The Biggest Loser Players on a Cruise Ship? Now That’s Just Cruel

The Biggest Loser Players on a Cruise Ship? Now That’s Just Cruel by Roxanne McDonald

If you have ever been on a cruise ship, you know the major part of the deal is the food–the massive amounts, great varieties, and most delicious and most frequently served fares. So why would the challenge be to work temporrarily on a ship and walk past the fine fares…over and over again?

Is it a most insidious challenge, or what? Or, is it more analagous to having a thin family, a mother who forces you be the only one (who, as the only fatty) to diet, and siblings who airplane forkloads of goodies past your nose as they taunt, “Mmmmm” and “Neener neener neeeener…”?

To add insult to injurious teasing, The Biggest Loser players have to serve cruise ship guests…who happen to be their spouses or family members. And they have to do the task in competitive, against-the-clock fashion.

Before I get too excited about the unfairness of it all, let me make a couple of concessions, here.

Granted, the challenges are designed to force the players to exercise. Therefore, the choices the producers and writers make for The biggest Loser are appealing. That is, as opposed to the roteness, mundaneness, and banality of doing endless sit-ups, pull-ups, push-up, or God knows what-ups, the kind of challenge whereby the teams have to work together, figure out the logistics of a puzzle or task, and have to get their hearts and heads involved and focused keeps the players sufficiently preoccupied so that they are not obsessing about or eating food.

Next, while it is so bloody tiresome to hear about, see, or read about some skinny minnie who is weight- (or control-fixated to the point of anorexia nervosa or bulimia, it is of course a good thing when 400-pounders get the opportunity to lose weight in this environment of support and guidance by professionals.

And finally, okay, I must admit that since most people–fat or thin–are faced with food temptations and forced to make dietary choices, that Bob and Kim coach them by immersing them in bad foods environments and teach them to discern the differences between healthy and less fattening and unhealthy and calorie-loaded is a good thing.

So, like the soap operas used to for many of us and still might for others of us,

The Biggest Loser offers the chance to identify with the “characters”, understand the specifics of food consumption, and even get motivated to make some changes in our own lives.

Then again, for others of us, it is just plain fun to sit in front of the boob tube (though it aint about cathode tubes anymore), eat chocolate peanut butter brownies, and gripe about the challenges as they come up.

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