On tonight's Biggest Loser, financial expert Suze Orman met with the contestants to talk about debt, and how it affects their weight loss.
Wait. Debt affects weight loss?
Does it? I'm not exactly sure.
Her argument, mostly, was that people in control of their finances are more likely to be in control of their weight. She examined every contestants credit report and ranked who would be most likely to win the contest/show based on their credit scores (which I think is a little bit ridiculous).
However, last season, she apparently guessed right when she guessed Danny Cahill, who admittedly was $45,000 in credit card debt while on the show. For this week's episode, Danny came back to talk about how it's not too late to manage the debt the contestants have while also managing their weight.
We did not learn on the episode whether Danny is completely out of debt, but the impression they gave us was that Danny had a hold on it. HELLO. He just won a national television series contest! I should hope with the hundreds of thousands he took home he used some of it to get out of debt.
I was a little offended by Danny's presence in the debt talk-not at him being there, but the fact that the producers were trying to convince us that Danny miraculously managed his debt in less than a year's time and that we all can too. Me, being someone with debt, looked forward to possibly gaining some valuable advice during this portion of the show. Instead I learned that if I win The Biggest Loser, then I can get out of debt. Gee, ya think?
But maybe that's the point is they want us all to try out to be on the Biggest Loser? ;)
Anyway, what I want to know is, do you think being in debt has a correlation to being overweight? How can we solve both at the same time?
posted @ Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:42 PM