My girlfriend and I were talking about this yesterday after our morning run. We were talking about the TV show “The Biggest Loser,” for those of you not familiar with the show, it’s an American TV show in which contestants try to lose as much weight as possible during the show’s run in order to win a $250,000 prize. While en route to the prize, the contestants live on a “fat ranch” where they exercise all day and have to compete in certain challenges in order to continue to the next round of competition.

What my GF and I were saying, was that the weight loss that the contestants get is not realistic. The longer someone stays “at the ranch” the less realistic the weight loss is. I feel that anyone, if given a nutritionist, meals, had 6 hours a day to work out at the gym with a personal trainer, etc. anyone could lose 100 lbs in 17 weeks.

The most realistic part of the show, is when the contestants go home for 30 days before the final weigh in.

Yet still, this portion is not very realistic. They don’t talk about any of these people having to go to work, and having to deal with regular day to day stuff. They’re in a bubble of existence designed to help/ get them to lose as much weight as they can given their time allotment.

The contestants that lost a lot of weight all say “I’ll never go back to being that big again” but not all of them can keep to that. The producers of the show are careful to not show “the other contestants” from years past. The previous season’s winners always come back, but none of the other contestants ever do. Why is that?

So, how is biggest loser pertinent?

I feel that my current regimen is very realistic and is the right one for me at this point in time.  I still want to do an ultra trail marathon, and maybe do a half iron man triathlon by the time I turn 40 in December of 2010. I feel that at my current pace, I will get to a point where I can increase both my mileage and my intensity and really kick start the “getting in shape” phase of the plan really soon.

Just to bring y’all up to speed, right now I’m eating a salad with every meal, and I’m eating the salad first. My portions have gotten smaller and my overall menu has gotten healthier.  I haven’t weighed myself recently, but my clothes are all fitting looser and better which is a clear sign that my plan is working and I am moving in the right direction.

This weekend, my GF and I went out every day and walked about 2 miles every day. We didn’t pig out on BBQ, ice cream or anything like that. We even did weights in the form of building a rock patio at her mom’s house. When were moving those rocks around, my GF said she felt like she was on “Biggest Loser” doing a crazy challenge.

And there it is, full circle

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