I believe that all you guys already know about the show the Biggest Loser, so who is anti-fan of this show please raise your hand? – Me too, I’m definitely not a fan of this show and throughout my speech you will know the reason why. So today, I’m going to show you the overview of the show, the reviews from some of the professional trainers, and the thought of a guy who actually the season one winner.
The Biggest Loser is a show which is basically a race to see who can lose weight the fastest, and it is one of the most popular reality shows in Television history, but it is definitely not reality in the eye of most professional trainers, and doctors because of their inappropriate program design, overtraining and dangerous. The biggest loser is judged on weight loss, not body composition. The contestants are losing huge amounts of fat which far above the average (usually 1-2 pounds per week). Body weight includes muscle, bones, internal organs, water; glycogen.
The weight loss on The Biggest Loser is deceiving. Much of the loss is water. Rapid weight loss competition encourages physically dangerous practices. Dr. Charles Burant, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Health System said “I’m waiting for the first person to have a heart attack”, “I think the show is so exploitative. They are taking poor people who have severe weight problems whose real focus is trying to win the quarter-million dollars. ” The Biggest Loser doesn’t focus on lifelong maintenance.
Let’s say if you want to lose 1-2/weeks, you can still keep doing that in the second week, but if you try to lose 10 pounds/ week, can you maintain it for a long time? Absolutely no. Biggest Loser season one winner Ryan Benson said on his MySpace blog that “”I wanted to win so bad that the last ten days before the final weigh-in I didn’t eat one piece of solid food. 24 hours before the final weigh-in I stopped putting ANYTHING in my body . In the final 24 hours I probably dropped 10-13 lbs in water weight. By the time of the final weigh-in I was peeing blood.
Was this healthy? Heck no! In the five days after the show was over I gained about 32 lbs. Not from eating, just from getting my system back to normal So in five days I was back up to 240 — crazy! ” The Biggest Loser has no relevance to real world situations and lifestyle strategies. The contestants move out of their home and onto the Biggest Loser house together. They have no school, no job, no kids, no chores, nothing other than losing weight. It is completely no relevance to an average person. Contestants are not earning about nutrition and training as a lifestyle, the show only teaches them how to crash diet, crash exercise and achieve short-term weight loss. I personally think that the contestants should be taught to exercise in a way that fits into a normal person’s daily life, achieving health and fitness as part of their life balance instead of putting their life in risk and dangerous. Lose and loser is different, so I especially don’t like the name because even you have a chance to win, you’re still going to be a biggest loser.
