Nutrition & Weight Loss

One of the reasons people love watching The Biggest Loser is to witness the extremes. Where else but on a television show can someone lose 100 pounds in a handful of weeks. Or stick to a clean, healthy diet for eight weeks with no cheating after years of bingeing on junk food. So much of […]READ MORE

It’s that time of year again. Sadly, this is when so many people stop going to the gym for a variety of reasons. You can tell because it only take two minutes to find a parking spot instead of five. There’s room in the spin class to grab a bike near the fan. And no […]READ MORE

It took hitting 646 pounds on the scale before Arthur, a contestant on The Biggest Loser, decided he would try to lose weight. The 34-year-old Portland native made good strides on his own until he hit a plateau. He entered the show at 507 pounds. For the past several weeks, his teammates have watched him […]READ MORE

The most obvious reason not to pour that glass of wine at dinner when you’re trying to lose weight is for the amount of calories you’re adding to your meal that have no nutritional value. A five-ounce glass of wine – red or white – has about 100 calories. So if you drink a small […]READ MORE

Fans of The Biggest Loser Show show know of the race among contestants to be the first to lose 100 pounds. It’s a huge milestone that most of the contestants will make at some point during the show. They begin hundreds of pounds overweight. What’s amazing is how fast they can reach that 100-pound mark. […]READ MORE

Something really brilliant happened at the gym the other day. My workout buddy, Jo, turned to me and said in her beautiful English accent: “I actually look forward to working out now. It’s really fun.” She was pleasantly surprised. I was thrilled. Jo has never been a “workout person,” as she puts it. She’s never […]READ MORE

In today’s world, you can find a diet on the internet to justify eating whatever food you really want. Low-carb diets let you feast on fatty foods. High-carb regimens give you clearance for bread products. For those of us who find it all a little confusing, we can now turn to government health officials for […]READ MORE

Hannah was an athlete in college. She could propel her body into the air to slam a volleyball across the room. And then she fell on the stairs and injured her back. She had emergency back surgery to repair slipped discs. The Biggest Loser contestant said it was then that her weight problems began. In […]READ MORE

Last week’s temptation challenge on The Biggest Loser show seemed rather cruel on the surface. Contestants paired up to take turns walking around a room filled with shelves of unhealthy food. Not just any kind of junk food either. It was their favorite dishes that they couldn’t stop eating before coming onto the show. Giant […]READ MORE

Many of the contestants on NBC’s The Biggest Loser say living on the ranch for 12 weeks is their last chance to do something about the pounds they need to shed. Isolated from family, pizza delivery and fridges stocked with soda, life on the Biggest Loser ranch means forced dieting. You can’t cheat unless you’re […]READ MORE