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Celebrity Fit Club
Celebrity
Fit Club is a reality TV show in which eight celebrity contestants
compete against one another to lose weight. At the show's opening the
participants are split into two teams, and everyone is weighed to find
out their current weight and to determine what their target weight will
be, based upon a consultation with a panel of judges. The present panel
members of the US version are Harvey Walden IV - personal trainer, Dr.
Ian Smith - the diet/health expert, and Stacy Kaiser - the psychologist,
with the host being the comedian Ant.
In between
weekly weigh-ins the teams are given various physical challenges, as
well as strict nutritional menus to help them lose weight, and once
again are weighed to see how much they have lost. During the show, each
team and its members are constantly monitored by the judges. These
physical challenges in addition to helping them lose weight, are meant
to motivate and lift the team's spirits, while encouraging each member to
overcome their physical and mental demons. Celebrity Fit Club originated
as a UK TV series in 2002 and its US clone began in 2005.
While
watching previous seasons of both the UK and US versions of the show, it
becomes painfully clear that at least a few of the celebrities, have
either messed up dietary habits, suffer from alcoholism, or have a tinge
of underlying psychological issues that have contributed to their
current weight issues. This is where the relevance of the expertise of
the panelists comes into play. In fact, it appears that setting the
panel to consist of a psychologist, a nutritionist, and a fitness
trainer has been done deliberately to help these troubled celebrities to
get out of their shells and return back to a normal life, or at least a
healthy life. The many previous contestants now leading a healthier
life, without gaining weight back, is itself testimony to the usefulness
of the panel.
While
participating on Celebrity Fit Club there are a number of physical and
motivational challenges the contestants are subjected to. There are
daily workouts in the gym, as directed by the physical trainer, for each
contestant, followed by some outdoor activities such as competing in
some sort of race, and in the second or third week, from the start of
the show, the exact scheduling can vary, there will be some sort of a
team challenge in which each team has to successfully carry out a
mission, to reach some preset destination. The journey requires the
contestants to beat obstacles along the way, figure out from a maze of
different routes, most of which can be misleading, the exact route to
their destination, and above all, stave off the challenge from the
opposing team as each team tries simultaneously to outsmart each other.
There is no real fixed schedule for there could be more team efforts as
well as individual activities included throughout the season.
Given the
workout schedule and diet plans, most of the contestants will lose
weight each week, even though there are exceptions as well, after every
weigh-in, but, the big question is whether those who have successfully
shed enough pounds from around their waist are able to maintain the
achieved weight loss after finishing their stint on Celebrity Fit Club?
If to
consider the present weight of some of the participants who have
successfully shed many pounds on the show, it becomes clear that not
everyone have successfully managed to keep their weight down. There are
a few who have gone back to their old eating habits and put on weight
since their time on the show. To express in percentage, at least 30% of
the contestants went back to their old ways of poor eating habits and
not exercising and have put on more pounds than ever before.
This trend
points to an interesting fact: the dietary/eating habits are more or
less mind driven, and until or unless one's mind is not taught to trudge
the right direction regarding eating healthy, one is bound to go back to
unbridled diets yet again. It is all in the mind! So before you decide
that the eating and exercising principles taught on Celebrity Fit Club
is gospel and that all of those celebrities who lost weight are now
healthier and more fit than before, do your research, but most
importantly remember that there are no quick fixes. People who tend to
lose weight quickly by using extreme measures are much more likely to
gain it back.
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