Here is why I Want to Save Your Life (on channel WE) is a must show to watch. Do you think you know how to lose weight quickly? Many people think they know how to lose weight, what to eat and how to exercise, but in reality they do not, which becomes quite clear when you watch I Want to Save Your Life.
A stay-at-home mom addicted to sweets, an attorney who eats when she is stressed and a couch potato scared to leave the house – different people with one thing in common: They are all desperately overweight and possibly obese, and that is why Charles Stuart Platkin has confronted them.
He is a well-known author and diet guru, and on the new reality show I Want to Save Your Life, he uses his tough-love techniques to whip people into shape. Before he lives with his students for a week, Charles goes undercover to get a truthful portrait of their problems, spying on them as they chow down on muffins or potato chips. Once he knows their negative patterns, Charles can teach them how to work healthy foods into their diet, find “calorie bargains” and exercise properly.
And he is not afraid to play therapist. “Diet and exercise is the vehicle, but emotions are the fuel that gets you going,” says, Charles, 46. “It’s about looking inside to change the outside.” And a few months later, he will return to see the often happy results, such as single dad Micah, who lost 104 pounds in just four months.
How Charles makes people lose weight He uses some unconventional techniques to get his points across. “Most people think they know the caloric content of the foods they’re eating, but they don’t,” he says. That’s why he has one woman, Jennifer, walk for more than two hours while holding a piece of chocolate cake – the time it would take to burn those calories if she ate it – and then makes her clean a messy garage that has come to symbolize her cluttered mind-set.
If it sounds strange, the participants can take comfort knowing that Charles, who was overweight into his 30s, practices what he preaches. And now that he is on TV, he has to. “I got into this field to make sure I could never go back,” says Charles. “No one’s going to believe in a Diet Detective who’s overweight!” [via]