Bob Harper, Biggest Loser and Weight Loss

While watching The Biggest Loser, Season 7, Bob Harper made a statement that really rang the bell of reality for so many weight loss attempts that people make.  While Bob was speaking to Vicky he stated that Ryan, the winner from Season 1, has gained all of his weight back again.  Ryan, who had lost 122 pounds, which amounted to 36.97% of his body weight, has gained it all back again since the end of that first season.  To go through a life changing event like The Biggest Loser and then gain it all back again is almost mind blowing.  The most interesting thing that Bob Harper said to Vicky is what really drove home the focal point of I Choose Thin.com.  What Bob went on to state was that even though Ryan was on The Biggest Loser Campus, he really learned nothing about healthy eating.  Bob’s words resounded so much that the next few moments of the show were lost in thought.

To hear of a failure on a show that brings out so much of the positive in weight loss possibilities was a showstopper of a statement.  What was said by Bob Harper was a verbal monument as to why so many people in the world today suffer from obesity.  The fact that so many individuals today do not learn from their weight loss mistakes may very well be the reason why so many of us are obese in the first place.

The over-riding theme of The Biggest Loser is that in order to truly achieve weight loss the individual needs to learn how to change their life style.  Sure you can try your hand at different diets and lose weight, but if the end result is not weight loss for life, then true weight loss has not been achieved.  How many diets have you tried in your life and the end result has not proven to have any lasting effects?  Maybe the problem is not the diet, but the thinking of the person who is on the diet.  Maybe you were able to lose weight on a diet but more than likely you were not able to keep the weight off after you stopped eating the way the diet called for you to eat.

Maybe you have tried Chef’s Diet or The Cookie Diet or eDiets or The Diet Solution Program or Warp Sped Fat Loss or FullBar or another other diet that you can think of off the top of your mind.  We actually had to refrain ourselves from listing the few hundred or so diets on this page because the list of diets out there is long and actually overwhelming.  We are not saying the diets do not work because they do work if they are something you are able to live by for the rest of your own personal forever.  The problem is when most people lose weight they end up finding it again.  A great example that almost all hands in the room respond to is those that used the Atkin’s Diet and had good results, until they stopped doing the diet.  The point that Bob Harper was making was that unless you learn to change your lifestyle, it does not matter who you are or how many pounds you lose.  If you do not make changes in your personal life you will just find those pounds again in the not too distant future.

As you sit there gazing into your computer monitor we want you to realize that any diet has the potential to work, as long as you are following the rules of the diet you are using.  The problem is not with the diet, it is with what happens after you stop applying the principle of that diet.  You need to get it into your head that the true path to weight loss starts in your mind and not in your mouth.  Without the mind being in charge of the body, any diet will fail.  Bob Harper spoke to Vicky with some words that all of us should take the time to listen to and then learn from his wisdom.