How does that happen?

I am obsessed with the Biggest Loser tv show. I lurve it. I love it even though they always edit it stupidly which makes the show drag on way longer than it needs to. I love it despite host Allison Sweeney looking like a five year old dressed her and did her makeup in the dark. I love it even though the product placements are getting way out of hand - "Why not store your sugar free gum with your Jello in this Ziploc bag". I love Jillian's "beatings", I love Bob's over emotional tantrums, I love seeing people sweat such an ungodly amount, and I love the finale when everybody just looks like completely different people. Like they unzipped their fat bodies and just stepped out into a new life.

I find the transformations so amazing, both the mental and physical. I've always felt that becoming confident in myself was the key to losing weight, and that having lost all that weight and keeping it off (55 pounds, holla) have helped my overall confidence. I think that although the exercise level is CRAZY (8 hours a day, I believe) that these people, who previously thought they were big fat lazy losers, figure out that they can actually work out for that long without dying. Many fat people (my former self included) are really deeply mired in self pity and fear (not all fat people, I know there are happy fat people, ok?). So that's why them seeing themselves able to accomplish physical feats they believe impossible gives them the strength to continue on.

But there is one contestant this season who's been blowing my mind. Not for his enormous size (he was one of several contestants to come on the show over 400 pounds!) but because he has an incredibly bizarre distribution of the fat on his upper body. Please see below:



On the left is Mike and on the right is Ron. They are the brown team. Mike has a fairly normal distribution of fat, with small man boobs, and a large roundish stomach. Ron on the other hand, my hubby and I have been referring to as "triple nipple". I suppose this isn't quite accurate, since technically, his appearing to have 6 breasts would mean a corresponding 6 nipples, but you get the point. It's a litle hard to see in the picture but I think you get the idea.

He has three distinct sections of his chest. It's incredibly odd. I've heard reference I think to him possibly having had a tummy tuck after he last a lot of weight in the past with gastric bypass. This may be where this sort of comes from, because if he didn't have any room anymore to have the fat be distributed to a certain area of his body, it may have started depositing itself oddly in other areas. But genuinely, I've never seen anything like it. It's mesmerizing, but only in the most ooky way possible. And I feel bad for him every time he takes off his shirt to weigh in. Because it's hard enough going on this show, sweating in front of America and having to have all your fat hang out for the weigh in, but doing so with the weirdest upper body possible, that must be worse.