Posted 07/20/2010 by David in Losing It With Jillian Michaels
by David McAlpine
This week on the season finale of Losing It with Jillian, the Biggest Loser trainer takes on her biggest challenge yet with the Alvarez family, a Cuban family in South Florida with major issues. The son, David Jr., is already pre-diabetic at nine years old, and parents David Sr., who suffers from sleep apnea but doesn't use his machine, and Carmen think there's nothing they can do about it. In addition, both Carmen and David Sr. are more than 60 pounds away from being a healthy weight.
The Alvarez's sit
Posted 07/14/2010 by David in Losing It With Jillian Michaels
by David McAlpine
This week on Losing It with Jillian, Jillian is headed to Detroit, Michigan to help the Franklin family, made up of Todd and Amy (husband and wife) and their daughters, Lilly and Chloe. Lilly and Chloe are perfectly fine, healthy girls, but their parents are not. Todd is 300 pounds and has trouble staying motivated to lose weight while Amy is almost 50% fat.
Amy is even further in trouble with her health, since she smokes.
Posted 07/07/2010 by David in Losing It With Jillian Michaels
by David McAlpine
This week on Losing It with Jillian, our favorite Biggest Loser trainer takes on her biggest challenge yet: an entire Indian reservation. At the center of it all is the Plunkett-Marquez family, who live on the Yavapai Apache Nation reservation in Arizona, where Type 2 diabetes and obesity run wild. Upon arriving, Jillian sees it's not just the family she needs to help, it's the entire community.
After a visit to the doctor, you can't help but wonder how some of these people are still
Posted 06/30/2010 by David in Losing It With Jillian Michaels
by David McAlpine
This week on Losing It with Jillian, Jillian travels to Springfield, Tennessee to visit a traditional football family full of big fans. Helping the Vivios is a tall order for the short-statured trainer, though--even the mom, Laverne, is over six feet tall. Now that their dad, Mark, has taken a turn for the worse with his health, they've enlisted Jillian's help to turn their family around.
Apparently, this isn't the first time Mark has had a relapse with his health. In fact, he recently had
Posted 06/21/2010 by Gina in Losing It With Jillian Michaels and Cast Interviews
by Gina Scarpa
Earlier this month, The Biggest Loser's Jillian Michaels unveiled her very own weight loss show, Losing It With Jillian. The show, which recently moved to an 8/7c time slot, was about more than just who can lose the most amount of weight in the shortest amount of times. Jillian helps families get down to the root of their problems and change their lives long-term. Tonight, she faces a tough challenge with the Northern family, dealing with a dad who just doesn't want to deal with anything. We caught