Unfortunately, that meant that I had to skip my personal training class. I wasn't too devastated since I couldn't even fathom unwrapping the cocoon I had made around me with the super fuzzy blanket in our living room, but I decided that watching The Biggest Loser would be an adequate substitute. Who better to teach me how to be a personal trainer than Jillian and Bob?
Now, I'm not a die hard fan of The Biggest Loser, but if I ever see it on TV I definitely stop and watch it. I love watching these people push 25 ton train cars and lug huge sandbags across a beach so that their team can have access to the gym for the week. The only problem with The Biggest Loser is that whenever I watch it, I am unfailingly reduced to a big weepy mess.
Seriously though, I'm not usually a crier. I can specifically count the five times I cried last year, and one of them was while watching The Biggest Loser. I tend to thwart my ability to cry by over-thinking and rationalizing situations, but I'm always inexplicably moved to tears when 430 lb. men lose 20 lbs. in a week and finally realize that they are getting their lives, happiness, and health back through exercise and eating right. Not only that, but this season is called "Couples", and it's actually teams of one parent and one child. I'm pretty sure that's what gets the water works going. When these overweight dads are on the ranch with their daughters and say, "I'm doing this so I can be there to walk my daughter down the aisle." I'm just reminded that health is the key to living a full and happy life, but I'm also moved by the pure will power it takes to make huge lifestyle changes like eating healthfully and incorporating exercise into your daily routine. No one can make you exercise, and no one can make you eat right. It always boils down to your own will power and self-control. And when these people find that and realize that, I think that's the most amazing thing in the world.
So make fun of me all you want, but I think that everyone on The Biggest Loser is a huge inspiration, and I'm going to keep on crying because I'm just so damn proud of them. But if I keep up with this season, I'm probably going to need to invest in a Costco-sized pack of Kleenex.
Now, I'm not a die hard fan of The Biggest Loser, but if I ever see it on TV I definitely stop and watch it. I love watching these people push 25 ton train cars and lug huge sandbags across a beach so that their team can have access to the gym for the week. The only problem with The Biggest Loser is that whenever I watch it, I am unfailingly reduced to a big weepy mess.
Seriously though, I'm not usually a crier. I can specifically count the five times I cried last year, and one of them was while watching The Biggest Loser. I tend to thwart my ability to cry by over-thinking and rationalizing situations, but I'm always inexplicably moved to tears when 430 lb. men lose 20 lbs. in a week and finally realize that they are getting their lives, happiness, and health back through exercise and eating right. Not only that, but this season is called "Couples", and it's actually teams of one parent and one child. I'm pretty sure that's what gets the water works going. When these overweight dads are on the ranch with their daughters and say, "I'm doing this so I can be there to walk my daughter down the aisle." I'm just reminded that health is the key to living a full and happy life, but I'm also moved by the pure will power it takes to make huge lifestyle changes like eating healthfully and incorporating exercise into your daily routine. No one can make you exercise, and no one can make you eat right. It always boils down to your own will power and self-control. And when these people find that and realize that, I think that's the most amazing thing in the world.
So make fun of me all you want, but I think that everyone on The Biggest Loser is a huge inspiration, and I'm going to keep on crying because I'm just so damn proud of them. But if I keep up with this season, I'm probably going to need to invest in a Costco-sized pack of Kleenex.
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