is the notion that there are a lot of people at work who are very overweight? maybe the idea is... for them to participate so they bring their weight into normal range?

i was concerned about the US biggest loser because it did seem to me that they were doing very restrictive eating (along with dehydration before weigh-ins).

the australian biggest loser made a bit deal about how one of the guys who wasn't eating his reccomended calorie intake was pooping out during training. part of his process was learning to appreciate that he needed to input the calories in order to expend the energy in exercise.

that may well happen with the US one too but they didn't show us that side of it.