Pete Thomas entered NBC’s The Biggest Loser in 2005 with no concern about winning or losing. Instead, he just wanted help losing weight. He knew that he would lose the weight somehow, and go on to make millions by helping others.
Tipping the scales at 416 pounds, Pete hadn’t learned about proper nutrition or exercise due to his childhood lifestyle–frequent moves led by a mother with serious mental illness. While he didn’t win the grand prize, he did lose the weight. So much of it, in fact, that when NBC called him back after he’d been voted off and announced that they would be handing out a second prize to the person who had lost the most fat after leaving the show, Thomas stepped it up and won the $100,000 loot. (more…)
