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Biggest Loser contestant Greg Koutsouridis talks to Woman’s Day about his time on the show. **Starting weight: 148.8kg Elimination weight: 114.7kg** How do you feel having to leave at this stage of the game? I’ve got 9 kilos to go before I reach my goal weight but I’m really happy. I feel much sexier. I’ve […]

Biggest Loser contestant Mel Russell talks to Woman’s Day about her time on the show. **Starting weight: 108.4kg Elimination weight: 88kg** How do you feel now that you are out of the Biggest Loser competition? Its mixed emotions. I’m so excited to be going home to my family. I said I didn’t want to go […]

Alternative medicine should be considered before reaching for the pill packet, says Zoe Sheridan. I think every physical disease has an emotional or a mental element to it. For example, cancer eats at your healthy blood cells and that also causes something to eat away at you — whether in the form of anger or […]

Biggest Loser contestant Jules Condon talks to Woman’s Day about her time on the show. **Starting weight: 126.5kg Exit weight: 106.9kg** Your heart condition, atrial fibrillation, is the reason you had to leave The Biggest Loser. How did you feel about leaving in this way given you’ve lived with the condition for two years? I […]

Biggest Loser contestant Marty Barrett talks to Woman’s Day about his time on the show. **Starting weight: 160.6kg Elimination weight: 130.1kg** How was your time in the Whitehouse? The last two weeks I shut down and this is something Gerard did a lot of. I was getting upset about the rumours that were going around […]

Let’s take action before the world becomes full of Paris Hilton look-alikes, pleads Libbi Gorr. Body image seems such a shallow topic. We spend so much time thinking about our bodies, worrying about our bodies, dieting, exercising. There are so many other things in the world that we could be applying our minds to. But […]

Biggest Loser contestant Gerard Fleischer talks to Woman’s Day about his time on the show. **Starting weight: 133.5kg Elimination weight: 116.4kg** How was your Biggest Loser experience? I’m rapt to be out of the house. I had a fantastic time but I’m a person that when one door closes another door opens. I don’t look […]

The paranoia of a few shouldn’t prevent refugees settling here, says Mary Moody. The way we have treated refugees in the past is heartless. I spend a lot of time travelling around the world and it’s sometimes embarrassing to be an Australian. With the Tampa incident, we more or less turned away a boat full […]

Biggest Loser contestant P’eta Phelan talks to Woman’s Day about her time on the show. **Starting weight: 131.6kg Elimination weight: 126.3kg** How did you feel about being a replacement contestant? When I was told I wasn’t in, I’d said to myself, “Thank God I didn’t get in”. There was a part of me that wanted […]

Lisa Oldfield wants to see the elderly cared for by their loved ones rather than the hospital system. My grandparents and my mother and father-in-law, whom I love very dearly, have been very sick of late and have relied on care. They’ve lived through the Depression and worked so hard to carry Australia through that […]