I’ve only recently started watching this show. It comes on bravo, I guess re-runs. It’s interesting to watch, and I love to watch shows about people losing weight. It’s almost an obsession.
Anyway, I’m watching one where they brought back some people they had thrown off in the first episode who were trying to lose weight on their own at home. Well, these people came back and had lost more weight than most of the folks who were at the ranch. Those on the ranch had the nerve to be mad, and I think the rest of the show is pretty much the “red” and “blue” team members trying to get rid of the new people. The new folks also seem to do a lot better in the competitions. It’s really weird though, how the trainers try to make the new people change what they have been doing at home. They keep contradicting themselves, saying that they need to workout 4 hours a day, but they need to adapt things (like eating) to their everyday lives. well, I don’t know too many people who can workout for hours on end every single day. So, while that show is fun to watch, It’s just kind of stupid because are those people REALLY learning about how to lose weight and keep it off? Also, it doesn’t even really seem to be about who loses the most weight, though that does give you somewhat of an edge…but a lot of times, it’s who likes you enough not to turn on you.
Sorry for the novel. I guess I’m reading too much into it. Those people are really probably just after the money and prizes first and foremost. The weight loss is probably just secondary. It’s kind of sad really. But I will continue to watch it, just because I love to see people transform as they lose weight. And I really wish to see that in myself as well!