The One About The Biggest Loser Drama

I LOVE watching The Biggest Loser.  I have watched this show since the very beginning.  Even Honey Bunny and now little honey bunny will watch this with me.  Honey Bunny, who doesn't like much TV and especially hates reality TV, he will tell you that reality TV is what is wrong with the world these days, will get into this show.  I have loved Jillian Micheals and I have really, really loved Bob Harper.  I even like most of the other trainers that they bring on but what I love about Bob and Jillian was always their intolerance of the game aspect and their relentless pursuit of why people got to the show in the first place.  And of course, I love the ass kicking.  I even tolerated the marathon running because I really felt that they should never put these people in that situation without proper training and support.

However, lately, this show is all about the drama.  The contestants argue constantly.  They are back stabbing, petty, immature, calculating and most of all, not dealing with their issues.  And I HATE the fact that either the producers think this is good TV or even worse, the BL fan club has written in their love for this type of television.  Either way, it is enough to make me stop watching.  The preview is tempting us to wait and tune in for the next smack down, not the next record breaking weigh in or the next emotional and heart wrenching story of how they got so fat in the first place.

It makes it hard for me to pull for the winners if I don't know their story.  I want to know what makes a person eat themselves to 300+ pounds.  What happened to them that makes them literally give up on themselves?  I like to watch this because I think the majority of the world's obesity is not from something so dramatic and major but from the easy stuff.  Like boredom and laziness and lack of good food and from low self esteem and from anxiety.  It is these things that I fight.  Why eat a salad when that takes so much time and I can just pick up a sandwich that is hot and satisfying and yummy and I can eat out with my friends?  But when the show is about who said what and how they said it, I just want to tune it out.  I have enough drama in my life.  It also royally pisses me off that these people are spending their time fighting and being stupid instead of taking every opportunity that they have been given to learn more and do more.  If they would just all shut up and do their job, the only thing they would have to worry about is getting on the scale and losing some major lb's.  But no, what we are seeing is the rancor and fighting amongst the troops.  I would like to believe that these people are in some serious need of help but I think that Bob just needs to come my way and help me because I am ready, willing and able to take the ass kicking.  Those fools just need some serious help from Dr. Phil.

Perhaps the host, Allison Sweeney, called in a favor and had the producer or director of her other show, the soap opera move over to Biggest Loser.

I need more triumph, not temper tantrums!!!!!