Biggest Loser - The TRUTH from the Show

1goodymom67

I know!! I stopped watching it b/c it is unrealistic for me or anyone for that matter but thanx for the info :happy:

HMonsterX

What's the deal with having these old people on the show there is no way they can keep up with the younger folks as I'm sure we will find out..

It's to show people at home who say they are too old or unfit to lose weight, that you can actually do it.

On the Australian version, s3 i believe, one of the contestants had so many problems he was told that he is now no longer in the running for the prize, as it would be unhealthy for him to push it with that incentive. He stayed on happily though, only walking 30 mins 3 times a day, not allowed to let his heart rate go over 100, and had to have a medic with him whenever he trained.

I actually prefer the Australian one out of all three tbh, UK, US, and Aus.

JustQue

Very eye opening and yet some of it wasn't surprising. I remember the first season they had the meal and workouts posted online for free and I almost passed out just from reading it. It's intense!! Q

deanadimples

Where's the rest of it? I wana know about her eating disorder

There are links towards the bottom...Part 2 and Part 3. You can read them there.

Very interesting and disturbing.

lambeas

To be honest... she says she was just as happy at 268lbs as now at 144lbs,,, then why go on the show?
I am SURE that show is hard.... and they do some odd things, but when you are morbidly obese and on TV, what did she think was going to happen? You can't go on an extreme weight loss TV show thinking they are going to give you as good time... the show is weightloss on a timeframe... so obviously they take it seriously.
One more thing... if ANY of us were put on an extreme program with 5 hour a day workouts.. we sould see extreme weight loss also...but
the "real" word is about making small changes one day at a time... don't lose respect for it.. just put it into perspective.

rosied915

Thanks for posting this~ it was "new" to me too.

It was a VERY interesting read.

I watched the first few shows and when I saw that what they were doing was something I could NEVER identify with, I just changed the channel.

To me, the workout program is just unrealistic to most "real" people and seeing the weigh-ins and the HUGE losses (that I always thought were WEEKLY) was just depressing, so that was that.

ON THE OTHER HAND~

I have recently become a BIG fan of Jillian Michaels DVDs and can honestly say that THOSE workouts are changing my entire body!!