(Has anyone noticed that the acronym for "Off-Topic" is the same as the acronym for "On-Topic"? WHICH IS THIS THREAD!?!?! YOU'LL NEVER KNOW!!!!)

I've watched my first (my second, third, and fourth) episode(s) of The Biggest Loser today.

...Confession. The Biggest Loser makes me cry. I swear to god, it makes me tear up every five minutes. Someone's always talking about their sad overweight experiences, or supporting someone else, or.. ****, a girl took like a decade longer than everyone else to cross a finish line, and they ALL went back and walked with her, so I cried.
Does anyone else watch this a lot? Does anyone else get emotional about it??

I was gonna try to keep up with the current season (6), but I could only find the first two episodes (and the 7th for some reason?) online. I can't buy them off of iTunes, because I'm not American, and they're not offered in the Canadian iTunes store... GOD, how annoying. So, thanks to my complete and total ignorance of the winner of the 4th season of the show, I'm scootin' back and watching the 4th season.

*sniffles* But it's so motivating!

And, not to mention that when I see the effort and intensity that these people have to put into losing 50-100+ lbs... it makes me feel like a whiny ***** for thinking I look SO HORRIBLE at 160 lbs when some of these people are fighting their way back from 300+ lbs.

IT MAKES ME CRY TOO! I don't understand it!

TBL turns me into a total pile of mush!

Me too! Well it depends. And honestly, only once it made me cry.

But man. wow.

I was watching it for the first time yesterday and I cried too! I thought "Why am I being so silly, it's just a TV-show, I'm sure no-one else cries over this." .

I've also got a confession...i've never watched it

And also, does OP mean "on plan" and "off plan" ??

Haha, I think it usually just means on-plan, but... why ON plan and OFF topic? HUH???

Jelbb, Did you try finding it on youtube? I get all my intervention episodes off there and there is usually a few channels that users have set up to watch them.

The biggest loser doesn't make me cry, call me a heartless *****. What does make me cry, cringe, rage and sigh in exasperation is how the general population doesn't really get just how deadly it is to be overweight and/or put chemicals, preservatives, cigarettes, alchohol and so on and so forth into thier bodies. I'm a cardiac nurse, I've been working with heart patients for 2 years now and maybe 2% of our patients are of average weight. 98% of them are either overweight, smokers or drinkers-or all of the above.

Holy tangent, forgive me.

TBL makes me cry too.

And we don't have TV so usually I have to watch it the day after it airs, on NBC.com. This week they have only posted CLIPS not the full episode! GRR! So i have yet to see the latest episode. Poo.

Yeah, the problems for me watching online are as follows:

1. I can't watch NBC episodes/clips because I'm not American, so I have to use a program that hides my IP address from them, so they don't know where I am.

2. I can't download them in iTunes because I'm not American.

3. I'm having a hard time finding downloads of the 6th season, and even when I do, they take FOREVER.


The only place I've been able to find episodes is on Tudou.com, a... Japanese? site.

Y'know, I never watched this show, so all I frigging hear is JM Shred, JM Shred... and all of a sudden, there's JM on the show, and I'm all, "Hey, I know you..."

I find the show SO inspiring tho. I watched the first three episodes of the 4th season, and just watching them all work their asses off... I went to the gym today, and I TOTALLY pushed myself. I burned 100 calories more than I usually do on the elliptical, and I did two sets of all of my weight circuit, bumping up the weights on nearly everything.
My usual gym mantra is, "Well, at least I'm here, at least I'm lifting weights, even if it's not that hard... if it's too hard, I won't want to do it anymore..." But I got all inspired, and now my limbs feel like Jell-o. But I feel DAMN good.

i love that show its always sad, but it helps me to stay motivated when its on!

The previous seasons make me cry.

The current season pi$$es me off.

My boyfriend actually laughs at me every tuesday night because i just sit on the couch and bawl like a baby...but yet I come back for more! I love that show! What an opportunity!

I so agree and am ready for it to be over!! The best will be if Amy or Colleen win!! Thow it in H and V's faces!

I cry at this show as well and I'm not a person who normally cries at movies and things like that. It just gets to me sometimes. It's probably because I can really relate to the people on the show struggling with their self images and working toward goals.

I cry too!!! I thought it was just me!