{"id":1114,"date":"2008-08-28T22:07:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T03:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/biggest-loser-6-jerry-skeabeck\/"},"modified":"2008-12-20T13:39:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T18:39:42","slug":"biggest-loser-6-jerry-skeabeck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/biggest-loser-6-jerry-skeabeck\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Loser 6: Jerry Skeabeck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Skeabeck shares the the yellow team with his daughter, <a title=\"jerry skeabeck\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/biggest-loser-6-coleen-skeabeck\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coleen Skeabeck<\/a>, on <a title=\"Biggest Loser 6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/category\/biggest-loser-season-6\/\" target=\"_blank\">Biggest Loser: Families<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eliminated Week 3- Hear the <a title=\"jerry biggest loser\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/interview-with-biggest-losers-jerry-skeabeck\/\" target=\"_blank\">Interview<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"jerry skeabeck\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jerry.jpg\" alt=\"jerry skeabeck\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Age<\/strong> 51<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hometown<\/strong> Cleveland, OH<\/p>\n<p><strong>Occupation<\/strong> Police Sergeant<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Biggest_Loser_Club\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3780\" title=\"jerry-skeabeck-finale\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/jerry-skeabeck-finale-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong>Biggest Loser: Families teammate<\/strong> Coleen Skeabeck, Daughter<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team Color <\/strong>Yellow<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trainer<\/strong> <a title=\"Jillian Michaels\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Jillian_Michaels\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jillian Michaels<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starting Weight<\/strong> 380<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Weight<\/strong> 265<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Loss<\/strong> -115<\/p>\n<p><strong>Percent Lost<\/strong> 30.26<\/p>\n<p><strong>Factoids<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Has more life-threatening health issues than any contestant in the history of the show; <a title=\"dr. huizenga\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/videos\/dr.-huizenga-at-biggest-loser-6-finale\/\" target=\"_self\">Dr. Huizenga<\/a> said he has &#8220;every risk factor in medicine.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>During week one, doctors only permitted him to exercise 30 minutes each day due to health concerns<\/li>\n<li>Initial health screening showed his real age as 51; his health age is 76<\/li>\n<li>Starts as heaviest man in the house<\/li>\n<li>Gambled for $10,000 for highest percentage weight loss in Week 2, which put he and Coleen under yellow line for first time<\/li>\n<li>Eliminated Week 3; gained two pounds at weigh-in<\/li>\n<li>No longer taking four of the five cardiac medications he was upon arriving at Biggest Loser<\/li>\n<li>After 15 years, no longer taking blood pressure medication<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I definitely think Paul Bunyan created the Grand Canyon.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211; during Week 3 trip<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Next time you see me there will be a lot less of me physically, but I&#8217;ll have a bigger heart and a bigger mind.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Videos<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"jillian michaels biggest loser \" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/videos\/biggest-loser-6---jillians-hell-and-the-yellow-team\/\" target=\"_self\">Jillian&#8217;s Hell and the Yellow Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"biggest loser yellow team\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/videos\/biggest-loser-6---meet-jerry-and-colleen---yellow-team\/\" target=\"_self\">Coleen and Jerry Introduction<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other spellings: Jery, Gerry, Gery, Skibeck, Skeebeck, Skeaback, Skybeck, Sceabeck<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss any of the news, interviews or recaps from Biggest Loser: Families. Sign-up for the <a title=\"biggest loser newsletter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Biggest Loser Updates Newsletter<\/a> today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Skeabeck shares the the yellow team with his daughter, Coleen Skeabeck, on Biggest Loser: Families. Eliminated Week 3- Hear the Interview Age 51 Hometown Cleveland, OH Occupation Police Sergeant Biggest Loser: Families teammate Coleen Skeabeck, Daughter Team Color Yellow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/biggest-loser-6-jerry-skeabeck\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695,93],"tags":[8,3677,1562],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","category-mens-health","tag-biggest-loser","tag-diet-tv","tag-jerry-skeabeck"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3781,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/3781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}