Holy Jesus Christ on a Buffet Table! (biggest loser spoilers)

[DS1]

Some dude just lost 30 pounds in 2 WEEKS!

I lost that much in Marine Bootcamp in 12 weeks, and it kicked my ass!

This show is fucking rigged.

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[RevCheesehead]

8. Are you sure about that?

I thought he specialized in Moustache Rides.

:rofl:

[DS1]

12. Yes, he does run Mustache Rides, BUT, and this is important

unlike a Carnie, he does NOT have Def Leppard's "Pour some sugar on me" playing over the loudspeakers.

[RevCheesehead]

14. Well, he IS a diabetic.

:rofl:

[DS1]

15. *ding ding ding*

I'm just happy someone got it :D

[GOPisEvil]

2. Yeah, but if you're severely overweight, and just starting,

weight comes off really quickly. When I was 280lbs and started losing weight, the first 40 lbs dropped off quickly. Not 2 weeks, but maybe 8-10 weeks.

[DS1]

7. Yeah, it comes off quick

or sometimes takes a while to get started, but 30 pounds is beyond reality. 2 pounds a day? 10,000 calories minus intake? As well as adding muscle weight?

Rigged.

[GOPisEvil]

11. Yeah, that does seem rigged when you do the math.

I think it's pretty damned hard to burn 10,000 calories in a day without killing yourself. In a good workout, I can MAYBE burn 800 or 900, maybe 1000 on a good day. That's about an hour to an hour and a half. So, I'd have to bust ass for 10 hours a day, give or take. No. Fucking. Way.

[DS1]

13. Well, it's certainly possible to do that

If, and that's a giant IF, you are conditioned to do so. You can't just start from having the most exertion in your life lifting the cushions looking for the remote to 10KC a day without your heart exploding.

And if you coupled that with a diet, your body would go into starvation mode and keep every puffed up fat cell it could.

[GOPisEvil]

16. Right. My Mythbuster answer is technically plausible, but VERY unlikely.

[FuzzySlippers]

17. Pedantic point. There are 3500 calories in a pound.

[DS1]

20. Okay 7000 calories

I know we saw them working their asses off, and I can respect that, but I just don't see THAT much being lost.

When you go into a crash course like that, your body resists, and holds fat as long as it can.

[FuzzySlippers]

22. I agree. It's a ridiculous amount of weight to lose.

I don't think it's possible, either.

[DS1]

23. I can see how it could be lost that fast, but it would

require an amount of training that would put Green Berets to shame.

I think that even if a person just stopped eating for two weeks, they wouldn't lose weight that fast. It's just not natural.

[AlCzervik]

3. was he really heavy or just somewhat overweight? That doesn't sound

very safe.

[DS1]

9. He wasn't that bad off

Granted, my experience with rapid weight loss was 182 to 151, and his was 274 to 240-something.

Still. I think the show was rigged.

[AlCzervik]

10. i think Celebrity fit club is rigged as well, i believe the weight loss

but i don't believe the starting numbers. It took me almost 3 months to lose 30 lounds, so yeah i'm skeptical.

[Left Is Write]

21. Starting weight...

I have a very hard time believing Chastity Bono started at 215, but the other weight seem plausible.

Two years ago, I took three months to lose 25 pounds, though granted I wasn't especially big to start with.

[CornField]

4. I once lost 24 pounds in 12 hours

Of course, I got a baby out of the deal. :D

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. So, what you're saying is, if I just have three children,

I'll be at the proper weight!

You're genius!!!

How did you do that?

[AlCzervik]

6. i lost about 10 pounds, you can imagine my horror when i realized the rest

of the weight actually belonged to me.

[Left Is Write]

19. With my second, I left about 30 pounds in the delivery room...

and still went home with 40 extra pounds of water, most of it in my feet!

[Left Is Write]

18. I've wondered about that before.

People seem to lose astonishing amounts of weight in 10 days-2 weeks.

[XemaSab]

24. Probably 15 of the pounds were water weight

If you stop eating carbs, you can drop quite a bit of weight in a few days, but it's cheater weight, not actually burning fat.