{"id":15697,"date":"2010-01-03T01:01:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T06:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=15697"},"modified":"2010-05-25T21:11:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T02:11:01","slug":"interview-with-maria-ventrella-and-michael-ventrella-biggest-loser-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/interview-with-maria-ventrella-and-michael-ventrella-biggest-loser-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Maria Ventrella and Michael Ventrella: Biggest Loser 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"michael and maria ventrella\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/interview-with-maria-ventrella-and-michael-ventrella-biggest-loser-9\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15698\" title=\"michael and maria biggest loser\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/michael-and-maria-biggest-loser-9.jpg\" alt=\"michael and maria biggest loser\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I feel awesome!&#8221; was the initial comment from <a title=\"michael biggest loser\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/michael-ventrella-biggest-loser-9-contestant\/\" target=\"_self\">Michael Ventrella<\/a>, one of the newest contestants competing on Biggest Loser season nine, during our week one interview. Not what you&#8217;d expect from a contestant who weighs in at 526 pounds, making him the heaviest contestant ever on The Biggest Loser. It&#8217;s a number he says he was surprised to see, and it comes with a host of health problems he&#8217;s ready to get rid of.<\/p>\n<p>Michael is joined on the ranch by his mother, <a title=\"maria biggest loser\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/maria-ventrella-biggest-loser-9-contestant\/\" target=\"_self\">Maria Ventrella<\/a>. She too was shocked and saddened to learn of Michael&#8217;s actual weight.<\/p>\n<p>Together they are both learning to make big changes, like waking up earlier in the day, eating breakfast and even putting themselves first.<\/p>\n<p>Listen now as we speak with Michael and Maria during their first week at the <a title=\"biggest loser\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Biggest_Loser_Club\/\" target=\"_self\">Biggest Loser<\/a> ranch.<\/p>\n<p>        <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Please note that due to limited phones at the Biggest Loser ranch, audio may come across broken.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sign-up for the <a title=\"biggest loser newsletter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/newsletters\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_self\">Biggest Loser Newsletter<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I feel awesome!&#8221; was the initial comment from Michael Ventrella, one of the newest contestants competing on Biggest Loser season nine, during our week one interview. Not what you&#8217;d expect from a contestant who weighs in at 526 pounds, making &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/interview-with-maria-ventrella-and-michael-ventrella-biggest-loser-9\/\">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":[3687],"tags":[8,1625,3677,3688,14,2759,2760],"class_list":["post-15697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","tag-biggest-loser","tag-biggest-loser-9","tag-diet-tv","tag-expired","tag-interviews","tag-maria-ventrella","tag-michael-ventrella"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697","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=15697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15700,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697\/revisions\/15700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}