{"id":70200,"date":"2012-05-02T09:45:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T14:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=70200"},"modified":"2012-05-02T09:50:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T14:50:26","slug":"mike-messina-wins-biggest-loser-13s-at-home-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/mike-messina-wins-biggest-loser-13s-at-home-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Mike Messina Wins Biggest Loser 13’s At-Home Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

If at first you don’t win $250,000, try again until you win $100,000. That’s exactly what Mike Messina did for Biggest Loser 13.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

He was eliminated in week 3, and then then in the final week of the show was eligible to compete for a spot as a contestant. He beat out 13 other competitors to go head-to-head with Jeremy Britt in a challenge that would earn one of them a finalist position. For four hours he and Jeremy held on to an overhead bar balancing on nothing more than what looked like a tree stump. Four long, cold hours later, Mike lost his balance and handed the whole thing over to Jeremy, who won last night<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Mike lost 44.69 percent of his total body weight during seven months of filming and time at home, moving his starting weight from 358 to a finale weight of 198. He looked, fit, thin, and trim last night in a handsome suit.<\/p>\n