The Biggest Loser Changed My Life
Even as a viewer, I was transformed: and not in a good way
Content warning: extreme diet culture, fatphobia, self-harm
On February 13, 2006, the Australian version of The Biggest Loser premiered. I was an avid weekly viewer. I also have my weight loss diary from January to June of that year. Nearly twenty years later, it makes for confronting reading. It makes a plausible case that the show changed my life: and not in a good way.
