A few weeks ago, the fitness company that runs classes for my office began hyping up a biggest loser challenge they'd be hosting in office. I didn't join, but it seemed like a pretty great idea. Get people motivated about losing weight and staying fit during the holiday season-the most dangerous time of year. The contest has all kinds of incentive prizes and a final cash prize.
Now, let me juxtapose that with the list of treats that were made available to us through various vendors in our office today:
Godiva chocolates
Sugar cookies
Chocolate covered potato chips
chocolate covered nuts
chocolate peanut butter morsels
. . .and let's not forget the gingerbread house.
This is all in addition to our usual plate full of GIANT cookies we always get with lunch (our lunch is catered each day).
If this is the biggest loser, today is the episode where they shamelessly exploit all the contestants by shoving them in a room with mountains of all their favorite food and pretend to want them to abstain but secretly hope they'll gorge their obese selves into oblivion because, hey, this is reality TV and that's what we all tuned it to see, right?
Trust: it's disgusting.
Now excuse me while I go find that recipe for the chocolate/peanut butter/pretzel bars I plan to make for a party this weekend. If there are leftovers, I'll probably bring them into work. . .
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