My experience as a nutritionist at the Biggest Loser Resort w/ Jessica Stamm
Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven
Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We’re sharing a live class conversation with Diabetes Digital dietitian Jessica Stamm, RD, about her three-and-a-half years working at the Biggest Loser Resort. Jessica pulls back the curtain on how the resort differs from the TV show, what that culture gets wrong about “calories in, calories out,” and why bodies aren’t math equations.
She also walks through her shift from a weight-normative lens to a weight-inclusive, HAES-aligned and intuitive eating approach. Expect practical counseling nuggets for sustainable habits and steadier blood sugar you can start using today.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the Diabetes Digital Podcast. We have a very unique episode for you all today. |
| 0:07.0 | So today we're not doing a traditional episode. We are actually going to play the recording of one of our live classes that we had with our lovely dietitian, Jessica Stam. |
| 0:18.4 | And this class is all about Jessica's experience working at the |
| 0:22.9 | biggest loser resort. So she worked as a nutritionist at the biggest loser resort for about |
| 0:27.3 | three and a half years. She saw a lot behind the scenes. She had a lot to share. And she opens up |
| 0:35.3 | in this episode. This was really fun because we got to record this live |
| 0:39.7 | with a group of participants, many of them who are diabetes digital patients, but there's no |
| 0:47.4 | patient information shared. You're only going to hear the conversation between Jessica and |
| 0:50.7 | myself. And so we talk about how she ended up even working at the Biggest Luser |
| 0:55.2 | Resort, how the resort is different from the show. We also learn about just some of the things |
| 1:01.0 | that Biggest Loser gets wrong and why Jessica has seen from firsthand experience that our |
| 1:06.1 | bodies are more than math equations and more than calories and calories out. She also talks about why and how |
| 1:12.2 | she shifted from this more weight normative weight loss approach, which of course is the |
| 1:17.8 | epitome of working at Biggest Loser, to a weight inclusive, health at every size, and intuitive |
| 1:23.2 | eating approach within her own practice. There's also a lot of counseling nuggets she shares in |
| 1:28.5 | terms of how she works with our patients and some of her go-to tips for building sustainable |
| 1:33.6 | habits that actually last. So you'll definitely want to listen until the end. And I will say that |
| 1:39.0 | the majority of the people who came to the live presentation also stayed until the end just because it was such a compelling |
| 1:45.8 | conversation. So I'm not going to talk any more with that. I'm going to jump into the episode. |
| 1:51.1 | Welcome to the Diabetes Digital podcast. I'm Wendy. And I'm Jess and we're best friends, |
| 1:56.6 | registered dieticians and diabetes educators. Through our telehealth platform, DiabetesDigital.co, |
| 2:02.4 | we offer accessible and personalized virtual nutrition counseling for people with diabetes and |
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