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The Biggest Loser Creator Suggests Former Contestants Are At Fault for Regaining Weight – Cosmopolitan.com

Jun 9th, 2017

For 17 seasons, The Biggest Loser has tried to show that changing a person's mindset and habits can achieve the kind of weight loss that at least in theory can completely change and even prolong a person's life. However, last May, a study published in the research journal Obesity poked holes in the premise of co-creator JD Roth's uber-popular show, suggesting that the change is only temporary.

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When researchers from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) tracked 14 former Biggest Loser contestants for six years after their TV debuts, they found that 13 of the contestants had regained much of the weight they'd lost. Four of them weighed even more than they had before appearing on the show. Weight-loss experts think it's because the more you lose, the more your body is inclined to hold onto its calories, which it does by slowing the metabolism and amping up hunger hormones. In other words, extreme weight loss changes the body in a way that makes maintenance almost impossible.

In an recent interview with People, however, Roth whose new show, The Big Fat Truth, debuts on June 11 rejects this conclusion. He implies its contestants' habits and emotional issues led them to regain the weight.

I feel badly that some people from the show went back to some bad decision-making patterns and gained the weight back, and felt ashamed, he told People. "Life gets in the way sometimes, and they cant keep up with the good decision-making they were doing before," he says of former contestants who regained the weight they'd lost. "And for some of them, I think they never solved those emotional problems. Its always going to be there, but you have to figure out how to get past it." (Roth was not immediately available for a request for comment, and this post will be updated if he responds.)

Although former contestants have spoken out about alleged pressure to take weight-loss drugs behind the scenes, and have called for the show to be cancelled because of it, there's no saying how they'll react to Roth's accusations. Because many of them felt relieved to learn that science can explain their intense struggle to keep weight off, according to a 2016 New York Times article on the emerging research, chances are they won't be particularly pleased.

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