Biggest Losers Share the Wealth…of Reducing Habits, Info, and Tips

Biggest Losers Share the Wealth…of Reducing Habits, Info, and Tips by Roxanne McDonald

Fitness centers are offering deals, new year resolutions start afresh, and TVGuide.com’s Rochell D. Thomas relays what the biggest losers say were their secrets to taking it off and keeping it off.

If you watched the third season of The Biggest Loser, you likely saw the remarkable metamorphosis of successful weight reducers such as Mark Wylie and Amy Hildreth, who are featured in their after pics on TV Guide.com. You will then recall how they were at the start of the show and how they appeared (as in those pics) by the finale: Wylie–representing Florida—was 307 pounds when “The Biggest Loser” began, and lost 129 pounds (42% of his body weight), while Amy—representing Maryland–weighed 260 pounds to start, and lost 106 pounds (40.77% of her body weight).

Hoping never to return to their former shapes and selves, Amy and Wylie have adopted some particular habits and

mindsets, as have the other biggest of losers, those who played through and those who worked off the weight at home–Jaron Tate (from Arkansas), Marty Wolff (from Missouri), Ken Coleman (from Washington), Poppi Kramer (from New Jersey), Jennifer Eisenbarth (from Minnesota), and Virginia “Ginnie” Bourque (from Vermont)—all of whom share with “Biggest Loser” fans and TVGuide.com readers some big losing tips and suggestions.Amy suggests eating often but in small amounts keeps the metabolism moving (and burning calories).

Wylie insists that we stop excusing ourselves, that we stop having excuses for not dieting healthy or not exercising.
Ken, who started “The Biggest Loser” at 358 pounds and lost 161 lbs pounds (44.97% of his total body weight), says the bottom line is to “burn calories.” That means, simply, working out.
Jaron, who started at 323 pounds and lost 160 pounds (49.54% of his total body weight), says the key is in counting calories.

Playing on the lifestyle changes as opposed to temporary dieting changes angle, Ginnie (who lost 114 pounds) fills up on healthy substitutes for fatty fried snacks and switches drinks that still taste good without sugar and cream, for instance, and also swears by working out with a friend as opposed to working out alone.

Jennifer, who lost 100 pounds (40.82% of her total body weight), also focuses on the food changes and manipulations—advising that always eating a carbohydrate accompanied by protein, because protein is the facilitator, the assist to carb processing (and the engine which burns fat most efficiently).

And Poppi, who lost 117 pounds (a whopping 50.43% of her total body weight), insists that the secret to successful weight loss is just that a secret—for bragging about it or

professing plans to diet get jinxed…whereas Marty, who lost an impressive 146 pounds (40% of his body weight), contests that one should do the exact opposite—telling everyone to get all the support one can get.
Obviously, different strategies worked and work for different losers. As well, it helps to take each individual tip into account as a part of your whole weight loss process, using as holistic an approach as possible. Or, in the words of the long-standing OA (Overeaters Anonymous) and other twelve-step recovery programs that speak about advice you read or hear, “Take what you need and leave the rest.”
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