User blog:Chrissh/worlds apart castaways look well fed

Is it just me, or are this season's contestants the most well fed looking group after 30 days in the 15 year history of the show? I know Dan, Will, and Shirin came to the show packing some extra pounds, but none of them looks like they've missed a meal the whole time. Rodney and Tyler look just as buff as they did on day one. Carolyn and Mike don't look any thinner, and Sierra actually looks like she's gained weight. What's up with that? Have there just been better food rewards this year, or are the producers making a conscious effort to keep the contestants looking fat and happy? Throughout the years of watching this show, the obvious physical changes that the contestants' bodies went through was probably the only thing that made this "reality" show real. And now it doesn't even have that. This show has always been too over-produced to honestly claim that it bears any semblance to real life, but now they've gone and manipulated the one thing that made this show a true test of survival. My guess about the reason for the lack of weight loss this year is that one or more of the contestants (I'm looking at you, Will and Dan) has diabetes, and therefore the show is obligated to make sure that those contestants have a proper diet; and because it would be an unfair advantage for some contestants to have access to extra food for medical reasons, the producers' allowed all the contestants access to extra food. Either way, I'd have a lot more respect for the producers if they'd just come clean with the audience about it. This show has basically devolved into a series of obstacle course challenges and simple puzzles that schoolchildren could solve being performed by a bunch of self-centered liars. The producers would have us believe that the definition of a survivor is someone who effs over all the other people. This show rewards people for mistreating other people, with the jury vote reduced to a choice between the lesser of two (or three) evils. They should change the tagline for this show to "Outdeceive, Outbetray, Outmanipulate". The only "surviving" involved is whether or not I can get through an episode without putting a hole in my TV.