3200: Why The Biggest Loser is Turning Us Into Losers by Steve Kamb of Nerd Fitness on Fitness Mindset

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🗓️ 24 November 2025

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3200: Steve Kamb critiques the weight-loss reality show The Biggest Loser, revealing how its unsustainable methods set people up for long-term failure. He explains why slow, steady habit-building triumphs over extreme, short-term fixes, and how real change comes from mindset shifts, not willpower alone. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/why-the-biggest-loser-is-making-us-into-losers/ Quotes to ponder: "People are taught that success is based on willpower, determination, and working harder than everybody else." "Success comes from building small habits that last a lifetime." "Stop beating yourself up for past failures. Stop thinking you need to starve yourself and run yourself ragged to get healthy." Episode references: Atomic Habits by James Clear: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits The Biggest Loser Study: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health/biggest-loser-weight-loss.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.7	This is Optimal Health Daily, why the biggest loser is turning us into losers by Steve Cam of
0:33.7	nerd fitness.com. And I'm Dr. Neal, your host and narrator. Welcome back to another week of
0:39.2	Optimal Health Daily. This is where I read to you from some of the best health and fitness blogs
0:43.4	on the web, kind of like an ongoing audiobook. And we have five shows where we narrate blogs for you,
0:50.3	covering a bunch of different topics. Check them all out by searching for optimal living daily
0:55.0	wherever you're hearing this. So before we get to Steve's post, I want to share with you a quick
1:01.0	intro story. I used to work as a health educator for a large medical organization here in the U.S.
1:06.9	And as part of being a health educator, I would instruct classes to help people lose weight.
1:12.3	And I remember when the biggest loser first came out. The patients I was educating, they started
1:17.9	to ask, well, why can't we do something like that? Why can't we have a competition to see who
1:22.6	loses the most weight, just like the biggest loser? And let's just say, I wish I had Steve's post that I'm about
1:28.6	to read to you back then, because then I could just say here, read this. But this time, I'm going to
1:34.1	read it for you. So let's get right to the post as we optimize your life.
1:42.3	Why the biggest loser is turning us into losers by Steve Kim of nerdfitness.com
1:48.5	The Biggest Loser is an inspiring hour of television in which severely overweight people shed their
1:55.4	extra pounds in a very short amount of time. The idea is that we think, hey, if they can lose that much weight, maybe I
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