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Joy Behar was hosting Larry King last night. The discussion was diet and weight loss. Author, Gary Taubes, Good Calories Bad Calories was on with Dr. Oz and one of the trainers for The Biggest Loser.

Gary Taubes was talking about the benefits of a healthy low carb diet... including vegetables in the diet. He and Dr. Oz both agreed the "white stuff" is not healthy and is causing people to gain weight. The trainer from the Biggest Loser pushed exercise.

Gary Taubes said something about exercise making one hungry and that has always been my experience. When I push myself to exercise... my appetite definitely is larger... correction huge... LOL.

It was a very interesting program with an interesting mix of guests.

I saw that show. Did you hear the list of foods all of them had eaten that day, which I think they said was typical of their normal diet? Not many people will choose to eat that way long term, IMO.
I guess that is why they are all slim.

KPW1956 wrote:

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Either that or they wanted to annoy the heck out of Kim their coach. I've been watching..

I thought she was rude to David AND shouldn't have tried to influence their voting the way she did.

There have been more than a couple of incidents involving Kim last season and this that makes me not trust or like the woman. They've shown her blurt the F-word twice this season when in a heated exchange with a team member. Once with Amy (who admitted used it first) but then with David when she went off on him.

Forget what I said about liking this group of contestants more than the previous ones. I was wrong. The evil is now coming out with full force. The guy who gained 17 pounds in 1 week just to has his team put up for elimination was sick. Of course, they voted out the guy who lost the weight on the team and kept the jerk who gained. I know it's about winning the money, but they need to change the name of the show to "THe One Who Can Lose the Least Amount of Weight and Not Get Voted Out." It's such a joke at this point.

I would like to see them change the format and rules to cut down on the sabatoge. Of course, maybe that's what they consider entertainment. I don't. It's different from Big Brother where all is fair, because this is about a health issue and not just money.

Kim is soooo unprofessional. I could barely believe my eyes and ears at the way she handled that girl not wanting Kim to continue to be her coach. It was very inappropiate.

KPW, I did'nt know that she had been cursing at the contestants, but that should never be allowed. That is verbal abuse IMO.
Kim needs to go.

Debby wrote:

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KPW1956 wrote:

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Either that or they wanted to annoy the heck out of Kim their coach. I've been watching..

I thought she was rude to David AND shouldn't have tried to influence their voting the way she did.

There have been more than a couple of incidents involving Kim last season and this that makes me not trust or like the woman. They've shown her blurt the F-word twice this season when in a heated exchange with a team member. Once with Amy (who admitted used it first) but then with David when she went off on him.

Forget what I said about liking this group of contestants more than the previous ones. I was wrong. The evil is now coming out with full force. The guy who gained 17 pounds in 1 week just to has his team put up for elimination was sick. Of course, they voted out the guy who lost the weight on the team and kept the jerk who gained. I know it's about winning the money, but they need to change the name of the show to "THe One Who Can Lose the Least Amount of Weight and Not Get Voted Out." It's such a joke at this point.

I would like to see them change the format and rules to cut down on the sabatoge. Of course, maybe that's what they consider entertainment. I don't. It's different from Big Brother where all is fair, because this is about a health issue and not just money.

Kim is soooo unprofessional. I could barely believe my eyes and ears at the way she handled that girl not wanting Kim to continue to be her coach. It was very inappropiate.

KPW, I did'nt know that she had been cursing at the contestants, but that should never be allowed. That is verbal abuse IMO.
Kim needs to go.

I saw parts of the show... I kept switching back and forth to another program, but I did see the end where the guy who gained the 17 pounds purposely was able to stay. I wasn't happy about that... seems that he is playing Survivor... out wit... out play and last... LOL.

My hope is that the guy that was voted out is getting strong support from the show to continue losing weight on his own at home. My guess is that is what the show does for all contestants. Seems that the success rate is very high.

I have never seen people work so hard to lose weight... correction... work out so hard. It seems a bit unrealistic to me, but I guess it's because I've always relied on diet over so much exercise. I guess I always knew I would never keep up that pace... I personally would rather eat less... which is hard also... especially these days... LOL.

It's hard to tell exactly how much they are working out. They could just film them working out real hard for 20 minutes, but it appears they have been sweating for hours. LOL. It' difficult to know for sure.

A few years ago, I worked out in the gym very hard for at least 2 hours per day at least 4-5 days per week. I must say that there were not any other women my age there doing that. They might walk a few miles or get on the bike for a while, but not running 3-5 miles, and then getting on other equipment and working out just as hard. I started to get injuries and let it go, even though I was in great shape and at a low weight. I know I need to get back into the workouts, but I don't know how realistic it is for me to continue to work out that intensely on a permanent basis. Although, I have heard of senior citizens who run marathons. LOL.

I saw a great inspiration this weekend on MTV. This teen who was super obese was featured on this show called Getting Made. He was very large and a very big eater. At the end of the show his insurance had not approved his sugery, however, the show went back years later and he did get the surgery and is now very thin and healthy. He works out like crazy with weighs, swimmimg, etc. and his goal is to be a police officer. What a success story.