Well, I’m only reporting what’s happening 😉

Yes, my sentiments exactly; it’s all for show, quite literally. From the NYT article: “‘I’m waiting for the first person to have a heart attack,’ said Dr. Charles Burant, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Health System director of the Michigan Metabolomics and Obesity Center. ‘I have had some patients who want to do the same thing, and I counsel them against it,’ Dr. Burant said. ‘I think the show is so exploitative. They are taking poor people who have severe weight problems whose real focus is trying to win the quarter-million dollars.’”

Would that be worth it? 🙂

JK, you lost almost one *me* 🙂

Seriously, congratulations, that is awesome!

Renée, after reading your piece on grammar and now this, I conclude that at least lately you are very pessimistic about mankind and our society’s future 😉

Wow to the fact someone lost 100lbs in a month & a half- I’m sure the running and jumping they did was not good on the joints but I’m sure it outweights (no pun intended) being obese. Those were intense workouts for being that heavy-I thought most of them were going to have a heart attack.

I can’t stand the business she made after the success of that show >:( Must go do a rage video on youtube*

*Evil how brave are you to do that? Call out Jillian Michaels xD That is a sure way to make your blog popular

I hope she doesn’t win that battle against Fell. But you know what? She probably will. (Sigh.)

It may produce results, but you’re right, how they go about getting those results is wrong on so many levels.

Take it from someone whose lived it, albeit not to the extreme that they do it, losing weight at the rate that they do simply isn’t healthy and not maintainable to the average person.

I managed to lose roughly 160 lbs in a little over a year and did it pretty quickly. I lost the weight but ended up with some loose skin that I probably could have avoided if i had been smarter about it and also managed to lose a good amount of muscle in the process.

Now although I managed to drop 160 lbs in a year, I believe the fastest they’ve had someone drop 100 lbs on the show is 7 weeks and the most weight lost by a contestant in a week is 34 lbs! Now these people are massively overweight but even then, losing that much weight that quickly has to be horribly unhealthy in so many ways.

I’m all for people wanting to feel better through exercise and weight loss but the show presents and unrealistic and in my opinion, very unhealthy view on how to go about it.

I hate seeing people fall into the trap of that mindset and do my best to tell others when the opportunity comes up, and especially if they say they’re trying to lose weight themselves, that its a lot more than just trying to make a number on a scale go down.

I’m not even going to get started with the problems I also have with them such as working out 6 hours a day, its just not realistic and impossible to maintain in a normal life….