The Biggest Loser
promotes being
the biggest loser

Many say they can't bear to watch the biggest loser TV show because of the ongoing public humiliation they experience participants going through. Others say they hate the way it portrays fat people in some of the food challenges. It's a TV program fat people have strong feelings about.

I know that as I've sat watching 'The Biggest Loser,' I've experienced the same feelings as people in our forums but I've also felt despair for the multiple erroneous messages the program sends out.

Weight Loss at all costs

Firstly, all that counts in The Biggest Loser show is who is prepared to practically kill themselves in the process - at least that's what gets the applause and rewards from show presenter Gillian Michaels.

It perpetuates the idea that of without pain there is no gain which I think is a bunch of baloney.

The other diet problem I have with Tv's Biggest Loser is that it uses the 'carrot' and 'stick' approach of external reward or punishment. Problem is: the carrot has to get bigger for the reward to mean the same. And I just plain don't believe in the stick approach. If that worked so well, the self-stick that I've heard many dieters use to beat themselves up with, would mean everyone would be thin by now.

What's measured and recorded is weight loss. What is rewarded and applauded is the most massive and rapid weight loss. The Biggest Loser perpetuates the same old messages we see everywhere that aren't always helpful. Like you can't lose weight too fast and that's just a bad message in my eyes because mostly that's an unhealthy message that fuels the life of quick loss weight fads.

Contestants aren't taught to become
Body-Wise

Biggest loser contestants aren't taught to be body-wise.

Now, if contestants were taught to tune into their bodies, I wonder what they would have noticed? Given the drastic amount of exercise (and man, it sure doesn't look like it's fun or sustainable without becoming obsessivethey are seen doing, I wonder how many might have bodies that tell them they are doing too much to soon?

Short term, rapid weight loss doesn't prove a thing. How many of The Biggest Losers turn out to be much bigger losers than they could ever anticipate when they experience the rapid fat regain. when they stop their hectic exercise schedule after the show stops and they go back to their regular lives as Eric Chopin discovered.

That's the bit that viewers don't get to see.

But three years after his victory, Erik was back weighing 315 pounds. As he gained, he admitted he continued to use older photos on his MySpace and Facebook pages and even turned down an offer to appear on The Oprah Show with past Biggest Loser contestants. "People, they don't see me. I can hide," he says. "I inspired so many people; so many people reach out to me. I feel like I let them down."

When an external reward is based only on results - there's no real motivation to make actual long term Return from Biggest Loser to Weight Loss Methods
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