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The second episode for the Biggest Loser this season was a two hour episode just like the first episode was. We get a bit of a recap and then watched as the two main teams worked out and the Black Team headed by Jillian Michaels had their first weight in. These guys are all working out really hard and in fine Biggest Loser form we are getting to see punishment.

One of the great things about the Biggest Loser is the little short tips that you run into during the show. One of the guys was eating next to nothing and got beat up for it. If you do not eat your body goes into a starvation mode and you will not be able to raise your metabolism to lose weight. Kim Lyons also brought up the idea of eating ground turkey instead of ground beef. Turkey is high in protein and very low in fat so it is a great alternative whether ground up or just cooked instead of steak or chicken.

I want to skip the other stuff for now from the show because I think the real highlight in the two hours was the read and blue teams finally seeing the cast-offs, the black team coached by Jillian Micheals.

“strong like a tidal wave” I have no idea who used this line as it came so fast but one of Jillian Michaels people used this term to discribe one of his team mates. This was the day that the red and blue teams got to meet the black team. As happened last season the read and blue teams did not feel that the black team deserved to be there but just because they did not see them does not mean that the black team was not working hard. The problem last season was that all of the bonding that went on meant the the people working out from home were looked at as infiltrators and were never really accepted…we will see how this season goes as there are now three pretty evenly matched teams.

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The new season, season 4 of Biggest Loser is now underway. I am again excited at the prospect of a new season and glad that they did away with and introduced some changes to the format of the Biggest Loser.

Of course the big change was to bring back Jillian Michaels as the trainer and coach of the new Black team, a team that the main group knows nothing about. Jillian has a bit of an edge in that she is playing on the emotions of her team as the castoffs that were not chosen while the other teams duke it out at the new non-ranch location.

Another change this season is the integration of the teams with the trainers. Bob Harper and Kim Lyons were both in the room for both the initial and second weigh ins and you could see their excitement and disappointment when members lost more or less than they had hoped.

Finally the Biggest Loser changed the format in that they do not have a few people on and kick off most of the people to workout at home by themselves, I did not like this last season and made it quite clear a few times in previous posts.

So now finally on to the show – the first of two two hour episodes with next week being two hours as well.

The Biggest Loser season 4 started with an almost 15 minute preview of this coming season, I guess this was OK even though it felt a bit like a commercial but the thing is that over the first few weeks we do not have a chance to get to know the people on the show very well and that is really to me what the show is all about.

The show starts with 18 people racing to Bob Harper and Kim Lyons with the two winners picking a team of 6 and having 6 people sent home, waving as the two team busses leave….or so they think, in rides Jillian Michaels to secretly take this team of 6 outcasts to become her new black team that will not show up in the game until after the second week.

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So the teams are now set, Bob Harper is working with the Blue team, Kim Lyons is working with the Red team and Jillian Michaels is working with the Black team. All the teams have six members and at this point seem pretty evenly matched as far as we could see.

The challenge this week was to load all of the weight that the teams want to lose individually into a private jet and then push and pull the jet across a finish line. Impressive to say the least with the red team winning the challenge and getting to read letters for home. Both my wife and I thought it was a little early for the letters at home type of reward, when did they see their families last? Last week? Anyway they could have waited 4 or 5 weeks for that one I thought.

Jillians black team is still working away in secret…

Finally in the weigh in the Blue team won. At the end of the weight in the captain of the Blue team, 62 year old Phil (an IT Project Manager) had to lose more than 5 pounds for his team to win and ended up losing 31 pounds.

So the Red team had to kick off one of their own, Amber, who tried to give up early seemed almost relieved to be kicked out of the game. I think that sometimes people are excited about being on a reality show and when they actually get there have trouble with the pain and interpersonal relationships that they had not really though through.

That’s it, the first episode of the Biggest Loser Season 4 is over but I am going to add some posts this week about the tips from the show as well as the people and what they seemed like.

Tonight the Biggest Loser Season 4 starts with a two hour season premiere and I know that my family anyway are eagerly awaiting the new season including my seven year old daughter. Last year I encouraged people that watch the show to do something to follow along, perhaps start a group at work, or at least go on your own intense diet and exercise program.

One of the great things that we learn on the Biggest Loser is the relationship between eating, exercise and weight loss. All three of these are related but not in the way many people think. The people on the Biggest Loser will lose a lot of weight every week but they are in a very controlled environment where they can see how their body is reacting to the amount and kinds of food they eat as well as the crazy exercise that they are getting.

 When someone says don’t try this at home in this case they really mean it. It is healthy to lose a couple or five pounds in a week but losing 10 or 20 pounds a week for weeks on end is very difficult and needs to be monitored by doctors. Most often when people try cutting and cleaning their diet and start to exercise 2 or 3 hours every day they will get great results but after a few weeks those results stop dead as their body scrambles to hold onto fat and lowers the metabolism.

If this season of the Biggest Loser lasts 15 weeks and you are looking to lose 30 pounds then why not challenge yourself. Clean up your diet, exercise once or twice six days a week and make sure that you stay on track. If you lose 2 pounds a week then you can be down 30 pounds by Christmas.

So I hope you as well will be joining in to watch Bob Harper, Kim Lyons, Jillian Michaels and a whole new group of people trying to make up for some bad decisions in the past.

I will be sure to update tonight after the show.

We watched yesterdays Biggest Loser episode tonight and it was nice to see the people that we liked and did not like over the last three seasons of the Biggest Loser.

The show was basically just a precursor to the season that will be starting next week with a two hour premiere of the Biggest Loser Season 4. We got  lots of weight ins and stories and a little bit of a preview of the season and I am again excited.

First the weigh ins. I am not sure what we expected but it seems that all of the people gained weight from when they left the show which I guess we should expect. It is not often in life that you get to take a couple of months off and just eat well and workout all day long and as tough as that task would be it must be even harder once you are back home with all of your friends, vices and bad eating and exercising habits. Almost everyone though still looks great so it is nice to see these people as role models for those that have a lot of weight to lose and do not know where to turn.

Just to add another feel to the show there was a clip about Matt Hoover and Suzy Preston who got married after being finalists in the second season and about how they are now proud parents…Matt seems to have gained a lot of weight back but the knowledge of how to get the weight back down never goes away. The other little piece that we got to see was the engagement on live TV of Marty and Amy from last season.

Lastly there was a few minutes of clips of the new teams saying how tough it is and Jillian Michaels riding in on a motorbike as the surprise third coach for this season.

The Biggest Loser Season 4 all starts next Tuesday night