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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I watched and was hoping they'd show more former contestants and how they are doing today. The two women who appeared to have kept most of the weight off are now on glp 1 shots. The study which showed the extreme dieting killed their metabolisms was interesting, although not repeatable. I would love updates on all of the contestants. I want to know how they were affected by being on the show.[/quote]

I did appreciate the former contestant saying, we have to acknowledge that getting up to 400 pounds messed up our metabolism - we can’t just blame the show for that. I mean come on, are we really thinking without the show these people would’ve lost hundreds of pounds and kept it off and being previously 100s of pounds over their ideal body weight would not affected their metabolism? There are tons of studies on people that didn’t go on the biggest loser showing how difficult is to keep weight off once you were heavy and lost it. So it’s not a biggest loser phenomena.

That said, I did like Bob Harbor raising the point that we all know the key to weight loss is mostly through diet, but that is really boring to have a reality show based on watching people eat meal after meal of healthy foods. The extreme exercise was definitely a hook of the show, and of course, the extreme weight loss was also. Interestingly, to me, my favorite part of the show was when the contestants would go home and have to live their real lives and incorporate the tools they learned on the show. I could be totally wrong and I’m sure the show wouldn’t have done as well, but I think just the whole idea of transformative weight loss in a more realistic way without the extremes would’ve hooked a lot of Americans. I love the idea of people getting to the root of their issues and making life changes. That’s what I really enjoyed about the show, I always thought the extreme challenges and things were dumb.

But, I’m not in the industry and I could be totally wrong and that kind of show may have either never gotten on air or failed in the first season. But I certainly would’ve watched it.[/quote]

You’ve got my 600 lb life for that journey. [/quote]

That show is too extreme for me and is essentially a medical show was many scenes set in Dr. now’s office. The biggest loser contestants seemed more relatable. I don’t know, I think if you are a woman and you are 300 pounds you are in a different stratosphere than a woman being 600 pounds.

Most of the 600 pound life people were homebound. A lot of of the BL contestants had jobs and were mobile. [/quote]

I remember the people on the show as being morbidly obese and was struck by how relatively light they were, especially in the early seasons. Some of the women were not much over 200 lbs. I weighed less when it aired so that might be a factor, too. [/quote]

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