Biggest Loser Club

I actually have a question, since Jillian’s website and other Biggest Loser web sites refuse to respond to my genuine question, and that is: If we’re told since the dawn of time that 1-2 pounds of weight loss per week is the only healthy way to lose weight, and if you DOUBLE that, it would be 2-4 pounds per week, and is supposedly too much, too soon, then how can the contestants lose 10, 20, even 32 pounds in ONE WEEK, just for ONE PWRSON, and supposedly be healthy?! It boggles my mind!! I am, indeed, tremendously motivated by seeing that, but can’t reconcile conventional wisdom, INCLUDING JILLIAN’S newsletter, where she says “SLOW & STEADY” at 1-2 pounds per week is the only way to go… Can anyone please help me? Why does Jillian say one thing in her newletters, and another is going on at The Biggest Loser? The cast would always be depressed if they lost “only 8 pounds for the week” — How do they lose double digit weight loss in one week? And why is it healthy to do that? At first, I thought it was because they were SO overweight, they lost a lot, but just last night, they are slim now, and they all lost double digits (11–15 pounds EACH) for one week… Please, Someone, help me make sense of this!!! Thank you, Maureen in southern California

When you join an online club you are still essentially doing everything on your own. Using the website for guidance and motivation. On the show each contestant has a team of doctors, dietitians, and trainers to watch over them while they are losing those large amounts of weight. Unless you are able to surround yourself with a team of people it is safer to keep it “slow and steady.”

The TV show says that they are under constant supervision, making it possible for them to lose that weight, us at home are not. But I would assume if you follow this program exact, your calorie intake should be about what is needed for the exercise you are doing.

i bought the book online. and tried it for about two weeks and could tell a difference, but my life is always on the go so i never had time to cook the food properly and ended up eating the same things alot. but it can work

To lose a huge amount of weight you have to cut back and exercise hard. The reason why experts recommend a slow process because people look for a quick fix. I’ve lost 20 lbs in 3 weeks which is a lot of weight for one person in a short time. I wasn’t as have as some of those contestant but I exercised twice a day M-F weight training and eat low carbs. I have no health issues. Most people would do some crazy diet to lose a lot of weight in a short period of time. So its safer to tell people 1-2 lbs a week like that you can monitor your body to see how everything is doing. It is safe to lose a lot of weight fast with proper diet and lot lot lot of exercise some thing people don’t like doing. The number one problem is we (myself included) do not like to exercise. If we exercise just as hard as we like to eat we wouldn’t have any problems being health.