How do people on the Biggest Loser workout so long?

wunderkindking

As for the original question, honestly, you put 250K on the line and I will do a lot of dangerous nonsense.

heybales

tsazani wrote: »

The sugar rush will spike your insulin putting your body into fat storage mode. You will be very hungry and overeat carbohydrates.

I sense a misunderstanding about what insulin does exactly.

Stopping fat from being released from fat cells is NOT the same thing as going into fat storage mode - one is an effect of insulin, one is not.

You still burn fat with insulin - because you likely have some in blood already, plus what you ate recently still being digested and processed.

And nothing is getting stored as fat unless the body doesn't require it elsewhere.
Carbs most likely needed to top off liver and muscle glucose stores - and insulin helps that to happen.
Amino acids shuttled off to where they are needed - and insulin helps that to happen.

Insulin is a storage hormone is about as close as you got to reality there - for all kinds of reactions before fat storage.

kshama2001

tsazani wrote: »

It's just another ridiculously stupid TV show. I've never seen it.

Exercise has little or nothing to do with losing FAT. That's done by DIET a/o FASTING.

Higher intensity exercise causes stress which releases cortisol and spikes sugar.

The sugar rush will spike your insulin putting your body into fat storage mode. You will be very hungry and overeat carbohydrates.

Hmm, can't imagine how I dropped a size without even trying while in Costa Rica and eating high sugar mangos and other tropical fruit all day long as well as high carb rice & beans twice per day...

wunderkindking

kshama2001 wrote: »

tsazani wrote: »

It's just another ridiculously stupid TV show. I've never seen it.

Exercise has little or nothing to do with losing FAT. That's done by DIET a/o FASTING.

Higher intensity exercise causes stress which releases cortisol and spikes sugar.

The sugar rush will spike your insulin putting your body into fat storage mode. You will be very hungry and overeat carbohydrates.

Hmm, can't imagine how I dropped a size without even trying while in Costa Rica and eating high sugar mangos and other tropical fruit all day long as well as high carb rice & beans twice per day...

Same only not even as healthy as mango. I'm down 45lbs from obese to healthy and my food yesterday included a bag of chips and a candy bar. The candy bar at points has been DAILY.

Weird, weird, weird. Guess we're magic.

ccrdragon

wunderkindking wrote: »

kshama2001 wrote: »

tsazani wrote: »

It's just another ridiculously stupid TV show. I've never seen it.

Exercise has little or nothing to do with losing FAT. That's done by DIET a/o FASTING.

Higher intensity exercise causes stress which releases cortisol and spikes sugar.

The sugar rush will spike your insulin putting your body into fat storage mode. You will be very hungry and overeat carbohydrates.

Hmm, can't imagine how I dropped a size without even trying while in Costa Rica and eating high sugar mangos and other tropical fruit all day long as well as high carb rice & beans twice per day...

Same only not even as healthy as mango. I'm down 45lbs from obese to healthy and my food yesterday included a bag of chips and a candy bar. The candy bar at points has been DAILY.

Weird, weird, weird. Guess we're magic.

Can you feel your horn growing little unicorn?

JessD9031

Please don't tell me you believe that the Biggest Loser is a real thing?

Its Jersey Shore for the food obsessed.

janejellyroll

JessD9031 wrote: »

Please don't tell me you believe that the Biggest Loser is a real thing?

Its Jersey Shore for the food obsessed.

Even if one believes that reality television is heavily edited and constructed, I don't think there's any evidence that the show doesn't involve actually obese individuals who manage -- through a variety of methods on- and off-camera -- to achieve substantial short-term weight loss.

In that sense, it's "real." It's not a good template for healthy or sustainable weight loss, but that's a whole different thing.

Motorsheen

JessD9031 wrote: »

Please don't tell me you believe that the Biggest Loser is a real thing?

Its Jersey Shore for the food obsessed.

kshama2001

ccrdragon wrote: »

wunderkindking wrote: »

kshama2001 wrote: »

tsazani wrote: »

It's just another ridiculously stupid TV show. I've never seen it.

Exercise has little or nothing to do with losing FAT. That's done by DIET a/o FASTING.

Higher intensity exercise causes stress which releases cortisol and spikes sugar.

The sugar rush will spike your insulin putting your body into fat storage mode. You will be very hungry and overeat carbohydrates.

Hmm, can't imagine how I dropped a size without even trying while in Costa Rica and eating high sugar mangos and other tropical fruit all day long as well as high carb rice & beans twice per day...

Same only not even as healthy as mango. I'm down 45lbs from obese to healthy and my food yesterday included a bag of chips and a candy bar. The candy bar at points has been DAILY.

Weird, weird, weird. Guess we're magic.

Can you feel your horn growing little unicorn?

Yes! I felt it today while doing yoga!












Oh, that was just a barrette

spiriteagle99

One thing they didn't stress when they were filming the older BL seasons but turned up fairly often was the fact that several of the contestants ended up injured early in the season by doing too much too soon. They generally ended up going home fairly early in the series because they couldn't lose as much weight when they were doing non-impact exercise as those who were able to work out without injury. Trying to work out for several hours a day when your body isn't used to it is often a recipe for injury, even when you're surrounded by trainers and medical staff. It was one of the things I held against the show, though I watched several seasons.