Okay, it’s Wednesday, which means it’s time to complain about last night’s episode of The Biggest Loser. Over on Anonymous Fat Woman, Nicole posts about it as well, and she raises the issue I’ve complained about before: the men versus women thing is a train wreck. It’s just not fair.

The good news is that it looks like next week the teams merge. And hopefully we won’t see this on TBL3 (assuming NBC is monitoring board threads like this one).

I did some more Google-surfing, but it’s hard to find real medical support for the idea that men (especially these guys) have an easier time. Most of the links that come up are the anecdotal kind of posts…like this one.

Anyways, here is another explanation for why it’s easier for guys from an old episode of the View (my comments in italics):

Interestingly, they calculated that it would take Joy Behar 15 days to lose one pound, and her male producer just 3 days.

All this said, I will not be surprised when a guy wins this whole thing. Not that I’m going to be horribly disappointed, as I like most of the guys on the men’s team. But I just don’t see us having a woman win this in a competition against men. There’s a reason why the only sport that men and women compete together without controversy is equestrian.

Of course, I do think that the experience is worthwhile for the women. They all seem to be saying that they didn’t really care about the $250K; the fact that they used the show to turn their lives around was the real pay-off.

But just for principle’s sake, I’d certainly prefer then that people either not get kicked off (so that people who don’t stand a chance get the whole three month experience) or I’d like to see both a male and a female winner.