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

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Well we are a couple of weeks away from the 2 hour premiere of the fourth season of the Biggest Loser. Next Tuesday we are going to have a recap of the people from last season and a chance to see whether Erik has managed to keep the weight off over the last couple months plus probably an update of the poster couple of the Biggest Loser Season 2 Matt and Suzy and their new baby (Let’s see if Matt has been able to drop his post show weight again).

In two seeks we get the two hour Biggest Loser 4 Premiere. Remember a few weeks ago we found out that Bob Harper and Kim Lyons but also we will have a team coached by a returning Jillian Michaels. Also as a replacement to Caroline Rhea we are now going to have soap star Alison Sweeney as the new host.

I have no insight into how the show is going to play out last season but you may remember how I was a really disappointed at how the people on the show were having their own mini survivor and trying to play the game more than supporting each other. Time will tell how well the show will go with a new cast and a whole new set of issues will play out between a bunch of people that do not know each other yet.

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Big news announced today as Jillian Michaels will be returning after sitting out last season, Season 3 of the Biggest Loser. But does this mean that Kim Lyons, the trainer that people did not seem to link was fired? No not at all. The fourth season of the Biggest Loser will have a twist with Kim Lyons training a first ever third team of contestants.

The new season will be starting on TV in September but as we all know there is taping of the show that goes on for months before and in secret.The new group of 18 includes the oldest and heaviest contestants in Biggest Loser history: 62-year-old Grandpa Jerry, who weighs 297 pounds, and 25-year-old Neil, who tips the scales at 421 pounds.

And there are even more huge changes in store this year. Instead of only a red and blue team, the show is increasing the load with the black team. The new team will be led by a familiar face: season one and two’s tough-talking trainer Jillian Michaels, who’s back for a third helping of heavy hitters.

I always make good television, Jillian Michaels joked with Access Hollywood.

I was like, oh no, she’s back, laughed trainer Bob Harper. It completely changes everything that I do now.

For those of us that have watched the show for three seasons Bob Harper is everyones favorite but Jillian Michaels can always push people hard enough to get it done. Hopefully this next fourth season of the Biggest Loser will be better than what I thought was a disappointment last season.

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I have been a bit slow but finally am now getting around to blogging the first episode of the Biggest Loser. I watched this two hour premiere with my wife and 6 year old daughter and it is funny how we each saw things differently. When they went through all of the people’s attitudes at the beginning I was bored but my wife was crying from all of the stories, my daughter just wanted to know who we were going to cheer for.

First of all both my wife and I noticed Kim Lyons chest, are those for real or an enhancement for her fitness competitions? This also leads to a question of Kim Lyons past…Did she ever have a weight problem? We know from last season that Jillian Michaels was overweight when she was young and it is something that really drives her to help other people.

Bob Harper as always is a real character and has a really funny haircut, some kind of Mohawk hairstyle from the early eighties. Bob is great to watch because he is such a good motivator and is really excited for everyone.

Kim Lyons – Red Team
Heather, Jennifer, Kai, Ken, Nelson, Pam, and Wylie. Of all of the people on the Red team we certainly liked Ken and Jennifer best

Bob Harper – Blue Team
Amy, Bobby, Brian, Erik, Marty, Melinda, and Tiffany. No one on this team really stood out for us but Bobby, who missed his kids came across as a bit of a whiner.

The challenge this week was for all of the people split into teams to go over progressively larger barriers as a team and the team that won would get to choose a player from each team to swap for the weigh in, this could make a real difference if one team had a big losing member and one team had a small losing member. Everyone seemed to struggle somewhat in this challenge but there were definitely some people that were barely able to make it over the last 6 foot high or so barrier. On this show it seems that everyone near the end is in amazing shape and that is one of the really great things to watch as the season of Biggest Loser goes on. The red team won the contest and the blue team was fading fast by the end.
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Kim Lyons is a fitness contest competitor from California. Yesterday I posted about how Jillian Michaels has left the Biggest Lose and is being replaced by Kim Lyons . Who is Kim Lyons you may be wondering? Well I dug around and found the following bio on her at the Kim Lyons website. It looks like she has quite the background and I am excited to see her in action when the Biggest Loser comes back to TV next January

Height 5′4
Birthday 5-5-73
Weight 120 off season 115 competition
Measurements 34-24-34
Hair Blonde
Eyes Brown

My Childhood

“Home is not the place where you live, but the place where you belong”

I was born in Texas, then moved to England, Sacramento CA, New Mexico, Alabama, Back to Sacramento, Idaho, Virginia, Colorado, Texas, Arizona, Italy, Utah and now I’m in Hermosa Beach, CA Although I always made where I’m living home, I have been coming to Hermosa Beach since I was five to spend the summers with my Grandparents. I have always called Hermosa “home”. It is the only place that I have continued to return to throughout my life. It sounds silly, but I still get so excited every time I wake up and realize I live here!

Athletic Background
I have always been involved in sports. Gymnastics, dance, track, softball, and cheerleading were I spent most of my time. Moving so often it was hard to make new friends, having sports always put me in with a little group. I cheered all the way through my last year in college. Most people really under estimate how much athletic talent and time is required as a collegian cheerleader.

Getting started as a fitness competitor
I never planned on a career in fitness. Throughout college I studied nutrition and other related topics to get my BS in Human Development and Nutrition. I just needed to get a degree so I could become an airline pilot. That was my goal. However, my love and passion of the fitness industry and modeling lead me down a different path.

Shortly after graduating from Colorado State I began teaching aerobics and working at the front desk at a new World Gym opening up across the street. I rarely lifted weights, and taught about 6 classes a week. One of the trainers asked me if I wanted to train with him and another girl looking to share the cost of the sessions. The other girl, Shannon, was training for the Galaxy. She had the most amazing abs I’d ever seen. After about a month of training and learning to eat better, my body had drastically changed and I decided to compete as well. There were about 100 girls in the competition and I placed somewhere in the top 20. I was super happy with that and had a blast. Even better, I was swamped by several top photographers in the business. I started to get exposure, and from there the ball kept rolling. I never dreamed I’d actually get the job of my dreams as a “Weider Athlete”. I have since signed on as part of “Team Muscle Tech”. Life just keeps getting better!

Me in a Nutshell!
I’m a totally down to earth! I believe in the good old fashion phrase “Treat others as you’d like them to treat you!” If I’m having a bad day and someone smiles, says hello, or gives a compliment can really turn my day around. Sometimes I feel like everyone is so quick to be critical and not to give a compliment. I think we all critique ourselves enough, sometimes it is hard to see the beauty in ourselves.

I guess overall I’m pretty much a goofball. I’d say I have a smile on my face 90% of the time. Doing sexy shoots is not my thing, I think I look silly when I have a serious face! Many people think I’m a goodie two shoes because I don’t do a lot of sexy T and A shoots, but really I just have a butt complex and my top half is usually to lean to brag about! I’m super independent and love to be alone. I love days when I can just sit around my house, catch up on e-mails, clean out a drawer or two, fold the laundry, and walk the dog. I don’t understand how people can be bored. I need about ten lifetimes to do everything I want to do!

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**Just an update to this post. This was written back when Jillian Michaels left for a season or two. As we all know, Jillian has been back for a while now and is still coaching on the Biggest Loser

I was a little slow on the draw with this one but apparently last week Jillian Michaels announced that she will not be back on the Biggest Loser. To bad, Jillian has always been a great alter ego of the training pair on The Biggest Loser to Bob Harper. While Bob has always been slowly pushed people up to a high intensity workout and eating Jillian has always pushed the contestants on the Biggest Loser right to the edge on the first day.

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Jillian has always had a soft side as well. She confessed once last season that when she was young she was overweight and had to really push herself to lose the weight and to get herself into the fantastic shape that really struck all of the fans of the Biggest Loser. Don’t be too worried about Jillian’s future however as she has a great business on and off line as a trainer and an author. Her book last year called Winning by Losing is still on the charts at Amazon.

Jillian is going to be replaced by Kim Lyons, a fitness competitor who lives in California.

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