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. She said,

“It was definitely a transition to go from weight-loss mode to training mode.  Initially, I felt like I wasn’t working hard enough in comparison to the workout plan on the show……. I had two rest days a week when I would do yoga or go to a conditioning class at the gym.”

Tara’s new lease on life allows for her to enjoy physical activity instead of just looking forward to drinks at happy hour.  She now likes to get friends together for a fun 5K run on a Friday night and save the drinks for afterwards.  Now that she has run the marathon she hopes to make it a yearly tradition and she’s also thinking about getting into surfing and rock climbing. Way to go, Tara.

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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.”

She explained that when contestants first arrive they are completely sequestered from the other potential castmates and they would have to get permission to leave their hotel rooms and they would be escorted to wherever they wanted to go. In her future blogs she will reveal more inside secrets as to what contestants do behind the scenes.

Tara is a good example of someone who understands that weight loss and health is a life long commitment and that even though you lose the weight you then have to keep it off. Apart from training for the marathon she has organized a 5k run/walk and a Health and Wellness Fair in her own community that will take place in October.

Biggest Loser season eight premieres on Tuesday night.

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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.”

She keeps her food intake in check by logging her daily calories:

“Everyday I make a promise to myself to stay away from the foods that led me to be 300 pounds. I still have to keep myself in check — I log my food into a Blackberry application that tracks my calories … I do not deprive myself of anything. If I want something, I eat it. I no longer eat the whole container or bag, but I have a portion. But my cravings have changed. I no longer crave chicken wings and fries. I would rather have a grilled veggies and chicken kebab.”

Tara is quite the technie, apart from using a Blackberry application to log her calories she’s also getting online assistance for her marathon training.  She explained,

“I am so excited that I will be working with the New York Road Runners online training program. It is hard for me to dedicate a definitive time and place on a weekly basis to train, so this online training program will offer me the guidance and flexibility that I need.”

Good luck, Tara!

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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.”

Tara attributes her dramatic weight loss to what she calls the ‘6-Mile Workout’ which consists of jogging 3 miles, doing 20 push-ups, jogging another mile, then another set of push-ups, another mile, more push-ups, one last mile and then one final round of push-ups. That is definitely a fat-burning workout! Tara told Ok Magazine,

“Right now I’m embracing day in and day out of what I’m living.  I’m finally allowing myself to realize that, okay, I can lose weight and I can be small and the weight will come off. And the second that you start believing that it will come off, it comes off.”