THE BIGGEST LOSER CALLED ME!!!

[Babs1]

I saw this online yesterday, applied and they called me!
We are officially now casting THE BIGGEST LOSER!!!


The revamped version of the iconic series will have an all new holistic approach and feature men and women competing not only to lose weight but to improve their overall health and well-being.
A team of experts will help guide this season's contestants as they embark on the biggest transformation of their lives.

 Open casting calls coming soon to a city near you!

 

[overlandflyer]

there is a reason that The Biggest Loser has never had a reunion show. every one of them gained back their weight and more. this is a common occurrence with "eat less, move more" diets. they work for a short period, but the outcome in the long term is that this diet will lower your basal metabolism and you will eventually reach a plateau that you will not be able to pass. at this point you become lethargic and discouraged and when you either stop your increased exercise of return to poor eating habits, the weight will return aggressively.

 

[Babs1]

there is a reason that The Biggest Loser has never had a reunion show. every one of them gained back their weight and more. this is a common occurrence with "eat less, move more" diets. they work for a short period, but the outcome in the long term is that this diet will lower your basal metabolism and you will eventually reach a plateau that you will not be able to pass. at this point you become lethargic and discouraged and when you either stop your increased exercise of return to poor eating habits, the weight will return aggressively.

Totally makes sense, but maybe that's why they have been off the air for a couple of years and are coming back with this new holistic approach?
Knowledge is power and to me it's definitely worth a shot, what do I have to lose....other than some EL BEEZ

 

[PLB]

I would be really interested to see what changes they will make. Filming time will have to be really loooooong in order to be realistic and actually set the contestants up for long term success. If they do go back on the air, I sincerely hope they make positive changes.

 

[alligatorob]

Hey Babs, welcome to the forum!

I am not sure what "THE BIGGEST LOSER!!" is or what this thread is all about, but if it means you found a way to successfully lose a lot of weight and a good sustainable diet I would like to know more about you and what you are doing. I hope you post that here.

Best of luck!

 

[Cate]

Reposting this article from the New York Times-
After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight

 

[bensanon]

there is a reason that The Biggest Loser has never had a reunion show. every one of them gained back their weight and more. this is a common occurrence with "eat less, move more" diets. they work for a short period, but the outcome in the long term is that this diet will lower your basal metabolism and you will eventually reach a plateau that you will not be able to pass. at this point you become lethargic and discouraged and when you either stop your increased exercise of return to poor eating habits, the weight will return aggressively.

I want to see the actual data on the contestants. I think these statements are too vague. How much of it was due to a slower metabolism versus going back to the previous way of eating/exercising? What other factors? I'm sure there are a lot of reasons. I don't think the data exist so we won't know for sure. For me, if what I'm doing now is not going to last simply because my BMR decreases and the "weight will return aggressively", then there's no point in me continuing and I'm wasting my time and energy. I suspect though it was more to do with going back to previous eating and exercising behaviors. Obviously if you go back to the way you were eating before, you're going to eventually get to the body you had before and it seems, with a slower metabolism. There was a video that LaMaria shared on her diary. Can't recall the researcher's name but she talked about this and gave an estimate of BMR slow down of about 500 fewer kcal per day. That's almost a meal per day! It's obviously a lot more complex than a number like that though. I want to see the data because I don't want to believe there's no hope!

 

[Llama]

I want to see the actual data on the contestants. I think these statements are too vague. How much of it was due to a slower metabolism versus going back to the previous way of eating/exercising? What other factors? I'm sure there are a lot of reasons. I don't think the data exist so we won't know for sure.

The data exists, the post Cate shared mentions the study that was done following former contestants. The study Tru shared a while back goes into more depth about the topic in general. As far as I can see there´s plenty of evidence that fast weightloss is very hard to make last. Slow eightloss, on the other hand, has hardly been studied (because of how hard it is to control people´s diets for the amount of time needed to do that) so I´m hopeful I´ve got better cards.

 

[bensanon]

It looks like it was just 2 time points 6 years apart. I mean the day to day, year to year data. I'd like to the see the variation in calories in and activity and types of activity and know more about their environment and other factors like medication. And there's no control group so how do we know if it's just the rate at which you lose weight? Ideally, we'd want to see a slow weight loss control group. I'm banking on the fact that the medication I was taking caused a lot of the weight gain and now that I'm off, I'll go back down and stay down. They likely screened people taking certain medication from participating. Plus all the tracking and work I'm doing here will hopefully set me up. I'm fully expecting to be in a permanent maintenance phase after I achieve my goal weight and hopefully keeping up the tracking of calories and activity for accountability.

 

[PLB]

I think the main thing with this show is that what the contestants did to lose weight was not realistic to maintain in real life. Exercising for 4-5 hours per day, having constant contact with chefs, personal trainers, etc. is not what most people can do. So these people likely did not learn how to make realistic changes to help them maintain the weight loss once they were done with the show. They would have had to go back to work, school, home life, etc. and try to make all of these decisions on their own, whereas, on the show many of these decisions were made for them. If they could afford personal training, dietician appointments, good quality food (and have the time to prepare said food), then they probably stood a better chance of keeping the weight off.

 

[PLB]

They were probably taught a lot of valuable information, but the show happens completely separate from their normal lives, so they would have had to apply all of that knowledge by themselves all at once when they were done with the show. I could see that going downhill really fast which is why I always advocate for small, realistic changes that actually fit into your life.

 

[bensanon]

There’s obviously a biological component. To me, it’s how much is that a factor compared to environmental and behavioral factors among others? It’s very complex and this commercial experiment shouldn’t be considered solid evidence imo.

 

[Llama]

I'd say it is solid evidence - but not necessarily proof that this is what will happen to everyone. It was definitely a very unusual sample of people treated in a very unusual way.