{"id":8318,"date":"2009-05-13T10:04:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T15:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=8318"},"modified":"2013-06-05T16:45:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T21:45:31","slug":"biggest-loser-3rd-place-tara-costa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/biggest-loser-3rd-place-tara-costa\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Loser 3rd Place &#8211; Tara Costa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/biggest-loser-7-tara-costa\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8319\" title=\"tara-costa-biggest-loser\" alt=\"tara-costa-biggest-loser\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/tara-costa-biggest-loser.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Going in to the Biggest Loser 7 finale, <a title=\"tara biggest loser\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/biggest-loser-7-tara-costa\/\" target=\"_self\">Tara Costa<\/a> was as close as you get to a sure thing. She was an immediate competitor on the <a title=\"biggest loser diet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Biggest_Loser_Club\/\" target=\"_self\">Biggest Loser<\/a> ranch, winning a record-breaking 12 challenges and losing 135 pounds while on campus, more than any other woman in the show&#8217;s history. However, last night, <a title=\"helen biggest loser winner\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/interview-with-helen-phillips-biggest-loser-7-winner\/\" target=\"_self\">Helen Phillips<\/a> swept the win out from underneath her.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/D9_qJTU4_wk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"385\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/D9_qJTU4_wk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tara has reason to celebrate regardless, she lost an amazing 155 pounds, currently weighing a slender 139 pounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going in to the Biggest Loser 7 finale, Tara Costa was as close as you get to a sure thing. She was an immediate competitor on the Biggest Loser ranch, winning a record-breaking 12 challenges and losing 135 pounds while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/biggest-loser-3rd-place-tara-costa\/\">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":[8,637,3677,3688,742,655],"class_list":["post-8318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","tag-biggest-loser","tag-biggest-loser-7","tag-diet-tv","tag-expired","tag-giveaways","tag-tara-costa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318","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=8318"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88963,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318\/revisions\/88963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}