The Biggest Loser

The Biggest Loser

Maybe I shall end up posting about this every day. It really is revealing. How can you take an essentially homogenous group and turn it into two teams which are then rivals? I don't really like the adversarial approach and I'd hate to think that a homogenous group will be turned into winners and losers by creating enmity. Someone commented on how "ruthless" Ruth was, but maybe she is the red team's protection and strength because she says it how it could well be and thereby alerts them and prevents them from being gullible. On the other hand, I like their approach. They do consider ALL the people and how it might be in someone else's shoes. The blue team appears to be the one with the the best sense of self, but maybe that's only on the outside. It was good to see how the two different trainers adopted a different approach but still creatied a positive outcome for their teams. It was also good to see some of the reasons for these people hiding behind all their fat, because that is basically what it's about. Fat insulates you against pain, or so you think. There is such a human side to this show and I can well imagine a number of people will draw inspiration and comfort from it. You can be that big, you are still a person and you still have a thin person inside of you. I don't like this adversarial stance, but I haven't seen the whole show yeat and I can see , already, the people are more confident than they were yesterday. They are people with a place and a purpose. And it was so good to see big Wal, everybody's tower of strength, doing some vacuuming! Big men can be dust busters too!