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The Biggest Loser (wtf???)

post #1 of 22
1/11/10 at 9:55pm
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So I just watched a few episodes of this show again with my friend who LOOOVES watching it. She's a friend from high school and weighs about 100lbs. She loves to eat junk food while she watches and constantly cries at the sob stories of the contestants.

Anyway, I thought the nutrition on this show is retarded. A few times they show them eating out and preparing food. They have this huge thing about not eating any oil, salt, nothing sauteed etc...

I mean, that shit is fucking retarded. Since when will cooking in a little oil or using some salt make you fat? And the contestants get really bitchy about it too. They go home for a week with their families, and the whales start judging their family members for what they eat at restaurants. It's like dude... you're still fatter than any of them and they're talking like they're Jillian Michaels to these people. Then they very bosily order a dry chicken breast with no salt, no oil blah blah... Are they so retarded that they cannot realize that portion control can allow you to eat almost anywhere? People will not stay thin eating this way.

I also don't get how these people start blubbering over seeing their family over DVD after like 4 weeks of being away from home. Have these people never gone on an overseas trip or been to fucking college?

I also don't get how these people will just break down and sob during workouts, and they'll give the absolute shittiest reasons for why they're fat. They don't even try. Even Oprah would call them out and she allows people the dumbest excuses for feeling like victims. This show is what is wrong with america.
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post #2 of 22
1/11/10 at 9:56pm
I am just waiting for the day when this show kills someone. It is going to happen sooner or later.
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post #3 of 22
1/11/10 at 10:01pm
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I am just waiting for the day when this show kills someone. It is going to happen sooner or later.

My friend told me that every season the people get fatter and fatter. This current season has WOMAN that is like 440lbs. That is beyond insane.
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post #4 of 22
1/11/10 at 10:05pm
I would like to see an expose where someone goes to some of these people a year later and see what they look like. I'm willing to bet they are back to where they were or in all likelihood even fatter than before.
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post #5 of 22
1/11/10 at 10:12pm
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I would like to see an expose where someone goes to some of these people a year later and see what they look like. I'm willing to bet they are back to where they were or in all likelihood even fatter than before.

Apparently quite a few of them are much better off than they were before. They do have shows where they confirm that a lot of them have done quite well. But, I have been told that one of the winners is now fat as hell again.
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post #6 of 22
1/11/10 at 11:00pm
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Apparently quite a few of them are much better off than they were before. They do have shows where they confirm that a lot of them have done quite well. But, I have been told that one of the winners is now fat as hell again.

One of my good friends from college was on there a few years back and won 100k cause he came in 2nd. He's stuck to it since and its really made his whole life better. H was probably the most deserving person I can think of to be on there, just an awesome dude so it CAN work. But how he let himself get that way is

When he was in LA him and Jillian (the chick trainer) got close and he took us around in her car one night cause she let him borrow it, lol. My claim to fame.

But yes, guarantee most people are sedentary and continue they're fat ways.
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post #7 of 22
1/11/10 at 11:10pm
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I would like to see an expose where someone goes to some of these people a year later and see what they look like. I'm willing to bet they are back to where they were or in all likelihood even fatter than before.

That has indeeed been well documented - Erik, one of the former winners gained all the weight back (175 lbs.)

Of course, the cynic in me thinks he's set himself up well to get his on TV show or at least perhaps another 15 minutes of fame.

Check it out here

http://tvwatch.people.com/2010/01/06...truggle-again/
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post #8 of 22
1/11/10 at 11:22pm
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That has indeeed been well documented - Erik, one of the former winners gained all the weight back (175 lbs.)

Of course, the cynic in me thinks he's set himself up well to get his on TV show or at least perhaps another 15 minutes of fame.

Check it out here

http://tvwatch.people.com/2010/01/06...truggle-again/

ya, what a complete waste of effort
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post #9 of 22
1/11/10 at 11:34pm
I think it's an interesting show. And watching the final episode is amazing. I know that some of them gain the weight at the end, but alot of them keep it off to a certain extent I am sure. It's for fat people who want to get skinny but lack the initiative.
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post #10 of 22
1/11/10 at 11:38pm
it always comes back. chunk fo life, yo.
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post #11 of 22
1/12/10 at 12:12am
The show is awful in every way imaginable. Unwatchable for anyone who's mildly capable of thinking beyond sentiment.
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post #12 of 22
1/12/10 at 12:12am
It's amazing how many people just do not fundamentally grasp the weight gain process. They see the world in terms of 'good' and 'bad' foods and think that any intake of 'bad' foods will cause you to gain weight, quantity be damned. There was a kid on this forum last year who told me I was on the path to obesity and heart disease because I indulge in 6oz hamburgers.


Ive seen bits of Biggest Loser... The workouts left me scratching my head. Lots of reps-to-failure on arcane machines. What is that going to do for these fatties but make them too sore to work out the next day? The marathon workouts they put these people through almost have to be counterproductive in the appetite they stimulate, but I suppose a show about people not eating wouldn't be so entertaining.
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post #13 of 22
1/12/10 at 2:22am
I watched part of a Biggest Loser special OnDemand. They went back to see some college kid who'd lost a ton of weight - down from 400+ to a fit 220, I would guess.

Showed him deadlifting in the college gym - 200 pounds, give or take. Lifting off his toes and then shuffling his feet during the lift. Uggggggh.

Jillian Michaels seems to know her shit for the most part, but I guess they put in all the weird exercises for TV and because they're working these people out for 4-6 hours/day.
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post #14 of 22
1/12/10 at 10:30pm
Why not introduce these people to morphine? Manage their addictions until the weight is gone and then treat them for withdrawal. Then teach exercise and nutrition to a bunch of skinny recovering addicts. This is fool-proof and I think it would make for good TV too.
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post #15 of 22
1/12/10 at 10:44pm
^Fuck morphine. Go with meth. That way they'll lose their teeth and not be able to eat their way to obesity again.
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