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The Jaws of Victory 25m. Judgement 37m. Stone Cold 37m. Lost in the Desert 34m. Aliy 33m. Black Jack 34m. The 72nd Hole 29m. More Details. Some things have changed in the new iteration of the show, most of them aesthetic. After the weigh-in, contestants are no longer taken to a room containing fridges bearing their names, filled with their favorite junk foods. At least in the first three episodes made available for review, they no longer have to vote to eliminate team members by writing their names on slips of paper that they hide inside silver platters.

Very little attention is paid to food at all; this is odd, given how much of the fanfare surrounding the new season was about its attention to all aspects of getting healthy, not least nutrition. Countless studies have shown that when it comes to weight loss, diet is a far more crucial factor than exercise. The show fetishizes workout culture as much as it ever has.

The two new trainers, Steve Cook and Erica Lugo, are slightly gentler than Harper and Michaels in their prime, but both seem entirely committed to the Biggest Loser premise that obesity is just a form of mental weakness and treadmills are the cure. Contestants go straight into interval training, which leaves them crying, hyperventilating, and vomiting repeatedly into color-coded buckets.

When Kat, a year-old cardiac nurse, tells Erica that she feels lightheaded, Erica tells her to keep pushing. The message this kind of attitude conveys is one of shame.

Not only is stigma detrimental to weight loss , it also affects the way viewers at home see the world. Weight-loss culture in the U. Shortly before the new season debuted, Kai Hibbard wrote a blog post for the National Eating Disorders Association about her dismay that The Biggest Loser was returning. I just bought into the idea that to be healthy or happy I needed to be smaller. Instead, I became unhealthier, developed disordered eating, and hated my body more than I ever had. Not only did I very publicly display my disordered eating and exercise habits, I was quite literally celebrated for them.

Shame is its overtaxed heart, self-hatred its rigid core. TV viewers, at this point, should know better than to buy into anything such a series has to say.

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