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Whoever rates this show less than an 8 simply doesn't understand what it means to be overweight and lose as many pounds as the people on this show have.

Love this show. However my only criticism is it paints exercise as some chore. I don't quite agree with the 'no pain, no gain' philosophy of exercise when it comes to losing weight. Remember, you wanna make it a sustainable lifestyle. I understand, these people have more weight to shed and thus they kind of need to amp up the volume of work, but that will actually backfire even MORE for n00bs. I am no fitness expert, but once you get someone addicted to biking on beauitful Wyoming trails, or running by the beach on a beautiful sunny day at Southern California and the unbelievable high you get or not limit the creativity and let one decide any sport as diverse may be volleyball, tennis, strong man competition, water polo and martial arts!... all these actually would ENTICE the people more to choose fitness as a lifestyle.

Regardless 10 stars.

Great work on the graphics. Trainers showed their expertise by full filling their bargain on their end of losing the weight and of course, emotional stories of the participants made the show hit home.

The premise of this show makes no sense. The fit trainers will have more muscle mass, and more experience with exercise, and that muscle won't atrophy over a few weeks of weight gain. So they'll find it much easier to lose weight than their "fat" friend will.

Which of course is counter-productive. The "fat" person is going to then have an extra belief that "the trainer could do it, why can't I?". By all means encourage health and fitness, find better ways to do that, but don't encourage fit people to gain weight out of some misguided sense of solidarity.

Former trainers on this show have subsequently struggled with their weight, because it's damaged their bodies. There are better ways to encourage fitness than this.