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01-08-2008, 08:26 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Texas
Posts: 122
| | | Doesn't seem fair that the Biggest Loser Club diet doesn't allow T1s
What do you all think?
In order to join the Biggest Loser Club diet, they ask if you are T1 Diabetic. If you answer yes, they pop up with a box, saying they don't have a program set up for T1s. Yeah, yeah, I know that we are supposed to have our doctors monitor every diet we ever do, but seriously...aren't most of us pretty educated anyways. Doesn't seem fair...what do you all think? The Biggest Loser Club
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01-08-2008, 09:20 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 7,047
| | It's called CYA. They have to protect themselves in case some poor soul dies and sues them for negligence  |
01-09-2008, 10:43 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 1,583
| | | Yes...but...
I'd have a very tough time regulating my glucose with that rigorous exercise (too extreme?) that they showed last year. I could have maybe handled the aluminum can relay...but that drill where they had to run down one valley and up a ridge, then back with a pole...yikes...I'd either be at 30 or 300...
I enjoyed the show from my sofa...and felt inspired to get out and walk my 3 miles...that was about it.
Too extreme (and too much drama) for me...it's strictly entertainment.
The results are certainly dramatic, aren't they? |
01-09-2008, 11:43 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 7,178
| | | The results are incredible! I LOVE THAT SHOW!!....and as an overweight person myself, I can't for the life of me figure out how some of these 300-400 lb people can do this much intense exercise without dropping over dead!
I'd love to see a 5 and 10 year f/u to see how many of them continue with the healthy lifestyles and maintain their weight.
__________________ T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Byetta 5 mcg
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (right after dealing with shingles and bronchitis)  |
01-09-2008, 01:50 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 1,583
| | | I also enjoyed watching the Shaquil O'Neal series last year...for grade school children in S. Florida. It hit home about the poor nutrition, lack of exercise and lack of educational support in schools. |
01-09-2008, 01:59 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Southwest Missouri, USA
Posts: 370
| | | The show The Biggest Loser is so good, it has become the one show during the season that my entire family sits down for. Of course there are other times that we do things as a family, but the only time we ever sit down to watch TV as a family is for The Biggest Loser.
I can understand why they would exclude T1s. Having said that, I don't think it's fair that they do. In fact, I wouldn't see it any more dangerous to a T1 than it would be to anyone else. Overweight is overweight, and they should have doctors monitoring everything anyway.
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__________________  Darian A. Caplinger, EMT
Misdiagnosed as Type 2 on 12-20-2007
Diagnosed Type 1.5 (LADA) on 01-28-2008
Smoke Free since 12-26-2007
--- A1C RESULTS: 12-21-07 - 13.4 03-17-08 - 8.7  06-27-08 - 8.1 10-03-08 - 7.3 
--- MEDICATIONS: MDI using Lantus and NovoLog Too many to list. 
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01-09-2008, 02:04 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 2,146
| | Mmmm ... T1s can lose weight by reducing their insulin. It wouldn't be fair on the other contestants.
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01-20-2008, 10:13 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Mid-Missouri
Posts: 223
| | | Thats true BlueSky,
My sister was telling me she was watching a tv show about teenage girls with "diabolemia". I think that's what she called it anyway. But it was about these diabetic girls who just quit taking their insulin to lose weight. Other girls at school were actually jealous that these diabetic girls could eat as much as they wanted and still lose weight (although im sure they didn't know what their friends were doing to their bodies).
Pretty sad. |
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