36 lbs in one week??

daisy0482
daisy0482 Posts: 52 Member
edited October 2 in Health and Weight Loss
Did anyone watch the biggest loser last night?? Last nights episode had a guy who got on the scale and lost 36 lbs in one week?? That just cant be healthy!! WOW!!!
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  • lenwie
    lenwie Posts: 240
    OMG how much! thats just unreal...............
  • butterflimom
    butterflimom Posts: 121
    Wow, I hate that I missed it.
    I can't imagine that could be healthy, but I know that I wish some weeks I could wake up 36 pounds skinnier :)
  • luv2ash
    luv2ash Posts: 1,903 Member
    All I can say is the man could have been carrying around a ton of water weight!
  • kalamitykate83
    kalamitykate83 Posts: 227 Member
    OMG that's insane!! And no, can't be healthy! x
  • jarrettd
    jarrettd Posts: 872 Member
    Milk of Magnesia diet?? Has to be water weight and maybe a colon cleanse or something. You'd be hard pressed to lose that much fat in a week if you were burning it with a blowtorch!
  • navyw1fe
    navyw1fe Posts: 313 Member
    I watched it too and was shocked!! but the more you weigh the faster the weight will come off..they use to eat probably over 2500 calories a day and not working out too working out 6hrs./day and a very strict diet! so i can see how they drop the weight so fast..For me the 1st 10lbs came off quick but now that im close to my goal weight its taking me FOREVER to loose these last 2-3lbs :sad:
  • jayliospecky
    jayliospecky Posts: 25,022 Member
    I didn't watch for several reasons...i'm sure the guy was very overweight, but I don't really approve of the way the show does things. They probably have doctors and paramedics standing by 24 hours a day in case people collapse for a variety of reasons. I know these people are in dire need of a change or their current lifestyle will probably soon kill them, but still. I think they take the extreme in the other direction to try and make it exciting for tv.
  • mmensah
    mmensah Posts: 42 Member
    i think they have a strict diet the follow and all they do is excersice all day at the ranch so it could be possible..
  • tjames30
    tjames30 Posts: 229 Member
    Crazy! But you know, if you know that you are going on the show, would you not eat like a pig and drink tons of water before your weigh-in if you could? That way you would weigh more and lose more.
  • AradiaRue
    AradiaRue Posts: 10 Member
    I think a lot of it is water weight, and what is healthier, losing 36 pounds or caring it around? I think at this point on his life, the faster that much weight gets off the better, and as long as he is exercising and eating the right things, and is monitored by a doctor then it should be fine....I mean I don't think The Biggest Loser People would put people in Harms way if they didn't think it wasn't safe.

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  • surfrgrl1
    surfrgrl1 Posts: 1,464 Member
    he must have cut off a foot or something!:laugh:
  • JoLeeFA
    JoLeeFA Posts: 211 Member
    I can't possibly see how 36 pounds in one week is "real". We are talking 126k calories!

    They workout 6 + hours per day. BUT, consider that those guys were 400+ when they orginally weighed in. On the orginial weigh in, had they gorged on water/food? Remember, part of this is game play.
  • ColoradoRobin
    ColoradoRobin Posts: 510 Member
    I don't watch the show anymore. It's unrealistic and unhealthy to lose so much so fast. A huge number of contestants gain it all back. They faked someone finishing a marathon in one episode a couple years back. Women can never compete directly with men because we lose weight slower. It's all about pounds, not body fat, so losing muscle counts just as much. Meh.

    To each his own.
  • jimmie25
    jimmie25 Posts: 266
    sounds fake.
  • auticus
    auticus Posts: 1,051 Member
    When you are 400 lbs or more, losing 36 lbs in one week is difficult but not out of the ordinary, especially if that is their first real week of VERY strenuous activity coupled with a VERY restricted diet.

    It's when you get down closer to your goal weight that weight loss slows.

    The people on Biggest Loser are typically morbidly obese. As such, week 1 numbers SHOULD be high for their weight loss.
  • statia152
    statia152 Posts: 558
    Milk of Magnesia diet?? Has to be water weight and maybe a colon cleanse or something. You'd be hard pressed to lose that much fat in a week if you were burning it with a blowtorch!

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • yanicka
    yanicka Posts: 1,004 Member
    Then you have people coming here and discouraged that they only lose 1-2 pounds a week. I hate that TV show
  • Ashleypeterson37
    Ashleypeterson37 Posts: 347 Member
    I watched it! Both hubby and I looked at each other and were like WHAAAT!???? Not healthy but they have their meals prepared for them and exercise non-stop. Plus, it was the first week so I'm thinking they had a TON of water weight weight, too. Def not striving to lose 36lbs in one week myself.
  • ChantalGG
    ChantalGG Posts: 2,404 Member
    He was over 400lbs though and it was the first week. I lost 4 lbs my first week and my fiance lost 8lbs.
  • jayliospecky
    jayliospecky Posts: 25,022 Member
    It is discouraging in some ways, I agree. 36 pounds and I would surpass my weight loss goal!
  • fitby2012
    fitby2012 Posts: 167 Member
    I think they load up on food before the first weigh-in, which adds probably up to 10 lbs. Factor in his sex, current weight (over 400 lbs), water weight, BL calorie deficit, and the metabolic shift, it's believable I guess. But it's still very hard for me to watch BL when I am cleaning up my own eating. I always feel the urge to compare my losses to theirs.
  • jimswife1
    jimswife1 Posts: 42 Member
    I don't care how much weight you have to lose, there is nothing healthy about losing 36lbs in one week. That can completely throw your electrolytes off and cause all kinds of organ system shut down. Oh I'm sure that there are doctors and paramedics close by, but how irresponsible. What about the poor guy at home that was so motivated by that, that he tries something as completely unsafe and unhealthy as this, plain irresponsible. A better route would be to go a little slower and delve into what got them so obese and the sensible diet that they consume on the ranch, share that with the viewers instead of all the drama.
  • 1goodymom67
    1goodymom67 Posts: 125
    Oh my!! 36 lbs. Well, they have trainers and they just started the program. He is a man and I don't how much he weighs but WOW good for him!!
  • daisy0482
    daisy0482 Posts: 52 Member
    I can't possibly see how 36 pounds in one week is "real". We are talking 126k calories!

    They workout 6 + hours per day. BUT, consider that those guys were 400+ when they orginally weighed in. On the orginial weigh in, had they gorged on water/food? Remember, part of this is game play.

    TRUE!!! never thought of that!!!
  • TripleJ3
    TripleJ3 Posts: 945 Member
    Its been awhile so I can't be sure that this is accurate, but their weigh ins I understood weren't really every week? Yes viewers see an episode every week but in real life when they were filming many months ago they weighed in every two weeks or so, then by the magic of television its edited?

    Its television, its written to be dramatic. You do realize they are told or *encouraged* on what to say? You don't think they really promote Subway or Progresso soup all on their own?

    I don't religiously watch it but I'll occasionally watch for fun but no, I don't believe everything I see or they tell me.
  • fitby2012
    fitby2012 Posts: 167 Member
    Oh yeah - and it's TV!!! A week is not a week. None of these people are dealing with real life while on this ranch, and so on.

    Don't try it at home and take it for what it is.
  • CJK1959
    CJK1959 Posts: 279 Member
    Personally I think that the show is a fat persons "get rich quick" scheme. What happens on the show is completely unrealistic for ordinary people who don't have armies of trainers, people to cook their food etc. Education is key to losing weight; understanding what got you here in the first place and instilling habits that will last a lifetime. I don't even bother to watch anymore because what they show and endorse is unhealthy and potentially dangerous for very obese people. Okay...nuff said.
  • daisy0482
    daisy0482 Posts: 52 Member
    i think thats why its hard to keep it off!! they lose it in the most unrealistic manner!! You will never live like that when you get home!! Pat on the back to us who are living and working in the real world getting amazing results that we can keep up for the rest of our lives!!! Go MFP's GO!!!! :))
  • mommawonder
    mommawonder Posts: 8
    sounds fake.

    I agree. I heard an interview of a woman who was on an earlier season and she basically said that the whole thing is fake. They sign contracts basically agreeing to be tortured and that's exactly what happens. Seriously unhealthy practices, forcing people to workout with serious injuries, and a "week" can be any various amount of time in reality. I don't buy it for a minute.
  • HMonsterX
    HMonsterX Posts: 3,000 Member
    Having watch 19 series from UK, US, and Australia, there are a few things to remember.

    1) When they start they are ofc very obese, and have had years of fatty,salty diets, and as such have tons of water weight. Losing 30+lbs in the first week isnt uncommon with that much salt.

    2) They are working out full time. They have 3-4 sessions with their trainers, and we see bits of that. We don't see the other 6 hours they do off camera. I remember one episode of the australian version, where it showed Sam's bodybug totals by 8pm. Calories in: 1586, calories out: 5797. They do this 7 days a week. Many people just dont realise how much work they actually put doing it full time

    3) As many have said, losing so much weight so fast isn't the best way of doing it, ever noticed they start wearing their shirts at weigh in about 2/3rds the way through? Lots of loose skin...

    4) However, the message it puts over about no banding, nipping, tucking, lipo etc is a very good one. Sensible diet and lots of exercise. Sure, some of them put the weight back on again afterwards, most noticeably the S1 US winner Ryan, who weighs the same now as he did when he started, but lots of them keep it off too. Most put on about 1st, and then stay there as its maintainable.

    5) As for "torturing" them, the trainers push them. FAR, FAR harder than they personally thought they could do. And most of them actually cope with it and get stronger for it. The trainers also break them into tears, which is a good thing as its the only way to get the real root of why they got that way.

    6) Dont think you could ever lose the numbers they do! The show just shows what is possible if you did it full time and to the extreme!

    I remember Jillian once saying in an interview "2lbs a week isn't necessarily the healthiest, but its the most realistic for most people"
    Education is key to losing weight; understanding what got you here in the first place and instilling habits that will last a lifetime.

    And this is exactly what they do, and they keep stressing it. Sure, working out for 8 hours a day wont happen in the real world, but the food choices and the basic mechanics will.
    what they show and endorse is unhealthy and potentially dangerous for very obese people

    What, a healthy diet and exercise is dangerous?

    The overall message is the right one though.
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