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O'Neal Hampton "The Biggest Loser"

O’Neal Hampton was eliminated from The Biggest Loser last week, but he’s not about to those 150 pounds he lost come back!

The father is still exercising and eating right, which in his opinion means eating organic.

“People say that organic food and healthy food is so much more expensive,” he said, according to Hollywood Outbreak.

“Not for me. The tradeoff was what I was spending in co-payments going to the doctor and then my medication for the 12 pills that I was taking a day I’m now spending in food, which is a lot cheaper than medicine.”

If you need to save money and aren’t sure you want to buy everything organic, don’t forget to refer to the Environmental Working Group’s “Dirty Dozen,” the list of foods that should always be bought organic due to the high levels of pesticides found on them.

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Jillian Michaels "Master Your Metabolism"

Jillian Michaels, one of the coaches from The Biggest Loser, has a diet and health book, Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body!

The three themes for the book are Remove, Restore, and Rebalance, which reference to changing the foods that go into your mouth in order to achieve a healthier system (metabolism) that will enable you to lose weight.

Along with resources like shopping lists, tips for eating out and how to eat on a budget, Master Your Metabolism contains recipes.

This is an entire chapter featuring vegetarian main dishes, which is a plus, but it’s a little disappointing that Jillian didn’t choose to make these the focus of the recipes in her book, as she’s a pescatarian who will only eat sustainable seafood.

Most of the foods on her top 10 recommended list, however, are vegetarian–nuts, seeds, legumes, organic dairy, whole grains, fruits and dark, leafy vegetables.

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Biggest Loser 6 Weeks To A Healthier You

A brand new cookbook featuring contributions from The Biggest Loser contestants and staff is out, and season 6 competitor Nicole Michalik has contributed her delicious meat and dairy free recipe in Biggest Loser 6 Weeks To A Healthier You.

“Broke Bean Stew” features vegetable broth with your choice of chickpeas, kidney beans or black beans seasoned with onion, garlic and cumin among other spices and herbs.

“I love, love, love! It’s high in protein but totally vegetarian. It’s so easy to make and freezes very well. I make it at least once a month,” said Michalik.

And since there aren’t many ingredients in the recipe and beans are relatively cheap, you won’t go broke if you choose to make it several times a month.

This is definitely the kind of food vegetarian coach Bob Harper pitches on the show.

You can grab the recipe for Broke Bean Stew at Prevention.

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Jillian Michaels may scream, berate and boss people around on NBC’s The Biggest Loser, but she insists that’s not the way you should treat your kids if you’re trying to get them in shape.

“The Biggest Loser is about life-or-death confrontations. Last ditch attempts to get people back on track. Kids need positive reinforcement only,” Jillian explained to Parent Dish.

Getting kids involved with physical activities can be combined with nutrition, such as planting and growing your own vegetables in a backyard garden, suggests the pescatarian.

“Teach them about healthy goods to help them become a healthy grownup. Don’t make it about pounds or calorie counting. Involve them in the food. Let them start a little vegetable garden so they are invested. Challenge them to find fruits and veggies in their favorite colors and so on. This helps to keep health fun and make them feel in control of their choices.”

We can totally see the garden thing as a competitive, but positive experience for kids.

Team blue gets the green beans. Team red gets tomatoes.

Who can harvest more at the end of the season?

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“These diets that are out there that say ‘I can eat all the protein and fat that I want and I’m going to lose weight. Well you know what? You’re absolutely going to lose weight when you eat like that. But what you’re doing to your heart and arteries with all that animal protein and fat — it’s damaging to the molecular structure of your body.”

—Bob Harper, The Biggest Loser coach, taking a break from teaching yoga to explain to That’s Fit that the key to healthy weight isn’t about cutting carbs and downing all the “lean” ground beef you can handle.

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Former The Biggest Loser contestant set out on yet another weight loss challenge after giving birth to her second son in 2008.

Suzy Hoover lost 95 pounds during the reality TV show in 2005, and her husband, Matt Hoover was season two’s winner.

To jumpstart her weight loss program, Hoover spent a week at The Biggest Loser Resort in Ivins, Utah, where her days were spent with long hikes and 45 minute workouts such as cycling.

What did Hoover eat to fuel all this activity?

US Magazine reports Hoover ate “1,200 calories a day fueled by veggie heavy meals.”

It’s no surprise The Biggest Loser Resort relies on food grown in the ground to help get attendees off the ground and on their way to less pounds.

Bob Harper, one of the coaches on the show, is a vegetarian who says he recommends all contestants either follow a vegetarian or diet with very little meat.

Harper’s diet “A” consists of protein from sources like beans and tofu, while diet “B” for competitors that absolutely refuse to quit meat consists of little amounts of lean meat, but still forces them to go heavy on the veggie.

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Bob Harper is throwing down the gauntlet.

The Biggest Loser coach is asking his Twitter followers to be as vegan as they possibly can be.

“Your Challenge today is to go the next 24 hours, starting now eliminating ALL animal products. Good for your heart AND the environment!!”

There are so many great tasting foods that aren’t meat, dairy or poultry.

Plus, there’s plenty of faux substitutes for those who like their beef and cheese.

The 24 hour challenge can easily be extended to 24 days, 24 weeks, 24 months and forever!

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On a recent episode of The Biggest Loser, coach Jillian Michaels congratulated a contestant for a job well done when he ditched the vending machine snacks and opted for a veggie sub sandwich at Subway instead.

Biggest Loser contestants have some great support on the show.

Michaels is a pescatarian, while Bob Harper is totally veg!

Harper pitches a vegetarian diet to the contestants on the show, or at least one that’s primarily plant based.

“I always bring up the option of a vegetable-based diet, which I call Diet A, and talk about the many easy ways to get protein, such as from beans, tofu, broccoli, and quinoa,” he said. “For the contestants who insists they need their meat, I have Diet B, which is still very heavy on veggies.”

Diet A sounds like the best way to be the biggest winner!

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