The Biggest Loser Stays Real and Stays on for a 4th Season
The Biggest Loser Stays Real and Stays on for a 4th Season by Roxanne McDonald
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The Biggest Loser will not only stay on with a fourth season, but will continue to use realistic goals and activities to prompt weight-loss success. |
According to Zap2it, NBC has picked up The Biggest Loser four a fourth season (airing in 2007). Despite the shaky Wednesday night television schedule, The Biggest Loser has held up well in the ratings, as have the contestants.
As Zap2it reports NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly saying, “The producing team has come up with unique ways to keep the series fresh, and we anticipate the next cycle will continue to produce life-changing results for the contestants and jaw-dropping reveals for the viewers.”
The ways the contestants have to compete to win challenges and immunity are indeed fresh: tonight’s November 29, 2006th episode, for instance,
extends to the participants the reality of how much weigh they have lost and use that reality to challenge the remaining six: Jaron, Heather, Kai, Wylie, Adrian and Erik have to run a horse track (complete with an announcer yelling out their every moves)…with iron/metal weights the equivalent of what they have lost in fat thus far. This not only makes for good TV and a good, grueling challenge, but also keeps the remaining contestants vitally aware of how much weight they were carrying when they were overweight.
Further, I once read about and practiced the activity myself: at home with no gym equipment, I stuffed a backpack with sacks of flower and sugar and huge cans of veggies and fruits. This was when I had hit a wall in my weight loss regime, and the added junk forced my body to work harder and therefore to burn more calories as I did my usual power-walking workout—which I had been doing for almost a year.
Oprah Winfrey did a similar experiment. She towed lard/suet in a toy wagon out onto the stage. The pile of fat in the wagon represented how much she lost (then on Slim Fast, I think). The reminder is as real as one can get without actually putting the weight back on by overeating. Yay, then, for the reality of The Biggest Loser!
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