Bring on Battle of the Bulimics

now that would be a good show, except it would be a bit groggy

Quoted from Rockchick

I'm really enjoying this show. It really highlights what perfect casting can do to a show, and high production values.

All of the 'characters' are identifiable, endearing and real. Each episode is turning out to be very self contained and slickly produced.

Probably the best local show so far this year.

I think they have learnt from the past, remember Australian Survivor and the disaster that was!! It just couldn't compare to the American format. It looks like they have just followed the American format exactly (production values) and just shoved 12 Aussies as well as the host (who for the way she announced herself, we the public are meant to know her or care? )

The show is great and if it inspires people to get fit and healthy then great!!

Some of the contestants are forgetting why they are there, the immunity challenge for example, winning the bridge climb and then, ohhhh let’s eat, when the haven’t even educated themselves on what foods contain the most calories or how to calculate  

It's going to be interesting at the weigh in tonight

This show makes me feel like for the amount of food i eat i should be big. I'll sit there and watch it with my chocolate and think maybe i should exercise and maybe i should get fit because if these people that are atleast 3 times my weight can do it i probably could to.... then i go back to my chocolate or grab something else to snack on.

wow when that guy lost over 12kg in the first week! that is amazing..apparently that is a Biggest Loser Record. I have been enjoying the show from what i have watched of it.

Never watched the show.... don't intend to watch the show. I know someone who lost the eqivalent of 11 stone OR 70kg. They are now a healthy weight of 89kg. He did it between the ages of Eighteen and Twenty. Revved up his metabolism, exercised but not fanatically and changed his diet. Went from 9XL plus to XL. In the beginning he had meal replacement shakes from the supermarket for 2 meals a day and a normal dinner of protien and Carbs. Now he eats weetbix for breakfast, plenty of pure juices and 2 meals of protein and carbs. We who know this man are very proud of him. Recently I saw a young woman who was about 160cm tall. She had a button on that said 'I have lost 25 kg' I said 'well done' and gave her encouragement telling her the above story and how good she looks. I recently lost 3kg and it is damned hard if you are prone to carrying extra weight. My daughter who is twenty-eight, has a very fast metabolism and weighs 50kg, she takes after her Father's side of the family!

That is true. . the first flush of success is great. . and power to them . .but time will show how they cope when the amounts get smaller. . and some weeks they will be lucky to lose 2 kg. . the body goes into 'famine' mode. . and that is where they are headed now. . . so they just need to hold on and don't be discouraged. I hope they succeed although I rarely watch the show. .

Having shed 60 kgs of my own over 12 months, what those "trainers" (and I use that term loosely) force those 100 kg + people to do is totally unrealistic.  Let's hope what we see is just for the cameras and doesn't continue off screen.

Quoted from Paula

Having shed 60 kgs of my own over 12 months, what those "trainers" (and I use that term loosely) force those 100 kg + people to do is totally unrealistic.  Let's hope what we see is just for the cameras and doesn't continue off screen.

Big Congrats on the impressive weight lose!  
Yeah i agree as well, they are taking people who have done hardly any phyical exercise and through them in the deep end with the amount that they make them do, but in the same sense they new what they were getting themselves in for on the show so i guess they weighed up and pros and cons before going into it.They do have a paramedic there 24/7 off screen. I read somewhere that someone went to do a interview with the BLs a week after they started and they were saying that they had a production meeting and the producers told them because christmas was coming up that they would only have a skeleton crew there and no paramedics so they were not to do any training over the main days for christmas..Also because they are not allowed contact with outside family members unless instigated by the producers for the show they could not see their family over christmas either and were not allowed to leave the place they are staying.

Quoted from ozdvl

...Also because they are not allowed contact with outside family members unless instigated by the producers for the show they could not see their family over christmas either and were not allowed to leave the place they are staying.

Well they had a choice each and every day whether to stay or not...I will never understand anyone voluntarily giving that much power to someone else over their lives but having done so (ie given that power to someone voluntarily) then I don't wanna hear a single whinge from any of these people...it ain't like they had a gun held at their heads and it aint like they couldn't walk away any time they wanted..and it aint even like they could argue they didn't know what they were getting into...there's been at least 5 years of this kind of crap tv with survivor, big brother, idols etc etc etc...we all know now (whether we want to or not) that these shows are made for entertainment and the producers will do whatever nasty things they want to get that entertainment...whether it's an idol judge calling someone fat or taking the treats away from people locked in a house...'cos apparently humiliating people is entertainment and so is watching other people's misery

of course I'd rather watch paint dry but clearly I am in the minority

survvor  is good lol
paula why are u so against thin ppl?  those ppl r so fat they need 2 lose the weight. thats so bad gettng healthy people 2 get fat why do that? thats gross.  i recon its  a good show mae those ppls lives better fat is not healthy.

Quoted from Paula

Having shed 60 kgs of my own over 12 months, what those "trainers" (and I use that term loosely) force those 100 kg + people to do is totally unrealistic.  Let's hope what we see is just for the cameras and doesn't continue off screen.

Dara... I do not see anywhere that Paula indicates she is 'against' thin people. BTW Paula, Three big cheers for that weight loss. That's more than some people weigh. What a great accomplishment.
My first husband equates thinness with health. He is a thin and wrinkley 52 year old. Our daughter weighs 50kg but is by no means 'thin' she does however, look great. When she was about 20 he told her she was getting a bit chubby, she may have been 52kg at the time. When I weighed 57kg and weighed more than him he called me a fat slob. Some people are just too superficial.
Being a slim or thin person does not mean you are fit and healthy the same goes for being overweight. Weight has a heck of a lot to do with healthiness but it is not indicative of your fitness level. I read an article recently where a woman of 52 who was a fitness and Yoga instructor died from a heart attack. She was boney and drawn but was seen as being exceptionally fit and her death was a shock to everyone who knew her.

Weight is a factor in health of course. . but as Suzi said. .it is not the end of it.  My hubby. . weight just right. . but colesterol and sugar is being monitored as we speak due to being too high . . me about 8-10kg over my ideal and my sugar and cholesterol are great. . (go figure). .  but I avoid those who are 'fat obsessed'. . like your 1st hubby. . 'fat slob' is the fastest way to make an overweight person become very sick and it is just not a kind way to 'encourage' anyone.

I know a couple of 20 something girls who spend up to 6 months at a stretch in hospital because they cannot overcome their starvation tactics. . and one nearly died a couple of months ago . .and is not out of the woods yet at only 40kg.

Can I ask Dara how old she is?. .

Quoted from Paula

Having shed 60 kgs of my own over 12 months, what those "trainers" (and I use that term loosely) force those 100 kg + people to do is totally unrealistic.  Let's hope what we see is just for the cameras and doesn't continue off screen.

Firstly, congratulations on your weight loss, however I disagree with you on this, you have to remember this is a game show, the trainers only have 8 weeks to get their teams to loose the most weight after that it is totally up to them to follow through.

WILL POWER and EDUCTAION is the key  

The show isn’t called the * First to be at your ideal body weight * it's the biggest looser at the end, even if the last 2 are only loose 40kg each and are still 80kg overweight if one has lost more than the other then we have a winner, he / she can take the $200 grand and blow it all on chocolate cake and put every kg back on its entirely up to them.

The way the trainers have * educated * their team about foods and being healthy along with exercise has worked over in the state's, if you watched the last one I think the guy called Big Pete, who unofficially was the biggest looser, ended up thinner than Rowan Atkinson ( Mr Bean ) he was a stick figure at the end.

It will be interesting Monday, by the look of it Bob has done a runner back to the States. the blue team look devistated

Gizmo I am 15, why?
57 kg is not fat! Fat is like 190 kg or whatever like some of the people on that show... I don't really care whether people are fat or thin... I just don't think fat is any better than thin?
I meant when paula said bring on the battle of the bulimics and all that...
I way like 48kg so yeah.... I'm too tall that's why I'm skinny lol
Hey yeah I know thin doesnt nessacerily = healthy but like my school has a sporting ecxcellence center for lots of sports and there is only about 3 fat people out of the like 200 people in the various sports.. soo go figure