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Biggest Loser 6: Tom Desrochers Jr.

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Brandi

August 28, 2008
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 Tom Desrochers Jr. is competing along-side his father, Tom Desrochers Sr. in Biggest Loser: Families.

tom desrochers jr.

Age 22

Hometown Everett, MA

Occupation Cab Driver

Biggest Loser: Families teammate Tom Desrochers Sr., Father

Team Color Grey

Trainer Jillian Michaels

Other spellings: tom, thomas, thom, tommy, tim, tomm, derochers, desrocher, deroche, des rochers, junior

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Biggest Loser 6: Tom Desrochers Sr.

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Brandi

August 28, 2008
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Tom Desrochers Sr. is the father-half of the grey team, with son Tom Desrochers Jr., in Biggest Loser: Families.

tom desrochers sr.

Age 42

Hometown Everett, MA

Occupation Cab Driver

Biggest Loser: Families teammate Tom Desrochers Jr., Son

Team Color Grey

Trainer Jillian Michaels

Other spellings: tom, thomas, thom, tommy, tim, tomm, derochers, desrocher, deroche, des rochers

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Biggest Loser 6: Michelle Aguilar

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August 28, 2008
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Michelle Aguilar is the daughter-half of the Pink team, with mother Renee Wilson, in Biggest Loser: Families.

michelle aguilar

Age 26

Hometown Ft. Worth, TX

Occupation Assistant Director

Biggest Loser: Families teammate Renee Wilson, Mother

Team Color Pink

Trainer Jillian Michaels

Other spellings: Michele, Mishelle, Micheal, Michel, Mashel, Mishel, Aguliar, Aguar, Aguillar, Aguillara, Aguear

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Biggest Loser 6: Renee Wilson

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Brandi

August 28, 2008
posted to Biggest Loser Season 6.

Renee Wilson is the mother-half of the Pink team, with daughter Michelle Aguilar, in Biggest Loser: Families.

renee wilson biggest loser 6

Age 46

Hometown Ft. Worth, TX

Occupation Event Manager

Biggest Loser: Families teammate Michelle Aguilar, Daughter

Team Color: Pink

Trainer: Jillian Michaels

Other Spellings: Rene, Renea, Ranae, Willson, Wilsom

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Meet the Biggest Loser Season 6 Contestants

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Brandi

August 28, 2008
posted to Biggest Loser Season 6 and Biggest Loser.

biggest loser families

alison sweeney, bob harper, jillian michaelsNBC is finally unveiling the newest round of Biggest Loser contestants. Season 6, Biggest Loser: Families, begins Sept. 16. It’s shaping up to be one of the most emotional and inspiring seasons yet.

The focus is on family, with eight teams of two, made up of four husband-and-wife teams and four parent-child teams. Bob Harper will lead the spouse teams and Jillian Michaels will lead the parents and adult children. For the first time ever, as we’ll see in the first episode, Bob and Jillian traveled to inform each team that they would be a part of The Biggest Loser. Once again, Alison Sweeney will host the show, which she says it’s her “job to be their biggest cheerleader!”

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Parent/Child Team (lead by Jillian Michaels)

PINK Team: Renee Wilson (Event manager), 46, and her daughter, Michelle Aguilar (Assistant director), 26, Ft. Worth, Texas.

pink team

GREY Team: Tom Desrochers Sr. (Cab driver), 42, and his son Tom Desrochers Jr. (Cab driver), 22, Everett, Massachusetts.

grey team

PURPLE Team: Shellay Cremen (Stay-at-home Mom), 51, Royal Oak, Michigan and her daughter Amy Cremen (Purchasing department representative), 26, Auburn Hills, Michigan.

purple team

YELLOW Team: Jerry Skeabeck (Police sergeant), 51, and his daughter Coleen Skeabeck (Receptionist), 23, Cleveland, Ohio. Jerry has more life-threatening health issues than any contestant in the history of the show.
Executive Producer Mark Koops explained “our father and daughter team, it’s literally she’s desperate to have her father regain his health so he’s alive on her wedding day.”

yellow team

Spouse Teams (lead by Bob Harper)

ORANGE Team: Ed Brantley (Chef), 31, and his wife, Heba Salama (Pharmaceutical sales representative), 30, Raleigh, North Carolina.

orange team

BROWN Team: Brady Vilcan (Pharmacist), 36, and Vicky Vilcan (Anesthetist), 37, Houma, Louisiana. Their goal is to get healthy so they set a good example for their children-  which includes their overweight four-year-old daughter who already outweighs their seven-year-old son.

brown team

GREEN Team: Adam Capers (Contracts manager), 39, and his wife, Stacey Capers (Contract pricing analyst), 33, Gainesville, Virginia.

green team

RED Team: Phillip Parham (Real estate agent), 41, and his wife, Amy Parham (Real estate agent), 40, Greer, South Carolina.

red team

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Guest Blog: The 80/20 Rule for Dieters

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Brandi

August 26, 2008
posted to Guest Blog and Diet Tips.

It’s been a fun month, with the Podleski sisters filling our Blogger of the Month role. We’ve certainly learned a lot and in the spirit of Eat, Shrink & Be Merry, had a heck of a lot of fun doing it. Janet and Greta Podleski are the authors of Eat, Shrink & Be Merry, an entertaining cookbook that teaches that eating healthily doesn’t mean sacrificing flavor and enjoyable foods.

When you’re trying to lose weight or embark on a healthier lifestyle, it’s what you do consistently, over the long haul that matters most. It’s not every morsel of food you eat that’s important—honest! In fact, we WANT you to have some treats or indulgences. Think we’ve lost it? Then tune in to this week’s blog where we give you the goods on one of the most tried-and-true, sensible, and effective of all strategies to live a flab-u-lous life!

See all of Janet’s and Greta’s posts from their August stint as featured guest bloggers.
Butter is Better than Margarine

Healthy Breakfast Recipe

Mini Diets

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Go Behind the Scenes at Biggest Loser with Bernie

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Brandi

August 25, 2008
posted to Biggest Loser Season 6 and Biggest Loser.

How much time do the Biggest Loser contestants actually spend with Jillian and Bob?

Do the contestants receive pay for being on the show?

Do you get to go shopping before you leave campus for new clothes?biggest loser

These are just a few of our burning Biggest Loser questions. What are yours? We want you to tell us your questions, and Bernie is going to take us behind the cameras at Biggest Loser with the answers. Then sign-up for the Biggest Loser Updates newsletter to see the exclusive first look at the answers in the first issue.


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Submit your questions by leaving a comment in this blog post.

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Guest Blog: Does Being Healthy Start from the Inside?

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Brandi

August 23, 2008
posted to Guest Blog and Healthy Lifestyle.

Benjamin Delahaye is a writer who has documented his thirty day trial journey of weight loss using the Paul McKenna method. He writes about his daily trials and triumphs on becoming healthier from the inside out.

Dieting and I go way back. I was a child of two overweight parents who have constantly been posting lists of meal plans on the fridge, buying scales to measure their food intake, and weighing themselves every morning. I also remember standing on the school doctor’s scale and hearing my friends laugh out loud at my “figures”. So when I heard Paul McKenna say that with his method, you don’t control your quantities, the type of food you eat and you don’t weigh yourself more than twice a month, I was intrigued… I decided to try the method for 30 days and blog about the experience.paul mckenna

I was 102 kilos (224 lbs). Initially, the freedom given by the Paul McKenna method had a negative effect, and I actually started putting on weight. Even though I wasn’t supposed to go back on the scale for 2 weeks, I panicked one morning as I had difficulties getting into a pair of jeans. I had put on 3 kilos (3.5 lbs. )… in 10 days!

However, I still decided to carry on with the experiment and follow the cues given by my body. I made a conscious decision to refuse eating as a compensation mechanism (but rather only when I’m hungry), I sunk into a state of despair and even felt that I wasn’t able to cope with the most simple challenges. Suddenly, all of my anxieties did not find the comfort of  being numbed with food and it was scary. I faced adversity and questioned everything: “what is the point of loosing weight? What is the point of being healthy? What is the point of life?”

I began to wonder: do I really need to find answers to these questions? And I thought that I was sure of one thing: I want to be happy, and good health would contribute to my happiness. That was a starting point. I began to build ways to cope with life challenges. For example, when I’m bored, how could I occupy my mind ? I started to read books about chess, and play logical games. When a problem is causing me stress, how can I best solve it? If I’m having a meal with somebody and I’m struggling to communicate, how can I find common interests to converse, rather than hide by eating?

After 30 days, the verdict is that I will continue to not diet and follow the Paul McKenna principles. As far as tangible results are concerned, I weigh 99 kilos (218 lbs.) today, so the “net” result of the experience is that I lost 3 kilos in a month. I’ve seen more rapid ways to loose weight, but to me the real result of this experience is the transformation of the mind. I am progressively adopting the mindset of a healthy person. Coincidentally, I am more and more compelled towards eating more fresh, healthy food - and it happens by choice, not by rule.

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Guest Blog: Become a Vegetarian in 90 Days or Less

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Brandi

August 22, 2008
posted to Vegetarian and Guest Blog.

Shelah Davis is a new convert into the vegetarian world, but openly admits to being
deathly afraid of tofu. She loves to share the fun side of her journey into the “Veg” world  on her blog Royally Healthy. She also co-authors at Our Wicked Weighs ,a health blog/support group for all things weight loss and healthy.

You may think that moving toward a vegetarian lifestyle is difficult and often impossible, especially if a nice medium rare steak is a staple in your current diet. As an ex-meat lover, I am here to stand up and tell you that it can be done. Quite often, much easier than you might think.

saladI decided to cut meat from my diet when I began to learn about the chemicals and hormones that reside in meat even after it is processed. You see, I was on a quest for health because there were various cancers and diseases running rampant through my family tree. I knew that if I didn’t make necessary changes to my life, that I would soon become a statistic as well. A vegetarian lifestyle was the answer, at least for me.

To begin my process, I focused on planning. I decided in which order I would shed the flesh from my diet. First on my agenda was red meat. Then pork. Finally, poultry. Since I am a goal oriented person I felt that I needed the targets listed on my calendar…staring at me like a bulls eye. I decided to tackle giving up one thing per month. I thought that even at my worst, I could handle that goal. A goal that would get me to complete veg status in 3 short months. Who woulda thunk it?

I spent some time looking at all of my favorite dishes trying to find ways to make them without meat. What I quickly realized, was that it wasn’t as difficult of a process as I thought it would be. During the first month, I focused only on the red meat in my diet. I replaced all ground beef with ground veggie protein and tried other “meat” items that I found at my local health food store. I simply rebuilt the recipes that I already loved with foods that were healthy for me. I didn’t “give up” anything.

At first, the process was quite a challenge for me. Quite a bit of trial and error. I knew in the end that it would all be worth it. As I progressed, I began losing weight. A lot of weight. That alone helped in the motivation department in the beginning. It wasn’t long before I began to take note of how great I felt. Then those days of feeling great were enough motivation for me to continue on my journey.veggie burger

I would be lying to you if I didn’t tell you that I do still crave meat. I find that my mouth still waters when I drive through a neighborhood and smell steaks on the grill. I don’t know if that will ever stop. I do know that no matter how great those steaks smell, they sure don’t make me feel as good as enjoying a grilled portabella burger makes me feel. I love not feeling lethargic after I eat anymore. I love being able to work with a clear head and not fighting off the dreaded cold viruses each time the seasons change.

The entire process of going from a meat loving woman to a vivacious veg gal took me less than 90 days. It wasn’t difficult. It wasn’t a sacrifice. I have enjoyed the process of getting here, almost as much as I enjoy the great way I feel now that I have arrived. Every day is an adventure for me. It is an adventure in great tasting, healthy food.

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Biggest Loser Season 6 Teaser

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Brandi

August 21, 2008
posted to Biggest Loser Season 7, Biggest Loser Season 6 and Biggest Loser.

In case you’ve missed it, we wanted to share with you the Biggest Loser 6 promo commercial that’s been on the air.

alison sweeneyIn a call with host Alison Sweeney and executive producer Mark Koops today, they shared that this is one of the most emotional seasons yet. Alison explained that each of these individuals are bringing to campus with them their biggest enablers, none of them want to go back to the life they’re leaving behind.

mark koopsMark Koops shared that the genesis for the Biggest Loser: Families season was from viewers like you and I. They took the feedback on message boards to heart. He says these weight and health issues begin at home, and through Biggest Loser they can help the contestants on the ranch regain their health and lives and insodoing, help Americans learn how to make the same changes for themselves.

In case you’re wondering about Alison’s pregnancy and what that means for her hosting- she says “My job is to be their biggest cheerleader!” She isn’t due until January 2009 and she’s confident she can shoot through Biggest Loser 7 without needing a replacement. She can’t imagine having to be at home and receive weekly updates, rather than being on campus herself.

Stay tuned for more Biggest Loser 6 details, and more on our call with Alison and Mark.

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