Talk:The Biggest Loser (American TV series)

Braggadocio!!!

Season 11 - Couples #32 26. 43

26.43 million viewers? Any evidence? Who'll believe it???--Peterxj108 (talk) 05:17, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Too Many Records?

There are too many unnecessary records on the page. Falling Below the Line is not a record. The BMI record is not necessary nor is off campus weight (Arthur at 646 lbs.). Longest surviving couples also is not a necessary record. Please shorten the record table. It is too confusing to read. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.63.72.238 (talk) 20:36, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Trainers who have fallen victim to a total team wipe-out before the finale

I think that this should also be included under the records section of this article:

Trainers who have had their entire teams eliminated before the final weigh-in

• Kim Lyons (season 4, week 12 of 14) (first trainer to have her entire team eliminated before the finale)
• Bob Harper (season 4, week 14 of 14)
• Brett Hoebel (season 11, week 14 of 20)
• Cara Castronuova (season 11, week 19 of 20)

Light on weight loss information

This article seems to be heavy on criticisms of their process without actually laying out what they do, or what results they've acheived. I think it gives the impression that the show is universially condemned by health care professionas, but more importantly it makes it so you have the basic knowledge needed to understand the criticisms. I'm guessing it was assumed that this information would be already known to people, but I think that's a bad assumption.

207.42.135.25 (talk) 23:52, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

"Healthy" Rate of Weight Loss

There is NOT, as suggested by a previous Wiki writer, any sort of medical opinion -- at least not any based on a scientific study -- that states losing 1-2 pounds per week is a healthy rate. In fact, there aren't ANY scientific studies that posit ANY rate at all as being more "healthy" than any other. This is one of those many myths that cropped up out there about weight loss and fitness that has somehow come to be3 taken as fact and passed around all over the internet and, indeed, doctors' offices.

Where this 1-2 pounds per week figure COMES FROM, originally, is from an examination of the openly available data of the National Weight Control Registry, that is a self-reported survey of an extremely large group of diverse people who can join the registry if they have lost at least 30 pounds and maintained that loss for at least one year. (Significantly, the average male has lost 70 pounds and maintained that loss for more than five years.)

I do not know offhand which study discovered this point among the database, but essentially, 1-2 pounds per week is the average rate at which the members of this group lost their weight. So that is where the figure came from, but it's meaning has NOTHING to do with it being a "healthy" rate. First, it is just a statistical average. Second, it is simply a correlation between that rate and the ability to lose a large amount of weight for most people and to successfully then keep the weight off.

One could reasonably conjecture that this slow rate, relative to the rate of contestants on the show, is more likely to result in success not just in losing the desired amoutn of weight, but in not yo-yoing by gaining the weight back again after you have stopped the diet and exercise you were doing to achieve the weight loss in the first place. However, it does appear that most contestants have been successful at maintaining their large losses.

So I am going to go in and edit what was there before, because it is dead wrong in what it is saying. But again, I do not have the actual study in front of me to cite, so for now I will merely remove the "health" part of the claim and keep the original cite there.

Prosandcons (talk) 04:51, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi, this page seems to a typo in the opening sentence:The Biggest Loser is an American is a show that debuted on NBC October 19, 2004. Just letting you know because I don't have time to sign up to edit myself right this minute. Thank you!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.128.106.18 (talk) 08:11, 14 April 2013 (UTC) 

The actual time between episodes: BL weeks are not seven days long

Someone should find out from the producers - and report on it - when there are 14 days between episodes, or four months between the last episode and the finale. A case in point: Season 15 winner appeared to lose 45 pounds between "weeks", when it was achieved in 3 or 4 months. This will create realistic expectations in viewers attempting to recreate the results of the show at home.

Thanks