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I’m hoping to get a couple more of these available over the next couple of days (depending on whether the first gets yanked) so keep an eye out.

For now, here is an ad featuring one of Season 3’s contestants, Dianne!

Dianne is another in a long and distinguished line of fat Mums to appear on the show, hoping to shed some kilos to give her more energy to play with her son. I doubt she will be the only mother with that goal in mind in this season, but here’s hoping she does well, for her son’s sake, if not her own.

The clip also has a figure from the Australian Bureau of Statistics that says over 49% of Aussies are overweight. Certainly not a fun fact to contemplate, but without knowing whether that is increasing or decreasing that’s less noteworthy than it might have been. I’d’ve picked a time when the number was quite a bit lower and say that it’s an x% increase since year y, just to make it a bit more sensational and dramatic. But the overall tone of the ad is fairly mellow or even melancholy, so perhaps it was decided not to go that route.

And for those keeping score at home, Dianne’s weight is listed at 115kg. Certainly not among the heavyweights of the competition, if you’ll pardon the pun. But the lighter ladies do tend to do a little better overall, since dropping a little weight is a lot more noticeable for them than it is for the 150kg and up girls.

With a young son I’m going to guess she might end up in Michelle’s camp, for that whole female-bonding thing. Anyone want to bet against me?

TV spots for the next Australian series of The Biggest Loser, Season 3, have started to appear on Channel 10. Most are not immediately apparent as ads for the show, which makes catching them somewhat difficult.

Each of the ads I have seen so far have been a contestant (or two) speaking about their life, their weight and the reason for them wanting to change both.

Among the usual “standard fat person” bits is something that will seem very familiar to those of us watching the US season airing here currently – the next Australian season will also have a set of twins, female in this instance and they don’t seem to be identical.

How original! :-)

No sign of the trainers though we will presumably be getting Michelle and Shannan back again. If anyone has seen anything to confirm or deny this, please leave a comment.

Also, a quick YouTube search doesn’t turn up any of the ads as yet, nor is anything on S3 available via the official Biggest Loser website. If anyone knows where I can find them, please let me know in the comments!

With the ads starting to appear now it seems likely that the show will be returning within a month or so, perhaps for another early February start. Keep your eyes peeled, or check back here on a regular basis!

… on Australian television anyway.

Channel 10, 8.30pm, Friday 9th November.

Bob Harper and Kim Lyons are the trainers, though Jillian Michaels is also listed in the guide. Not sure what that’s about, guess we’ll find out on Friday!

And Alison Sweeny is the new host. I guess Caroline Rhea got tired of all the fat jibes. Here’s hoping Ajay doesn’t!

I probably won’t be doing recaps of the American season, since we’re quite a ways behind the US airing of the show. May post some general thoughts each week though, tune in Friday/Saturday I guess?

I meant to get this done sooner but with a million other things on my mind and unexpected Biggest Loser recaps to write, it kept slipping further and further back.

But no more! www.mythor.net is a real website at last!

It’s a blog type site much as The Biggest Loser Recap, but it will cover a variety of topics, such as politics, gaming, television, religion and whatever else I can think of.

If you’ve enjoyed my writings here, maybe you’ll enjoy my writings there? I certainly hope so. :-)

And don’t worry, The Biggest Loser Recap is not being abandoned. Recaps will continue to be written when there’s episodes of the show airing again.

“I want to be a thin hot gorgeous sexy everybody look at me bride.” – Rasha
“My goal in life is to be a Mum, I don’t want my health problems to interfere with that.” – Sarah
The two couples are Edwin and Rasha, Steve and Sarah. The trainers are Bob & Jillian, hurrah!

Of course before they begin their journey they have to say goodbye to mounds and mounds of food. GIVE!
Edwin says he considers a lot of the foods there to be “good food”. Sarah says it makes her feel terrible to look at it all.

Read on? Please?

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