My main focus this fall season has been watching NBC's The Biggest Loser. In fact the show usually stretches across two hours of show time and now consumes my focus for television every Tuesday night.
The show consists of contestants who are morbidly obese. Two exercise trainers work the contestants out with a strict diet included in hopes of the contestants loosing the most weight to be The Biggest Loser of the season.
Like every other reality show, there are story lines intertwining the contestants that really pull at America's heart strings as the weight sheds off the contestants week by week.
Tonight my normal regiment continued as I found myself sitting on pins and needles figuratively as the contestants weigh in.
There is a woman named Shay who originally weighed more than 450 pounds and after losing a record breaking 100 pounds, she was kicked off the show by the fellow contestants.
I found this tragically devastating. This young woman only a few years my junior could die because of her alarming weight yet they kept other contestants on the show that had little ways to go in their quest for weight utopia.
It makes me think how sad it is that our country lives as unhealthy as it does. It is to the point where people's bodies are giving out younger and younger because of the way they treat their body in their lifetime.
I am in my early 20's so I care about the vain things such as cellulite or five pounds here and there but I should begin to watch my cholesterol and care about preventing heart disease instead.
Just some food for thought this evening as I contemplate turning off the light to my kitchen or reaching for the pint of Ben and Jerry's I have been tempted to eat since the show began tonight.
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