Stories floating around the Internet says that Rush Limbaugh has lost 90 pounds lately. A friend of mine told me that he heard on his radio show that he’d been following, or using, food and plans from the Quick Weight Loss Centers to lose the extra baggage.

If you haven’t heard of Quick Weight Loss Centers, it’s probably because they are not everywhere. The ones I could find were located in Florida. But when I lived in Houston, it seemed like I remember a couple Radio show host talking about how they were on the program as well. But that was several years ago and who knows what has changed since then.

From what I’ve found out, the Quick Weight Loss Centers is a ready made meal program like Nutri-Systems and some others. According to one story I read, Rush LImbaugh is eating around 1500 calories per day. If he’s working out any amount of time, that low of calorie intake will really shed the pounds of a person. The real test will be whether or not he can keep that weight off!

Their website says they practice a holistic approach to weight loss and more importantly, a weight management plan. They say their plans are professionally managed for safe and quick weight reduction. Sounds good to me if you can keep the weight off afterwards!

Hey, one day maybe The Biggest Loser will have a celebrity show featuring overweight celebrities. In that case, Rush Limbaugh could be a contestant! Then he’ll save some money on those prepared weight loss meals and learn about proper nutrition and exercise!

Then there would be no secret about the Limbaugh weight loss and more people would get on board!

More To Love is a knockoff of the dating reality shows like Bachelorette and The Bachelor. In fact, the producer is the same guy (Mike Fleiss) who produces The Bachelor. However, this show is different in that it uses overweight people as the reality contestants. The show stars a young man looking for “Mrs. Right”. He has 20 overweight females to choose from.

Now at first glance, there is nothing wrong with this. However, one quickly realizes that this is not in the same class as The Bachelor. For example, when I watch The Bachelor, I don’t see them putting the womens size and height on the screen every time they show a contestant!

Also, it seems that this show is setting out to make it seem that overweight women are desperate, lonely and emotional all the time. I could be wrong, but I’ve dated overweight women before I didn’t find that quality in many of them!!

Also, I’m sure Luke is a really nice guy, but he seems just a tad bit of a Player if you know what I mean. The guy is smooth as a babies butt and knows how to push the buttons of these women.

I can’t say that I look forward to many more episodes. I’m afraid of what’s to come in upcoming episodes. I’m not a big fan of either of The Bachelor shows because I believe they are heavily scripted, just like More To Love seems to be.

Maybe if they combined More To Love with The Biggest Loser? Now that would be a show. The contestants would have to work out each week and learn about nutrition. The contestant who lost the most weight woiuld get a date with the Guy and the contestant who lost the least amount of weight goes home!

I’d certainy watch something like this before I watch a whole season of a show like More To Love. I’m sorry, but there’s nothing on this show that’s More To Love!

They should have her on The Biggest Loser as a guest celebrity. Of course, they wouldn’t want her telling everyone that she lost 40 pounds on Jenny Craig…no…no…no!

According to published stories, she lost an additional 9 pounds by working out more (1 hour 4 to 5 times a day) and cutting her daily calories from 1700 to 1200. Now that’s how to lose weight!

It looks like Valerie had the same problem many of us live with. We eat to comfort ourselves. Instead, Ms. Bertinelli has learned to use food to nourish her body instead of using food as a “friend”. Good going Valerie!

She’ll be on Oprah next week. I’m guessing that she’ll be telling her story and pushing Jenny Craig. If you haven’t looked Valerie Bertinelli’s hot bikini pics up yet, I’d suggest you get yourself a copy of People magazine!

But I can understand how some of you didn’t like her. But you have to admit it, her game play got her as far as she got.

Now Joelle in my book is a whole different story. Joelle is just a lazy ass. Plain and simple. No motivation that I can see other than being on TV. She should have been sent home a lot sooner than she was.

So who is your least favorite of the two?

The sad thing is that Carla had to go home due to Joelle’s lack of motivation. A lot like when David was the cause of Daniel being sent home.

For the life of me, I don’t know what goes through someone’s mind that they would want to be seen as slacker on National TV. If I had gone through all those Biggest Loser contestants have gone through to be on the show, I’d damned sure would put my best foot forward. Geez, just imagine, everytime someone recognizes you, they’d be thinking “Hey, there’s that loser from The Biggest Loser”.

If Vicky or Joelle isn’t your all time least favorite Biggest Loser, who is? I think this should get pretty interesting.

The show started off with 11 couples. That’s 22 big ole people. The way this season of The Biggest Loser Couples started off is that the couples would be on the show for one week. At the end of one week, they would have the weigh in. The Couple with the highest percentage of weight loss would get to stay at the Ranch while the Couples who fell below the Yellow line would have to send one member home.

There was one immunity challenge which the Black Team one. So they were safe this week. The rest of The Biggest Loser Couples had to fight it out to stay at the Ranch. The father and son Brown team took the #1 spot. Of course, they were the last ones to be weighed. Do you think this was a coincidence? I don’t. I think The Biggest Loser knew who weighed what and had those guys up last so they could prolong the drama…and show more commercials. Have I told you that I love my TiVo?

At the end of the show, Alyson dropped a little surprise. Of course, by now you know there is always something extra. This season the surprise is that at the end of thirty days, if the other team member is still in the show, then the other team mate gets to come back. I thought that was pretty cool.

I have to tell ya, if you missed The Biggest Loser Couples Premier, you miss some people dropping some huge amount of weight. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a season where so many people lost so much weight the first week!

Once again, it was fun watching Jillian and Bob go at it. I don’t know about you, but over the years I’ve certainly seen a change in both Bob and Jillian. Jillian seems to be more into psycho analysing the Contestants while Bob wants them all to be Zen Masters. You can’t argue with any of their techniques because they do get the Contestants to lose weight.

During the first couple of seasons, I would have chosen Jillian as my trainer. But now, I would pick Bob hands down. Hey Jill, leave the psycho stuff to your Mom and just get on with the training! I can imagine some of the Contestants saying “Hey, I don’t need a friend, I need to lose weight!”

Anyhow, this season promises to be a good one. Maybe even better than previous Season’s. So if you missed the Season Premier of The Biggest Loser Couples, go to NBC and watch it. You won’t be dissappointed.

Well, it seems that Mr. Fioravanti has gotten himself into a little trouble concerning Insurance fraud. It’s alleged that he keeps insuring the same jewelry over and over with different insurance companies. Then filing a claim when they’re “stolen”.

The authorities have finally caught on to the alleged scheme and now David Fioravanti will be arraigned Nov. 4 in Court.

You can read the whole story here. I guess that $100k didn’t go too far. And after hiring a lawyer and fighting this wrap, I will guarantee you he’ll probably owe $100k! Looks like he’s The Biggest Loser in more ways than one.

Of course when the contestants found out that they would have to be camping outside, the bitching and moaning started. Is this the most sissified Biggest Loser group yet or what?

Oh, and by the way, Bob and Jillian didn’t get to come along. This was one of those road trips where the trainers had to stay back at The Biggest Loser Ranch.

Before activities got underway though, we had to have an emotional speech from Alyson while the group was on the rim of the Grand Canyon. The speech was about how the river had carved out the Grand Canyon over a period of millions of years. She then tied this into their quest to lose weight, saying that little by little, over time they would be transformed just like the Grand Canyon had been transformed over all those years. Huuuummmm…anyone have any incense…let’s get back to camp and all sit around the fire and smoke a peace pipe and sing Kumbayah!

Well, it seems this group doesn’t do a whole lot outside. The way the show made it look, no one really knew how to do a workout outside. So they walked around the camp…and around…and around. Needless to say, it didn’t help any of them lose body fat.

Oh, did I forget to mention the opportunity to stop at a roadside store and pimp Extra gum? The Temptation Challenge consisted of The Biggest Loser Contestants trying to guess how many calories their favorite snacks had. The ones who got closest without going over won a pack of Extra gum. The first Biggest Loser Family to win 3 packs got to stay in the Jayco RV.

Now that the product pimping was out of the way, it was on the campground. Basically the show made it look like this group did nothing but wander around aimlessly without any direction.

The next challenge took place in the River. The Biggest Loser Contestants paired up into their family teams. One had to row a Kayak out as far as they could in 2 minutes. After that, the other team member on dock had to start pulling other teams back to dock.

It was quite hilarious watching some of the Biggest Loser team members trying to paddle their kayaks. I tell ya, these people live a very sheltered life!

Ed and Heba won the challenge. For their win, they won the Jayco RV. Probably the best product ever given away on The Biggest Loser, certainly a lot better than a pack of Extra gum!

Once they got back to the Ranch, the trainers got a hold of them for the Last Chance workout. Jerry developed a hamstring pull during one of the workouts and was sent to the hospital for a check up because the medical team at the Ranch thought he might have a blood clot.

I don’t know if anyone has ever had a hamstring pull, but they can be very painful. It was pretty obvious that this would hamper Jerry’s workouts and put this Father Daughter Team in jeopardy of falling below the Yellow Line.

But wait! Alyson had a surprise for The Biggest Loser Families at the weigh in! She dropped the bombshell that no one would be voting on who to eliminate this week. Instead, the Team who fell below the Yellow Line would have to choose between the two who was going home!

Gasp…shock…shazaam!

Can you smell what’s coming?

Yeah…when I heard that, I knew Jerry was going back home to his cottage cheese diet!

Was it just a coincendence that Jerry just happened to have a hamstring pull in same week that the Team falling below the Yellow Line would have to choose a member to go home? Or did the producers of The Biggest Loser make this happen after seeing Jerry get hurt?

You make the call!

Poor Jerry. He gained 3 pounds at the weigh-in, but it wasn’t really a surprise to anyone. The good news is that Coleen, his daughter, remained on the show.

My Wife and I were discussing about how Jerry had to in the worst health of any contestant to every be on The Biggest Loser. It’s remarkable to see what only a few weeks of good nutrition and exercising can do for your body. Hey peeps, until next week, keep on shedding those pounds!

Of course, many other things stayed the same for this season of The Biggest Loser Families. Things like the annoying product placements. Scenes of Biggest Loser contestants eating Extra gum and choking down SubWay sandwiches are some things I can do without.

I can also do without the way they always cut to a commercial with stunned looks on the faces of the trainers or contestants. Trying to bait us into thinking one thing and then coming back showing another. Do they think after all these years that The Biggest Loser viewers are kids?

What I’m most annoyed about is they way they cut to a commercial and then come back after the commercials and rehash the last few minutes before they went to a commercial to begin with! This is called fluff and stuff. They get to add a few meaningless minutes to the program instead of showing unique film.

I think overall this years contestants on The Biggest Loser Families is a good one. As I said before, I didn’t get to see last week, so I don’t know anything about the couple who got cut.

I was shocked to see the Yellow Team bet they could beat the Week 2 average of 2 percent of body weight.

As someone that goes to a lot of auctions, I see people getting caught up in the bidding process all the time. This is exactly what happened to the Yellow Team. They let common sense go out the window and the girl let her heart do the thinking. They nearly paid with it by going home.

This weeks challenge on the giant slip and slide looked fun until I saw them sliding off of the ends of the slide. This brought back painful childhood memories of grass burns! Fun to watch, but I’m glad I didn’t have to do that.

Personally, I could do without Chef Rocco. Hey, just give us some recipes and cooking tips. Other than that, he’s boring and it’s just another way that The Biggest Loser fills the show with fluff to sell more advertising space.

All I care about watching is some of the workouts, challenges and show me some good gossip about the contestants. Then I want to see the weigh ins. That’s it.  Forget about Chef Rocco and the other fluff that is sure to come in the upcoming weeks. I don’t want to see the Trainers and Contestants stand there 15 minutes handwashing each little bit of food they eat.

At this weeks weigh in, it was the Grey Team that fell below the Yellow line. Tom lost 3 pounds, but L.T. added 3 pounds. This isn’t surprising seeing that it’s week 2 and the body fights back a little bit.

The Yellow Team was below the Yellow Line, but only because they didn’t meet the mark of losing 2.4 percent like they had bid on.

At the Elimination, the Orange team buried a knife in the Grey Team’s back. I don’t really care what the reasoning was, they didn’t keep their word.  End of story.

I was shocked to see that both Tom and L.T. had lost over 80 pounds in 4 months. They will be a force to be reckoned with at The Biggest Loser Families finale. Next week, we’ll continue to follow the Yellow Team and see how they fare.

Heck, I’ve been doing this for years and it never struck me that I was practicing portion control! It’s one of the best ways to lose weight and learn how to burn fat fast.

Normally whenever I make a meal, I’ll always make more than what I need expecting to put the extra into the fridge to be used later. Sometimes I’ll make extra and freeze the rest. I only freeze the extra food in the portions I need. So whenever I need a quick meal, I just take out a frozen left over meal and Presto! I have a ready to each meal after zapping it in the Microwave. Perfectly portioned for my diet!

You can also use this for when you go out and eat. Everyone knows that most places give you way to much food. You especially know this if you’re trying to diet!

What I do is once my meal arrives, look at it and decide how many sensible portions there are. I then ask for a to-go box right then and there. I’ll portion the meal out that is to be taken home and enjoy the rest.

I’ve found that if I don’t do this, then my portion becomes all the food on the plate!

Once I’m back at home, the extra portions go either into the fridge or freezer for another day. It’s also important to brush your teeth after every meal. This prevents harmful bacteria from growing on your teeth and gums. The best toothbrush on the market right now is the Sonicare elite. It gets into the hard to reach areas.

Another thing that I’ve learned along the way is that you can store fresh fruit. Earlier in the Summer, we visited a Blackberry farm (the fruit kind, not the Smart Phone kind) and picked about 10 pounds of Blackberries. We then came home and portioned out the Blackberries into individual portions in zip lock baggies and containers. Of course, we do use some for a low cal cobbler and I used some on my real ice cream…sorry, the ice cream wasn’t low cal! But I did have a small portion =)

Since then, I’ve started doing this with other fruit and it has turned out well.

So now I’m not only saving money on food, I’m also eating healthier! What’s not to love!

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