{"id":303,"date":"2008-03-20T10:01:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T15:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/biggest-loser-jay\/"},"modified":"2008-07-28T13:26:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T18:26:46","slug":"biggest-loser-jay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/biggest-loser-jay\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Loser Jay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The heart and soul of the Biggest Loser house might reside within Jay Kruger. He&#8217;s the<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/biggest-loser-jay.JPG\" title=\"Biggest Loser Jay\" alt=\"Biggest Loser Jay\" align=\"right\" height=\"450\" width=\"300\" \/> house sweetheart- but is not to be underestimated. He drops real weight every week, gives more than 100% in every workout and isn&#8217;t afraid to stand up to big brother Mark or anyone else. It&#8217;s obvious that these Boston-bred brothers are working through some issues, but it&#8217;s no doubt they&#8217;ll leave thinner and repaired.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name <\/strong>Jay Kruger<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starting Weight <\/strong>293 lb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 12 Weight<\/strong> 206 lb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Height <\/strong>6&#8217;1&#8243;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Age<\/strong> 31<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hometown<\/strong> New Bedford, MA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Occupation<\/strong> Aerial Devise Account Manager<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biggest Loser Couples teammate <\/strong>Mark<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Team Color<\/strong> Black<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trainer<\/strong> Bob<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alliances <\/strong>Big brother Mark takes top priority. He definitely has room in his big heart for all the other guys as well. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/biggest-loser-jay-mark.jpg\" title=\"Biggest Loser Jay and Mark\" alt=\"Biggest Loser Jay and Mark\" align=\"right\" height=\"449\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jay-isms <\/strong>He&#8217;s a softer, gentler kind of man. Definitely in touch with his feelings and isn&#8217;t ashamed to show it. He and Mark have shared some tearful, emotional moments during Biggest Loser Couples- and will likely leave campus with a significantly stronger relationship than before. His bean-town accent completes that all-American-boy charm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Favorite Moment(s)<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8211; Replaced his theater masks tattoo with a bolder &#8220;family crest&#8221; that incorporates PRIDE!<br \/>\n&#8211; That fedora in Vegas<br \/>\n&#8211; Not letting Mark&#8217;s absence get the better of him in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/biggest-loser-episode-10\/\" title=\"Biggest Loser episode 10\" target=\"_blank\">Week 10<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other spellings: Jae, J, Jaye Biggest Loser Jae, Jae Biggest Loser, Biggest Loser Black Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heart and soul of the Biggest Loser house might reside within Jay Kruger. He&#8217;s the house sweetheart- but is not to be underestimated. He drops real weight every week, gives more than 100% in every workout and isn&#8217;t afraid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/biggest-loser-jay\/\">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":[3695,18],"tags":[8,232,3677,6872],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","category-fitness","tag-biggest-loser","tag-bob-harper","tag-diet-tv","tag-jay-jacobs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","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=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}