Operation Transformation 2014

Pissy Missy

Hi All,

I'm looking forward to operation transformation but not sure whether to start following it today or tomorrow. Is anyone else starting it today or tomorrow?

kingtut

The official start is tomorrow, the stuff was only put on the site today so that people can be prepared and get their shopping done in advance etc.

I plan on giving it a go anyway. Shopping list for the first 2 weeks is up

leahyl

Wow that girl has a lot to lose - I hope she succeeds; she seems a lovely girl

zoobizoo

Do they ever get them to lift proper weights on the show?

Dotcomdolly

zoobizoo wrote: »

Do they ever get them to lift proper weights on the show?

Nope, squats with water bottles and some upper body work with light weigths is all I've seen.

Typer Monkey

I think the original concept was that the diet and exercise had to be accessible to the general public so food generally available in supermarkets and exercise that could be performed at home and not be reliant on any equipment. I think it's a wasted opportunity to introduce the public, particularly women, to the benefits of lifting and debunk some myths

zoobizoo

Typer Monkey wrote: »

I think it's a wasted opportunity to introduce the public, particularly women, to the benefits of lifting and debunk some myths

Me too.

I see so many overweight women walking for hours on end. It keeps them healthier alright but it's slower and won't help you lose weight quickly. And lifting cans of beans or bottles of water won't do much for you either.

It would be a more interesting show if they had one person committed to doing weights for the same period as the contestants and then compare them at the end.

Deise Vu

I dip in and out of OT so I may be missing something. As far as I can see they show the participants undergoing some form of Full Metal Jacket Drill Sargent grilling every week as a group, then individually they show them cooking their fresh foods and sprinting down the road, sweating profusely or doing squats or crunches.

I have two points to make about this: firstly, these people are fatties. If they just switched to eating the right food and cut out alcohol and sweets the weight would fall off them never mind adding in the marine recruit, gym bunny stuff.

Secondly, this show is meant to inspire the nation to lose weight. They showed the cueball guy complaining about his 'miserable' breakfast (which appeared to be a load of eggs, beans and rashers), then sprinting around his local roads, doing crunches in his living room and suffering a gym session with a personal trainer. He lost 2.5 pounds. I could lose that just going about my daily routine. In one day.

I think they are missing a trick here, making weightloss look so difficult. (and yes I know cueball had a curry on Saturday night and he never heard of anything in life being measured). Lighten it up! (pun intended)

zoobizoo

It gives people the wrong impression about healthy food and exercise.

It isn't difficult.

Doing crunches when you're that size isn't going to do much good at all. Showing people who have no idea about weight loss watching the show may think that sit ups will make them thin.

And lifting cans of beans, while better than doing nothing, really isn't going to do anything for weight loss.

Who eats cooked breakfasts? Yer man is complaining about having no time. A bowl of porridge takes a minute in the microwave.

It would be great to see some gyms take on five people and put them through a proper regime of exercise and compare the results with the OT people at the end of the series.

Pissy Missy

I think the OT is not about teaching the most effective techniques for quick weightloss but teaching people who either are uneducated about the basics of healthy food, general exercise and essentially a healthier lifestyle (not a perfect one) or for people who have lost their way to live and need some motivation, support and guidance. I do agree weights are more effective than a can of beans however progression is perhaps their focus here, not perfection. Marc Gibbs has to get up at 6am, (takes an hour to get to work) and work a 12 hour shift which can't be easy (while also having children). I just think its hard to adjust to such a change, perhaps he is been ungrateful for what hes eating but he did say he absolutely loves food so there's probably an attachment there that needs to be broken. I know making my meals take ages, I'm no professional chef! And yes, I agree making porridge takes only a few minutes, but making dinner takes WAY longer with chop chop chop each vegetable. Also I think the fact that this is on tv, drama is been thrived upon so inevitably the moaning and groaning is fascinating for viewers and numbers for ratings for RTE. The whole point of this show, I think, is to get them to eat healthier and cut out/ back on the sweets and alcohol, however changing long standing habits ain't easy peasy either, especially if there is an emotional/ psychological attachment to these substances.

zoobizoo

Pissy Missy wrote: »

changing long standing habits ain't easy peasy either, especially if there is an emotional/ psychological attachment to these substances.

I'd agree with you there.

It still baffles me how people can be so ignorant about what they eat though... as in, I look at the gloop that people but in their shopping trollies without a secod thought.

I wonder if there's a corellation between intelligience and healthy eating.

Pissy Missy

I like to think that I have a great knowledge on food and nutrition however i can be self-deceptive and have an emotional attachment to food which I have been trying to break over the last several years, its seems to rear its ugly head when something bad happens in my life. Its a challenge and I won't give up.

There is a correlation between poverty/ low social class (lack of education?) and obesity. Also been exposed to advertising that encourages food consumption and promotes unhealthy food is another factor- shops try encourage upselling and sell foods on special prices and in large quantity's where consumers are encouraged to buy a family size bag of chocolate for themselves and made think this is the norm to do so.

walshb

One of the contestants lost 2 lbs in a week and you'd swear she'd lost a stone. A 2 lbs target in one week for someone who is overweight is very very generous. You'd lose 2 lbs with a 10 hr sleep!