Finalist on the Biggest Loser says show gave her an eating disorder...and more

Hi all,

A friend of mine, Golda Poretsky, is a wellness coach who works on size acceptance and living a pleasurable and healthy life.  She recently interviewed a finalist from "The Biggest Loser", one of those evil TV shows about weight loss and torturing fat people, about her experience on the show.

Warning: you probably will be triggered!  Read on...

Some excerpts:

Kai on The Biggest Loser's diet and exercise program:

"Unfortunately, what they're telling you the contestants are doing and what they actually have the contestants doing are two different things, at least as far as my season goes. We were working out anywhere between 2 and 5 hours a day, and we were working out severely injured. There's absolutely no reason to work a 270 pound girl out so hard that she pukes the first time you bring in a gym. That was entirely for good tv.

"There was a registered dietician that was supposed to be helping [the contestants at the ranch] as well... But every time she tried to give us advice . . . the crew or production would step in and tell us that we were not to listen to anybody except our trainers. And my trainer's a nice person, but I have no idea what she had for a nutritional background at all."

On how the trainers and producers overrode the show's doctors:

"The doctor had taken our blood and tested us and sent us a solution, I don't know exactly what it was but it was salty, so I'm assuming that our electrolytes were off. And when the trainers found out we were taking it, they told us under no certain terms were we to be taking that, because it would make us retain water and gain weight on the scale and we'd have to go home. The doctors had ordered us to take it and the trainers were like, ‘throw it out, right now.' There was this interference between the people who were actually probably trying to get us healthy from the people who wanted a good television show."