The Biggest Loser: Reviews
I'd love know if any of you saw The Biggest Loser and what you thought of it. I've heard zero buzz and I had to work late, so I missed it!
posted by mo pie at 5:18 PM
Friday, October 22, 2004
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4 Comments:
Hi Mo, JuJu here. Nope, I missed it too. But Ms. Squires has much to say. See her piece at the Post, or here:
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/living/health/9982461.htm
I haven't watched it yet, but my blogging partner wrote about it here. AND, I still have the first episode on tape. I can watch it tonight and mail it to you tomorrow if you'd like. E-mail me if you're interested. I'm happy to share.
dmwelker at gmail dot com
I'm glad to see the show is reasonably low on humiliation, and I think the approach (moderate trainer vs. hard-ass trainer) is very well done.
I think the food issue is unnecessarily rough, though. Everyone has their own transparent-doored fridge filled with their "temptation" foods. That seems par for the course. But at mealtimes, the food seems definitely slanted towards unhealthy=yummy, healthy=boring/challenging. I noticed someone cutting the leaves off of individual strawberries - if the bacon is ready to eat, why isn't the fruit? It also seems like the contestants don't have a way to request healthy foods. They keep saying "contestants have to face temptation just like in real life!" but in real life, you can go to the store and buy a giant bag of baby carrots or grapes to pop in the freezer for dessert.
What I'd love to see: contestants giving tips on their favorite healthy foods or exercises that they think are benefitting them. There's a lot of room to educate Americans while we watch, but the pilot at least is not taking advantage of that at all.
(Have you seen the Body Challenge series on Discovery Health Channel? They're much more positive, although not as entertaining in a trashy-TV way.)
Cindy (at clinkclank dot net)
I only saw part of TBL, but it doesn't hold a candle to Life Network's Canadian show Taking It Off (It won an Emmy!), which was a real show about actual real people, living their everyday lives and dealing with the same issues they would have to deal with when/if the weight came off. The show was obviously aired on a marginal network only with none of the hype or ginormous budgets.
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