Tag — Tara Costa

Tara Costa, the winner of Biggest Loser season 7 is still in tip-top shape after completing the show seven months ago.  Once weighing 294 pounds she is down to a size 8 and she just ran the New York City marathon last week. In her interview with Ok! Magazine she revealed her inspiration for running the race and how she trained in order to finish with a time of 4:23:12. She said that after finishing Biggest Loser she needed a new challenge in order to keep herself motivated so she followed an online training program to get ready for the marathon. [Read more →]

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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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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Ok Magazine caught up with Tara Costa while on the set of the NBC Biggest Loser fashion episode with style guru, Tim Gun.  The former plus-size model admitted,

“I was an overweight teen all the way up to 24… I did everything.”

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