11-18-2004 - 6:53 p.m.
My new (or maybe not so new) fixation is reality TV. Yes, I'm becoming a reality TV junkie! No, I'm not that bad really, but I am slowly becoming hooked on one too many reality shows.
The Biggest Loser has become one of my favorite TV shows of the season. It's so inspiring to see insanely fat people working their asses off in the gym! It really does amaze me how much some of those people work out, considering the fact that they're hauling around at least 100 pounds of excess fat. The problem with this show, however, is that it's really bad for my psychological well being. By Tuesday night when the show airs, I haven't been to the gym in 2 days because of grad school and tutoring, and then I sit in front of the TV with some ice cream and watch these people working out and eating healthy. So then I feel like crap. Usually Wednesday I don't eat very much, and this week the trend has lasted through today as well. I'm just becoming insanely fearful of becoming as fat as the people on that show and then having to go on national tv in a bathing suit to step on a giant scale. Ugh! Maybe I shouldn't watch this show.
My other absolute fave is Dr. 90210 about the Beverly Hills plastic surgeons making everyone look perfect more or less. I honestly can't get enough of this show. And it's making me want breast implants so badly! And then the other day this 16 year old got a nose job and it looked so good but still like her old self and it just made me go oooooh I could definitely go for one of those too! Perhaps I shouldn't be watching this show either.
Of course I'm still way into The Apprentice, though this season really pales in comparison to the first. And I'm not too fond of the firing process, as some of my favorite people have gotten the axe for all the wrong reasons. I'm now rooting for Kelly and Kevin. One of them better win. If a girl wins, I'll be pissed cause they all are really bad at doing business. (btw Kelly is a guy).
The one reality show that I'm truly appalled by is The Swan. I'd never ever seen an episode until Monday and I couldn't believe my eyes. I wanted to turn it off, but like a bad car wreck I couldn't help myself from looking. Basically, they tell girls that they're really ugly and that their lives will change once they are pretty. One of my biggest complaints about this show is the fact that they do all the liposuction and tummy tucking and boob enhancing/reducing FIRST and then they put them on a diet with a nutritionist and send them to they gym with a trainer. Shouldn't they learn to lose weight and live healthfully first and then use plastic surgery as a means to fix things that exercise just won't help? That I didn't get. Also, I didn't understand why they bothered sending them to therapy and coaching after having said on national TV that they were so goddamn ugly they needed 20 different surgeries. I mean, how much can therapy really mend you if you're already one of the 16 women chosen out of like 10 million applicants as the most in need of an entire physical transformation? That part of the show is such a scam. For God's sake the plastic surgeon called one of the girls faces "masculine" and talked about how he needed to make her look like a woman! Fuck the therapy, just hand that girl a bottle of vodka.
And that's my reality TV recap...
