BIGGEST LOSER SUCCESS STORY SERIES

Danny Cahill lost 55.58% of his weight and Rachel Frederickson 59.62%. In one season, Michael Ventrella lost 264 pounds, and Ashley Johnston 183 pounds. Contestants have lost massive amounts of weight. In the end, a winner emerges based on most weight and percentage body fat lost. The show divides contestants into teams that then work with a personal trainer and proceed through a gauntlet of temptation, eating and drinking restrictions, exercise competitions, weigh-ins and voting out those who lose the least weight over different episodes.

BIGGEST LOSER SUCCESS STORY SERIES

The Biggest Loser debuted in the fall of 2004 and features contestants attempting to lose weight who engage in a series of diet and physical activity competitions.

It was as if the contestants' bodies were trying to regain the lost weight. Thus, the contestants would gain more weight than others would from consuming the same amount of food and drink and exercising the same amount. Rapidly losing so much weight may have slowed their metabolism. In fact, contestants had significantly slower metabolic rates compared to people who had never been overweight. A study published in the journal Obesity checked on 14 of the show's contestants six years after they had completed the show (which is a 30-week weight loss competition) and found that many had regained a fair amount of the weight that they had lost during the competition. But the latest news is that the show may not be quite as successful for its contestants as portrayed. Yes, The Biggest Loser has been quite successful for NBC. Surprise, surprise, reality television is often not reality. When she saw a recently published study that found that many competitors left the show with a slower metabolism, she said: 'I really was dancing around my living room, screaming 'vindication.'' (AP Photo/Young Kwak) what she calls drastic weight-loss methods. Kai Hibbard, a contestant on the The Biggest Loser in 2006, has criticized the television show for.

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