[Valentine]

(05-03-2016 10:31 AM)Thersites Wrote:  

The major problem with Biggest Loser is the rapid weight loss that most contest have to go through under stressful conditions. Constant stress and under trainers that have no idea on how human body works are going to produce wrecks of human being after the show is over. This idiot trainers are fighting a person's homeostasis and losing horribly againist it.

The principle of homeostasis is maintain the body internal environment. This is in play for lot obese people, but problem is this process is maladaptive as the body is going to maintain a current state of being a tub of lard. The body has set point to maintain, in terms, metabolism and weight. Body will fight any changes to that set point. Weight loss is must be gradual process in order to change the 'set point' of the body and avoid health complication. Rapid fat loss leads increase cholesterol and triglyceride level in the blood stream leading to either heart attack or acute pancreatitis for example.

Combine the stressful condition of fat loss and lack of no long term planning is going to lead a lot of broken people. Lifestyle changes and proper exercise plan will due wonders in the longterm, which is the issue for many people in weight loss. We want the quick fix. Its longer term process to lose weight and become healthy. Everyone on this subboard are better trainers than the people in charge of the Bigger Loser.

Exactly.

Leptin is the hormone responsible for body fat set-point (the weight we keep reverting to) and your set point isn't affected by rapid fat loss diets.

If you want to lose weight and keep it off, it's far more effective to lose weight slowly.

Not to mention that your fat stores also hold toxins as well, so rapid fat loss multiplies toxins in your bloodstream and can cause illness.

[Chowder Head]

I've dropped around 100 lbs in a year and I can't see gaining any of the weight back. Its all about eat well and being active. The Biggest Losers contestant didn't lose weight for themselves (health) -- they did it for money and to be on TV. So when the cameras are off, they slip back into their old habits.

[zatara]

(05-05-2016 06:51 PM)Chowder Head Wrote:  

I've dropped around 100 lbs in a year and I can't see gaining any of the weight back. Its all about eat well and being active. The Biggest Losers contestant didn't lose weight for themselves (health) -- they did it for money and to be on TV. So when the cameras are off, they slip back into their old habits.

Great work dude. Thats always fantastic to hear; when someone makes a huge life change and successfully sticks to it.

The key, like you said, is long term sustainable life changes. People are much better off exercising for 30min a day over a few years and eating right consistently than doing 6 hours a day of exercise and starving themselves for a month like on the TV show.

[dalbroker]

You should read up on Jon Gabriel. He speaks about this at
length.

I just purchased his book after watching a few of his videos
on youtube.

Def very interesting.

(05-02-2016 06:54 AM)Menace Wrote:  

Interesting article from NYT regarding contestants from Biggest Loser:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health....html?_r=0

Quote:

Kevin Hall, a scientist at a federal research center who admits to a weakness for reality TV, had the idea to follow the “Biggest Loser” contestants for six years after that victorious night. The project was the first to measure what happened to people over as long as six years after they had lost large amounts of weight with intensive dieting and exercise.

The results, the researchers said, were stunning. They showed just how hard the body fights back against weight loss.

“It is frightening and amazing,” said Dr. Hall, an expert on metabolism at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, which is part of the National Institutes of Health. “I am just blown away.”

It has to do with resting metabolism, which determines how many calories a person burns when at rest. When the show began, the contestants, though hugely overweight, had normal metabolisms for their size, meaning they were burning a normal number of calories for people of their weight. When it ended, their metabolisms had slowed radically and their bodies were not burning enough calories to maintain their thinner sizes.

Thoughts? The one thing to remember is that there is a lot of bias in the statistical sample, and these people are not representative of the general population.