The Biggest Loser Doc Review

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Finally got a chance to sit down and watch the documentary on The Biggest Loser, Fit for TV on Netflix. Boy did this bring back some memories.

The Biggest Loser premiered in 2004 and to call it a hit would be underselling it. It quickly became a worldwide phenomenon with millions tuning in every week to see how much these contestants could lose. As someone who at the time was probably around 400 lbs, I was very interested in seeing exactly what it would take to lose weight and get healthy.

What I saw was very discouraging. What the show portrayed was that the best way to lose weight was to lock yourself away from your family, eat as little as possible and work out 8 hours a day like it was your job with a trainer screaming in your face. Not an option for me and not the life I wanted.

As the show wore on, you found out the contestants were eating 800 calories a day. I can't even imagine what it must have felt like for these people to be working out as much as they were surviving on 800 calories a day. I would have been ready to literally kill someone for a sandwich.

The documentary did a great job of showing how hard the program was on the contestants and how many of them rebounded back to their beginning weight after the show was over. In fact, the most shocking thing to see was the difference between the people who rebounded and gained all the weight back and the ones who didn't then at the end you find out that pretty much every person that was thin was on Ozempic. In short, the show utterly failed to enable people to maintain their weight loss but a GLP-1 inhibitor did the job.

In fact, this is probably the biggest reason there will be no revival of the show because you just don't have to starve yourself and be yelled at by a trainer anymore. Modern medicine is making obesity a thing of the past.

To be clear, I still have problems with these new drugs because the side effects scare me and I feel I can get the same results from eating low carb and mostly meat but I totally get the appeal of a shortcut. I wonder if they had been available when I started my weight loss journey over a decade ago if I would have just taken them and not dealt with all the learning I had to do to figure out how best to nourish my body. I also think I'm far better off because I went this way instead of that.

In short, it was a fascinating documentary showing us how hard it is to lose weight but more importantly, how difficult it is to keep it off long term. It takes a complete change of your eating and exercise habits that need to be able to survive the real world when you don't have the crutch of someone making all your food and trainers dedicated to working you out constantly. Or, you know, the right pill.