WINNER Heba Salama on “Biggest Loser.” A STRUGGLE Tomkin Chopin before the show, above, and after. “The food that you're used to, you can't have, and the food you can have, you do not want,” said Demetria Vilcan, a 5-foot-6-inch finalist from Houma, La., who weighed 246 pounds at the beginning of the last season. The one thing they almost never do on camera is eat.

Contestants endure tearful, grueling workouts and submit to public weigh-ins wearing only bike shorts (and for the women, sports bras). In Kitchen, ‘Losers’ Start From Scratch NOTHING is off-limits on “The Biggest Loser,” the reality show that pits morbidly obese people against one another to see who can lose weight the fastest and win the $250,000 prize. “I wouldn't eat a string bean that wasn't smothered in bacon and onions.” Watch an episode of.

Now at 145 pounds, she eats broccoli and spinach but says she was “repulsed” by most vegetables when she was on the show.