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Thanks Missy! I am praying about today, the infection seems to have gotten a bit better, enough to stand a normal large bandage, but I may still take the day to rest and not even do the weights either. I know that the last thing I need to do is aggravate it and put myself out of commission for days. It was a very deep wound.

now for my rant on TBL

My "biggest" problem with TBL is the attitude of the trainers about "low" numbers. I know its a game, but its sad that double digits are the only view of success. I wonder how many young people see a loss of 3 or so pounds and give up because they just dont understand that its not a healthy standard. There is a girl at the gym thats been working out very hard. I complimented her the other day, that i noticed she was really dedicated. But her reply was that she felt like giving up because she hadnt dropped any "real" numbers. She is pretty young and it just broke my heart. I told her that success was alot more than dropping big numbers each week, that courage and determination has yet to be measured on a scale.

I read an article on the BL and how it set people up to regain, it made alot of sense. Reading that Kai ate only asparagus (a diuretic), sugar fee jello, and spent 6 HOURS at a time in a sauna twice a day to lose 19 pounds in a few days before the finale...well that made me sick. She said that those 19 pounds plus several more piled back on within only a few weeks of the finale.

It also was noted that once the show was over, in RL, it was hard to get out of that mentality that even one pound gained was a failure, and that losing one pound was never going to be good enough.

I felt so bad for the best friends team last night, in RL they would have been whoo hoooing over the loss, but instead they felt like failures AND the looks on their trainers faces also said "YOU LET US DOWN!". I liked Bob alot more when he truly acted like he cared about making a change that would help save someone's life. That focus seems to be lost and replaced by a disappointed head shake when those "piddly" losses show up.

I just wanted to go hug them both because those "piddly" one digit losses add up!