Biggest Loser Viewers Got What We Wanted and More—or Less

Biggest Loser Viewers Got What We Wanted and More—or Less by Roxanne McDonald

“The Biggest Loser” finale brought back the fifty states—minus over two tons of fat.

Days before the final episode of “The Biggest Loser,” we fans of the show were predicting grand winners (or losers) and anticipating such special appearances as those made by each of the fifty state “representatives”.

We were greatly satisfied, then, when every single one of the original contestants not only showed up, but did so in leaner conditions and in collective success.

One of the goals put to the whole group at the start of “The Biggest Loser” series this season was for all of them to weigh in on one massive scale (the biggest in all of the history of television?) and then to return to do the same on the finale—having lost two tons. In the middle of the finale episode, all fifty players stepped on the mammoth contraption. At the start of the season their collective

weight was 14, 384 pounds; at the last weigh-in, their combined weight was 10, 103 pounds, making for a successful reduction of 4,281 pounds—281 over the two-ton goal. Yee hahs were heard throughout the theatre, signifying, as Caroline Rhea noted, a great moment for the United States of America!Also representing the ambitious goals and successful results were those who had made it to compete on the show. Even after being voted out and doing their own reduction and exercise regimes on their own, the players showed amazing changes:

Jennifer, Tiffany, Nelson (who was awesome!), Melinda, Amy, Ken, Pam, Brian, Bobby, Marty, Adrian, and Jaron all reduced dramatically, while Brian Starkey, Representing California, won the $100,000 “Winner of the Losers” prize by losing 156 pounds—50.65% of his total body weight to start.

The $50,000 “Biggest Loser” semi-finalist Kai Hibbard– representing Alaska–took second place, losing 118 pounds (45,04% of her body weight) and winning $50,000; and Mark Wylie—representing Florida—lost 129 pounds (42% of his body weight) and won $25,000.

Erik Chopin (representing New York) won the grand prize of $250,000—but also made “Biggest Loser” history,

losing a total of 214 pounds (52.58%) of his body weight.While I congratulate the winners and losers, and while I will miss the show until it reappears next season, I will have to take some of the players’ hard-earned success to heart as advice and get off my own big fat butt now. Not that I would apply as a contestant or not that I couldn’t use the cash, but I could, I suppose, get healthier.

After all, isn’t that the moral of the show—despite how it may be just another reality TV production?
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