Biggest Loser contestants are getting heavier and heavier, says fitness guru Jillian Michaels – and even she, in all her toughness, worries about their medical safety.
Physical trainer extraordinaire Jillian Michaels is quick to explain that for every ten minutes you watch of NBC’s The Biggest Loser, a hundred hours of effort are behind it. And that’s a tricky situation, she told Ladies Home Journal, since the contestants involved are in rather delicate physical shape for that kind of routine.
“The contestants keep getting bigger and bigger,” Michaels told the magazine during a feature interview that will appear in the February issue. “As the trainers, we have no say over the challenges. We worry about them, too.”
All the same, she said, physical fitness is the end that can justify the means, as long as the means do no harm.
“I’m passionate about helping people rebuild their lives,” Michaels said. “When someone feels strong physically, they feel strong in every aspect of their existence. If they have endurance and achieve in the gym, then I can redefine their entire self-image. I can wipe away years of negativity.”
Still, there are some physical setbacks to obesity that can usually only be erased with plastic surgery. Some Biggest Loser contestants have managed, come what may, to shed massive pounds through diet and faithful exercise. But the nature of their weight problem left them with loose, sagging skin – a condition even exercise can’t cure. Contestant Amy Bremen, a contestant on Biggest Loser‘s 2008 season, was one of them.
“I felt more uncomfortable in my new skinny body than I did in my heavy body, “ she told PlasticSurgeryPortal.com. “And I was once again not happy.”
But thanks to cosmetic advancements, some of the contestants can undergo tummy tuck or body lift procedures, as Bremen did, that tighten loose skin. This offers their newly small bodies a more contoured appearance.
“When I look in the mirror, I still cannot believe it’s actually me,” Bremen told the site. “My confidence level has gone up a million percent.”
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