Hello and welcome to the Consistency Project podcast.

I am Patrick Cummings here, as always with E.C. Sinkowski.

Each week we simplify the principles and practices of nutrition, health, and fitness that will help you perform better, feel better, and live better. Thank you so much for tuning into the show. Hello, E.C. We're going to talk about, we're going to be timely this week. sometimes we joke about this where we talk about things that came out three years ago,

but we're going to be timely this week. Sometimes we joke about this where we talk about

things that came out three years ago, but we're going to be timely this time. Why is it popular?

Actually, in some ways we are going to do that. We're going to talk about the biggest loser today.

Specifically, we're going to talk about the new Netflix documentary series called Fit for TV, which is

about the show, The Biggest Loser. Like I said, it's out on Netflix now. It just came out recently as to when we're recording this, at least. So I need to tell us a little bit about, so give us some background, why we're going to talk about this, what we're going to try to do. Yeah, relative to when we're recording this, the Netflix documentary came out three days ago. So we were on it. We're on it. But yeah, the biggest loser ran on NBC from 2004 to 2016 for 17 seasons.

So the math doesn't really add up there. I'm guessing there's a couple seasons, but they kind of

had two in the year. I think I probably did celebrity ones. If I don't know for sure, but that's what I was

thinking is like there must be some like sort of that yeah exactly something to whist yeah so I think people know but contestants

competed to see who could lose the highest percentage of their initial weight so they would be

quote the biggest loser over these 30 weeks and the prize was to win $250,000 and they had

trainers Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels who a lot of people know in media

today.

And they were there to, I guess, help contestants lose weight, but we're going to come back

to their level of help.

And the show is wildly successful.

We were talking about before we kicked off.

We both were obviously aware it existed, but it was kind of out of the realm of what we were paying attention to.

I never watched a single episode of it, but it really was during kind of the heyday of reality TV.

And so again, fast forward now, Netflix has this documentary called Fit for TV, and it's kind of this truth or pulling back

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