Too skinny, Soprano’d

Ah a couple things I forgot to mention.  On Friday we watched the Biggest Loser finale, the show was filled with impressive amounts of weight loss by several individuals.  Well the actual winner this season had a weight loss that was disturbing, something I never have seen before.

She started the show in the 260’s and showed up on finale night a gaunt and clearly anorexic looking 105 pounds.  The look on the trainer’s faces said it all.  It wasn’t a look of pride for what they helped craft, it was look of distress for a person that clearly went over the edge, trading in an unhealthy obese lifestyle for an unhealthy skeleton thin one instead.  She swapped one eating disorder for another, clearly not the goal of the show.

She didn’t look fit or healthy, she looked emaciated.  I found it hard to believe that the show producers do no monitoring of the contestants for the few weeks between when they leave the ranch to finale night.  If they did, someone surely would have raised the red flag. Even though she is only 23, Rachel looked old, sporting wrinkles in her face from her drastic weight loss and malnutrition.

It was very disturbing end to this season.  I can only hope producers take steps in the future to make sure that contestants don’t lose their mind and engage in things that lead to what we saw on the scale with Rachel.  She lost something ridiculous like 175 pounds which equated to nearly 60% of her original body weight.  It will be very interesting to see where Rachel is weight wise in a year.  Hopefully she doesn’t follow the path some past contestants have chosen where they ride that weight roller coaster back upwards approaching the level they started.

This weekend I finally finished up months long consumption of the entire Sopranos series which I started right after James Gandolfini died in June.  It was great being able to take in all that tv greatness in a relatively short period of time.  Unfortunately the ending, which I actually did see the first time it aired, still sucked.  Oh well.