The Biggest Loser Club Diet is based off of the popular TV show as a way to help people lose weight and keep track of their exercise and diets without having to go on the show.
When you sign up for the club, you are given tools, expert advice, and community support to help you reach your goals. The club will give you access to your online weight loss program via computer or mobile device, thousands of recipes and meal ideas to help you make good food choices, personalized goals based on your height and weight, access to message boards and expert advice for networking, exercise and food habit interactive tools, tracking programs for your diet and exercise, and a pledge of confidentiality.
The diet does require a huge deal of commitment to stay on the program; both for eating healthy as well as doing a mix of cardio and strength training exercise daily. In terms of the diet, meals are broken down into the main types of foods you need in your day and gives you the number of servings you should have of each. Here is the breakdown:
Breakfast: 1 fruit, 2 grains, 1 dairy
Morning Snack: 1 protein, 1 fruit
Lunch: 2 protein, 2 vegetable, 1 grain, 1 sauce
Afternoon Snack: 1 vegetable, 1 sauce
Dinner: 2 protein, 2 vegetable, 1 grain, 1 sauce
Evening Snack: 1 fruit, 1 dairy
The Biggest Loser Show aids in the motivation for people to stay on this diet, and the message boards and chat rooms help to further this motivation. While the diet costs about $5 per week and requires a huge commitment, the show is a testament that staying with the program and staying committed can lead to big results.
For more information on the Biggest Loser Club, please visit any of the following sites:
Exercise: Today is another swim workout… but this time is an I.M. Here is my workout:
200 warm up
3x8 50s (I.M. kick/twitch set)
50 fly kick
50 fly twitch
50 back kick
50 back twitch
50 breast kick
50 breast twitch
50 free kick
50 free twitch
200 cool down
Eat: For the next couple weeks, I am going to breakdown the produce food group into it's component fruits and vegetables in order to talk about the benefits that we get by consuming them and some other random facts, provided by Cooking Light's book "What to Eat". Today I want to start taking about some fruits: apples, apricots, avocados, and bananas. Apples are great for us because they are full of fiber (which makes us feel full), vitamin C, and antioxidants. Also interesting about apples, when you eat an apple with the skin on, you are actually getting about 45% more antioxidants and 2 times more fiber as you do eating a peeled apple. Apricots contain vitamin A, vitamin C, fiber, and potassium. They are also one of the best sources of beta-carotene (which is converted to Vitamin A in the body). Cooking Light tells us that one fresh apricot provides the daily recommendation of beta-carotene. Avocados are extremely good for us. They contain heart-healthy unsaturated fats, folate, potassium, and vitamin E. Finally, bananas contain tons of potassium, fiber, vitamin C, and vitamin B6.
Relax: I was bad this morning and ended up spending a bit of my time playing my Harvest Moon game. I absolutely LOVE it… It is the perfect way to spend time just relaxing and enjoying getting into a story line.
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