The Biggest Loser - Winning by Losing For discussion of the NBC tv show The Biggest Loser and the book Winning by Losing, by Jillian Michaels

 
 
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Old 05-13-2009, 06:14 PM   #196  
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According the the website Helen is 5'6.
I think Jerry maybe acted odd because of a combo of dehydration, possibly lack of any substantial food and nerves.
And I'm sorry but I'm sooooo sick of hearing Aubrey blame her inability to lose weight on having 5 kids. I'm no superwoman nor do I claim to be but I have 5 kids, work 40 hrs a week and am in school full-time and still manage to find the time to eat healthy.
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Old 05-13-2009, 07:17 PM   #197  
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According the the website Helen is 5'6.
I think Jerry maybe acted odd because of a combo of dehydration, possibly lack of any substantial food and nerves.
And I'm sorry but I'm sooooo sick of hearing Aubrey blame her inability to lose weight on having 5 kids. I'm no superwoman nor do I claim to be but I have 5 kids, work 40 hrs a week and am in school full-time and still manage to find the time to eat healthy.
She is way too thin then...I expect her to gain ALOT back...if not all. Yeah Aubrey had that kid excuse....if she is such a devoted mother then why didn't she do it at home like the rest of us. I couldn't nor would I ever want to leave my kids for months like that...and they are almost out of the house.
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Old 05-13-2009, 07:55 PM   #198  
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I think it's too bad that they only take weight into account for the final results. because some of those guys would probably of weighed a whole lot less if they hadn't had bulked up and gotten such nice big muscles. There's no way a young guy whose been working out and getting buff can compete against an older lean but thin woman. It should be about who had the best transformation in terms of a healthier body. Like who converted the most fat % to muscle %. But I guess for men & women that wouldn't be fair either. I think Helen looked awesome and is now the envy of all 40 something fat ladies everywhere but you can't really compare here to that other young guy or girl that were in the finale either. (i didn't really watch the last month or so, so I don't know their names of the top of my head) The makeup of their bodies is just too different. My concern is now this show is going to inspire a bunch weight-loss maintainers into people with eating disorders if someone as thin as Helen wins. Cuz it may be just fine for her body but for some people that would be very unhealthy. I think that girl shoulda one, she looked radiant and healthy in her skin not frail.
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Old 05-13-2009, 08:27 PM   #199  
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it is not about weight it is about % lost which put everyone on an alomost level playing field. Most of these contestants could lose 50% of their starting weight. but for some 50% is more pounds than another's 50% but it was fair for all of them and they all gained muscle in the process.
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I did not have a good feeling after Helen won. The show is very cheesy-looking when it's live, isn't it? Far more so than when they're on the ranch & it's taped & edited. My "not good" feeling lasted most of today. In fact, I was avoiding any forums where people would be talking about the show, until now. I think two seasons of watching it were enough for me & I am probably done now. People get injured on this show. The producers play fast & loose with chronology. The contestants get down to unsafe weights possibly by using unhealthy measures because of the financial incentives & the possibility of fame. I am sure some of them come out with eating disorders when it's done. Yeah, I think I am done. These aspects finally outweighed my exhilaration at seeing heavy people working hard & learning what they're capable of doing. My love/hate thing about this show just got resolved & it didn't go to "love." :-( Oh, well. I'll miss Jillian.
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Old 05-13-2009, 10:49 PM   #201  
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Helen looked ill. Jerry looked dehydrated and way way older than his 64 years. The live back-stage work-outs with Jillian and Bob was ridiculous -- they can't possibly enjoy being the producers' performing monkeys in this way. They should have been onstage encouraging the contestants on their way...
Tara should have won. Mike was wearing a weirdo girdle. Bizarre final show...things that make me go hmmmmm....
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Old 05-13-2009, 10:54 PM   #202  
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arg, I can't believe it ended that way. It was a good season till Helen won- what a terrible woman.
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Old 05-14-2009, 12:04 AM   #203  
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love the season. hate the finale. mike should have won. he's hot!
no more live finales with winners. helen did look horrible. well now she'll be able to pay her daughter's legal bills after that flour incident right?

they should focus on healthy habits with the show, following the contestants more through their time off the ranch. I would have also liked to hear from all the contestants, espcially aubrey, nicole, carla and laura about their respective challenges. we didn't even hear from laura about her injury after all that drama on the show. Aubrey did look preggers! But Mandi looked sooo cute. Shame on Dan and Blane for flaunting their medals.... boo.

i think jerry is just a weird guy period and we just didn't get to see that side of him on the show b/c of his health issue and then being voted off so soon. It was cool to see him win though, although I thought krisitin won for a second after she weighed in. I don't think he starved himself or anything, is just an orney old man with a life to live now.

so my guess is that next season is a youngest biggest loser season or a college edition, based on all the stuff with max and the two young girls being voted on for the next season.
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Old 05-14-2009, 04:23 AM   #204  
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There's no way a young guy whose been working out and getting buff can compete against an older lean but thin woman.
Four of the seven winners, and of six of the seven at home winners, have been men. The other women who won were in their 20s and early 30s. So, no on both counts.
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Old 05-14-2009, 08:56 AM   #205  
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arg, I can't believe it ended that way. It was a good season till Helen won- what a terrible woman.
Why is she a terrible woman? She worked her butt off to lose that weight.
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Old 05-14-2009, 10:19 AM   #206  
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I don't think Helen is a terrible person...I just don't like her personality. Some think she's a terrible person and/or mom for sending her daughter home...but to me her daughter didn't WANT to be there, or at least I don't remember her really acting like she did. Seems as though they were there for the game a LOT...but then again, it IS a game at its very core.
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Old 05-14-2009, 10:33 AM   #207  
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WOW . Can you imagine if anyone was saying these about you, that you are saying about them? I think about the mean and rude things that are said to and about some of the posters that come here to the board to vent then hear yall doing the same thing about this group of people but i guess because these people are on tv, playing a game, yall think your justified??? After all the hard work Kristin put in, all some of you can do is tear her down about her hair? Seriously, why is that important? She likes to do wild and crazy things with her, its hair, who cares??
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Old 05-14-2009, 11:58 AM   #208  
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I don't think she is horrible, certainly not in the company of lets say VICKY and we only get to see some of what happens on the ranch. Shannon, who clearly is has a mind of her own may not have wanted it as baddly, went through texting withdrawls and really needed to get back to her life abd couldn't cut it and found a way to get out. Helen had her daughter early and now had an opportunity to help herself. I would like to think that she made the right choice and I can't say I wouldn't have done the same.

I liked this season, there were the ones I was glad to see go home (aubrey and Joelle) and others I am still hoping continue Dan, Kristen) but I felt this season was about regaining life rather than about the gamming manipulation of last season.
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Well said Willow!
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WOW . Can you imagine if anyone was saying these about you, that you are saying about them? I think about the mean and rude things that are said to and about some of the posters that come here to the board to vent then hear yall doing the same thing about this group of people but i guess because these people are on tv, playing a game, yall think your justified??? After all the hard work Kristin put in, all some of you can do is tear her down about her hair? Seriously, why is that important? She likes to do wild and crazy things with her, its hair, who cares??

I think everyone here is just stating their opinion...which they are intitled to. Just MHO
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