Nov 18 2008
The biggest loser
The title is not intended to be clever. I want to be on the show The Biggest Loser. For the past 8 years I have tried to lose 10 pounds. Sometimes I get closer to the goal, often times I get farther away. But, no matter how hard I try (well I don’t try that hard), I cannot lose those 10 pounds.
Anytime I read about how people lost a ton of weight, they always talk about how the first 50 or so pounds were easier to lose. The final few pounds were the hardest to shave off.
It necessarily follows that losing 10 pounds is harder than losing 100 pounds. So, I would be a perfect contestant.
I do not know what the prize is at the end of the show. I would imagine its $100,000. It’s always 100,000. 100,000 for covergirl, for your own line furnished by treseme, for your restaurant furnished by gladware, etc. Oh, and I guess you develop self-esteem. Whatever…
This is actually one of the Spinsta’s best ideas. I spend 1/3 of my pay check on my weight loss quest: trainer, healthy food, pilates, clothes that are too small to inspire me to lose, etc. But, if I did The Biggest Loser, the food and the trainer are free. And don’t they all get to live in some mansion in California? What a great exitstategy.
