Seriously, I do. Without the hookers and porn stars, of course--and the blow.
Who wouldn't like to say the craziest things you ever thought possible. The things your parents warned you not to say. The things you think, but bite your tongue before you speak. Jesus. I want to be Charlie Sheen, if even for just one day.
But for today I have to stick with me, and God knows I often say what I'm thinking when I should bite my tongue. So here goes.
I am watching The Biggest Loser, something I've not done for an extended period of time before, but after reading an article in Runner's World I thought I'd check out a full episode. Let me just say this is some crazy shit. The Olympic wrestler Rulon just said he lost 108 pounds in eight weeks. How is that possible? How is that healthy?
I'm not sure how I feel about this show. On one hand it's amazing that these people are given the opportunity to learn healthy habits, healthy eating especially (calories in/calories out), and to loose weight. Weight that, if kept on, would clearly kill them. On the other hand, how healthy is it to overtrain for six hours a day, eight hours in some cases it appears from the Runner's World article.
Also, that troll trainer Jillian just scares the hell out of me. I just shudder when she squats her 70 pound frame on the treadmill cage and begins yelling to a contestant that they can either pass out, puke, and die, or continue. I might choose death in that moment if it meant she'd shut up. But, it seems to work for a lot of them.
So I'm curious if my dislike for parts of this show are because I don't posses the same kind of passion to do something that these contestants do, or because I find the premise so unrealistic and impossible to maintain as a lifestyle.
Where's Charlie Sheen when I need to borrow his brain to figure this one out.
