Biggest Loser's Kai Hibbard Says Show Triggered Eating Disorder

[RamboLiberal]

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"I had no idea I had a problem," Hibbard told ABCNews.com. "When you spend four months surrounded by people who are all doing this to themselves, even if intellectually it seems wrong, you don't realize. You just think if they're doing it, I'm doing it."

And what she was doing was trying a number of techniques to shed weight at an alarming rate -- from fasting from dressing head to toe in multiple layers of clothing and working out in 100-degree temperatures.

"I'd put on a sports bra, a tank top, a t-shirt and a sweatshirt and then my spandex shorts, pants, sweatpants, a baseball cap and just zip it all up," she recalls. "I'd go to the gym, which had no air conditioner, and work out for two hours or as long as I could stand it without drinking water."

"Some people would drink water and just swish it around in their mouth and spit it out," said Hibbard. "But I couldn't do that, I knew I'd want to drink it."

Hibbard said that this was common practice for contestants in the hours leading up to the weigh-in, where whoever lost the least amount of weight that week would be sent home.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/biggest-loser-contestant-kai-hibbard-eating-disorder/story?id=11012666&page=1

[flvegan]

1. I can't describe the arguments I've had with other trainers about that show.

[RamboLiberal]

2. If you have time spell them out here - love to hear them

I've only watched the show for a few minutes just a couple of times. But I figured it had to be somewhat dangerous with the dramatic losses.

[flvegan]

3. The biggest disagreement I've had with several of them

goes along with what the trainwreck first episode of the season is. A group of people who are medically and tragically obese, haven't exercised AT ALL in years are taken into the gym where two professional trainers literally run the hell out of them. Or, they make them climb a mountain or run some sort of long distance. Those two clods are lucky they haven't killed someone. I've seen gym-employed trainers do exactly the same thing because "that's how Jillian does it"

I've seen trainers that I know personally get a brand new female client who admittedly hasn't exercised in years and is having trouble with her knees and he puts her on a treadmill and jacks it to 5 or 6 mph. She doesn't have the cardiovascular ability, the balance, the motor skills to be thrown into that. It's irresponsible, and ironically, very bad for their business.

[RamboLiberal]

5. I hear you - I saw the same thing in martial arts

Surprised the "grand master" didn't have someone have a coronary or heat stroke on the no air conditioned floor and don't let the students take a water break or roll up the sleeves of their uniforms let alone of maybe having the sense to train in t-shirts. TRADITION!

[BanzaiBonnie]

7. I had to quit a martial arts group

when I told the teacher that I could not do push ups, because they hurt my knees, he told me to quit being a baby and that it shouldn't be hurting me. Yeah, I had osteoarthritis. He wouldn't budge on it and so I quit. I was sad because I've always loved doing martial arts.

[tammywammy]

4. I've never watched that show

But if contestants are doing that, they're lucky no one has collapsed or died.

[enough]

6. Well as one of our favorite pundits would say: " OF COURSE!!!!!!!!!!" (NT)

[Ron Green]

8. Television is TOXIC.

Don't ever forget this. It consumes and produces nothing but IDIOCY.

Turn it off, turn it off.