[SarahJayne]

Anybody watch any? I used to avoid them like the plague but recently I have found a few that I can watch and feel actually motivational and help to keep me in the mental zone. I can't watch anything where the idea is to be mean to the person losing weight (ie You are what you eat) or are based mostly on quackery (again ie You are what you eat). However, I found X-Weighted on Sky to be good (A Canadian show) and I particularly like Downsize Me which is an New Zealand based show that is on Living. Though they move that around the schedules so much I have to hunt it down.

[ZoeJayne]

I have never actually watched diet related shows but i might give them a go if i see any of them on! BUT i do watch progs on discovery for example last night i watched on called "the 50 stone woman" but u can guarentee (spelling sorry) that most of these shows about over weight people all it ends up being is the gastric band surgery, i dont think ive EVER seen a prog with a person in the end actually loosing all the weight down to their own will power! Dont get me wrong i have NO bad thing to say about surgery, i mean its up to the person but i just think Television progs should show the best of both worlds, and sometimes have it with people loosin all their weight with their own will power! Would be inspiring to me! If you lot have seen one with them loosing weight with their own will power let me know and i can look out for it! =)

[PhatPhoenix]

I like Biggest Loser, although I have reservations about the amount of weight loss which is too fast to be healthy. Although I know they're monitored closely, and doubt they'd put anyone unsuitable on the programme in the first place! Mind you, I think I like it because the male trainers are so hot (Bob from the US Biggest Loser has got to be one of the best looking men on TV....)

I don't take Gillian McK too seriously. The show has a structure and an underlying premise that she is an annoying little harridan and I find it funny watching her chase the victims down the street wobbling on her bike barking orders. I think the shock factor aspect isn't done to humiliate people, just to jolt them into action and to keep them on track and motivated later on when the going gets tough - if they can remember how they felt when they saw the coffin made of ice cream and chocky, then they have a strong reason not to revert to their old ways! Some of her recipes are great - there's a veggie burger one I make all the time and even the kids love it - she pushes wholefoods, organic and real foods and whether her degree is in English Lit or not, she has a point, there! I don't like all the poo though so I don't watch it often or we mute that bit when it comes on.

I think TV shows are motivational but I go through phases of not watching at all, then other phases of using them to motivate. (Watching on my exercise bike of course!)

[kn1ghtbabe]

I started to watch biggest loser and used to watch celebrity fit club.

[veggie]

My fave was Fit Farm a channel 4 show where they all lived in a big house together, 2004 I think it was.

I'm hoping the new Virgin 1 channel on Freeview will show The Biggest Loser as they are showing America's Next Top Model and that's a Living show so maybe TBL will turn up on it too.

[kn1ghtbabe]

From what I can gather Veggie Virgin1 are only showing programmes based in the US. It's meant to make up for Virgin losing Sky One.

[KarieH]

You are what you eat is a bit OTT