Does anyone know how many calories the people on Biggest Loser eat a day? I mean they lose massive amounts of weight but they exercise 6 hours a day.
I will be lucky to do an hour a day but I thought if I followed their general calorie guideline, I still would be consistent with my weight loss.

Good question....I read somewhere that they multiply their weight by 7, but other places have said 1400 calories. I don't know but maybe someone else does. Either way, that seems very very low.

I just read in an older hand me down magazine that a female contestant on one of the earliest seasons had "gone over the alloted 1200 calories for the day"... for the life of me I can't remember who it was, but that part of a sentence has stuck in my head for 3 or so weeks. With the exercise they do I would picture people dropping like flies at 1200 calories a day.. but then I'm sure there is lots they don't show us. Hubby and I have been talking a lot about how once they lose a good amount of weight you can tell they are all wearing spanx type things under their weigh in clothes and they no longer take their shirts off. Of course they don't want us to see that they are losing this weight sooo fast but are looking horrible because they have a ton of loose saggy skin everywhere.

In their cookbooks it says to multiply your weight by 7, but I'm pretty sure there is more to it than that when they are on the ranch.

I have a biggest loser cookbook and it says 7x your present weight.

Wow, 7x your weight seems like a ton of calories!

I have been watching TBL-Asia. Yeah, I'm not addicted.

In that version, they actually stress NOT eating too little. They want their contestants well fueled. The blue team trainer got upset with his team because he felt they were not eating enough and their weight loss was slow because of it. I wish the American version stressed that as well.

To me it seems like too few! For me it would be 1296 which is about 500 too few, especially with my exercise level. You'd be at 2100 which doesn't seem like too many (I eat that much a couple of days a week if I'm hiking or doing a longer bike ride.)

I wish they wouldn't be so hush hush about so many things they do... like the calories.. that is what those of us watching NEED to learn about, not that so and so puked on the treadmill last week.

7x my weight is only about 1200 calories and they exercise insane amounts. Doesn't seem healthy at all to me.

I've read the calories being as low as 900. WHo knows what to believe with this show. I use to love TBL, but the more I see it the more I hate it.

Agreed. The show has gotten way out of hand. The producers know they'll get more viewers by embarassing the heck out of the contestants so they show more of that. And I wouldn't doubt some of the things people would do to be able to lose all the weight. That's the scary part.

I read somewhere that one of the main contestants last year was fasting. It was one of the guys. I think that the expectations for weight loss on that show are unhealthy and no way can you lose over thirty lbs per week and have it be healthy weight loss. This year the day Jesse was voted off he lost 16lbs. True they were paired up and Aaron only lost 4LBS. But that is a huge amount of weight.

Interesting. I've only seen the show a couple times and wondered how they were able to loose all that weight in the time of the show. I guess if you aren't eating enough and working out tons the weight will come off quickly but you are going to be exhausted.

I watched the show last season and I liked it for awhile then I kind of lost interest and felt like it really went to far. Just the scripted product placements alone, made me laugh and shake my head at the same time. The show was just too much and so unrealistic. A lot goes on behind teh scenes that we don't know about. Contestants are bound by law to not discuss the show, for a reason!
I think one of the reasons that they don't talk about their diets is because the contestants are free to make their own meals and many of them are eating way too few calories. I believe they give them guidelines but whether they are following the recommendations, or starving themselves, is up to the individual. I just can't watch the show anymore. When someone steps on the scale and cries for ONLY losing 12 pounds in a week, I cringe. What is this show teaching the public about healthy weigh loss. Its sad really.

I would only be eating 910 calories if I multiplied my weight by 7!!

No wonder some lose up to 20 lbs a week. Yikes.