Oh how we LOVE Biggest Loser! Sadly we won't have Tommy there every episode this season with us because he promised to be there for the finale. Its less than a month until the premiere but I'm going out of my mind with excitement. No other show makes us sit in front of the TV for 2 hours with our mouths open waiting with bated breath for the weigh in in the last 20 minutes. It also makes us rethink eating more leftover mac and cheese. Not that we eat that anyway. Not only does The BL change peoples' lives for the better, it engages the audience enough so they see the change they need to make too.
It reminds me of a time when we were skiiiiiiinny! Back in the day....
This was the only picture from high school I could find but look at us! Skinny!
One of those things I try to remind myself and Taylor about is that we are not in high school when it comes to weight. We don't do 3 1/2 hours of sports 5 sometimes 6 days a week. We can't eat whatever we want because our metabolism is slowed down a lot. We don't have moms that make breakfast, pack our lunches, and have dinner ready at 6:30 every night. BTW, this was a huge shock of reality for me personally just because I had to be the one to cook. If I did not have dinner ready, WE would not eat. Poor Taylor. I got it pretty quickly though. There were a few times Del Taco came to the rescue- sign, we miss you!
All of this really gets me thinking when we watch the show because of how people get to where they are today. They get stuck in a mentality that is destructive and they repeat the behaviors sometimes without realizing the damage they do until its really far down the road. Even after high school I was still eating the same way I did before. And believe me, I could eat whatever I wanted. Don't believe me? Ok, how's this? When I went to In-N-Out Burger, I would eat TWO double doubles, TWO orders of french fries, ANNNND a chocolate shake or large Pepsi. Yuck, that totally grosses me out now! I weighed 147 lbs as a six foot tall sophmore. Sickening I know. I would kill someone else if I knew they could do that.
Good thing times change! Good grief if I still ate like that I would be a contestant myself. Not to mention I'd be said because there isn't an In-N-Out Burger unless I want to drive at least 25 hours to the nearest one. We won't. That's where the show comes in. Not only does it make us want to giet off of our butts and go jogging like we have, it also makes me think about chicken and brown rice for dinner. Oh, it was so good tonight. Sure we could eat a lot worse but why would we when we've lost weight and just ran? Um, no. I don't think so. I always say a homemade meal is a happy meal. Not THAT Happy Meal!
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