Extreme Makeover Weight Loss & Big Ole Stanky Lie Edition

I really want to like this show. Even though he's lipless and full of cheese, there's a part of me who just wants to adore Chris Powell for the innocent beefcake that he is tries to portray. But... this show is getting annoying. When I first started watching it, I happily ignored the lies (there's no way in hell that Chris stays with the contestants for 3 months, pft not even three days) after all it was entertaining and it did inspire me to... well, not really do anything in real life, but I thought about... one day... getting off my ass.

You can tell that the contestants never see him. And if you're reading this and overweight, you know that there's no way that these folks are losing 200+ lbs on their own. I'm not saying that it's not possible to do that in a year healthfully, but I'm just not buying that most of them are. I know that one of the early contestants, James Garrison, was talking smack about the show on his blog. He's since had to remove his sass, but excerpts can be seen here.

I think we all know (at least I hope we all know) that these types of shows are... massaged, let's say... to be entertaining. That's coolio, if it gets me to start thinking of my health enough to make a change, you can take me for a ride baby. I just wish that Chris et al. would give the audience some credit and make the show a little less liar-liar-pants-on-fire-y. And tone down the cheese... oh gahd... the cheeeese.

For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about: