Biggest Loser Experts and Cast - The Biggest Loser: The Weight Loss Program to Transform Your Body, Health, and Life—Adapted from NBCs Hit Show!

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NBCU, Reveille, and 25/7 Productions would like to thank the many people who gave their time and energy to this project: 3Ball Productions, Stephen Andrade, Louise Braverman, Dave Broome, Brendan Carretta, Tricia Chaves, Julie Chebbi, Scot Chastain, Tami Booth Corwin, Lisa Dolin, Milissa Douponce, John Farrell, Dawn Fiore, Jodi Flicker, Kurt B. Ford, Marty Frey, John Foy, Jeff Gaspin, Linda Gilbert, Karma Goodman, Beth Goss, Marc Graboff, Erica Gruen, Cathy Gruhn, Bob Harper, Heather Halloway, Frederick Huntsberry, Allison Johnson, Helen Jorda, Allison Kaz, Loretta Kraft, Laura Kuhn, Beth Lamb, Roni Lubliner, Vince Manze, Rebecca Marks, Bob Meyer, John D. Miller, Kam Naderi, Todd Nelson, Jeanne Newman, Jennifer OConnell, Carole Panick, Jerry Petry, LeeAnn Platner, Craig Plestis, Lisa Rafferty, Amy Rhodes, Beth Roberts, JD Roth, Troy Searer, Leslie Schneider, Ben Silverman, Ray Slay, Andrea Smith, Charles Steenveld, Lee Straus, Amy Super, Deborah Thomas, Brian Wendel, Curt Williams, Joanna Williams, Yong Yam, David Yeh, and Jeff Zucker

Product Development and Direction: Dave Broome, Cindy Chang, Mark Koops, Kim Niemi

Project Coordinators: Chad Bennett, Neysa Gordon

The recipes are adapted from Stop the Clock! Cooking by Cheryl Forberg.

Book design by Joanna Williams
Photographs by Per Bernal (photo of Bob Harper on page v, plus pages vi and 58 to 68); Mitch Mandel (pages 40, 41, 120, top left, 161, 167, 179); Kurt Wilson (pages 163, 165, 176, 180); Rodale Images (page 174); Photodisc (pages 120, bottom center and bottom right, 121, 169); Brian Hagiwara/Foodpix/Picture Arts (pages 120, top right, and 128); John E. Kelly/Foodpix/Picture Arts (page 120, bottom left); Mark Thomas/Foodpix/Picture Arts (page 146); Evan Skier/Foodpix/Picture Art (page 155); Brand X Pictures (pages 168, 173). Photos on pages 13 (after) and 108 were supplied by Lisa Andreone. All other photos by NBC Universal Photo. The illustration on page 31 is by Judy Newhouse.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Greenwood-Robinson, Maggie.

The biggest loser : the weight loss program to transform your body, health, and lifeadapted from NBCs hit show! / the Biggest Loser experts and cast, with Maggie Greenwood-Robinson ; foreword by Bob Harper.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN-13 9781594863844 paperback

ISBN-10 1594863849 paperback

eISBN-13 9781605292595

1. Weight loss. 2. Reducing dietsRecipes. I. Biggest loser (Television network)

II. Title.

RM222.2.G723 2005

613.2'5dc222005019943

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The Biggest Loser changed my life.

When I first heard that NBC was thinking about doing a weight-loss reality show, I was naturally skeptical. I had seen all these other makeover shows on television that involved surgery and other extreme methods to get results, and I knew I would never morally be able to contribute my efforts to weight loss under those terms. So I went into the first meeting with my boundaries firmly in place.

Happily, I found out that The Biggest Loser was going to be a weight-loss show using the two best tools of all: diet and exercise. Let me tell you, my boundary walls came crashing down. I knew right then and there that I wanted to be one of the trainers for the show.

Then, when I first saw the contestants walking down the stairs of the ranch, my initial thought was, Wow! Ive really got my work cut out for me. I have lived in Los Angeles for more than 10 years, and I have been fortunate enough to work with some of the biggest names in this town. All of a sudden I felt like I was back to square one. What did I know? What can I teach them? Can I do this?

Well, I didor rather they did.

If youve watched the show, you know that it involves ordinary people who need to lose a lot of weight and get control of their lives by changing their lifestyles. If youve watched the show, you know that these people lost hundreds and hundreds of pounds of weight and to this day are losing even more and keeping it off. If youve watched the show, you were naturally inspired, as I was, by seeing what these 26 people were able to do.

The book you are holding in your hands is their storyhow they lost weight, how they exercised, how they changed small daily habits, and how they altered their lifestyles to become new people, inside and out. As you read their personal stories, you will be inspired by the process they lived, moved by the determination they showed, and empowered by their newfound belief in themselves. You will see yourself in these people; you will see your best friend, husband, wife, brother, sister, boyfriend, or girlfriend, and you will relate to their struggles and be inspired by their success.

This book is unlike any other diet book youll ever read. Its power is that it is not a program from a diet or fitness guru; it is the collective voice of people just like you, along with me as one of their trainers, who now know from their hearts what it takes to win the weight-loss game once and for all. Youll learn their secrets about how to eat, how to exercise, how to stay the course, and how to be a biggest loser yourself, without resorting to crazy diets that involve suffering and sacrifice.

Im personally thrilled to see this book in print. If the moment of truth has come for you, that youve got to take charge of your weight once and for all, you have made the best purchase of your life. Who better to guide you to a trimmer, healthier body than these 26 people, who have been so successful at what so few can seem to accomplish over the long term?

These people have shown me how important it is to stay on track. They have shown me that every single day matters. Most important, they have shown me that I have to live every day to its fullest and take everything I can out of a day because thats what theyve been doing every single day.

Let me close by saying that for me this experienceworking on the show and with this bookhas been like no other that Ive ever had. It has reignited the passion for what I do. I cant wait to get to work and share that passion. I wake up every day with a renewed purpose and a renewed focus in life. I love my job more than ever, and I owe it to my new best friends, the cast members of