Biggest Loser-Eat!

I'm sure that some of us watch Biggest Loser.  Last week was a bad weigh in week for the black team due to some dietary issues.  This week Jillian is talking to her team and Wendy was eating only 1000 cals a day when she should be at 1600 and what about this other girl who was eating 500 cals some days!

EAT!  You need to eat to lose weight.  Those two episodes alone proved it!  Your body needs the fuel to run.  These people ate and pulled wonderful weight losses.  So many posts on "Eat more to lose, I don't get it"  GET IT!  EAT! 

Sorry as I am not innocent and was a victim of this some time ago, its hard psychologically, but just do it.  It pays off in the long run.

That's one of the things that have always worried me about that show! Given the amount the amount of weight they lose over such a long period time suggests that they don't eat enough. Losing weight is all about changing your lifestyle SAFELY, not dangerously. I just hope many people don't try and follow their eating habits....

Luckily they showed Jillian (their trainer, for those un-BL-savvy) freaking out at how little they were eating and telling them how WRONG AND BAD FOR THEIR HEALTH it was. In addition, they showed how when they ate very little, they lost very little weight, no weight, or even gained weight, while when they started eating normally again, they all dropped big numbers!

It was pretty amazing how they lost almost NO weight last week, but when Jillian convinced them to get their calories up they all had big numbers.  The trainers on that show are pretty smart.

Yeah, I agree that they need to EAT!  :)

I don't, however, think the "all the chocolates you can eat" challenge was a good one to do, though.  Think about it.  It was like they were encouraging--and rewarding--them for binge eating sugar!!  Doesn't that seem a little nutritionally challengend?

What does everyone else think about that and the fact that Jackie got kicked out? :D

While I don't think it's good to binge eat on all that chocolate, it is called a temptation challenge. They don't have to do it, and if they do, they have to be willing to work even harder in the gym.

I have mixed feelings about Jackie being eliminated. I love team orange (even though they're blue now). However, when they found out they were going to have to eliminate someone from their team and Jackie went to everyone and was like "We should all vote for Trent" (even to Trent himself asking if he was okay with that) I was like "what?!". Maybe I missed something, but I found it a little odd that they would all do that. So in that sense, I wasn't surprised that they turned around and voted her off. On the other hand, those guys swore that they wouldn't vote for her without telling her first, and I think that was wrong.

Oh and about last nights episode with them cooking... it really showed that they still have not developed good eating patterns...

First of all I can't believe it's not butter is worse for you then country crock!~ (checked the labels a LONG time ago)

Second of all who is going to eat 1000cals in one meal if they are on a diet?!?

 It just goes to show that quick fast weightloss does not gear you to maintain for the rest of your life.  Also if you notice a lot of the contestants gain weight back...

90 percent of people who lose that kind of weight gain it back.  Losing it slowly helps, but I think it has more to do with whether you make a paradigm shift in your lifestyle or not.  I would say the people on the Biggest Loser have the same chances as the rest of us.

They got a pretty good demonstration that less is NOT more when it comes to losing weight, that's for sure... I'm sure that they 'thought' they were doing the right thing for their team in cutting their calories so low, but it backfired bigtime. It was amazing how much weight they lost this week, after last week's fiasco!

This episode drove me crazy for a few reasons:

I was blown away by the guys who put 3 tbsp of butter in their dessert but thought it was ok because it was "unsalted butter". Are people really this ignorant about nutrition? Since when does salt content affect the fat content of something? Sheesh.

Also, who just spends 15 mins in a grocery store? If you want to find the freshest and healthiest food choices, you need time!

And why should the guy who ate 43 Rolos get rewarded with power over the people who had will power and didn't eat any? And how did he lose 9 lbs?!

However, I was intrigued to find out that 1 Rolo only has 26 calories :)

I'm always torn on the idea of the Temptation Challenges. I mean, in real life no one is gonna offer you a car for eating a cupcake (and hell knows if they did I'd be putting them back!). But peer pressure is super-hard to resist, and they have to have SOMETHING that mimicks the pressure that everyone is going to feel when they get home. I mean, on the show obviously if they put cupcakes in front of them, no one is going to eat one. And it's easier to just say no when you'd be the only person out of twenty people eating one, and the rest are saying, "Nope, worked too hard!" But in real life, it'll be much more tempting when all your family and friends are chowing down on goodies.

I also think that as far as temptation challenges go, this one wasn't SO bad, because it showed that you can still have the goodies in moderation! One chocolate, as the host said, has 26 calories, so eating one or two would be able to fit into the calorie plan. However, all 100...that's 2,600 calories! It was nice to see them teach a bit about the art of moderation.

I don't think the challenge taught anything about moderation. The person who ate the most won!

But that's what I mean about mimicking outside world temptations. In the controlled environment, they don't have the peer pressure to gorge themselves on sweets that they'll face when they leave and come back to their families, who will all eat to their heart's content and in many cases may tempt, "Oh, come on, just a couple won't hurt!" It's easy to say "No" while on The Biggest Loser, but it won't be when they get home. So they have to have something that makes it HARDER to say no, so that they KNOW they can do it. And while, yes, the person who ate the most got a prize, in the end he was up over 1000 calories, which, with his injury, probably did NOT feel good. It didn't end up hurting him on the scale, but it COULD have, and I'm sure he thought of that all week.

I agree with minerva_moon on the fact that the contestants are not going to be able to resist temptations as easy at home when everyone else is doing it, I hope for hier sake they can resist, but I won't get my hope up. Did anyone catch the very end where they showed how much weight Jackie has lost now? She looked much much better than she used to.

Just a quick note on how the "game" will go next week.  I bet the Blue team loses again. By getting rid of the smallest person on the team, they are more susceptible to one person having a bad week causing them all to fall below the line.

As for the temptation, I think they can be a good learning tool.  But only when the prize is not for gameplay, otherwise the person really is rewarded for their behavior.

It is really an eyeopener when you see it for real, I know it can be hard to trust the "eat more to lose more" when it's pretty hard ground into us that less food = more weight loss (for some people anyway).

I'm kinda glad they did this, because not only will it be an eyeopener for them but it'll be an eyeopener to everyone who watched the show! 

I still balk at the idea that Brittany was only eating 500 calories some days!! And exercising for four-six hours??? FIVE HUNDRED???

I am constantly telling people this! If you hit a plateau have a snack! I think it is very hard to wrap your mind around. You always hear people saying"... that skinny girl, she eats whatever she wants and is still skinny"  Now you know why!

If she only eats 500 lbs a day, I can't imagine why her weight wasn't dropping off! Also, they could have told them before the FIFTH week about proper calorie consumption!

I always wonder how they can work out for hours on end, each and every day like that and then are able to get out of bed in the morning. I mean, aren't they incredibly sore and stiff from all that exercise? Do they get massages or something?

I'm glad that happened, because a lot of people need to hear it from a reputable source.  They never really believe people on the internet when they tell them this.  500 calories is ridiculous!!  That is probably why her losses have been so low all along.  I had to up mine from 1500 to 1800 myself.  And Six hours of excersising, I can't even imagine doing that on 500 calories.