Biggest Loser Finale...what is going on??

This is the image that keeps going through my head. She has the proportions of an anorexic now, her head looks so much larger in comparison to the rest of her body. Any sideview of her, and you would see how much bigger her hands and fingers are compared to her arms. Her skin is much more wrinkled, and she looks as if she's aged 10 years from what she was before.

I actually thought her legs looked fantastic, though. And in her defense, the dress she was wearing didn't help her much. A baggy dress only makes a small person look smaller.

It may be possible to be healthy at that weight and height but not in the way she did it. There are a mere 30 days between the last regular episode and the finale. Let me re-word that. She went from 150 to 105 in 30 DAYS. That kind of rapid weight loss isn't healthy when you are already so close to what the trainers/doctors had referred to in the last regular episode as "close to an athletic weight. A 45 lb loss in a month might be acceptable when you're at 260....but definitely NOT from what she weighed at the previous weigh in. As a woman close to her age, exact height, and similar in build, the lowest I've gotten was 137.....at which point my coworkers voiced concern that I should stop losing weight (and yes, I agreed. Any lower and I feel I would have looked anorexic......and Rachel ended the season a full 22 lbs under that weight.

Fancy meeting you here but I agree on all counts. I am 5'4" and with a personal trainer my 150s were the BEST my body has ever looked.

I also thought Rachel looks sickly now! But way to go TUMI! She looks great! And I loved that she said how she trains hard by running, I think Tumi lost her weight the right way and just my opinion but it looks like Rachel just starved herself to win the money!

T'umi lost nearly as much weight just as fast as Rachel. The difference is that she started high enough that she could afford to lose it. Any way you slice it, the Biggest Loser process is extreme.

I agree.. the final day at the Ranch Rachel looked Good... Fit and healthy...... and i expected she would be thinnER by the Finale but not this much... When Alli won her season, and also Tara at her finale? those two women looked Wonderful.. Fit , slim and healthy with some good muscle tone.
The only other who seemed too thin was the season when a blonde older woman won? sorry her name escapes me? Sheila maybe? anyway, she looked gaunt as well but Rachel last nite........
I was shocked and it seemed many others there were as well...
I was happy for Tumi... and yes now SHE looked wonderful.... Congrats to her for all the hard work.
as for the length of time from when they leave the ranch until the finale? I had thought it was longer than 30 days? The one fellow with the new baby said his baby son is now 7 months old. His Wife gave birth shortly after the show began airing........ so if you consider they are on the Ranch for 12 weeks? ( approx 3 months ) and then bring that up until now? that's 4 months at home? but perhaps they were on the Ranch longer than 12 weeks this time? I'm not sure.

I am so glad that I found this thread. I thought maybe it was all in my head! I literally gasped when she came out and woke up my poor sleeping husband. I said how sick she looked and he watched for a bit and said she looked awful too. She looked beautiful at the end on the ranch, said she was at a size 6 in makeover week. I can't believe how skinny and frail she looked. Yuck.

I give Biggest Loser credit this season. They did a lot of great things to turn it around especially the season when Conda was on.

I liked the trainers picked their own contestants and the trainer save. I also liked the way contestants were eliminated. Also, waiting until the next episode to see the eliminated person today. All positives.

Rachel went too far.

Hopefully, she can use some of the $250,000 for food to get some weight back on.

I am sure Biggest Loser will figure BMI into the equation and recommended weight loss limits on contestants.

I agree! I thought the show was so much better this season until the finale.

Last night I wondered if the producers were going to try to do some sort of damage control since in a way it makes it seem like the show has pushed them to this extreme. The underweight clause would be a good idea.

Rachel is a competitor. I view it much like an actor or actress losing weight preparing for a role. The role Rachel was preparing for was "Biggest Loser". Funny how actors are commended and Rachel is being criticized.

I do not believe Rachel should have been disqualified as some suggest. She played by the rules. HOWEVER, I do believe the rules need to be changed such that a contestant does not take the game this far in the future.

I believe Rachel will be at a healthy weight and have the body of a champion in a very short time.

I hope I'm right.

Is it not a weight loss competition? Come on people if you don't want to see people do these things to their OWN bodies don't watch!!!!

My jaw dropped.

As someone who's struggled (and is still struggling), it is too easy to replace one addiction with another when you're trying to recover. I've been nearly 200 pounds and I've been almost in the 90s, and I will say that at 5'3" 105 pounds was IMPOSSIBLE to maintain.

I will give her the benefit of the doubt, and I hope she's able to -actually- recover from an unhealthy relationship with food ... but when you reach out to these drastic measures and then are rewarded for it, it could lead to a very bad continuing behavior.

I am angry that people are telling her to go eat a sandwich or two or 15 and "ew omg yuck she looks so gross!" Body shaming isn't okay, so everyeone needs to cut that out right now, for real ... but I also think NBC and the BL franchise should step out into the spot light and address the situation. Bob and Jillian did not look thrilled, the viewers were shocked beyond belief, and it would be irresponsible of them to just let it hang there. Past contestants have come out about the appauling conditions at the ranch, so something really needs to be done here... Outside of snippets about the trainers trying to get people out of their shells and address why they let themselves get like they are, do they even provide therapy and/or psychiatrists to the contestants during their stay?

I was so shocked to see her walk out, see the expression of the trainers, and just so scared that she has traded one eating disorder for another. I think what's even more startling and shocking is that the camera does add pounds, and I would imagine she looks even more sickly in person. On TV... she looks skeletal. I'm sad for her. Really sad.

Kim