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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

You’ve got my 600 lb life for that journey.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:None of it was really surprising. Except learning that Jillian Michaels never reached out to Bob Harper after his heart attack? Although not surprising, since she's gone full MAGA now. Does anyone know what their falling out was about?

I know people want to blame the “full MAGA” thing, but TBH I think the falling out was him not accepting that she did not embracing his full-off-the-deep-end-leftist ideaology. And being the “tolerant” leftist that he is, he shut her out. And then when he fell ill she did not reach out because he had already made it clear that he no longer wanted to be friends with someone who did not match in lock step with him politically.
Not impressed that he threw her under the bus for respecting his privacy. She may have felt hurt by his rejection and didn’t want to risk looking like an oportunist for reaching out when he was sick. After all, if he had already shut down the friendship, that would have made it seem that she was stalkerish and trying to use his illness as a way to
get back into his good graces—and she could have been accused of making it all about her.
I’m sure she now wishes she had reached out—especially since he’s publicly blasted her for it. But chances are he would have found a way to vilify her for that regardless because like the PP, he only sees her as an oppressor with an opposing (aka unapproved) political view rather than just a person.

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Anonymous wrote:I just watched it and I’m appalled that millions of people thought this degrading and abusive show was entertaining. I didn’t watch it when it was popular so this was all new to me. How were people not outraged at how abusive Jillian Michaels was? Just disgusting.

Because people were obese and nobody cares if you're abusive towards fat people. Everybody thinks they're not real people, everyone treats obese people like crap. They deserved it, is what people thought.

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Anonymous wrote:I just watched it and I’m appalled that millions of people thought this degrading and abusive show was entertaining. I didn’t watch it when it was popular so this was all new to me. How were people not outraged at how abusive Jillian Michaels was? Just disgusting.

Not only were they not outraged, they were cheering her on and tuning in to see it.
Much in the same way that people tuned in to see Heidi Klum and team throw shade at Project Runway contestants or Tyra Banks humiliate young hopefuls on America’s next top model or Simon Cowell eviscerate poor singers on American Idol, or Gordon Ramsay yelling at aspiring chefs!
Reality TV show Audiences in the early 2000s had a mean streak. And there were no guardrails. Every producer wanted a financial piece of that ratings gold and no one had put a mirror up to the culture yet to encourage us to appeal to our better selves and reject it!
To put it another way…the culture was just different in that era.
The meanness was rewarded handsomely.
You can say “it was never okay” but that would be denying the reality that it obviously WAS “okay” with the masses at the time because many, many wildly successful shows followed a very similar outrageous-shaming model that made millions.

Anonymous wrote:I just watched it and I’m appalled that millions of people thought this degrading and abusive show was entertaining. I didn’t watch it when it was popular so this was all new to me. How were people not outraged at how abusive Jillian Michaels was? Just disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

You’ve got my 600 lb life for that journey.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Anonymous wrote: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.