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Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Friday, October 29, 2004 - 3:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
there is a point where the body starts to build up musclemass.

When the contestants were weighed many of them looked thinner yet the weight was about equal to the previous week weigh-in. I would suggest that the weight of their larger 'worked' muscles cancelled out the weight of the lost fat.

I agree with the above poster who said that this should have been judged by weight AND MEASUREMENTS!!

I know that when I used to work out, my weight would stay the same but my shape and size changed.

NEVER have I ever lost real weight....only will bounce around 10 lbs of water loss. ANYWAYS, I dont want to get into the debate of dieting......as I dont believe in Diets per say.

Alisons
Member

01-10-2003

Friday, November 12, 2004 - 10:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I am so annoyed with that blue team. I can't believe they voted off Aaron. Not only was he their biggest loser, but he was also the hottest guy on the show!!

Backgammonjane
Member

02-27-2004

Friday, November 12, 2004 - 3:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
when was the show on i missed it again boohooo

Cablejockey
Member

12-27-2001

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 9:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Did anyone watch last night? It was maddening to watch the blue teams otherwise good-guy Bob, reaming them out for voting AAron off. He said to the girls he expected one of them to be gone, or Moe. Then since Gary and Moe had "injuries" and couldn't fully work out, the girls were given a brutal workout that left them crying. He told them since they hadnt voted out a person who wasnt pulling their weight, they would have to take up the slack. They told him they shouldnt be punished for wanting to stay in the game, which is what I was thinking.
The workout probably did them good because they won this crazy challenge where Drea and the other woman on the team whose name escapes me, had to climb 74 flights of stairs in this building in downtown LA. I couldnt imagine how anyone in their position could do it. The red team had Matt and Lisa and the climb started. Blue won because Lisa had an emotional breakdown half way up and had to go to the hospital. The two girls on Blue had proved themselves.
Matt ended up being voted off, and was shocked. I think they should have gotten rid of Dave who went to two different groups and made a Survivor like promises to each one. He also got mad at Jillian and told her off when she suggested he wasnt pulling his weight--so to speak.

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 10:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I would hate to see Dave win.. just too unpleasant and definitely milking his injury.

He should have gone, or Lisa.. sure the panic attack was real but she was blaming Matt and the world for her own inability to perform.


And I agree that last week, blue should have sent home Mo or the other injured guy.. or one of the women but as one of them pointed out the guy they booted was determined to send a woman home so he wasn't wanting to work with them to keep him and send home an injured guy.


And remember, they have to be survivor like and try to keep a team thing going but they still want to be standing at the end with weaker people so they can win the big prize. Big contradiction.

Fiat
Member

10-07-2004

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 12:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I enjoyed this last night, as I spooned my way through a pint of Ben and Jerry's.

It bothers me that the teams "lose" based on weight loss. Of course it's all editing, but it seems that the people who work the hardest aren't always the winners in this system. I wish there was another measurable way to determine which team should lose a member. Or better yet, why can't they just all stay there the whole time, and the one who improves themselves the most wins the money. they could base it on percentage body fat lost, or something. I don't know...just rambling... I feel sad for the people who have to leave when they are doing so well and making such changes. Hopefully they stick with it.


Awareinva
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08-13-2001

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 12:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks for the recap! I flipped over to TAR at 9pm and forgot to flip back during commercials to see who went home. How did they decide on Matt??? I saw him and (I think) Ryan get weighed and he lost another 10 pounds. Was it the same reasoning they did with Aaron- he could do the rest on his own? I just don't get what these people are thinking- but like Sea points out- this is like Survivor and the money is coming into play (along with alliances :-) )

Curlyq
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07-10-2002

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 7:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
They got rid of Matt because they said he needed too much attention. I wonder if Gillian will have a Bob-like reaction to this. At least Matt went on to lose even more weight on his own.

I couldn't believe Bob's behavior. Did someone forget to tell him he's there to do a job, and not to play the game? His comments were ridiculous "If they want to play a game, I'll play a game." Duh! That's what they're there for! You're just there to coach, hotshot. I couldn't believe he just walked in the door and said "What's Kelly still doing here?" I would've set him straight right there if it had been me.

Fiat, when I first heard of this show I assumed it would work the way you described. This voting idea doesn't reward the biggest loser, but the most duplicitous.

Alisons
Member

01-10-2003

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 3:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Curlyq, maybe by naming it "The Biggest Loser" they really *mean* the biggest loser and not the best weight loser. To win any of these reality type shows you can't really be Mother Theresa.

Slimc21
Member

11-17-2004

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 9:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree. Dave should have been the one to go. He is lazy and only losing because he is sticking with the diet, but not the workout.
Was it just me or did it seem like his wife was ....fake...I never heard her say he looked good and they just didn't seem to go together...might just be me...
just had to say that.

Sweetbabygirl
Member

08-31-2002

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 11:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LMAO Fiat!! C'mon, "pony up" guys....who else in here eats whilst watching this show? I believe I was eating pasta and drinking a Coke, lol!!

Mo damned near killed me with laughter at his going to the cupcake table and teasing the others into thinking he was going to eat one.

Anyhew, my thoughts....

Aaron - LOVED him, but I understood Drea and Mo's reasonings for voting him off. I believe that he, Matt (ooh chile, more on his voting off soon!) and Ryan will be the successful ones in the long run. Kelly's reasoning was shady, and my like for her went waaaaaaaaaaaay down. I didn't blame Bob's being angry at them, but eventually I was like, okay, you've made your point, now breathe, stretch, shake and let it go, Bob!

Lisa - OMG!! <> First of all, she talks too <> much. Last week, she was doing her usual "Waaaaaaaaaaaaah, I'm gonna diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeee!!" schtick, and Jillian <> told her that if she said one more thing, she'd make her do more reps. So what does she do? SHE SAYS ONE MORE THING!! OMG!! SHUT <> UP!!

Then, with this week's mission, she's doing it again, "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, I'm gonna diiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeee!!" Now, for a nanosecond (hmmmm, starting to use this word a lot lately!) I was with her in that it was INSANE to have them climb up 74 friggin' flights of stairs. However, Drea and Kelly kicked butt!! If I were Matt I would have left Lisa right there and tried to finish. Then, she comes back to work out and, instead of taking responsibility, BLAMES MATT!! WTF?! I LOVED it when Jillian told her to shut up and called her on her ish, LOVED IT!!

That said, I was very disappointed in Dave and everyone else for voting Matt off....sure, the rabbit faces he always seemed to make were annoying, but he and Ryan were the only Red Team members who seem to step up to the plate (ooh, bad pun!) time and time again! Lisa should have gone, if not her then definitely Dave.

Anyway, it was great to see Matt's progress at the end, he looked so good.

<QT>

Danas15146
Member

03-31-2004

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 1:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
SBG - LOL - we were eating pizza and wings while watching!

Fiat
Member

10-07-2004

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 4:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm glad I'm not the only one who eats and watches.

Pamplemousse
Member

09-28-2003

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 8:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
dh & I also ate ben & jerry's while watching... there is someting about the show that you just HAVE to eat while watching (just like before seeing supersize me you have to eat at McDonalds!)

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 11:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'd probably eat and watch too if I wasn't watching it on tape a few hours later (and just before going to bed!).

The more I watch this show, the more sad it makes me. These people are going through life changing experiences that could save their very life! They don't need the game playing BS and alliances this format has produced. A disappointment implying "you're not good enough" is just enough of a setback to kill the whole diet.

I can remember a diet counselor I went to in college. She saw me get a bagel at the student cafeteria, and accused me later at our meeting that I was eating donuts and she "saw me." She then said I wasn't losing weight fast enough (even though at our first meeting she said a pound a week was the goal, and I was doing just that), and she could do no more for me. She kicked me out and suggested I go see a shrink instead. Can anybody guess what that did to my inspiration to keep up with the diet?

Maybe they should have kept the ones voted out in the program. Then at weigh-in, the teams that voted them out can see if they made a big mistake eliminating them from the team. Maybe even a shake up later by making the eliminated people into a new team.

These people should be there supporting each other through what they all know is hard. Not playing mind games and having alliances and backstabbing crap. And making them work out to the point of (and beyond) injury is just ridiculous. Having the attitude that injury during workout is "common" or "expected" is a cop out on the part of the trainer. As a weightlifting instructor I had once told me, if you're getting hurt, you're doing it wrong.

Sunshyne4u
Member

06-17-2003

Friday, November 19, 2004 - 1:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Whoami, I can relate to your diet counsellor story but with a different twist. I had a dietitian telling me all the foods I HAD to eat each day to be a "healthy weight". When I passed on that I had food allergies and couldnt eat the Yogurt, wheatgerm etc, the woman got angry and reamed me out for 'being difficult'.

Only ONCE have I ever followed a diet...weight watchers. Faithfully marked my boxes off.....forced myself to eat TONS of food as they said my usual 900 cals wasnt enough. For weeks I never moved in weight...Then a month later when I gained 4.5 lbs there was snickering and laughing at my weigh-in. I never went again even though I continued to eat the Larger portions of vegatables and ate a little five times a day as recommended for my hypoglycemia. I never lost anything more than 7 lbs and I figure it was waterloss LOL.

ANYWAYS........ABOUT the show!! I have done that running up stairwells. Have you?? The running around and around in tight circles makes you really dizzy and nauseaous. It is really claustraphobic in the artificially lit stairweels and I found myself in the same "I NEED AIR" reaction that Lisa did. Luckily the building had small open window vents that I got breaths of fresh air and could look out and get my equilibrium back. Treating Lisa like she was having a psych reaction was NOT kindhearted of Matt...who was rolling his eyes etc. When you are already dizzy and upset that you are letting your team down you dont need someone yelling CALM DOWN at you. anyways, I might not be remembering it quite right but I didnt think Matt was nice to Lisa even when she came back. HE did NOT act like she was a teammate when he was barrelling up the stairs leaving her wellbehind. Where was the support?? So, rightfully so, he is now gone.

Too bad, he was so young.

Thiry18
Member

09-18-2004

Friday, November 19, 2004 - 2:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
there is nothing about this show that makes me want to eat.

Producerchic
Member

06-29-2004

Friday, November 19, 2004 - 2:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just read on Yahoo that NBC has ordered another 8-episode installment...

Nickovtyme
Member

07-29-2004

Friday, November 19, 2004 - 3:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I totally ate some Popeyes Chicken the other night while watching the show...to honor Mighty Moe.

I really love their Spicy Chicken...Popeyes is the best. I was waving a chicken wing at the TV..going, "Nyah, Nyah!"

Boy am I bad.

Sweetbabygirl
Member

08-31-2002

Saturday, November 20, 2004 - 11:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LMAO!! Sicko!

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Saturday, November 20, 2004 - 4:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
seamonkey sneaks into thread, waves KFC chicken wing at Nickovtyme, runs back out with an evil quackle!

Alisons
Member

01-10-2003

Saturday, November 20, 2004 - 6:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have been on the South Beach Diet since Oct. 18th so I only eat pistachios during the show. I actually find this show pretty inspiring for my own diet because I figure if Mo can lift a couple of weights, I certainly can! So far I have lost 15.5 pounds - not enough to make me the Biggest Loser, but I am pretty happy!

Fiat
Member

10-07-2004

Saturday, November 20, 2004 - 8:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good for you, Alisons!! 15 pounds really makes a difference,doesn't it?

I should be on a diet, rather than snacking during the show, but.....

Sunshyne4u
Member

06-17-2003

Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 1:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
?? are you enjoying your 20 pistachios? LOL If I recall if you want Almonds you are only allowed 10.

Every Diet will reach a plateau level where weightloss slows down to a crawl. Southbeach works excellently for some blood types but not at all for others. The true way to eat healthy is to eat NONpesticide plants and NONmedicated meats/fish.

I'd love for people to consider a completely natural and preferrably 'raw food type diet' eating only fish and fowl BEFORE trying the more radical diets.

also, I do have some medical background involving lectins and the bodies response to incorrect foods for my Group A Blood.

the Eat Right for Your Blood Type literature explained why I had problems with what most diets call "healthy" food.

If anyone is interested in clearing up their stomach problems, gastro problems, rashes etc you can get the book/cd at most libraries.

The website is more for people who have already READ the book. but here ya go. http://www.dadamo.com/sitemap2.htm

there are interesting multimedia stuff to research on the site as well. http://www.dadamo.com/media/inside.htm

Alisons
Member

01-10-2003

Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 3:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hey! It is 30 pistachios!

Thanks for the links, I will check them out!