Why People Should Shut Up About Rachel from The Biggest Loser's Win

Ooooookay.  I'm opening myself up to backlash, I'm sure, but let's all just chill the hell out and get real here for a second.  I'm talking about how everyone on the internet is suddenly calling Rachel from The Biggest Loser "skeletal" and "unhealthy."  To preface this, I don't watch the show and have really only passed my personal judgements based on the recent news, so if there is some major gap in my knowledge, please let me know.  Otherwise, every single article I've read on the internet seems unreasonably angry ("concerned" as I'm sure they'd put it) and wrong.

So, first off, for those of you who have better things to do with your time than watch The Biggest Loser (aka we're too busy watching New Girl), here's what happened: Last night, the most recent season came to a close with a girl, Rachel, winning.  She came into the competition at 5'4 and 260lbs.  She lost 155lbs (losing 59.62% of her original weight), bringing her down to 105lbs.  Here is the before and after:


And in her weigh-in clothes:


Immediately, because the internet is full of self-rigeous, hypocritical morons, everyone started acting super concerned for her health and criticizing how drastic her loss was.  Even Mama Jillian Michaels looked stunned when Rachel came onto stage:

Now, I'm not trying to say that I think she looks healthy or not, but I am definitely trying to say she doesn't look UNHEALTHY.  Especially by today's standards of "you aren't skinny unless your jeans don't even contain numbers for sizes" mentality.

But SERIOUSLY! COME ON!  REALLY INTERNET!? If someone offered you $250,000 to lose as much weight as you possibly could and then trained you and put you through public weigh-ins, wouldn't you do everything possible to win?  Don't even answer me because I KNOW YOU WOULD.  I'm the first to be like I'm all about looking healthy but DAMN that low number sounds appealing.  Who isn't?  I'm just so frustrated that as a society we put so much pressure on people to be skinny but have no problem reaming anyone that actually manages to live up to the impossible pressures... epecially after what must have been years of fat-shaming for this girl.

Honestly, no matter what you people who "know" health and fitness say (and yes, I'm talking to you if you think I'm talking to you), the fact is that this girl was handed a challenge and she achieved it.  If that is such a problem, then we need to reevaluate what our culture calls "beautiful" and possibly the rules of this show (why not have a nutrition expert set a goal weight and have the winner be who comes closest? Then we don't have to worry about pressuring people to risk their health for money, fame, happiness, BLAH BLAH SOCIETAL GOALS BLAH). 

Anyway, I guess the moral of the story is that we should all hold hands, sing kumbayah, and stuff our faces with chocolate chip cookies because they're more delicious than going to the gym.  Seriously, how are people not more impressed that she friggin gave up chocolate chip cookies and worked out hard enough to lose 155lbs!?!?!  

Cuz in my life, whenever anyone is like:

I'm like: