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Another season of The Biggest Loser has come and gone (season 6) and the show is coming back again in early January of 2009.  Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels did a superb job in enabling the contestants to lose weight.  The work they did was inspirational for all who watch the show.  To see people lose the weight in only a few months demonstrates, to those that know, how hard they really worked at their weight loss effort.  It was nice to see some of the earlier season’s contestants in the audience show up and still be slim and trim.  Not seeing those earlier contestants who gained their weight back demonstrates the reality of weight loss.  Long term weight loss is not something that ends if and when you achieve your desired weight.  Weight loss actually has little to do with dieting and more to do with life.

The cross section of individuals on The Biggest Loser shows that not everyone has the emotional ability for long term weight loss.  Looking back to Season one of The Biggest Loser,  Ryan, the winner of the show has gained all of the weight that he lost back again.  What this sadly points out is that anyone that is healthy has the ability to lose weight but EVERYONE has to master their emotions to keep their weight from returning. 

Some people have an issue with their emotions that prevents them from being able to lose the weight in the first place and that issue has little to do with the food.  Some of these same issues are what caused people like Ryan to gain their weight back again.  Some find comfort in food and they use food to deal with stress. Others use food as a form of entertainment while watching television.  Whatever the reason for being obese the real issue may be the emotional problems and the obesity is really just the symptom.

Looking back on all of the seasons of The Biggest Loser, Season 6 shed some light on this emotional issue when Bob Harper had a mini-conference with Vicky.  Bob said outright that he had a fear that Vicky was going to go home after the ranch and gain all of her weight back.  He went on to say that she had not learned at the ranch what it would take for her to keep the weight off for the rest of her life.  She was more about the game and less about the weight loss.

As you sit and ponder your own weight loss you need to realize that your inability to lose weight is based on what is going on in your head more than what is going on in your mouth.  Losing weight not only begins with a thought, it is the thoughts that carry you beyond a “diet” and through the rest of your life.  That is why the theme of the trainers on The Biggest Loser is more about changing your lifestyle than about exercising.  Sure they do hours of exercise but that is only because they are in a race to the finish.  That “finish” may be portrayed when the confetti falls from the studio ceiling, but the true finish really never arrives.  This is because weight loss is never something that just stays around, it must be worked on for the rest of your life.  I guess as far as Vicky is concerned we will see if Bob Harper was right about her gaining the weight back again. 

Weight loss is more about emotions than almost anything else since the emotions and mental attitude are what get you to the gym and also what keeps you eating healthy.  Before you begin your New Year’s Resolution check out your emotional state to ensure you are really ready to lose the weight.

Bob Harper from The Biggest loser fame has become a world renowned fitness trainer. He has worked alongside Jillian Michaels and has earned a spot among the viewers as being the compassionate trainer. Although he is tough on the students it is easy to notice that Bob Harper has a compassionate heart and is a caring individual. While Jillian is more of the military instructor type Bob Harper tends to spend more time getting to know the person he is working with and helping.

This is not to say that Jillian is uncaring, it is just that Bob tends to be more closely aligned with the person he works with. Bob Harper also has demonstrated that he is keenly aware of the inner workings of the groups on The Biggest Loser. Whenever a contestant has done something to manipulate the scales at the weigh in Bob was right there with his insight. An example was when one contestant drank two gallons of water to increase his weight on the scale. Bob seems to have his pulse on the happenings of those he is working to help.

Bob Harper is a person that many people would love to train with in their effort to lose weight. His casual attitude and appearance show his true personality. The tattoos that he sports are not shielded from view which demonstrates his take me as I am attitude approach to the world. Bob Harper appears to be in control of his life and willing to help others. Granted he must be earning alot of money but that is alright. He is actually helping people not only lose weight but he is sincere about that help. His frustrations are also quite obvious when his advice is ignored. One important insight to Bob Harper is the fact that you will actually see him wear the same shorts from season to season. How often do you EVER see a celebrity wear the same outfit twice?

Bob Harper is a good person and his ability to help others lose weight is to be commended. He is an inspiration to those that he does not even know and in Hollywood today that is quite rare for an icon. Most celebrities offer only poor role model choices. The role model that he presents is a good one. You go Bob Harper!

We here at I Choose Thin have been fans of the Biggest Loser since season one. My wife and I who are on a constant battle for weight loss actually go through withdrawals when it is between seasons. Sue (my wife) really would love to train with Jillian Michaels while I would rather work with Bob Harper. As we sat on the couch watching the episodes we were always thrilled with the no nonsense approach to weight loss that was presented throughout the theme of the show. What really thrilled Sue and I was the fact that it was all done through education, exercise and dedication. This down to Earth approach was the reason we started the I Choose Thin website. Having been tired of all the weight loss nonsense and knowing we would never be on the show we were looking for an outlet of weight loss knowledge. The Biggest Loser and the team up with 24 Hour Fitness with Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels was a match made in heaven.

Nowhere else in the world of advertising and television was the concept that the best way to lose weight was through education and then a whole bunch of sweat through exercise. Many viewers do not realize that the contestants spend 7, 8 or even 9 hours of their day in the gym. Many viewers sit on their couch eating ice cream thinking how great it would be to be on the show and do not realize what they are wishing. I equate it to wanting to become a United States Marine and forgetting a little place called Parris Island , where Marines are born in a concept called boot camp. When I watch the Biggest Loser I know how great it would be to be on that show not because of the get thin fast concept but because I know that is one place where weight loss would happen.

Being on the show would allow you to use the most advanced weight loss/exercise equipment available and that combined with the training of Bob and Jillian would provide the combination to allow the sweat to pour. That sweat is what pushes the weight loss but it takes more than an hour episode for that to happen. In order to lose the weight a person has to be committed to weight loss for the long haul. A person has to have that inner motivation that goes deeper than a one hour episode can achieve. Having been a follower of the show I have been saddened to see the weight gain by previous contestants but I do not degrade them because I know that life can get in the way of fitness and weight loss or even weight maintenance.

If you are a person seeking weight loss you must first have the motivation and then you must have some deeper motivation. Only then will that weight loss attempt amount to a lifetime of health. Only after you have made the decision to lose the weight should you ever think of spending money on equipment at 24 Hour Fitness. The products they sell are not cheap and deserve more than becoming a dust collecter in the spare bedroom. The products at 24 Hour Fitness will work the same way they work for the Biggest Loser and that is through the sheer fact that they are being used.

If you desire to lose weight then take the cue from Bob Harper, Jillian Michaels , the Biggest Loser and 24 Hour Fitness and get up and do something about it. After you start then just remember that you have to keep going and not give up.

This blog has grown in popularity quite a bit. We have no official connection with The Biggest Loser at all, other than the fact that we think it is an awesome show. We love to watch Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels do their thing and watch the weight fall off the contestants. We have been getting a lot of questions about what are the things that are on the arms of the people on The Biggest Loser. We get asked the question at least 50 times a day. The question may be different, but the theme of the questions are the same.

People ask what is the thing on their arms? What do they wear under the sleeves? Where do we get the device they wear? We are overwhelmed with the question so we have decided to get make an entry for all to see and read. We have tried the product and we actually use it every day. That product is called BodyBugg and it is a state of the art weight loss product that will help your weight loss attempt enter the 21st century. BodyBugg records how many calories your body burns in the course of a day. The system is simple and so easy to use with your home computer.

We are not here to tell you how much we love to use it and how it helps us keep track of our calories or how it interfaces with our home computer. We are not here to pitch it to you, we are only here to tell you that what they are wearing on their arms in The Biggest Loser is a device called BodyBugg, which Bob and Jillian use to help their teams lose weight. If you want all the techno info and all that just click on the red box below to take you to the official 24Hour Fitness and learn about BodyBugg.

(An update/addition to this BodyBugg article can be found at this link.)

1/27/2009 Episode of The Biggest Loser.  Bookmark this website for updates on The Biggest Loser episode scheduled for January 27, 2009.  This site is a HUGE Biggest Loser fan and wants to provide you with the latest events of the show.  We will recap and go over the entire episode.  You will learn how the player was sent home and all the emotions that were involved.

Tonight was a pretty good show.  The partners were brought back to the ranch to witness the weigh in, but were not part of the weigh in. The returning partners weigh in is scheduled to take place in the first ten minutes of the show that airs next week on February 3, 2009.

Bob Harper stated that Joelle was doing “excellent” and that he has seen an awakening in her spirit.  Blaine left for two days to be with his wife for the birth of his child, who arrived healthy.

Australian Chef Curtis Stonearrived to show everyone how to make healthier food choices.  There was going to be an award to the winner of the challenge for a two pound pass and a visit at their home with Curtis Stone.  The contestants had to guess what the calorie content was for some dishes of food, without going over.  These were the choices:

Chicken wings, ranch dressing and celery:  Total calories were 991 and Dan guessed 800 to win.

Bread bowl chili with sour cream:  Total calories were 1165 and Kristin guessed 834 to win.

7 Layer dip:  Total calories were 1765 and Helen guessed 1500 to win.

The semi final winners then advanced to the final round where they had to guess the calorie content of Curtis’s meal.  Dan guessed 230 to win the final round and the 2 pound pass for his home bound partner on the next weigh in.  Having won the challenge they then went off to a Wal-Mart to buy groceries from the fresh produce center.  It was interesting to see Wal-Mart on the Biggest Loser as we here have no memory of them ever being advertised.

Have you heard of the new weight loss miracle Sensa? If have not, remember you heard it here first!

It was at this point that a map flashed across the screen showing that the Biggest Loser Ranch is located in Malibu, California.  (We only throw that in because so many people have asked where The Biggest Loser Ranch is located.)

Bob Harper then brought in some platforms to make his trainees jump up onto.  He wanted to help them grow in confidence and to show them they could reach those heights from a stationary position and jump onto them.

The scene now shifted to a football field for all of the contestants to play against one another for team immunity.  The challenge was for them to have to get five footballs in every other player’s box and be the last one on the field.  To everyone’s surprise, Kurt Warner arrived on the scene and  he is a football player extraordinaire.  He has been the NFL MVP twice and was also the MVP for Super Bowl 34.   He was there to motivate the players but he appeared to take a liking to Dan as it was seen in the distance him prodding him along to finish.  The contestants received 5 balls in the following order.  Filipe, Tara, Dane, Kristin, Mandy, Dan, Mike, Joelle, and the one who never received 5 was Helen and she won the immunity for herself and her daughter Shanon.

We then switched to a staged scene, with all involved doing some bad acting showing us, the audience, the benefit for eating a certain cereal.  Bob, quit the commercials, please!!  Either that or get better scripts!!!

It was not until we were half way through the show before Jillian Michaels showed up on the scene.  She said a comment about Dan that he was more talk than he was action and that he did n0t follow through on what he said he was going to do.  Jillian was disappointed with him, or at least it seemed to show through to us, the audience.   During a round on the treadmill Jillian kept yelling at Dan and then Dan fell down.   Jillian just kept yelling at him to get up.  Jillian made him get up and he almost started to cry and then Jillian went into one of her classic touchy feely what is at the core of your weight problem conversation.  She got him up on the tread mill and then pushed him to a point of a run where he was able to achieve a completion.  From that point on she stopped tearing him down and tried to help build him up.  Dan was upset that he was never going to be able to achieve his dreams of being thin.

At the start of the weigh in all of the contestants that were sent home walked into the Biggest Loser Gym.  The players were then weighed in and the results were as follows. Ron and Mike (Brown) lost 7 amd 9 pounds respectively.  Blaine (Black) lost 11 pounds Dane (Black) lost 15 pounds, Filipe (Blue) lost 13 pounds and gave a heartfelt thanks to Bob Harper.  Tara  (Green) lost 12 pounds, Kristin (purple) lost 12 pounds, Mandi (Yellow) lost 10 pounds, Dan (Orange) lost 12 pounds, Joelle (Silver) lost 10 pounds  Helen (Pink) who had immunity, lost 6 pounds.

The two teams that had the lowest percentage of weight loss for the week were the Brown Team and the Orange Team.  The teams then went to debate who should stay and who should go home.  David the home bound partner revealed he could lose the same amount of weight at home, and kind of sort of said, that he would not mind going home.  This outraged some of the players.

Orange Team = Dan and Dave

Brown Team = Ron and Mike

The votes were as follows.  Pink Team (Helen and Shanon) voted to send home Orange, Yellow Team (Mandi and Aubrey) voted to send home Brown, Purple  Team(Kristin and Cathy) voted to send home Orange, Black Team (Blaine and Dane) voted to send home Brown, Green Team (Laura and Tara) voted to send home Brown.  Silver Team (Joelle and Carla) voted to send home Orange and the Blue Team (Filipe and Sione) voted to send home Orange.

The end result of the vote for The Biggest Loser January 27,  2009 was to send home the Orange Team, Dan and David.

For the recap at the end of the Biggest Loser Moment ,Dan has gone on to lose 60 pounds and David lost 46 pounds.  Dan no longer needs to take his oral diabetes medicine and David said he quit smoking

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