Losing weight the “Correct” way & keeping it off.
I was reading in Time magazine about the TV show The Biggest Loser and the fact that most of the contestants on the show after losing the weight ended up putting it back on again.
This comes as no real surprise to me as most people who crash diet and lose a lot of weight in a short time manage to regain most of, if not even more in a very short time after. Crash dieting and a lot of the so called “Fad” diets end up having the person actually dehydrate themselves and only lose water weight rather than actual fat, and they by no means do anything to assist you in getting into any kind of decent physical condition. Without losing the weight in what I call the right way the majority of people are doomed to failure even before they begin.
On the show The Biggest Loser the runner up one season ate nothing but jello for a week before the final weigh in and said that she spent the night before hoping in and out of a sauna trying to sweat off as much extra weight as she could. Some contestants even worked out 4 or more hours a day which in reality is not going to last.
The US National Weight Control Registry (did you know that there as such a thing?) tracked 5000 successful weight loss “maintainers” and lo and behold found out that the ones that kept the weight from coming back were those who were doing the most physical activity. To which I say as Homer Simpson would say, “Doh!”
It has been proven that an exercise regime consisting of weight lifting and cardio combined with a clean, healthy diet where you are consuming less calories than you are putting out works the best for weight loss and toning the body rather than the standard cigarettes and coffee diet that so many people (and skinny models) lean towards or any of the many other 4 week wonder diets.
With over 66% of Americans overweight and bordering on being classified as obese we the personal trainers, gym personnel, fitness industry professionals and others that deal with those wishing to lose weight better start speaking up and out and doing something about showing people how to lose weight correctly or else many of those who really want to make the effort to lose weight but don’t know the correct way are doomed to yo-yo back and forth until they like millions of others give up in frustration.
I may be wrong but I don’t think so!
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June 28, 2007 at 11:56 am
To say, "I’m going on a diet" to me sends a negetive message. Going on a diet to me implies that it is a temporary thing to just lose weight. If you truly want to be healthy one needs to make a lifestyle change….meaning for life. I watch the Biggest Loser and I think it does inspire a lot of people but I think it also sends a wrong message and gives unreal expectations.
June 29, 2007 at 7:29 am
I was originally checking to see how my hero was doing but got caught up reading your blog. I agree with you. TV Shows like the Biggest Loser, and Celebrity fit club worry me because these people go through extremes just to reach the goal for that day’s weigh-in and for contest money. When its over and the camera’s are gone…what have you learned?
August 12, 2007 at 7:19 pm
thx for tht, took alot of intrest in readin it n has cleared up alot of issues i did have and made me clearer in areas i wasnt so sure. hear from u soon.
joe