Sarah Peak: 'Why I quit'

**Starting weight: 153.3kg

Elimination weight: Left before first weigh-in**

The Biggest Loser contestant Sarah Peak talks to Woman’s Day about why she walked out on the show.

What made you leave the Whitehouse?

It was a hard decision for me. I just couldn’t continue being there any more. It wasn’t the training, basically the whole environment just wasn’t right for me, everything about it. I had great times, all the contestants are fantastic and that made it even harder for me leaving; I didn’t want to let anyone down. I might have upset them but I couldn’t let myself down. Staying in the house I was letting myself down. Every day I was in there I withdrew even more. I missed my boyfriend and my family. I was probably a bit upset and depressed.

Did anyone make life hard for you?

There was no one being nasty, except Jillian. I don’t like her. I saw last year’s show and I knew she was that way but I had no understanding she would be like that 24/7. She’s very abrupt and I’m an emotional person and I don’t like people like that. Even when I left she was quite nasty. Michelle was trying to convince me to stay and Jillian just comes over and starts yelling, “Don’t worry about her, she doesn’t want any help, just leave her!” She couldn’t empathise at all. I didn’t expect her to, but I didn’t expect her to be so nasty. That’s her character but I was shocked to see that when we weren’t filming she was just like that. She obviously cared enough to push people and get certain results but it didn’t matter to her what that was. She would do certain things like if someone was struggling to do the exercise she wanted she’d scream at them, “If you don’t do this I’ll get Sarah to do it 10 times harder.”

How is your weight loss now that you are out of the house?

Since I left I’ve been exercising and maintaining a diet, so definitely not off the wagon. I do far more exercise than I did in the house. I was only there the first week so they train a lot more now, but not while I was there. I wanted to be able to show people that you don’t have to be there to lose weight. This whole experience was never about becoming the Biggest Loser for me, or the money; it was to really just changing my life and having help to lose weight. It’s going to take me a few years to get me to my goal weight.

Who do you want to win?

Marty.

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