Why Biggest Loser is irrelevant?

 

To normal people with jobs and have limited time, that is.
Don't get me wrong, I love watching the show. It's fun and somewhat, inspiring. Watching as the participants struggled and developed from obese to normal on TV is motivating, and as you watch the show, they provide you with tips and techniques, which is good. Isn't it?

I remember watching the early season of the Biggest Loser, and there was this participant named Gary. I like him most in that season because of all, he had that good-man aura around him. (Is there such a description?)




Anyway, besides the point, he was one of the finalist in the show (if I'm not mistaken) and throughout the show, he did lose serious amount of weights. Which is good right?

Gary

 And there are a few other participants which were favorite too.

The Biggest Loser 3 winner Erik Chopin and his wife Michele are the proud parents of a baby boy.  Michele tells us that Jack Lucas Chopin was born on Friday, April 18th at 10:43 p.m.   (Want to know more? click!)





But the thing is, why biggest loser is irrelevant because:

• The participants only concentrated in losing weights, spending a lot of time in the gym with their trainers.

I don't mind about the foods/diet because that's one of the thing people in normal life can at least do. But spending your weeks and months locked up in the gym? That's quite impossible, well unless you're not working and have lots of time. But even then, the amount of weight loss in a short space of time is unhealthy, in a way, isn't it?

So, if you guys are thinking of emulating the same feat as those who have joined the Biggest Loser, I'd suggest you to schedule properly and set achievable targets. A few pounds in a month, per se. And mind you, not everyone has the privilege to a professional trainer.

If you're thinking I'm on a mission to tarnish the good name of the show, think again. I'm just being rational. If you're working 48 hours per week, 9-5 and by the time you get home,you probably can work out for an hour or two. And over the weekend, perhaps a few extra hours but not to the extent of a whole weekend for gym.

Now, one way to look at it, I've quoted an article from a website. (Source: click here)

Healthy competition is a great way to add motivation to your weight loss efforts. But the kind of competition depicted on this program is counterproductive.

The Biggest Loser competition might indeed result in big losses, but it defies all the professional wisdom about safe and effective weight loss. That's because the contestants are not addressing lifestyle behaviors and eating habits that they need to change permanently, not just during a nine-week race.

Get my point now? But why don't we hear one from the contestant himself. (Source: Click here)

Former 'Biggest Loser' competitor Kai Hibbard calls the show unhealthy, misleading

Her observations:
• When she stepped on the scale for the infamous weigh-in segment — where those who lose the least weight are vulnerable to getting voted off the program — she was not actually being weighed. Competitors were actually weighed earlier in the day, off camera, though they were not told their weight until the on-camera segment.
• She and other contestants severely dehydrated themselves before the off-camera weigh-ins, stopping fluid intake the previous day and working out in heavy clothing hours before, in ways not shown on camera.
• Though viewers may have the impression contestants are weighed and ejected every seven days, Hibbard said there could be longer intervals, with breaks as long as 14 days between a few weigh-ins (an executive producer said he could not recall a break that long, though production issues might lead to an eight- or nine-day span). This could lead viewers to assume participants lost large amounts of weight in a week's time.
• Weigh-in segments were filmed two or three times to get different camera angles. So a contestant who was surprised by his or her weight loss when it was first revealed on camera would have to re-create that expression one or two more times.
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So, it's up to you now to decide whether I'm saying the wrong thing. But before I end, here's an advise from the trainer (in the show).

Ex-Biggest Loser trainer Lyons noted it can be difficult for contestants to adjust after the show ends. "The toughest part … is realizing that they aren't famous, didn't make millions and life goes on just as it did before the show," the trainer wrote in an e-mail. "The show does portray unrealistic and unsafe expectations for people at home, but … you can choose to be inspired to do what you can at home, or (be) bitter because you aren't in the spotlight."

Well, at the end of the day, the Biggest Loser is also a reality show. I'd say, take the good message that is being promoted in the show and do what you can. But keep on trying and never give up! YOU are AWESOME and you CAN DO it.