People from the Biggest Loser League are wondering why I was banned from the NBC Show web site … and why I can’t post there to this date.  Rather than try to dig up the whole story I thought I’d summarize it here for them.

A few years ago while I was going through the casting process I got swept away into the casting frenzy.  Willos Web  offered casting tips … and I ran a chat room where casting wannabes could come together and talk about the process and keep each other company during the long and painful wait.   It was in this chat room that both The Chubby Network AND Reality of Weighting {The Rocker Moms @ BLL} was born.  So I don’t regret for one minute that I did this!  Good things happened!

However – the chart room atmosphere  also attracted people with “information” on behind the scenes stuff happening on the ranch with the contestants … so my quite little 200 readers a week web site blew up to 2,000 – 5,000 readers a day as I posted pretty darn accurate show spoiler information.  Some of those people turned out to be not as honest as others though … and I found myself coerced into posting some things I probably shouldn’t have.  For that I have apologized to those individuals  affected.

@ April of 2006 I decided to contact some of the former contestants of the BL – and write a summer series of “Where Are They Now” articles.  I mentioned on the NBC web site that I was going to do this .. because I wanted people to come and read the articles.  NBC saw the idea .. and decided to come up with their own mini-episode reflecting on past contestants.  At that time I received two notices.  One from the Administrator of the NBC Message boards – stating that I was being banned from the web site because I was considered a competing site and NBC had asked I not be allowed to post there any longer.  I then received a message from one of the Moderators from the NBC Message Boards telling me that 3Ball Productions had “black listed” me from participating in any Biggest Loser entity ever again.  Personally I think this mod was full of sh*t … but I’ll never know for sure.

I decided at that time to stop watching the show and remove myself from the “secrets” game.  I was learning WAY TOO MUCH about the behind the scenes stuff happening on the show … and I just was not enjoying watching any longer.  Sometimes it’s a very bad thing to be the secret keeper – and I was getting exceedingly stressed over the whole matter.  I removed all my Biggest Loser contacts from my address book, took them off my Facebook and my MySpace too.  I was that upset about the entire incident – and to tell you the truth I was angry that after building up a tremendous fan base for the show – I was pushed aside like I didn’t matter.  When I look back though – I realize that many of those information givers were just using me because they were too afraid to tell the world themselves.  I’ll never put myself in that position again.  At least I had the guts to tell the truth!

When I found out about the Biggest Loser League – I was excited once again about losing weight.  I wanted to reform The Chubby Network as a solid support system – because when we were active we had success.  We just lacked the proper tools to operate from a web site.  The BLL was everything I was trying to build on my own … and it came around at the perfect time.  I was afraid I wouldn’t be allowed to post there either.  But as it happens .. I ended up being the first non NBC-employee to sign up and use the site.  I’ve been active there since day 1 of their Beta phase .. and I love every minute of it!

So to the NBC Admin – I say thank you for giving me another chance!