Biggest Loser is getting ready to start casting for season 15! Casting calls will be posted on the Biggest Loser casting website. Basically, this post is a collection of tips I’ve written based on my experience making the cast of season three, as well as some links to casting advice I don’t think you should miss: … Continue reading Biggest Loser casting tips (season 15)
Category: Health
The 90-Day Fitness Challenge (review)
Back in 2010, former Biggest Loser contestants and inspiring Christian speakers, Phil and Amy Parham released a book called 'The 90-Day Fitness Challenge.' They had asked me (as well as a bunch of others) to write a blurb for the inside cover, which I was excited to do after I read their book. Anyway, I … Continue reading The 90-Day Fitness Challenge (review)
Biggest Loser season 14 premieres Sunday!
Anyone else excited for the new season of Biggest Loser? I am ... for the first time in a LONG time. I know some would disagree with me, but I really think the switch to one season per year instead of back to back seasons helps build anticipation for the show. It used to wear … Continue reading Biggest Loser season 14 premieres Sunday!
An update on Noah
It has been a LONG time since I've given any updates on Noah and his scleroderma, mostly because there hasn't been much to report. Towards the beginning of the year we had to make the switch from methotrexate to celcept to treat it. It's frustrating, because neither drug is actually designed for his disease - … Continue reading An update on Noah
Biggest Loser’s new logo
Well, it's almost here ... after half year hiatus, the Biggest Loser will be coming back in January with a new cast, Jillian Michaels back, and a new logo (see above)! I actually think the time off the air will do the show a lot of good. I've thought for a while now that two … Continue reading Biggest Loser’s new logo
Biggest Loser is casting kids?
Well, I have a lot of thoughts on this one. Here is what I know based on my own experience as a former contestant and the stories from my other alumni: the Biggest Loser experience itself, months of isolation and reality TV manipulation, as well as the resulting media attention, the brutal online fan reactions … Continue reading Biggest Loser is casting kids?
Predisposed to weight regain?
After 13 seasons of NBC's Biggest Loser, Dr. Huizenga, the lead doctor for the show, has accumulated several hundred individuals whom he has been tracking, studying, and doing significant obesity and weight loss research on. When it comes to studying individuals who have lost weight at an aggressive, rapid pace based on counting calories and … Continue reading Predisposed to weight regain?
Obesity Trendsetters
This brings me joy.
Living with Scleroderma
A great video on what life with Scleroderma is like. I think she does a powerful job of describing the disease in an understandable way, what it's like going to doctors and them not knowing or recognizing it, and the realities of vital drugs with side effects that are brutal. The drug she mentions, methotrexate, … Continue reading Living with Scleroderma
Doctor’s aren’t magicians?
I was just talking with someone the other day about the subtle expectation we tend to have that given enough resources, anything can be fixed, including our health. He mentioned how we always think doctors know everything, but one his friends (a doctor) admitted he was faking it half the time. I laughed and said … Continue reading Doctor’s aren’t magicians?