Biggest Loser Season 8 premiered tonight, and nothing short of a city wide power outage was going to stop me from watching it. This says a lot about my dedication to watch overweight people push themselves to lose weight because there are MANY things that I despise about that show: Blatant product placement, commercials every 10 seconds, huge stretches of the show that they repeat because they have commercials every 10 seconds and it is hard to remember what was going on when you are constantly being pulled away for a commercial break...I could go on...but I digress.
I watch Biggest Loser because it reminds me why I am on this weight loss journey. I may not have the tragic stories that those contestants share (and there are some really tragic stories this season), but I feel the same shame when I walk into a room and realize that I'm the biggest person there, when I can't run more than a mile without hacking up a lung, when I think about the example that I am setting for my baby girl.
There are so many reasons why I want to lose this weight - not the least of which being my for my health and confidence - but I tend to lose track of these reasons in my day to day life. Watching a show like Biggest Loser helps me remember and keep myself on track.
We all have to find our inspiration somewhere.
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