I just finished watching Season 7 of “The Biggest Loser”. It has been one of my favorite tv-shows. It’s amazing how they can lose over 150lbs and going from over 410lbs to less than 200.  This Season was supposedly the “biggest” in almost every aspect. As Jillian Michaels (one of the trainers) put it,

We have the oldest at 63, the youngest at 18, the heaviest, the sickest, the heaviest woman, the most number of contestants and the longest season. It was also different joining them on their experience from being huge to being extremely active.

Here are some before and after pictures:

This is Jerry. He’s the oldest at age 63. He won the at home prize of $100,000 for losing over 54% of his starting body weight. Amazing!

This is the brown team of Ron and Mike, father and son duo. They are the first team to have ever made it to the finale.

This is the green team of Tara and Laura, former models. I don’t know how you can get from being a model to… that. But look at what they’ve accomplished. Tara is the only Biggest Loser contestant who never fell below the yellow line AND has won 12 challenges. The most anyone has ever won on the biggest loser.

And this is Eric (not his real name). He started out at size 38 and weighed around 215lbs, or so he says. 6 months into the program, he went down to a size 30 and weighed 170. He was even featured in the TAKBO.PH 2008 yearbook as a weightloss success story.

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I found out that Season 8 of the Biggest Loser has already started in America and there is also a one coming to Asia! It will be broadcasted on Hallmark on Nov. 24, 9pm. Here is the teaser.

I wonder if I’ll ever be able to join the biggest loser…

(to be continued…)