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Former Biggest Loser contestant Kai Hibbard admits that the Biggest Loser isn’t always accurate.  As in, what we see on reality television isn’t always reality.  But then… i’m sure most of you are aware of that.  A week on the Biggest Loser ranch could be anywhere from 7 to 12 days (depending on the season and on the ‘week’).

Kai also admits that she had a hard time keeping it real with her weight loss and reportedly at times even substituted coffee with sugar as a meal.

It wasn’t until she started losing her hair and had a family intervention that she stopped her extreme dieting practices as learned from the show.

At the season 3 finale, Kai Hibbard lost an impressive 118 pounds.  To date, she has gained back 70 of those pounds.

I would like to think that most of us who watch the show realize that it is “reality” television and so the show’s version of reality (through the editing geniuses) may not be and many times is not in fact, reality. Kai said that a fan came up to her and said she was frustrated because she could not lose 12 pounds in one week as Kai had on the show.

In my own weight loss journey, I have never expected to pull big numbers week after week. I think the most amount of weight I lost in a week was 4 pounds. But I *knew* that some of that weight was water-weight loss — easy to get off and easy to gain back. What about you guys? What is the most you have lost in 1-week’s time?

Dieting is a very tricky science that not only deals with calories in and calories out but also with your emotions, stress levels, hormones and the amount of sodium and water intake. There is a lot that can happen in a week.

What do you think about Kai’s claims about The Biggest Loser? Is she preaching to the choir? Or do you think that more people take the show at face-value than we realize?

Here is a recent interview with Kai on CBS’s Early Show:

I love the Biggest Loser!  Not because it shows a real look at weight loss (working out 8-10 hours a day isn’t exactly feasible for most of us regular folk)… but because it shows a real look at the human condition.  We can do what we put our minds to.  If a 526-pound person can WIN the Biggest Loser and weigh half of what he started at… then dang it… we can too.

I don’t knock anyone from having weight loss surgery but let’s be honest…. when you are 300+ pounds it almost seems as if surgery is one of the only alternatives.  There are so many negative nellys out there telling people that the bigger they are… the harder it will be for the weight to come off and also to maintain a healthy weight.  BUT… I feel like the Biggest Loser has changed that.

Anyway… back to the finale.

MICHAEL –WOW!

Ashley looks beautiful and Daris looks handsome!  They all look so great!

I came into the season being a big fan of the gray team.  However, Koli’s attitude started to bug toward the end.  Is it just me or does it seem that he was less-than-gracious winning the at-home prize (not to mention super jumpy)?  Why did Melissa seem so… abrasive when she got up on the scale?

I love this show!  It is definitely an endless well of inspiration!

What are your thoughts on the finale?

I found a great link today for FREE workout music!  I thought I would share it with you guys.  If you are anything like me… then you are always looking for new and great workout tunes!

This is the Biggest Loser Volume 2 workout mix.

Click THIS.