The reboot is supposed to be all about holistic wellness. But has the show changed? If you've been watching the show, read yrfatfriend's take on the series.
states that the show will “provide the contestants with a 360-degree view of what it takes to make a serious lifestyle change, rather than focus solely on weight loss.”As I watched the show’s rebooted premiere, all I could think about was how hauntingly similar it was to its first incarnation. If the first episode of the new season is any indication, the show seems to be focused almost exclusively on the pain of being fat, which can be alleviated, or at least treated, by becoming thinner.
For the first challenge, the team with the person who ran the mile the fastest was offered an advantage. The catch: The teams would be judged by theirJust like in high school, the slowest runner was one of the fattest participants—the show’s third heaviest contestant. As the event unfolded, the trainer ran alongside one of the heavier women, asking her about the trauma that had led her to become fat. Or, so the subtext goes, so unforgivably, unimaginably fat.
In the pilot episode, although contestants recount their own trauma histories , we don’t see a mental health professional onscreen. If the contestants are getting support from mental health professionals offscreen, that’s good and right. But if we don’t see it onscreen or learn that it’s happening offscreen, we’re still being presented with a scenario in which people are embarking on physically and emotionally grueling lifestyle changes without mental health support.
Contestants and trainers insinuate that fat people will eat themselves to death and need to “win your life back.” While watching, I lost count of the number of teary-eyed contestants who referenced their own death, as if they were date-certain events. As if their very bodyOne contestant, a cardiac nurse, recounts the pain she feels when patients, she assumes, doubt her credentials and trustworthiness simply because of her size.
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