concept of the show now is who can be most manipulative and win the contest, not who loses the most weight.
We’ve had our own Australian version based on the American example (Bob and Gillian star in ours too). The first series was great but the second was so full of twists and turns it did indeed, resemble Survivor. As a result, a really unpopular ‘cheat’ won the show and it was very dissapointing. They (the producers) don’t seem to realise that the entertainment value and the interest in this show is simply seeing people compete against each other to lose the weight. It doesn’t need to be any more complicated than that.
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