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I prefer the Australian Biggest Loser to the USA version as I have mentioned previously, mainly because it is on six nights a week so it’s much easier to get immersed in — but I do think both shows portray weight loss in an unhealthy way — the girl on this weeks USA version who was in tears having lost 14 pounds in 30 days? I wanted to slap her, it’s taken me six months of running the ellipticals at the gym, counting my calories and quitting drinking and smoking to lose the last 14 pounds I did.

That’s the real world. That’s real weight loss.

I also hate the advertising in the US version, I love Bob and Jillian but it makes me cringe every time I see them pimping jello or cheerios or whatever else it is this week. And I am really genuinely disgusted that The Biggest Loser Australia have their own meal replacement diet.

Yeah, the shows aren’t perfect — but as long as you see them as an exaggeration, they can be very motivational

This weeks Biggest Loser USA really got on my nerves, and not because of Joelle who seemed to be the reason for most people’s anger.

Did I miss the part where someone forced Carla to pick Joelle as a team mate, and friend?

No?

Didn’t think so.

Carla must have known what she was like, what her commitment levels were likely to be, that she was a selfish person and clearly has a few marbles shaking about in that head of hers.

Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t like Joelle much — she crazy. But the way she was treated by both her team mate and the other contestants was way too over the top.

Carla ranting about accountability and saying how unfair it was that Joelle brought her down? Oh the irony, how about taking some of that accountability yourself? You’re a big girl and you said you saw she wasn’t working as hard as she could be…so how about you work 10 times harder, try convince her to work harder and drop the 15+ you could have done this week?

I think it was apparent from her comments to camera that she eased off part because she is lazier than the rest but also part because she thought being on Bobs team, with 5 votes vs 3 that she was safe.

People play all sorts of games and dirty tricks on this show, including water loading, but you never see people or the trainers react to them as they did to Joelle.

The amount of hypocrisy this episode also churned my stomach. Does any one remember two weeks ago, when Joelle was below the yellow line and all but gave up and asked to leave, only for them to vote off the red team who wanted to be there more than any thing? So why all of a sudden is it that Joelle doesn’t deserve to be there? Why did she deserve to be there two weeks ago?

And as for the girl on yellow, who only lost 2lbs in 30 days and gave all the excuses under the sun, ‘I improved endurance, I lost inches, I gained muscle, I worked out 5 hours a day honest!’ to then go on and lecture Joelle about how the scale never lies? Come on!

Ah, it got my blood boiling — what a great episode hehe

…my official weigh in day is not until tomorrow, but watching this weeks episode of The Biggest Loser USA (which I am about to have a major rant about!) I couldn’t resist.

I lost a pound.

“Big deal” right? Well wrong, it is a big deal because that now officially puts me out of the obese category. It puts me back in the same stone range as I was when I first met my husband to be six years ago and it’s been bloody hard work getting there — it has been my next mini goal for what seems like forever.

I have done it without the use of weight loss pills, just hard work, a good diet and maybe a little push from some green tea and spicy foods to boost my metabolism.

The only thing is, I don’t know if I should celebrate just yet — I have a tendency to fluctuate a lot so when I do my official weigh in tomorrow night, after watching The Biggest Loser Australia contestants weigh in, I might well have gone back up knowing my luck.

Hmm.

My best online friend is considering moving from New York City to Atlanta, she’s been looking up jobs in Atlanta to see if she can get any thing that pays better than she is on now — she’s in book publishing and wouldn’t want to change that, so the job will be the clincher.

I hope she doesn’t find something, for the totally and completely selfish reason that I don’t want her to move from NYC for the simple fact it makes me feel cool having a best friend from the big apple.

Yeah, I am that selfish

Do you remember me posting last week, complaining that I didn’t realise Shipwrecked was starting up again and I had missed the first episode, but not to worry because I would catch the repeat the following Saturday?

Well guess who forgot to watch it, again?

The funny thing is that I set my PVR to record the second episode that airs on Sunday morning but didn’t set it for todays repeat of last weeks episode at the same time.

Way to not work very well, dearest brain of mine.

All is not lost though — I just realised I can watch it on the channel 4 catchup service online, so I am going to go do that right now, before I forget again.