Health
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Biggest Loser Casting Call locations announced!
Holland Strickland, the casting director in charge of casting for Biggest Loser posted the following on Facebook – including the dates and cities for Biggest Loser open casting calls: #BL14 CASTING HAS OFFICIALLY BEGUN!!! CASTING CALL CITIES: JUNE 16: LOS ANGELES CA JUNE 23: ATLANTA GA, CHICAGO IL, MIAMI FL JUNE 30: DETROIT MI, KANSAS…
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Grab Michelle Aguilar’s book for free!
Michelle Aguilar, the season six winner of Biggest Loser, wrote a great book, ‘Becoming Fearless: My Ongoing Journey of Learning to Trust God.’ What’s even better? It’s free for Kindle for a limited time! Grab it while you still can! Click here to go grab it! And on a side note, I love that she…
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Biggest Loser casting tips (season 14)
Biggest Loser is getting ready to start casting for season 14! Casting calls will be happening this summer and will be posted soon 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…
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Changing it up with Noah
So everything got changed up on our six year old, Noah last week! Sheesh … You can read some of my previous posts about Noah and his health challenges (Scleroderma and Ptosis) by clicking here. But back to the point. Basically, we got called into the doctor’s office because Noah’s latest round of blood work…
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Noah’s street cred
Today was Noah’s monthly trip to the hospital for his blood work. Because the medication he’s on for his localized scleroderma is powerful and has the potential for side effects, his blood has to be monitored. The hope when we began a year and a half ago was that there would be enough margin of safety…