Take a Peek Behind the Curtain at "The Biggest Loser"
by Todd Sweet
LOS ANGELES — When more than 40 former contestants from “The Biggest Loser” gather Wednesday for a reunion television special, the winner of the program’s first season, Ryan C. Benson, who lost 122 of his 330-pound starting weight, will be absent. Mr. Benson is now back above 300 pounds but he thinks he has been shunned by the show because he publicly admitted that he dropped some of the weight by fasting and dehydrating himself to the point that he was urinating blood.
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Is it really any surprise that contestants sometimes use less-than-healthy methods to lose weight on the show, and often gain back the weight afterward?
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