TV is a fixture in all our homes... The last year I've seen lots of good weight loss shows...

DIscovery Channel has a few great shows

Body Challenge
Fitness Fantasy
Taking it off (Canadian)
Sentanced to health

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Even the food Channel has a few... And once and a while PBS has a good science show on weight...

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Anyone have any favourites? And yes Dr Phil....

Any moment that really touched you or motivated you????

Favourite health shows?

Sorry, I don't have a TV...

Although with a list of shows like that, you're making me wish I did! ;)

108 before I had 300 channels of crappy TV I had 3 channels that might work (Rural location) I was 190 and 10 percent body fat.... Not the only factor but a good statement of what TV can do....

Be proud that you don't have a TV..... It means you have to live in the real world... Tell us about that....

bill, i like Cooking Thin on the food network when i catch it..it is an excellent show..i try to catch monday's dr phil's so i can keep up w what is going there..i tivo it, but havent had a chance to finish watching this last monday's show..i missed some of the others you mentioned..one show i find motivating is Body Shaping on ESPN2..it comes on in the middle of the night now, but sometimes i wake up and catch it by accident..but before, it used to come on at a decent hour and i learned a lot about weight lifting from it..and watching the people work out and seeing their attitudes were tremendously possitive..especially since one is an older lady about my age..

ok this is going to sound strange, but what started me on my most serious journey years ago was watching the Susan Powter infomercial over and over and over again while i was laying in my bed..i spent a lot of time in bed then..i was 320 pounds of misery..but her Stop the Insanity infomercial was playing A LOT then, and i would listen to it over and over again..and it sunk in..i ordered her stuff and USED them..and lost 130 pounds..not just from her stuff...but oh, how could i forget?? COVET BAILEY..he had a great program on PBS called FIT or FAT ..and i watched that all the time too..and ordered HIS stuff..his books and tapes..he had an infomercial on too for his TOTAL BODY POWER taped series..and i ordered those too..they are EXCELLENT...also the tae bo infomercial lol...bought that stuff and love IT also!!!

there is so much motivating, good stuff available!! thank you for starting this thread..it will be interesting to see what is mentioned!! :up:

Originally posted by sooz

ok this is going to sound strange, but what started me on my most serious journey years ago was watching the Susan Powter infomercial over and over and over again while i was laying in my bed..i spent a lot of time in bed then..i was 320 pounds of misery..but her Stop the Insanity infomercial was playing A LOT then, and i would listen to it over and over again..and it sunk in..i ordered her stuff and USED them..and lost 130 pounds..not just from her stuff. :up:

Oh, my. This is interesting. I was not feeling very well in the winter of 1999-2000 so I watched a lot of TV and saw the Richard Simmons commercial selling his Foodmover plus Blast-off exercise video. So I bought the set, and it worked for me, just like the Susan Powter stuff worked for Sooz. I also have adapted other TV watching to my personal WOE with some success.

I think there is much to be found on TV that can be very helpful. Of course you have to be a bit selective in what you take and use, but if you can make the information work for you, that is great. :D

Originally posted by JoThrive
Oh, my. This is interesting. I was not feeling very well in the winter of 1999-2000 so I watched a lot of TV and saw the Richard Simmons commercial selling his Foodmover plus Blast-off exercise video. So I bought the set, and it worked for me, just like the Susan Powter stuff worked for Sooz. I also have adapted other TV watching to my personal WOE with some success.

I think there is much to be found on TV that can be very helpful. Of course you have to be a bit selective in what you take and use, but if you can make the information work for you, that is great. :D

That is how I found Richard simmon but in 2002.

Cooking thin is excellent.... Many of the fitness informercials have strong visual images that are motivating. I remember those helpless days up late searching for something to watch on TV and seeing something you knew wasn't the answer but hoping it was. I try to avoid watching lots of food tv I think the more you see food the more you want to eat! Body shaping and those shows work good to... A good movie is motivating... A Martial arts movie where the character must train and then be victorious... SOmething silly like that... Enter the Dragon (Guy movie) actually one of the few true guy movies with out Steve McQueen but thats another posting in another venue. Kickboxer or something like Rocky IV.. How about you ladies any motivators out there...

I love Enter the Dragon. Not a guy movie! I like the Cynthia Rothrock movies too - do those count as chick flicks? :laugh: ( http://www.cynthiarothrock.org/ )

I can't think of any "motivators" I guess, not on TV anyway. Zumba infomercial makes me want to get up and dance, but I've got two left feet. I bought TaeBo tapes once but gave them away. The body shaping shows are fun to watch, but I like to nitpick them or figure out how I might change the exercise or explain it better. I think the WSW competition that's always in reruns on ESPN2 is pretty neat. Jill Mills is just amazing. But I cannot see myself even beginning to train in that manner, so it's more awe than motivation.
( http://www.jillmills.com/events/wsw2002/wsw2002.htm )

My running partner convinces me to go running more often. I guess that's about it for motivation. I'm just weird I guess.

...I dunno, bbb, I find food television does the opposite, for me-- with food tv, it seems like the constant visuals of food make me...not want it? Unless it's done *my* way...and, I dunno, the infomercials and fitness gurus make me...angry, like, who do those producers think they *are*, trying to victimize me?

so, lessee, my television "motivators"...well, ellen entertains me as I do cardio at the gym. 30 Minute meals and Cooking Thin motivate me to cook well. I think I *may* have some anger issues to take care of, because fit gorgeous people on tv also make me angry, like, geez, they're genetically perfect and I'm just some overweight FREAK....

Long story shortened, MY most powerful motivator comes from within, with a little help from (shameless plug here,) Diettalk.:)

ok this is gonna age me, but here is another thing that i used to focus on as a motivator...Samantha in the old tv show Bewitched..when she was thin and she wore a lot of sleeveless dresses..her arms were PERFECT..i would LOVE to have arms like that...

oh and well, i do use trash tv to keep me interested on the exercise bike...i pedal through survivor every thursday for example lol....:o

Alias is great treadmill show to. The pictures we send our brain do effect us.. ANyway the best thing I ever did was hooking up the TV in the basement and running ear phones to it... I can get in 30 minutes of treadmill and watch mindless entertainment.

I like your post sooz I do that to.. Ok I don't want the arms of a cute witch maybe Vin Diesel..

Jess. I love foodtv but avoid it during my hungry times but my favourites are cooking thin and a cooks tour...

Oh if your ever hungry turn on fear factor during an eating challenge that'll make the snacking urge go away.

Dea I'll check out the links, it doesn't matter what you watch as long as it gets you stoaked to do something.

lol re fear factor and not wanting to eat!!! :D

I'd love to have a fitness channel..... A mix of health shows,exercise shows, cooking, movies that inspire or with athletes etc... Imagine the possibilities what kind of shows would you watch?

I think you found your get-rich-quick scheme, bbb. Build it and we will come!

I can imagine the commercals.. Aragon can sell anti smoking software for the computer I'll endorse the Chicken and rib diet.. Picture a tall thin blonde with BBQ sauce around her lips with big stains on her T-shirt.."The secret is in the barbecue sauce. She'll say I've search around the world and found a blend of natural roots when mixed from the raw natural sugars found in tropical fruits it causes a lasting evolution to your metabolism. You know I've tried this sauce on all kinds of food but it seems to react best to pork ribs! I've lost 60 pounds eating ribs and chicken no really. Sure the first time I ate a rib for breakfast people stared at me now they stare for another reason"

Then we could sell the famous reusable can for beer can chicken.

A great laugh

And I can see you in the back round doing high flying spins and kicks.:laugh:

:rofl:

I think that's a winner, Bill! And have Megan in there doing tai chi or something, too.

Sooz then i must be close to your age because I remember bewitched too and I still watch reruns to this day..PLUS I love the reruns of All in the Family and Golden Girls.. Heck even my two young adult children are hooked on these shows...LOL

I love Bewitched! Although, I don't know if I saw them when they first ran or in reruns - but I still enjoy the occasional episode.

joanne (love the new userpic, btw, awesome!!) I read somewhere that the Golden Girls is one of the most popular shows on Lifetime - among ALL age groups. I used to watch it all the time :) Great group of women in that show!!