The Biggest Loser winner Danny Cahill claims that the extreme diet and exercise techniques used on the reality show are not realistic for most and destined to fail at home. Danny won season nine by dropping 240 pounds. Unfortunately, Danny has gained back 100 pounds of those 240 he lost.
After weeks of seven hours a day of disciplined exercise and eating only enough calories to stay alive you would think The Biggest Loser contestants, whether they win or not, would do anything to keep from gaining back the weight they fought so hard to lose.
It’s not as if Danny isn’t working out and eating well-balanced meals. The guy isn’t sitting around all day long eating fried chicken and ice cream. So why would Danny Cahill gain back 100 pounds? This is a man who weighed 430 pounds coming into season nine of the extreme weight loss show and left weighing 191 pounds.
According to an insider who recently spoke with OK! magazine Danny and the others are destined to fail. But why? When you lose as so much weight as quickly as Danny did it causes the body’s metabolism and a hormone called leptin which controls hunger to essentially crash. This is why such an extreme weight loss is achievable in a short period of time.
Now you’ve lost all this weight and you look and feel amazing. But you are left with a slower metabolism than the average man or woman and that means you will need to exercise much harder to maintain your new weight.
Add to that you’re now on your own when it comes to shopping and preparing meals. There’s no one there to hand you a perfect calorically well-balanced meal three times a day as well as three snacks. There’s also no one there screaming at you to push, push, push through the pain when you’re working out.
Danny Cahill’s not the only one who has gained back weight after leaving The Biggest Loser. Another contestant on season nine, Sean Algaier, reveals that he gained back the 155 pounds he lost and then some. Finding out your metabolism has been messed up is “like hearing you have a life sentence, “Sean said.
An insider divulged that after successfully losing, in some cases, hundreds of pounds, “the aftermath of the show can be really sad and traumatic for contestants both physically and emotionally.” Maintaining that level of fitness is physiologically impossible a new study shows.
Does anyone tell these people that coming in? The Biggest Loser is a business, not only for NBC, but for all the trainers, past and present, involved.
The moral of this sad story is you need to do your research and know that there is no quick fix when it comes to weight loss. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Come to CDL for all your The Biggest Loser news and recaps!
