Dance Your Ass Off, the new Oxygen reality show, has contestants moving, grooving, and losing, in order to win it all!
DYAO is hosted by Tony winner for Hairspray, Marissa Winokur, who serves as a plus size role model, with her healthy, toned yet voluptuous bod, attributed to her expertise in dancing. Here’s how the show works: 12 overweight individuals are chosen and given a personal trainer, dance partner, nutritionist, and doctor to help them overcome their obesity. Each week they must rehearse a dance number with their partners and perform it in front of 3 professional judges who give them an overall score. This score averaged with their total percent bodyweight loss score for the week, gives them their competitive score that can either make them stay in the game or go home. Oh, and along with the personal gratification of winning and being the most physically fit, there’s also a $100,000 prize!
Sounds all too familiar to you too? Like a mixture of Dancing with the Stars and Biggest Loser, perhaps? Well DYAO surpasses both of those reality TV shows by providing little hints and techniques to motivate the audience as well! It shows us that losing weight doesn’t have to be a miserable and stressful task, and how dancing proves as a successful method to shed those pounds off, while having fun! The website is filled with tons of workout tips and a “calorie calculator”, along with healthy food recipes, motivational success stories, and even video tutorials showing you how to break it down to some of the fat-burning moves the contestants perform on the show!
So, if you’re thinking about dieting this summer and need some motivation, you’re not alone! Aired on Monday nights at 10 on Oxygen Network, I recommend you stay tuned to see who will make it to the end!
