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50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser | 50% Facts Review

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Tv & Film, Business, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

From 2009 to 2020, The Biggest Loser was a phenomenon. A huge cultural moment.

What it wasn’t, however, was a show about healthy lifestyles and healthy weight loss.  

Netflix’s Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser examines what it was like for some contestants on the show and some members of the production. The push to keep the show in the spotlight wreaked havoc on lives, relationships, and, in some cases, health. Does the documentary series exploit the contestants in a similar way to the show did?

Josh Hajjar, who has personal experience with significant weight loss, joins in as guest cohost. You can find Josh on Instagram @amazingjrab https://www.instagram.com/amazingjrab/.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I could use another cup of coffee, but I ain't got one.

0:15.7

Okay.

0:18.1

I don't have a roll in today because C-Bass is ill.

0:21.1

And my companion here, Josh is, uh, a little under the weather, but we're, we're going to knock this one out anyway.

0:28.6

Um, this one might end up being a little bit shorter.

0:31.6

Um, but you guys will, you'll, you'll, you'll cope.

0:34.7

Uh, we're here to talk about fit for TV, the reality series, or reality,

0:44.8

let me back up, documentary series about the reality show, The Biggest Loser.

0:50.2

And it really seemed to be about certain seasons of the biggest loser,

0:55.3

not really necessarily all the people in total.

1:02.0

Yeah.

1:02.7

It was very focused on a few of the few of the contestants.

1:09.8

I don't know how you feel about it,

1:11.9

but like the elephant in the room to me is that this documentary series does the same thing

1:18.6

that the biggest loser did.

1:20.6

It exploits these people and their emotions.

1:23.7

It has a particular point of view in that the biggest loser probably did more more harm than good

1:32.1

not only to the people who were involved but to the to our culture as a whole they cap it off by saying

1:43.1

that that obesity the obesity rate in the United States is higher now than it was before the biggest loser

1:51.4

sort of drawing the conclusion that somehow it had something to do with it or at least didn't help at all

1:57.4

so from that perspective starting there didn't help at all.

2:08.6

So from that perspective, starting there, what were your overall impressions of this sucker? I really liked the documentary. I thought it made a couple really valid points about obesity

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