TV Realities and the Simple Realities of Losing Weight
The Biggest loser is a reality TV show that effectively works in more ways than one. Apart from the entertainment that it gives the viewers on how these obese individuals work their way into a slimmer figure, the most obvious reason for this TV programming format is to encourage these contestants to have a better understanding of how important it is to be healthy and to motivate themselves to escape the claws of excessive eating and a lifestyle without exercise. According to celebrity fitness coach David Wayne Fish, a fitness trainer, like him, is one of the best parts of working out. It is mainly because one will have an experienced professional coach who will guide an individual towards the proper exercising techniques and methods on how to gradually shed off the pounds.
The part where contestants are bribed with money and rewards in exchange of giving up the competition is also a good way to test the spirit of the contestants and to rate their determination and how hard can they fight the temptation to give up the main objective of the competition. This measure the rate of how motivated are these contestants in reaching their fitness goals.
Also the same and real life, minus the camera, the live audience and the drama, losing weight can exhaust the best and worst out of you whether you like or not. According to weight loss and physical fitness instructor, mental, physical and emotional health are the main factors that can help a person have the courage for this difficult undertaking: mental health, because you need to develop a positive perspective that no matter how heavy you weigh or how big your love is for pizza, ice cream and chocolates, you have to stay away from them as much as possible if you are really determined; physical health, because even though you are trying to lose pounds, it does not mean that you have to starve yourself, rather, you should still eat but it must be of proper amount and with the right health benefits; and emotional health because you need to deal with the fact that you have to deal with the stressful emotions and condition yourself that you really have to lose weight, unless you want to be continually ridiculed because of your weight.
David W. Fish says that there are a lot more factors that could make or break the motivation and spirit of a person who is planning to lose weight. However, the most important is that the person must really want this above anything else. If that desire to lose weight translates into concrete actions through proper training, then the Finish Line may not be that far ahead.