Biggest Loser Finale

The winner looked like she lost to much weight. Most people look younger when they lose weight, she looks older. Her face was very drawn looking.

I'm quite proud of the journey she and the rest of the other contestants undertook, but she had a final BMI of 17.5 which is considered underweight. I wonder how/if this will impact rules for future contestants; personally I hope they do put in some sort of language that would disqualify a contestant for going that much underweight. She looked terrible.

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The thought did run through my head that she may have an new eating problem; hopefully not. Her face and arms were definitely gaunt looking but I thought her body and legs didn't look bad.

I'm not sure because I'm not an big watcher of Loser because it makes me feel bad about myself but I did see a lot of articles concerning her and her weight loss. I'm not sure if it's true but in the last month of the competition the supposedly lost 40 pounds. When ever someone gains or losses this much this fast they should be taken to the side and talked to because it's NEVER heavy but commenters on this same article said that America just wants everyone to be "fat." I think that will be the only reason they will not change the rules.

I dont really watch the show the last few years, but someone in one of my challenge groups brought it up and looked at some pics online after the fact, and there is one pic that to ME says it all, its a pic of the reaction of Bob and Jillian, and they BOTH looked SCARED at her reveal, not surprised like "wow awesome" surprise, but surprise like "Oh my gosh what did she do to herself?" scared look. If you look at the face of anorexic people, she has the same features of her face, taught looking skin, looked older in the face. She looked much better in the face/upper body leaving before going home for the 90 days than when she came back, she was just heavier in the hips/thighs still, but she looked awesome then compared to her reveal pics. I hope she just did a drastic weight loss to win the money and realizes she is too thin and will get to a healthy weight. She should be proud of her hard work while on the show, but the stuff after, the 90 days they are at home, it makes me wonder if they are going to start adding new rules, more like they need to check in with one of the doctors several times during that last 90 days before the final reveal. That's my 2 cents, again from someone who doesn't follow the show anymore.

I thought she looked awesome. Her abs are probably bangin' and she has a sweet thigh gap. You go girlfriend!

Oh yes, thigh gap.

Her body, her life.

The winner looked like she lost to much weight. Most people look younger when they lose weight, she looks older. Her face was very drawn looking.

I agree with this.

I can't judge how healthy she is, because obviously I don't see what she eats and can only guess based on her appearance...but I have a feeling that the motivation to win 250,000 plays a huge role in how these people approach their at-home weight loss before the finale. I wouldn't be surprised if they were restricting calories in the weeks leading up to the finale weigh-in.

I think Rachel looked way too thin. She needs to gain about 10-15pds and she would look so much better!

TBL is irresponsible and clearly a million times more focused on revenue than the welfare of the contestants. VLCD's combined with insane amount of exercise will transform you physically, but it is not a healthy transformation and it continues to propagate the general populations misguided perceptions on what it takes to lose fat and be healthy.

I don't care what anyone else believes, you can NOT lose as much weight as she did in a healthy manner. Starving herself (and/or drug use) would be the only ways to accomplish what she did.

In my view, they could make vast improvements if they simply changed the shows metric (measure of success) to fat loss instead of weight loss. This would get the trainers actually thinking about how to program for these people, introduce resistance training, and not simply burn them out and starve them half to death.

Oh and forget about the reaction of the trainers to her transformation... check out the look on the woman behind Jillian! :noway:

I was as shocked as Jillian and Bob (neither of whom were her trainer btw) when Rachel came out. She's only 24 and she looked gaunt and ill and so much older. It's so sad because before she left the ranch she looked amazingly muscular and fit and healthy. I'm hoping she just took it to an extreme to assure her victory and will gain back some of her muscle tone and fitness now that she has the $250k. PS, her height isn't a confirmed 5'4, she's anywhere between 5'4 and 5'7.

Not all winners have gotten as scary skinny as she did. Last year's female winner, Danni Allen, looked muscular and healthy at the finale.

Whoa, it was shocking to see. I think she went overboard because there was a big cash prize. She probably lost that extreme amount of weight at the end bc she knew she had a great shot at winning. However, is that the message? Winning at the expense of good health? Drastic weight loss. How much weight will the next Big Loser lose in order to win?
In "scharmainedra's" post, look at the facial expression of the girl behind Jillian Michael.