Biggest Loser (Page 17)

The only thing about "no voting" is that it puts the women at a disadvantage.  Their body weight cycles monthly.  I seriously suspect that a few of the bad weigh ins for the women were around their cycle.  Your body holds onto a lot of water for close to a week.  I realize that they can't exactly take that into account, but at least it doesn't eliminate someone because of something they have no control over.

And everyone has a bad week at one point.  Are you seriously saying that pretty much whoever has the one bad week gets kicked off every week?

Also, instead of percent weight lost, I might like to see them move to body fat lost.  They have all the tools to measure that at the ranch...ought to be pretty easy and not take THAT much more effort than scales.

Oh, and I want to see decimal points!  No more of this "whole pounds" crap.  I bet people have lost weigh ins over decimal places....

I'd like them to eliminate opportunities for free passes.  Don't set it up for people to lose very little weight, any given week, because they have immunity or some advantage.    EVERY week they should be encouraged, by way of the rules, to lose as much as possible.    It levels the playing field and, I feel, that characters like Conda would have to start working hard from day one.

I also like the idea of no vote.  While I agree that women fluctuate for various reasons, the voting is just as riddled with problems.  Also, they have access to diuretics or whatever that will let the fluid go.  Also, not every woman has this problem.  I think that someone like Tara is a good example that it is possible to work hard and lose weight consistently.

A blooper show would be great. 

I have a particular issue with the way people on ALL of these reality shows comment about how much they "love" this person, or how this person is like a mother or brother, or family member.  Sometimes, they have known that person for a couple of weeks at most!  Does that really put them in the same category as your actual familiy!?!?!  If it does, I feel bad for your actual family situation.  If my son or brother was on one of these shows and commented that some idiot he's known for a month is like a second father or like a brother, I would feel pretty lousy.

It's the shared experience that makes them feel closer.  Some of these people actually ARE changing their lives...and when you go through an experience like that with people it makes you feel really close.  Kinda like basic training in the military....

These are a few things that bug me:

I hate the 2 hr shows, there is so much wasted time, 45min to weigh in...really?  Does it have to take that long?  

No voting (or no explanations for their vote), all the blubbering and ego stroking isn't needed

Don't bother with "teams" make them all compete individually from the get go.  

All those commercials into the show.

They don't really show how they are working out, maybe folks at home would like to "do what they do".  

They should really come clean about how much they really do work out.  I've heard that they work out up to 8-10hrs a day.   

Real close is fine - I have not been in the military, so I take your word for it - but I would consider that somewhat different from being on a reality TV show.  If my sibling/child/parent went on a show and after a few weeks described others as being "family" I wouldnt think much about my family's relationships.  For those who last the entire season (months) and go through the whole thing together, I can certainly understand a significant bond, but I hear the "family" comments from people on these shows (BL, Survivor, etc.) that have only been together for a few weeks.  That's what annoys me.

But I'll get over it!

I don't think the workouts, diets, and level of fitness these people are at are going to lead to much muscle gain.  They are trying to inspire people to do something similar at home, and no one can afford to get their body fat checked regularly (except for the at home version which can be pretty wonky).

You are assuming 2nd and 3rd place does not get prize money. Most of these shows do and you get paid more the deeper you go. You just never here about it because it is always about the winner and the Grand Prize. Jeremy getting $100K for 2nd or 3rd is not far fetched at all. I think 2nd on Survivor gets $250K and 3rd is $150K. But they don't advertise it and finding details is a little sketchy.

Second on survivor only gets $100k.

I dunno...I doubt second and third would get more than the advertised at home winner prize....

That may be the first time the person with the actual highest percentage of weight loss overall won the whole thing.  Typically one of the at home people loses more than the winner.  I wonder how much more of the chub on him is just loose skin that he needs to have removed.  Because he did still look chunky (unlike Mike).

Kim would have won the at home prize if she wasn't a finalist.  No way she had ten more pounds to lose though.

Kim looked the best.

Cassandra has really nice legs.  But what is UP with the ugly tat?  And she still had a middle.

Lauren looked cute.

Most of them had more weight to lose.

WTF, Conda...you look fatter than when you left the ranch.  So did Meghan.

Yay for less beard on Santa.

Mike did look awesome.  You can see the loose skin on his arms...I wonder what the rest of him looked like!  Loose skin is usually more obvious.

People either need to teach those women to walk in heels or have them wear different shoes.  Seriously.

I think that's it.  No preview for next season????

I was really hoping for Kim. I think she hit the weights too hard. I bet she has the lowest body fat percentage. I don't think she had 4 more pounds to loose.

I suppose it's cool for Jeremy, but it is hard to get behind brother and sister.

Mike really looked great.

Kim looked amazing.  I hope that she gets other good deals from this that add up to WAY more than 250k.  It was kind of comical how tiny she was when standing, before the weigh-in, next to Conda and Jeremy.

The nicest thing I can say about Jeremy is that at least he did the work and lost over 50%.  

Conda should be, always, ashamed of herself.  Her behavior on the show and her apparent lack of self control (running her mouth, her food issues, etc).  She probably should see a psychiatrist/life coach if she ever hopes to be successful in a real way.    I bet both she and Jeremy will gain a bunch of weight back.

Spanx are really amazing.  As smooth and toned as everyone looked, from the side you could see they are not thin.

And I hate the finale personally because I see these women weighing in less than I weigh yet they are still "thick."  How does that work?  I suppose the camera really does add 10 lbs.

Yep, glad it's over.  It was nice that it was only an hour. 

And finally, like all years, the hairstylist went a little overboard with the Aquanet.  What sort of nest was on Ali's head?  Yikes.  They also need to stop allowing the super body hugging tight dresses unless the person looks like Kim (Ali included).  Not flattering.

I would agree.  Though I think Tara looked pretty darn good her season too.

I am not positive Kim will keep the weight off though.  She is VERY motivated by competition and I worry that without the competition she won't be able to stay as motivated.  I don't think she'll ever be super fat again, but I wouldn't place bets on her staying as thin as she was last night.

Jeremy definitely has more weight to lose.  "Real" loose skin is hard to see with close on, like Mike.  He definitely still has a nice spare tire there - probably another 30 lbs I'd say.  Good for him though for losing almost 200 lbs.

Conda was a disappointment as usual.  Doesn't look like she lost much since the ranch and still has a good 40-50 lbs to lose.  But more than likely she'll gain alot of it back.

Kim looked great and I can't believe she actually got down to 134.  I believe she's around 5'9" so that's impressive.  Her last weigh in at the ranch she was 162 and she looked good at that weight also.

I agree about the tight dresses and the high heels!

I hope Jeremy and Conda can help the rest of the family because there is a LOT of obesity in that fam.

I agree both Kim and Tara looked fantastic... fit, healthy, strong.

To the other point, I think that Kim will do as well as Tara... if you notice she (Tara) has packed on a few extra pounds since her finale. 

I hate to say it, but I think the only thing Jeremy and Conda are going to help their family with is plowing through dinner and dessert.  

Well the best thing I can say about Jeremy is that he is not Conda.

Who writes Ali's intros of the contestants? Oscar night writers? It was horrific! If the show really cared about helping people get fit, beyond providing "inspiration," then they would give more information about the workouts, how to balance them, how to recover, what to eat, when to eat, when your are just sore and when you are hurt, etc. The fact that they do not provide that inoformation just proves that they are really solely about the ratings and the $.

Tara at least said she kind of did that deliberately.  The weight she was at for the finale she said wasn't really manageable and that the weight she went back up to was a better weight for her.  It wasn't slow creep like so many other contestants, it was a conscious decision to aim for a different target.

She still doesn't look fat at all.

I'm not sure I entirely GET that.  I mean...IMHO any lower weight would feel more manageable to me--I'd be able to swim/bike/run better!  Then again, I've never been down to a rock bottom weight anytime in the last 20 years...so...ask me when I get there how I feel!

Well that and the infomercials. Good points.