It’s Biggest Loser Friday
| February 1, 2013 | Posted by Carrie under Biggest Loser, Fitness Friday |
Yes, Biggest Loser is on Mondays. (and I had to check my Tivo recording list, cuz I really didn’t know what day it was on) But by the time I watch the whole show (in probably 15 different sessions) and think about it a bit – it becomes Biggest Loser Friday here on my blog.
(from Biggest Loser.com)
I’m not going to give away any spoilers. I just love the show and it makes me think and I like to share those thoughts. At this point, I don’t really care who wins or who gets voted off.
Not only do I love Biggest Loser as I’ve said many many times before, but lately I’ve also been listening to Jillian Michael’s podcasts. I already had a little girl crush on her, but now it’s a bit more serious 
As much as Dolvett is awesome eye candy, he’s been bugging me on the show. He speaks in cliches and is always sounding like a Hallmark card. Or at least that’s the sound bites that the producers leave in. His smile and his arms kind of make up for it a little bit.
This week’s Biggest Loser episode had the contestants going to the grocery store. They were given a budget and they were supplying their own food for the whole week. I think the budget was $70 per person on the team. What I found most interesting about the challenge was how the contestants all talked about how they don’t grocery shop. Most of them talked about how they hated to shop and rarely did. Most of their meals came from fast food. The comment was made frequently about how cheap fast food is, so it’s easier.
I know I’m preaching to the choir here – if you’re reading my blog, you’re probably at least slightly into health and being healthy. But, we all know that once you get into the habit of eating healthy food, fast food is less and less appealing. Junk food is addicting – you need to break the cycle. And, it’s NOT cheaper – in the long run, the damage you’re doing to your body by eating that much junk far outweighs the cheap price of the ‘food’.
Back to Jillian. Her podcast this week took us behind the scenes of the show. She shared her frustration in the amount of amazing stuff that seems to be cut from each show. She talks about how much is left out about how the contestants are coming to terms with how they got to this point in their lives. She was also talking about how she doesn’t want the contestants to say that she saved their lives. She wants them to save their own lives.
She is so great to listen to – she gives great advice. I love that she doesn’t advocate for people to try to lose weight like they do on the show. She recognizes the competition and she doesn’t have the nicest things to say about all the aspects of the show.
On top of that, Jillian is a big advocate of natural products. The more I listen to how horrible our non-organic food supply is, the more I want to change so much more about the foods I eat.
The other day I listened to a podcast where she talked about all the chemicals in our beauty products. It got me thinking about how our skin is such a sponge, it really doesn’t make sense to be putting chemicals on it. One thing I didn’t know – did you know that companies don’t have to disclose their ingredients in what they use as ‘fragrance’? If your ingredient label says ‘fragrance’, it is likely that it is complete chemical crap. And we put that on our skin and let it soak in. Ugh.
I haven’t checked out this website, but she has a natural beauty product person Paige Padgett (I can’t get her website to load) who gave great information about product lines that are chemical and frangrance free. There are a lot more options out there than there used to be. I’m going to be doing some more research on this one.
I feel like this is kind of a rambly post today – my apologies. Any other Jillian fans?
Happy Fitness Friday! Anyone else running a Super Bowl race this weekend? I’m running my local 5K (which was my first 10K). I’m rather excited. I actually ran 4 miles the other night and while my foot was tight by the time I cooled down, some serious rolling helped it loosen up. My first race since the end of October. YAY!
Watching BL made me think about how much I spend on groceries, yikes! Time to work on cutting back on extras!
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I know I budget horribly for groceries. Aside from how I make multiple trips every week. That’s the worst.
Good luck at the 5k, Carrie. Have a great weekend!!
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Interesting. I have heard so many things about the chemicals in our skin products/make-up. It’s pretty scary. I would love to find a product that is all natural that looks good:)
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By the way, the reason my 1st race was a full marathon is because my sister-in-law was diagnosed with cancer when I first started running. I saw a Team in Training brochure at the drycleaners and the rest is history. I felt like it was a sign:) Not the best race to start with for sure!
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Not a Jillian fan….sorry…! If I had to pick one it would be Bob….if I had to…..
Good luck on the 5k!
Have a great weekend
I used to be a very big fan of Jillian’s too. But I really dislked her appearances on The Doctors. I think she is probably a good trainer but she is so very melodramatic and seems to be her own biggest fan lately. Sorry, I am just tired of her I guess. And I think she has endorsed some things that I wouldn’t call particularly healthy – diet pills for instance, and for which she is facing a law suit.
I have heard that her podcasts are good and I am glad you are enjoying them. And I agree, the BL editting just proliferates the drama.
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I’ve really got to start listening to her podcasts. If you check out the wesbite ewg.org/skindeep you can look up any beauty or skin product and it will rank it and list out the chemicals, etc. The skin is our largest organ and yet people put tons of chemicals on it multiple times per day.
Good luck on your 5k
I haven’t ever seen Biggest Loser, but I do love JM. I have listened to her podcast quite a bit. She has great advice! I haven’t listened since shortly after she had her two children…has she adjusted?
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Haven’t seen BL for a few seasons. I was an addict back in the season when Olivia won. Did watch the season after that (when Dolvett showed up and they had Tennis-player girly as a trainer) but not since then. I do kinda miss it sometimes – love the motivational stories. I do like Jillian – she ain’t half tough though!! (I admire her though I’m not sure I’d want her as my trainer!!)
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Yea, I don’t think I’d be okay with a trainer yelling at me. But some good hard pushing would be excellent.
Huge Jillian crush and as of this season I love BL! Are Jillian’s podcasts BL specific? I must find them!
I switched to all natural beauty products (for the most part) a few years ago. Bare Minerals products are my favorite.
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Jillian’s podcasts are not BL specific. She talks about it a little bit. Right now I’m listening to shows from early 2011. She talks about a variety of things and takes listener phone calls. It’s a great show. She’s a little self depreciating and it’s kind of funny.