The Biggest Loser Plan what you all wanted to know!!!

Diet

With a formidable team of nutritionists and doctors, the Biggest Loser contestants have top-notch diet and nutrition information and tips. In an interview with MSNC, Dr. Michael Dansinger, a consultant on The Biggest Loser Season 2, explained “the people in the show are in a fantasy, unrealistic environment where everything is optimized for weight loss.” He notes that having nothing else to do working with a trainer makes it possible for participants to entirely reconfigure their diet and exercise routine.

Dansinger says that “50 to 60 percent of [contestants'] weight-loss success comes from dietary change.” The Biggest Loser contestants are used to consuming almost 3000 calories a day in their daily lives, but on the show they are consuming only about 1500 calories a day. Also, the trainers focus on substitution of sweets with sugar-free deserts and fruit and increasing contestant’s lean protein consumption in order to rev metabolisms.

Past contestants have revealed the following about their weight loss successes on the Biggest Loser in an interview from TvGuide.com:

~ “Eat 5-6 meals a day to your keep metabolism burning and never more than 2-3 hrs without food.”
~ “Eat protein at every meal and always couple carbs with protein because protein helps your body process carbs more efficiently.”
~ “Counting calories is key.”
~ “Don’t skip breakfast. It’s very important. You’ve got to get the motor running. I equate my body to an engine, and you’ve got to get that engine started first thing in the morning.”
~ “It’s all about choices. You can have a beef patty for 300 calories or substitute lean turkey at only 150 cal for the same 4 oz.”

Some of the diet advice the trainers, Bob and Kim, regularly emphasize is:
~ “Sit down at the dinner table when you eat; don’t stand up. People eat more when they’re standing up.”
~ “Make friends with fiber. Not only is it good for digestive health, it fills you up so you don’t get hungry as often.”
~ “Carry healthy snacks with you so that when you get hungry, you won’t cheat.”
~ “Make friends with fiber. Not only is it good for digestive health, it fills you up so you don’t get hungry as often.”

With the help of the show, the overweight contestants establish new healthy food relationships and learn about nutrition. And with such a restricted diet, it is no wonder the Biggest Loser participants shed such big numbers on the scale each week!

Fitness

So if 50 to 60 percent of the Biggest Losers weight loss success comes from diet, where is the other 40 to 50 percent coming from you ask? Through three to four hours of intense exercise every day, with at least an hour of strength training and two hours of cardio! This amount of activity allows the contents to burn an extra 1200 to 1500 calories, almost eclipsing the amount of calories they are taking in! Dansinger says. “It’s hard to do by yourself, but on the show it’s easy to do. When people allow themselves to be put in that kind of environment … when you pull out all the barriers to weight loss, that’s when the weight loss can come very quickly.”

This amount of activity allows the contents to burn an extra 1200 to 1500 calories, almost eclipsing the amount of calories they are taking in!

So....they are not eating their exercise calories. And they continue to lose weight week after week without going into starvation mode. ?

They are all morbidly obese, so they do this for two reasons:

1) They have ample body fat to provide energy even in a large deficit.
2) They are so overweight that the health risks of their obesity outweigh the risks of a depressed metabolism.

'Starvation' mode is really a misnomer. 'Depressed metabolism' is more accurate. Your cell turnover will slow down to match however much you're eating. You don't have to be starving for that to happen, and your weight loss will not necessarily stop. You can't help but lose fat in a 1200 calorie deficit, unless of course you have very little body fat. In that case you're losing muscle mass at an accelarated rate, which further decreases metabolic activity.

Not all of the contestants are morbidly obese because if that were true I would be considered morbidy obese as well but this is my opinion

Mobidly obese is based off of your bmi.

a bmi of 30.0-34.9 is obese
anything over is morbid obese and over 40 is super obese

The people on the show are morbid- They have alot of weight to lose- They are not just "Overweight"

bumping for afternoon/evening viewers

I don't see anyone upset just educating thats all-

Im not offended- it takes alot more to offend me-All is good this way

The extreme is that they workout for so long- But they are able to do that because they eat sleep and workout thats it- no phone, no work, no kids, no housework, no errands, no distractions-