1. He weighs more than the contestants.
2. The backstabbing & whining of the contestants turned me off completely.
3. This past week’s episode where we see one contestant eating the nuts off of a frozen banana–The typical stereotype of what one TV writer thinks of with regards to non-skinny women.

Put this freak show off the air. Hell, at least pro wrestling shows have more respect than this turkey.

1) The “indignant thin” who gloat over their imagined superiority and feign concern over the “health” message the show might be sending but are really just disgusted by the fact that fat people have lives too and can embarrass themselves on reality TV just as competently as a skinny person. They are genuinely flummoxed, I guess, by the fact that if all fat people were as useless and non-functional as they imagine them to be, US society would have collapsed a long time ago because 60% of us are fat according to the government. The constant harping about childhood obesity should give them a clue that fat people are having plenty of sex and making little fat babies in the process.

2) Fat people/average people who may or may not know they aren’t model material but still want to live the size 0 fantasy vicariously through others and hate being confronted with the reality of their physical form on a TV screen. This is the same effect that causes plus-size retailers to pin clothes on skinny models rather than show them on their target market. Lane Bryant tried to be revolutionary by using “plus size” models, but let’s not forget that a plus-size model is maybe a size 10 or 12. If they showed that stuff on the size 20+ women that actually shop at their stores, their revenue would plummet and they know it.

3) Fat people who love and accept themselves the way they are (whether they are ultimately trying to lose weight/improve their health or not) and are already thoroughly convinced that they are not inferior to anyone. They’re gonna get tired of all that whining and desperation really quickly. Like most people with self-respect, they’ll have trouble watching people who have none show it off to the world, especially when they know that prejudice will cause them to be lumped into the same pile with those people.

My comment is from a ratings point of view I am very disappointed with the creators of the show. Who is obviously not into bbws if male or is not plus size if it is a women. Here is the deal average size men also like bbws. I am insulted that you think that only a fat guy wants a big girl! My partner is built like a GOD and I think that this is typical of our American culture where size matters so much. Bottom line if ther is a season 2 make him hot and your ratings will go through the roof!

I am worried about the women as they are eliminated – this show creates the kind of romance-novel hope that would never really happen under anything but a clinically set up situation like this; and some of these women don’t seem to have the fortitude for rejection. This seems so ill-thought out, and I can’t help wondering if any of these women realized what they were *really* doing. I can only see bad things happening to them as they stay longer and fall harder. Make this monstrosity go away. If this had been done with some consideration for the feelings of humankind in general it’s format would have been much more restrained and interesting. As it is, it”s a trainwreck and we turned it off after ten minutes. It made us very very sad.