Rest Stop - Biggest Loser Recipes

I have a few people tell me i would have done very well on the Biggest Loser and ask me if I had ever gone to any of the casting calls.  The answer is Yes, I went to one of the casting calls a couple of years ago and boy was it an experience.  I went with a good friend of mine.  We had a pass to get us to the front of the line, that was thanks to a skinny friend, and she said she wished she was big enough to qualify to be on the show. I told her to be thankful she wasn't because trying to lose the weight is a real pain and not to mention hard.  After my buddy and I had finished our paperwork, we waited for our turn to be interviewed.  They interviewed 12 people at a time and the entire interview with all twelve took about 15 minutes.  One question they asked was to tell them something about each of us that nobody would guess.  I told them I was the city Santa Clause.  Anyway, neither of us got a call back, which in the long run was fine with me.

As I have searched the internet about the Biggest Loser, I have come to realize that most of the contestants seem to gain back their weight and some of them end up weighing more than they did before the show.  I have come to understand that unless the change comes from within and it is done in a real world setting that it can be awful hard, if not impossible to keep the weight off.  I say this as I worry about being able to continue to lose the weight I want and then keep it off for the rest of my life.  I do know that if I don't keep it off it may shorten my life considerably.

Anyway, I have found some interesting ideas and thoughts on different Biggest Loser sites.  The first site is actually the official NBC site for the Biggest Loser.  There are some great recipes on this site that I willbe trying in the future.  Since tomatoes and eggs are back in my diet I will be trying the Smoked Sausage Breakfast Scramble real soon.  The link is: http://www.nbc.com/the-biggest-loser/exclusives/nutrition/chef_devin/recipes.shtml

The next link is http://www.oprah.com/food/Healthy-Recipes-from-the-Biggest-Loser-Family-Cookbook  It is from Oprah and has four recipes .  I may make one of them tomorrow night, since Vick has a Relief Society Garden Party to go to. I told her she will probably get a healthy recipe rather than the sweet, gooey ones I am known for.

This one is a write up by US News and World Report.  http://health.usnews.com/best-diet/biggest-loser-diet
Lots of good info and the do's and don'ts along with some recipes and menus.

There is even a Pinterest board with 40 recipes from the Biggest Loser cookbooks.  http://pinterest.com/whimsicaldreams/biggest-loser-recipes/

So as you can see there is a lot of information having information having to do with the Biggest Loser, mostly recipes, but it gives ideas for food to eat while following the journey Dr. Scott has started me on.