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• Lessons from The Biggest Loser Season Finale, by Will Doig

  There are a few lessons one can take from last night’s season finale of The Biggest Loser. 1. It’s possible for a woman to win this show, even though men are predisposed to quicker weight loss. 2. It’s possible for some people to lose 50 pounds and still look basically the same. 3. Live TV – especially live TV starring people who have no professional TV training – is awesome. Ali, the former competitive swimmer who’d let herself go, won the final weigh-in and, for this, a quarter of a million dollars. She’d lost 112 pounds and looked as diesel as an angry Mac truck. The other two finalists were Roger, a former football player from Alabama, and Kelly, a shy working-class woman from Florida. I was rooting for Kelly, because she’s older and divorced. She’s also had three miscarriages and talked a lot about how she’d always been huge and asexual and how now, at 38, she finally felt like a girl for the first time in her life. It’s this kind of shit that gets me sobbing like a mental patient... Read More... Posted Apr 16 2008, 04:07 PM by Nicole Ankowski with | with no comments Filed under: will doig, dating, sex, attraction, reality television, the biggest loser, dieting, ali, the biggest loser couples, weight loss

• Dating Confession of the Day, 4.1.08:

  For real? That must have been one hot suit-wearing, smoking, pissed-off strange dude. Read more at the Nerve Dating Confessions. Posted Apr 01 2008, 05:01 PM by Nicole Ankowski with | with no comments Filed under: cheating, dating, sex, nerve dating confessions, boyfriend, attraction