Would ever consider joining The Biggest Loser show if you're overweight?

No. It's a quick way to lose weight, to be sure, but it teaches you two very awful things: (1) that exercise is brutal, no fun at all, and only meant to help you lose weight, and (2) exercise and diet a lot now, and you'll lose weight. It's missing the point - they're working these people to death for a few months for them to lose weight, and they are radically successful in most cases.

But do they permanently change their eating habits? Do they instill in them a love of exercise and moving around, or at least create a new lifestyle for these people? Absolutely not - it's a very Americanized way of looking at things, meaning a very short-term view of weight loss.

People should be noticing how often competitors are coming back to the show to re-lose their weight. I would much prefer learning a new lifestyle, and learning to appreciate food in a nutritional way, rather than work myself to death for a short-term goal.

Hell no! Not only because I think it is trash tv, but also because I think it would be really humiliating for the world to see you struggle to lose weight. I feel weight loss is something you should do in private, not something that should be broadcast all over the world so people can laugh at you.

I absolutely would, but at 270 pounds (male), I don't see any way I could get on a show that has mostly 400+ men. I watch the show religiously and exercise the whole time it's on. To me the people are courageous role models.

This year they had a young woman with a young child and a husband about to be deployed to Afghanistan who would have missed her husbands departure date if she hadn't been kicked off. Her MOTHER is also on the show and had emergency appendectomy the day her daughter left the show. The NEXT DAY she walked 13 miles.

I show is not without it's humor. Remember the dude that drank all that water and gained 17 pounds? Insane.

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No, I wouldn't. While I'm sure a lot of people watch The Biggest Loser for inspiration, there's a significant portion of the demographic who watches the show to feel better than "all those fat people. " It's a reality show; you can't escape that there's going to be a certain freak-show element to it.

Besides, I don't think it's healthy how they emphasize losing so much weight in a short time. Most experts say it's dangerous to lose more than one or two pounds a week, let alone ten or twenty or whatever the show's escalated to now. Would I try to lose weight?Sure.

But I wouldn't do it on TV for everyone to watch and potentially laugh at. I'd go at it myself, with the support of friend and family.

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