Loser 'promotes dangerous weight loss'

Loser 'promotes dangerous weight loss' | NEWS.com.au: "The criticism comes after contestants were this week put through their most gruelling training exercise yet, running up 146 flights of stairs in Sydney's tallest skyscraper."

73 flights of the World Tower. Yes, it's a harsh regime. They did it once and then they did it again. Did you see their faces? Did you see how fat they were before and miserable? How did that help them? When they know this level of fitness they at least know what to aim for in the future if they fall off their perches. It is a show which motivates. Not everyone follows through in the no pain, no gain regime. It is a a way of motivating people. Before the show we had NOTHING which was getting through to people. Since the show people have an idea of how to go about it, how to motivate themselves, how to eat, how to get help. How to hang in there. Yes, we are overweight. Fat is the biggest thing to hit us and America. Nothing has been getting through to people. When this show comes on, the lunch boxes change, people are talking about what to have for dinner, they change their appearance. Out on the street people are out with their dogs and families...walking. Kids are on their bikes. It is noticeably good around Biggest Loser time. If the contestants put the weight back on then that is them not the show. Most people don't do drastic but the show gets them thinking and moving. There is one hugely successful boot camp activitiy on a local beach and people love it. It's commando style with logs and what have you. It has appeal to some people. But we have the mall walkers and we have the small fitness studios popping up. The show has made us wake up to ourselves. What else is there? A lot of talk. Maybe you need to talk to the contestants and I would like to know how last year's are doing...but the ones we have seen are okay. I didn't lose lots of weight the first time..I had to keep coming back to basic principles and then , at 25, I got it and didn't look back again. If at first...