{"id":43722,"date":"2011-03-02T15:56:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=43722"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:56:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:56:02","slug":"arthur-wornum-has-got-no-time-for-tears-after-his-biggest-loser-elimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/arthur-wornum-has-got-no-time-for-tears-after-his-biggest-loser-elimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Wornum Has Got No Time for Tears after his Biggest Loser Elimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43723\" title=\"arthur BL\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/arthur-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"300\" \/>It&#8217;s been a very long time since we&#8217;ve seen such a heart wrenching episode of <strong><a title=\"biggest loser\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Biggest_Loser_Club\/\" target=\"_self\">Biggest Loser<\/a><\/strong>. We haven&#8217;t missed a show since season five began and this will undoubtedly go down as one of the most unforgettable episodes. There were few dry eyes as we watched <strong><a title=\"biggest loser arthur\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/arthur-wornum-biggest-loser-11-contestant\/\" target=\"_self\">Arthur Wornum<\/a> <\/strong>walk in to the gym wearing a red shirt, a symbol that he&#8217;d been traded to the other team where he had no alliances; and should he end-up in the elimination room everyone knew he&#8217;d be sent home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like I&#8217;m being dressed for my funeral&#8221; said a tearful Arthur as he walked on the scale one last time. <strong><a title=\"jillian michaels\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Jillian_Michaels\/\" target=\"_self\">Jillian Michaels<\/a><\/strong> was crying, &#8220;his girls&#8221; were crying on the black team, and most of us at home were crying big &#8216;ole alligator tears. And after last night&#8217;s elimination, <strong><a title=\"bob harper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Bob_Harper\/\" target=\"_self\">Bob Harper<\/a> <\/strong>sent Arthur a text message saying &#8220;I&#8217;m still in tears.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, you can&#8217;t cry for Arthur for too long. He&#8217;s resilient, and exudes a positivity and optimism that we wish was fully contagious like a virus. You&#8217;ll hear his high spirits in our post-elimination interview below. He tells us he has no animosity toward the red team, and knows he was victim to the &#8220;us v. them&#8221; mentality. He also shares how trainers Bob and Jillian have kept in touch since he left the ranch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DP2ZCWJL-h0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can credit Bob and Jillian with a lot of Arthur&#8217;s success, but in the end it all goes to him. He lost 117 pounds, off of a starting weight of 507 pounds, while at the ranch. Working out six to eight hours a day at home, he&#8217;s now within 100 pounds of his goal.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-43724\" title=\"arthur bob BL\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/arthur-bob-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This isn&#8217;t to win the at-home prize, that&#8217;s the icing on the cake, this is to win my life back,&#8221; says Arthur about his weight loss. &#8220;For the first time in a long time, it&#8217;s within reach.&#8221; So close in fact that he&#8217;s confident that the at-home prize of $100,000 could very well be his. Don&#8217;t let a starting weight of 507 fool you, last year&#8217;s &#8220;heaviest contestant ever,&#8221; <strong><a title=\"michael ventrella biggest loser\" href=\"    * https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/michael-ventrella-biggest-loser-9-contestant\/\" target=\"_self\">Michael Ventrella<\/a><\/strong>, became season 9&#8217;s Biggest Loser champ.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur&#8217;s not taking the easy road. Part of that eight-hour-a-day workout, which he calls &#8220;my daily job,&#8221; is walking the five miles to the gym, and five miles home. In an interview with his loudest cheerleader, father and teammate, <strong><a title=\"biggest loser jesse\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/jesse-wornum-biggest-loser-11-contestant\/\" target=\"_self\">Jesse Wornum<\/a><\/strong>, he told us that Arthur has a tremendous support network at home, including his wife, mother, aunts, uncles and friends.<\/p>\n<p>We have no doubt we&#8217;re going to see Arthur take this one all the way. And maybe even a little bit further!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a very long time since we&#8217;ve seen such a heart wrenching episode of Biggest Loser. We haven&#8217;t missed a show since season five began and this will undoubtedly go down as one of the most unforgettable episodes. There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/arthur-wornum-has-got-no-time-for-tears-after-his-biggest-loser-elimination\/\">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":[3687,93],"tags":[6858,8,3530,7510,3688,14],"class_list":["post-43722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","category-mens-health","tag-arthur-wornum","tag-biggest-loser","tag-biggest-loser-11","tag-biggest-loser-elimination","tag-expired","tag-interviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43722","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=43722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43725,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43722\/revisions\/43725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}