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    After 'The Biggest Loser,' Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight

    Contestants lost hundreds of pounds during Season 8, but gained them back. A study of their struggles helps explain why so many people fail to keep off the weight they lose.

    Danny Cahill stood, slightly dazed, in a blizzard of confetti as the audience screamed and his family ran on stage. He had won Season 8 of NBC's reality television show "The Biggest Loser," shedding more weight than anyone ever had on the program — an astonishing 239 pounds in seven months.

    When he got on the scale for all to see that evening, Dec. 8, 2009, he weighed just 191 pounds, down from 430. Dressed in a T-shirt and knee-length shorts, he was lean, athletic and as handsome as a model.

    "I've got my life back," he declared. "I mean, I feel like a million bucks."

    Mr. Cahill left the show's stage in Hollywood and flew directly to New York to start a triumphal tour of the talk shows, chatting with Jay Leno, Regis Philbin and Joy Behar. As he heard from fans all over the world, his elation knew no bounds.

    But in the years since, more than 100 pounds have crept back onto his 5-foot-11 frame despite his best efforts. In fact, most of that season's 16 contestants have regained much if not all the weight they lost so arduously. Some are even heavier now.

    Yet their experiences, while a bitter personal disappointment, have been a gift to science. A study of Season 8's contestants has yielded surprising new discoveries about the physiology of obesity that help explain why so many people struggle unsuccessfully to keep off the weight they lose.

    Kevin Hall, a scientist at a federal research center who admits to a weakness for reality TV, had the idea to follow the "Biggest Loser" contestants for six years after that victorious night. The project was the first to measure what happened to people over as long as six years after they had lost large amounts of weight with intensive dieting and exercise...

    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/he...loss.html?_r=0

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    The show is too extreme to be a good indicator. Those who fared well in the next years were those who lost a moderate amount of weight, in the 50 pound range.

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    I'm a bit skeptical of all these articles about how people fail miserably at weight management over time. The common denominator is that they typically involve people who do not have a clue about crucifying the flesh. Fuego is of the opinion that fasting equals crucifying the flesh, or at least to a Christian. We all know that non-Christians are capable of fasting for any length of time so it doesn't have to be that. But if Christians can fast for spiritual reasons and call that crucifying the flesh then how much more should they be able to keep their weight within bounds throughout their lifetime for health purposes ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    Fuego is of the opinion that fasting equals crucifying the flesh, or at least to a Christian. We all know that non-Christians are capable of fasting for any length of time so it doesn't have to be that.
    Comparing Christian fasting and non-Christian fasting is apples and oranges, just as comparing Christian prayers and Hindu prayers would be apples to oranges, and then saying neither work because the unsaved do it too.

    When a Christian fasts, he's executing a positional truth that the 'sinner' doesn't have access to, which is 'death to the body of Adam', or being 'dead' in Christ and Jesus having broken the hold the flesh has over us in a physical sense as well as the spiritual sense. When a heathen fasts, he's just going hungry. Just like when a Christian prays he's executing a positional truth of being seated with Christ, where a heathen is just 'talking'. So when we fast as Christians the Holy Spirit gets involved since He is the one that executes positional truth in our lives when we obey the Word.

    But if Christians can fast for spiritual reasons and call that crucifying the flesh then how much more should they be able to keep their weight within bounds throughout their lifetime for health purposes ?
    I agree, although I will confess obviously that I have failed in this area for the most part, but still haven't abandoned the quest.

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    Is there any other area where God is pleased with an on-and-off servitude ? Kind of like now I've been amazingly holy for 40 days so now I get to undo that and preferably more for a while until I have to go holy again ? If losing weight by fasting equals crucifying the flesh then what does eating up beyond the initial weight amount to ? Seriously.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    Is there any other area where God is pleased with an on-and-off servitude ? Kind of like now I've been amazingly holy for 40 days so now I get to undo that and preferably more for a while until I have to go holy again ? If losing weight by fasting equals crucifying the flesh then what does eating up beyond the initial weight amount to ? Seriously.
    It's a physical impossibility to continually fast on water alone. It's not to pray every day.

    Anyway, what I said in the other post is the best way I know to explain it. If you don't agree, you don't agree.

    As for your question, I don't really get what you're asking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    It's a physical impossibility to continually fast on water alone. It's not to pray every day.

    Anyway, what I said in the other post is the best way I know to explain it. If you don't agree, you don't agree.

    As for your question, I don't really get what you're asking.
    I'd accept fasting as amounting to a form of self control where it is followed up on by self control in general and not just during the brief duration where the fasting is performed. Meaning it results in keeping the weight down in general, over time. There are plenty of people who practice this and dont increase their maximum weight even though they frequently fast for long periods of time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    I'd accept fasting as amounting to a form of self control where it is followed up on by self control in general and not just during the brief duration where the fasting is performed. Meaning it results in keeping the weight down in general, over time. There are plenty of people who practice this and dont increase their maximum weight even though they frequently fast for long periods of time.
    Ok, I understand and agree. Fasting should be a catalyst to self-control in general and should be used for that purpose.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    Ok, I understand. Fasting should be a catalyst to self-control in general and should be used for that purpose.
    Serving God is more about what happens on average or even at the bottom than what happens at the 'best' times. That is a better indicator of character. That doesnt mean that an exception or lapse undoes that if that amounted to being out of character rather than it being part of that character.

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    Does losing weight and keeping it off make one more holy and acceptable to God? That would be a works based salvation. If you want to lose weight and battle it all your life, you won't be one bit more holy than anyone else.

    The kingdom cometh not with observation and it is within. Flesh and blood won't inherit the kingdom. IF a person wants to battle their weight for health purposes, fine, but these bodies do not have eternal life. They will have to put on immortality.

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