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Previous The Biggest Loser trainer, Kim Lyons, has released a new fitness DVD – one aimed specifically targeted to diabetes patients, called Start Fitness Now: Beating Type 2 Diabetes.

The 3-set DVD series, produced by Watch It Now Entertainment and created with Dr Sheila Singh, MD, Diplomat of the American Association of Family Physicians, is a workout designed by a celebrity trainer but endorsed by a registered physician. [Read more →]

While on The Biggest Loser season eight, Abigail Rike faced many challenges apart from the weight loss.  She had to endure a stress fracture of the knee and still managed an average weight loss of four pounds a week and now she’s down to an impressive 165 pounds. In addition, she had to emotionally heal from the wounds of her tragic past. In her exclusive interview with Life & Style Magazine Abby opened up about the loss of her husband and two children in a car accident in 2006 and how she has since re-emerged as a new person.  She said,

“Losing weight is kind of like shedding the sadness and hurt and emerging stronger. My life will matter again.”

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Last week it was Julio Gomez who was kicked off the Biggest Loser Ranch and after another week of blood, sweat and tears the latest to be booted is Dina Mercado from California.  She started the show weighing in at 253 pounds and 75 pounds later she now weighs an impressive 178 pounds. Dina told People magazine that the first thing she did when she got back home was to hire a personal trainer to ensure she keeps up with the weight loss.   [Read more →]

Julio Gomez may have suffered a heart-breaking elmination last week on The Biggest Loser, but the 40-year-old mortgage loan officer has nothing to complain about. While on the show he went from 407 pounds to 279 pounds, that’s a whopping 128 pound weight loss. After the elimination episode he spoke with reporters about how he kicked the fast food habit, learned to cook at home and his work with fitness trainer Jillian Michaels.

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Twitter seems to be the latest way celebrity trainers share their tips to a healthier lifestyle with us ordinary folk. Super trainer on hit TV show The Biggest Loser, Jillian Michaels, last night tweeted her tips on how to choose a good lettuce at the supermarket.

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Alexandra White became the first contestant voted off reality TV show The Biggest Loser this week, and shared her weight-loss motivation tips on The Today Show.

“Being 309 pounds was a crazy experience,” the 20-year-old accounting student told Al Roker on the show. “It held me back from everything; fitting into class seats, dating, and just living my life. I’m really so glad that I’m not there anymore.”

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The contestants on one of TV’s biggest reality shows, The Biggest Loser, keep track of their weight-loss by calculating how many calories they’ve consumed and how many they’ve worked off with the bodybugg.

The GoWear fit Lifestyle and Calorie Management System tracks how many calories you’ve used during your day or workout by recording your core body temperature, the fluctuation of this temperature, the amount of steps you take, your overall amount of physical activity, your sweat rate and your axis of motion. The device tracks how many calories you’ve consumed by means of an online food diary – you need to enter the food you eat. Once you’ve downloaded the various data to your computer from the little black box, the software will then calculate your total calorie expenditure.

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Tara Costa won the Biggest Loser reality series in season seven after dropping 150 pounds. She still looks phenomenal, she’s been training hard for the New York City marathon and now she has a new gig as the weekly blogger for the new season of the Biggest Loser.  Costa is excited for the new contestants as she remembers what it felt like to get off the airplane and live in a reality series world over those months on the show. She wrote,

“I am sure that some (if not all) of the contestants will feel the same way I did. When you get the final notice that you are indeed going to L.A. to meet with producers, casting directors and executives, you feel like you have been given a second chance, that things will be better this time around and that you will truly make the changes your life so badly needs.”

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The Biggest Loser franchise is getting bigger each season.  DVDs, books, equipment and now an interactive video game that actually sounds really impressive.  Last week Biggest Loser unveiled the The Biggest Loser video game in NYC where past contestants and the media got to try it out.

Basically, the user chooses a 4, 8 or 12 week fitness program.  He/she first enters data such as name, age, weight, height, and weight loss goal.  Keep in mind that the game was designed by The Biggest Loser doctors and nutritionists so if you’re wanting to lose 100 pounds in 12 weeks, it’s just not going to happen because that isn’t healthy nor is it a long term fix.

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Tara Costa, the Biggest Loser winner from season 7 is still in tip-top shape and she now plans to train for the New York City Marathon that will take place on November 1st.  Recently, she told People Magazine what she has done since leaving the reality series to maintain her weight.  As for her workout routine she explained,

“At first I was very skeptical of allowing myself to go out with friends on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. I knew that on Saturday mornings I would be doing my long jog with my workout buddies and I didn’t want to jeopardize feeling sluggish. I make choices now — some days my workouts are far more intense than the average and others are just an hour of a fun activity with friends.”

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