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On February 17, 2018, the 4th season of the project “Weighted and happy people" Over the course of 16 weeks of the show, the participants went through seven circles of hell and were able to get rid of the hated pounds. They sweated in the gym, ate healthy food, competed with each other, but the result was worth it. See what the participants look like after the project in our selection.

Blue Team

Anna Lezhneva (147 kg)

The girl came to the show in hopes of changing her life and becoming like her sister.

In terms of her figure, she definitely succeeded: at the finals the scales showed a weight of 90 kg!

Alexander Povagin (250 kg)

A machinist from Ivanteevka gained 100 extra pounds during 10 years of marriage. Due to excess weight, spouses are unable to have children.

In the final episode, Alexander showed an excellent result: instead of 250 kg, he began to weigh 166. The difference of 84 kg cannot but impress! Now Alexander wants to maintain his final weight and gain muscle mass.

Ekaterina Nikitina (130 kg)

After it became difficult for Ekaterina to take care of the child, she decided to participate in the project.

She left the show in the fourteenth week weighing 94 kg. According to the heroine herself, she managed to turn herself around, and Katya is not going to stop there.

Evgeniy Khaitkulov (205 kg)

The man came to the project to get rid of the hated extra pounds and find happiness in his personal life.

In ten weeks of the project, Evgeniy managed to lose 44 kg!

Anastasia Spiridonova (172 kg)

Nastya gained weight in the process of stress eating. She experienced her husband’s infidelity with a piece of cake in her hand.

She left the project in the fourth week, but during this time Nastya managed to lose weight to 154 kg. Judging by her pictures on social networks, the process of losing weight is still ongoing for her.

Maxim Akimov (161 kg)

Maxim was the first to leave the show, giving his place to Ekaterina Nikitina. In a week he got rid of 7 extra kg.

After the project, he continues to lose weight and shares it on social media. networks with the secrets of PP.

Black Team

Irina Cheremnykh (147 kg)

The spectacular beauty and participant in many beauty contests herself did not notice how her weight reached a critical point.

In order to love her body, she lost more than 30 kg during the project and continues to lose weight to this day.

Anastasia Idrisova (176 kg)

A sedentary lifestyle has had a negative impact on a woman's figure. After divorcing her husband, she realized that she needed to change her life.

During her participation in the show, she lost 34 kg. Thanks to her transformation, Anastasia met her lover, with whom she attends training together.

Christian Bodrov (202 kg)

Christian has been rapidly losing weight and gaining it all his life. When he got tired of this “swing”, he firmly decided to get rid of the extra pounds forever.

Today he has again become a slender man whom women admire.

Igor Koshelev (188 kg)

The young man was ashamed of himself and spent almost all his time at the computer, distracted from the terrifying reality.

Participation in the show helped the guy lose 37 kg and now he continues to get his body in shape. Igor has returned to normal life!

Lisa Laletina (115 kg)

A saleswoman from the city of Irbit came to the project to lose weight and improve relationships with men.

Having gathered her will into a fist, Lisa lost 8 kg in two weeks and is currently trying to lose weight.

Andrey Mishkin (161 kg)

The heavy weight did not allow Andrei to find family happiness and become a father.

He came to the show with the sole purpose of losing weight. He left the project already in the third week, but at the moment he managed to lose 70 kg on his own!

Red Team

Anton Avduevsky (167 kg)

The winner of the project took main prize at 2.5 million.

During his time on the TV show, he lost 87 extra pounds!

Elena Sadikova (183 kg)

A mother of many children from Vyksa decided to prove to her relatives that she has willpower.

And she proved it - in 13 weeks of participation she lost 52 kg, and by the finale of the show she got rid of another 22 on her own.

Anna Khalyavka (151 kg)

A woman is raising her son alone and is afraid that he will also become overweight. That is why she decided to take part in the reality show “Weighted and Happy People.”

Anna left the project in the fifth week, but this did not stop her from losing 61 kg by the finale. Now she looks very impressive!

Andrey Shlyakhov (157 kg)

A man came to the casting for the sake of his beloved, who does not reciprocate his feelings.

As a result, Andrey became the second winner among those who dropped out: he received 500 thousand rubles and lost 73 kg.

In the sixth week, he left the show weighing 175 kg and judging by his publications on social networks, he continues to lead a more active lifestyle than before the casting.

Polina Piskareva (123 kg)

After the woman’s weight exceeded a hundred, her husband’s attitude towards her deteriorated sharply. She filed for divorce and decided to lose weight.

“Weighted People” is a global reality show that is filmed in twenty-five countries, including Russia. The show is a weight loss race with 18 people competing. Each of them weighs over several tons. The participants are divided into two teams, and their lives are on the scale.

What awaits participants on the reality show “Weighted People”:

1. Constant diets;
2. Boring exercises;
3. Communication with nutritionists;
4. Communication with fitness trainers.

The project has everything you need to test and acquire willpower.

Participants will compete in speed:

1. Pull trucks;
2. Catch piglets;
3. Build sugar pyramids;
4. Dance samba.

At the end of the week, team members weigh themselves. The team that loses the least amount of weight must choose one player to leave the show.

Only two players will remain in the finals, and the winner will be in good shape, feel great, and have a nice bonus - a cash prize.

Interesting facts:

1. Most easy man on the program he weighed 113 kg, and the heaviest was 220 kg;
2. Total weight of all participants 2665 kg;
3. In Russia, several thousand applications were submitted for the casting, more than 230 people passed the casting, and only 18 of them passed a long and strict selection, becoming participants in the television project;
4. The winner receives 2,500,000 rubles;
5. receives 500,000 rubles former member , who outside the project continued to lose weight on his own and showed impressive results.

The main rules for effective weight loss show Weighted People

Before you understand which program will be effective for a person:

1. You need to understand what your body weight should ideally be (how many kg you need to lose weight and in what time);
2. Daily calculation of daily kilocalorie intake;
3. Selection individual plan nutrition;
4. Drawing up a training program.

A well-designed diet is a matter of balance. You need to understand what the body receives in excess and what it lacks. In order to get rid of extra pounds, you need to take care of your health first. Do not get hung up on strict diets that lead to exhaustion of the body.

There are only eight correctly effective weight loss:

1. You need to eat in small portions 5-6 times a day;
2. Have a hearty breakfast in the morning, also have a good lunch, dinner should be light and don’t forget to have a snack between the three main meals;
3. High carbohydrate food consume before four o'clock in the afternoon;
4. If you have a sweet tooth, then you can eat fruit;
5. Watch the amount of salt that you consume with food. A large amount of sodium retains fluid in the body, which forms edema;
6. Eliminate sugary carbonated drinks from your diet. Soda is very harmful to the body. It contains a lot of sugar and dyes, which is bad for health;
7. Eat separately, combine food correctly;
8. Give up alcohol or limit yourself to it. Alcoholic drinks contain more than the average person's daily caloric intake.

All nutritionists come to a common opinion: nutrition should be varied. Today there are dozens of diets that imply a monotonous low-calorie diet. For example, a drinking diet, kefir or ABC contain very low calories (less than 800) and contribute to the formation of protein-free dystrophy.

Such a nutritional system can only lead to exhaustion of the body, deterioration of the digestive system and slowdown of metabolism.

So what should nutrition be like, according to nutritionists and fitness trainers?

The daily diet should include:

1. 5-10% fat;
2. 40% carbohydrates;
3. 50-56% protein;
4. Fiber (vegetables, herbs, fruits);
5. From 1.5 to 2.5 liters of water (depending on how active your lifestyle is).

Nutrition plays a big role in body building, but don’t forget about the physical activity itself. At least three times a week for 40-60 minutes, you need to give your body aerobic exercise, and after you get rid of a certain number of kilograms, you need to start anaerobic exercise to gain muscle mass.

Kukharenko Andrey:

What is problem weight? First of all, this is a problem that requires an urgent solution. But the incentive to change your body should not be the usual socially imposed way. A person should think not only about the beauty of his body, but also about his health. He must realize it himself and want it.

If you have an active lifestyle and proper nutrition don't bring you pleasure, then why change anything? This won't work. If you want to change your body for the better, then you have to want to do it yourself, you have to want to change your life.

Leonova Irina:

I believe that excess weight is directly related to psychological problems. Most people do not solve their problems, but “seize” them. Relationship problems are traumatic aspects. And this is not only the relationship between boys and girls, but also between children, parents and society.

Turchinskaya Irina:

In order for you to see the results of your training, keep a diary where you will write down all your results. In addition to sports results, write in it about your dreams and main goal. Describe your diet, training plan, and how you will achieve your goal.

You train under your full responsibility and understand that your body and your health are solely in your hands. And never attribute your failures to other external circumstances.

Semenikhin Denis:

A person begins to change when he gets tired. He is tired of his usual boring life, wanting to change something. Each of us wants to be in a comfort zone; when a person does not want to face difficulties, he says to himself: “Don’t touch me, I’m fine.”

Leaving your comfort zone, realizing that it’s time to act, you need to remember one more thing: you are doing all this for yourself. Not because you respect your fitness trainer or want to please your significant other, but only for your own sake!

Leonova Elena:

All problems come from childhood. If a child with early years parents did not teach how to cope with stressful situations, rely only on themselves and accept challenges outside world, then in the future he risks developing a food addiction. The portion size that is on a child's plate plays a big role.

If you overfeed him, give him a lot of sweets and force him to eat, then as an adult his physiological characteristics will be impaired.

Heroes of the reality show “Weighted People”

Vesta Romanova

Vesta (27 years old) started the project with a weight of 123 kg. During the program she lost 40 kg! Now her weight is 83 kg.

Vesta Romanova decided to lose weight after her boyfriend broke up with her and married another girl. At that moment, Vesta said: “I have nothing more to lose except excess weight.” On the show, she was the most cheerful of all the contestants: she never gave up, did not get upset and encouraged other participants in the project.

Vesta says that motivation is important in any business. “I am a rather lazy person, but the project managed to create the conditions that were ideal for me. I was able to break through a thousand applicants, my life was controlled by trainers and nutritionists. They put together a special diet and training program for me. I quit my job for all this.”

“We lived in a confined space, without the Internet and phones. Every day there were exhausting workouts and healthy food, no sweets,” says Vesta Romanova.

Photos of Vesta before and after losing weight on the “Weighted People” project

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Peter Vasiliev

Vasilyev Petr (27 years old) came to the project weighing 155 kg. During the program he managed to lose 25 kg.

As a teenager, Peter went to the judo section. HE led an active lifestyle and took part in competitions. But after Peter turned 18, he gave up the sport, because he began studying at college and simply did not have time for judo. After physical activity decreased sharply, weight began to gain.

Soon Peter realized that in the world of thin people there is no place for fat people, society does not want to accept them. But he wanted to love and be loved, but excess weight prevented him. Then he realized that it was stupid to dream about it and it was time to take control of the situation.

Having come to the project, Vasiliev Peter, like the other participants, actively took part in sports competitions, ate right and never gave up. He was confident in himself and that is why Peter became the winner of the first season of the “Weighted People” project, reaching a weight of 130 kg.

Photos of Peter before and after losing weight on the reality show “Weighted People”

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Nekrylov Maxim

Maxim Nekrylov (29 years old) came to the reality show weighing 176 kg and left with a weight of 147. During the project he managed to lose 29 kg.

Maxim is a fourth generation officer. He dreamed of building a career in the military field, but was unable to pass medical certification. Due to excess weight, Maxim had to leave military service. This was a blow for him and his entire family.

Previously, Maxim led an active life, but for the sake of his career he had to switch to a sedentary job. Because of this, he began to have problems with excess weight. From 90 kg his weight increased to 184 kg.

Then Nekrylov decided to change himself and strive further towards his dream. He took care of himself and lost almost 30 kg, making it to the finals of the Weighted People show.

Photo by Maxim Nekrylov before and after the project

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Shikotko Alexander

Alexander (26 years old) became the heaviest participant in the show. His weight was 220 kg. During the project he managed to lose 24 kg, then his weight reached 196 kg.

Before the project, Alexander lost another 30 kg, previously his weight was 250 kg. He followed a diet, exercised and reached a weight of 220 kg. It was more difficult for him on the project, the diets were more strict, and the loads were heavier.

Alexander admits that he wants to lose weight not because society dictates its standards, but because he just wants to live. Despite all the difficulties, he learned to eat right and look at life differently. “We learned to think differently, we underwent tests not only physical, but also emotional.

The trainers tested our endurance, developed it, and helped us acquire willpower. Soon, diets and physical activity became much easier to bear, as well as moral ones,” says Shikotko.

Despite the fact that Alexander had already left the program, he continued to lose weight.

Photo by Alexander Shikotko before and after losing weight

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Participant name: Peter Vasiliev

Age (birthday): 15.09.1986

City: Bagrationovsk (Kaliningrad region)

Job: showman

Family: not married, no children

Height and weight: 184 cm, 155 kg

Final weight: 97,1

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Peter s youth He went in for sports and devoted himself to judo. He often appeared as a participant in many competitions, in which he often became a winner.

After Peter completed his studies at high school, he quit playing sports. He began to devote a lot of time to his studies at college, and at night he worked part-time in a club as an MC.

When sports became a thing of the past, the guy’s weight began to grow. Peter didn’t pay much attention to this, but only until the girls stopped getting to know him. True, it was already too late; he couldn’t cope on his own.

Excess weight negatively affected not only communication with his girlfriend, but also at work. Peter noted that living with excess weight is incredibly difficult; you have to feel disadvantaged in almost everything.

I came to the project “Weighted People” not only to lose weight, but also to regain lost health, to become happy man. Plus, Peter noted that he wants to prove by his own example that it is possible to change your life, you just need to take the first step.

During the project he had an affair with Vesta. The young people fell in love with each other so much that Peter even decided to take his chosen one as his wife. True, after the show the wedding never took place.

Returning home, Peter continued to play sports, promotes sports and healthy image life, bought myself a Mercedes coupe, as well as a short leather jacket, which I could only dream of before.

Peter confidently walked towards the final, showing the participants his determination. In one of the competitions, when participants lost more than 40 kg, they were asked to remember how heavy they lived with before participating in the project. The hardest thing was for Peter, who carried half a hundredweight on himself.

In the final of the “Weighted People” project, the winner was Peter Vasiliev, who proved to everyone that it’s never too late to start living again!

After the project, I met a girl, they had a son, they named him Matvey.

Finalist of the show “Weighted People” Vesta Romanova found her prince, having lost 50 kilograms in four months

Just a year ago, St. Petersburg resident Vesta weighed 130 kg. The boots she liked wouldn’t fasten on her, and the stiletto heels broke under her weight. When the girl couldn’t reach her shoes to tie the laces, she realized that it was time to change something in her life. Or better yet, life itself.

Loved in the body, fell out of love because of the bodies

Now Vesta, who took third place in the STS channel TV show “Weighted People,” has more than three thousand subscribers. They call her a personal motivator, ask for autographs, and are willing to come from another city to a master class. And once upon a time she herself searched on the Internet for all kinds of diets in order to lose at least a little weight. However, the lost kilograms, as a rule, returned.

“I can’t say that I was very worried about being overweight. Then I had a young man who liked curvy girls, and that suited me,” Vesta admits. - But we broke up. It was he who initiated it, and the reason was my excess weight.

Even this did not push the girl to start getting rid of the extra pounds. Everything was decided by chance. One day she simply couldn’t reach her laces. The blood rushed to my head, the world began to spin, my heart began to beat a frantic rhythm.

“I looked at myself in the mirror, and my eyes opened. I realized that I am a fat bastard who lies on the couch and constantly eats something, and does not spare epithets addressed to myself, fat West. It was at that moment that a casting announcement for the show caught her eye. The St. Petersburg resident did not know that it had been filmed in America and Ukraine for a long time and was terribly popular. Only one thing was important to her - if she passed the casting, she would be able to lose weight.

The days of training and the transition to proper nutrition began. Participants were first fed, allowing them to eat 2,500 calories per day. However, no sweets, alcohol or mayonnaise. Porridge, vegetables, fruits. There was so much food that people simply could not eat everything. Gradually the calorie content was reduced. After a month, they were allowed to eat 700-600 calories, and by the end of the project - 500. All this was accompanied by cardio and strength training.

— When you start losing weight, strength training should be minimal. They are needed for muscle development. The emphasis should be on cardio. It happened that I walked 30 kilometers on the path a day. I did go. If you are overweight, running on the treadmill is suicide. It’s easy to calculate your cardio zone even without a heart rate monitor: if you walk and can breathe, but it’s hard for you to speak, you lose your breath, then you’ve found it, Vesta advises. — And with strength exercises you need to develop the largest muscle groups. Any trainer in any gym will tell you 3-5 such exercises.

According to the girl, many fat people they are just too lazy to study. Or they justify themselves by saying that they don’t have money for a cool fitness club. She is sure: nothing depends on the price. And you can practice both at home and on the street. Jogging, walking, exercises with dumbbells - the main thing is not to lie on the couch, feeling sorry for yourself and eating sad thoughts with cakes.

Lost weight, found a relationship

Those who followed the project watched with interest not only how the show participants parted with extra pounds, but also behind the love story that unexpectedly unfolded on the screen. How the relationship between Vesta and Peter strengthened. Someone reproached the couple for being pretentious.

“I say this once and absolutely seriously: I don’t know how to play love.” I liked Peter right away. At first we hid this relationship, but then we found out everything anyway. The producers suggested that we introduce this into the project. We agreed,” the girl recalls. “Now I regret that I showed my relationship to the whole country.”

The novel developed rapidly. The young people supported each other in competitions, cheered at the weekly summing up, when the participant who lost the least kilo left the project. Together they reached the final. TV viewers blinked away tears when Peter, shortly before the end of the project, on his birthday, proposed to Vesta. It happened on a Ferris wheel. And then the show ended. Vesta took third place, having lost almost 50 kilograms in four months. She lost weight from 130 to 82 kilos. And then an active discussion began on social networks - the future newlyweds separated. Vesta sparingly confirmed, but did not comment. I made an exception for MK readers in St. Petersburg.”

- We parted ways different cities. For about a month we actively communicated with Peter, corresponded, called each other, built wedding plans. And then his attitude changed dramatically. My intuition works well, I realized that he had a girlfriend, but I was waiting for him to say so himself. I was angry. I just couldn’t understand what it was like for that girl to date an almost married man,” admits the finalist of the show. - And then we talked. Well, what can we do... Advice and love for them.

While Peter was building a relationship with his new lover, Vesta was building her life. Found it new job, started updating her wardrobe - of everything on the shelves, only very old jeans fit properly on her thinner body. I wrote out training and nutrition plans for myself.

Fat gone, energy increased

“I used to wake up, drink coffee, smoke a couple of cigarettes, go to work, eat, then eat some more and surf the Internet, come home, have dinner and go to bed. Now I wake up with the thought: “What interesting things can I come up with?” Three times a week I go to the budget gym— I do strength training in the morning and cardio in the evening. In the summer, I run and ride a bike,” says the girl, who, thanks to her own willpower and desire to lose weight, turned from a fat woman into a slender beauty, about her daily routine. — I often don’t find time to go to social media, to respond to all subscribers, but I always find it to ride a bike or meet friends. Life became a pleasure. Many people now ask me: “Help me find motivation.” Easily. Fat brute, look at yourself in the mirror! Is what you see not enough motivation for you? Girls, be more active. When you have not the 9th, but the third breast size and you can sleep on your stomach, it’s a thrill. When you can buy beautiful lingerie, when you wear what you like and not what you fit into, wear high-heeled shoes and they don’t break under you, that’s a thrill. And there is so much energy that there is simply nowhere to put it.

The renewed Vesta simply radiates happiness. And it’s not just about good health and natural charisma. The girl admits: she has found her love.

“I met a young man, and he is wonderful,” Vesta smiles. “But I won’t show my personal life anymore.” He is not a public person. He is active, sporty, and taught me about bicycles. He is my support. He and I are on the same wavelength, and our level of madness is the same.

Now Vesta, together with her lover, is preparing to hold a mass master class, at which the finalist of the show will talk about how to eat and exercise properly. At first we thought of gathering everyone interested in outdoors, but when it became clear that more than 300 people wanted to come to the meeting, they realized that they needed to look for a room. And more. Among other things, Vesta will try to convey a very valuable idea - you need to motivate yourself and not wait for someone to do something for you.

“Nowadays people believe that everyone owes them something. I was exactly the same. The state is obliged to do something, in the gym the trainer is obliged to lose weight for you, and the nutritionist, apparently, spoon-feeds you. People ask me on social networks: “How can I lose weight?” Yes, while you are looking for me on the Internet, adding me as a friend and waiting for an answer, not even an hour or two will pass. During this time, you can find “proper nutrition” in a search engine,” Vesta gives advice on where to start losing weight. - Why do 90 percent of people remain fat? Because they are too lazy to start doing something on their own. Find it, read it, try it. Nobody owes you anything. And understand: to live in healthy body, with a normal metabolism and without sausages on the waist - this is a thrill.

By the way, Vesta did not stop at the achievements of the project. Now she weighs 74 kilograms and feels great. About 56 kilos of fat that for many years I wore it on myself, only photos remind me of it. But they are also an incentive to live actively. Vesta does not intend to turn from a princess back into a frog.

Tips from Vesta

For those who want to lose weight or just eat healthy:

Avoid sugar and sweets. At all.

It is better to eat rye, bran and whole grain bread. And dried in the oven. It loses unnecessary moisture. 25-30 grams per day is enough.

Vegetables, fruits, celery, lettuce are your friends.

Soups can be prepared with a second broth or without meat broth at all.

You can and should eat any meat, but little by little - 100 grams per day. Once every two weeks you can treat yourself to red fish. If funds allow, more often.

Use unrefined oil - it is healthier. Or better yet, olive oil. A liter of oil, despite the fact that it takes a teaspoon for frying, is enough for six months. If you are cooking for one person, screw on the spray and simply spray the pan.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner are the main meals, with snacks between them. The time interval between meals is 2.5-3 hours. If breakfast and lunch are heavy, then the snack should be light - nuts, vegetables, fruits.

Add “pleasures” to your diet. For example, a couple of oatmeal cookies once a week. But then spend an hour more training. The main thing is that you don’t have to strictly limit yourself.

Use websites that help you calculate how many calories, carbohydrates, fats and proteins you need to eat per day, and plan your diet for three days in advance. This will help you not to break down. (Vesta herself uses the website calorizator.ru for this, which calculates this data and helps find suitable recipes.)

The program “Weighted and Happy” is the Ukrainian version of the American show The Biggest Loser. The essence of the project is that participants who are overweight lose weight, and even compete for a prize of 250 thousand hryvnia (almost 9,000 euros). The project is successful and popular, so the seventh season will start this year.

Rules of the project “Weighted and Happy”

At the end of each week, the weight loss teams are weighed, which determines the total weight lost. The team that loses the least weight must vote to determine which competitor will go home. The two people from that team who have lost the least amount of weight are nominated. The winner is the participant who open final in December will lose the most of the initial weight.

Evgenia Mostovenko participated in the project together with her daughter Alexandra, who later had to tell the details of her mother’s death...

All participants are checked

The head of the “Weighted and Happy” project, Natalya Shcherbina, said that all potential participants who passed the casting are examined by doctors: a therapist, a cardiologist, a pulmonologist. Everyone donates urine and blood for a detailed analysis. All participants must be tested for hepatitis and HIV. After the medical examination, the doctor gives an opinion on each applicant - whether a person can participate in the project or his health condition does not allow him.

“They called me and told me that my mother had died”

Perhaps the most “high-profile” death was the death of a participant in the third season of the project, Evgenia Mostovenko. Could a woman have thought that four years after filming she would be gone?

Pashinsky managed to lose 51 kilograms! He was so inspired by the result that he wanted to continue his struggle with weight.

In 2013, 40-year-old Evgenia came to the project with her 17-year-old daughter Alexandra - mostly not for herself, but for her. Mostovenko complained that Sasha was very lazy and easily succumbed to temptations when it came to food. As it turned out, the mother and daughter had previously participated in the “Honey, We Kill Children” program, and even then the girl lost 20 kilograms. True, over time, all efforts were in vain - Alexandra gained even more than her previous weight and began to weigh as much as 105 kilos.

But Mostovenko also went to the project for her own sake. The woman really wanted to give birth to a child for her new husband, who was eight years younger than her, but she couldn’t - she needed to lose weight. Evgenia managed to do this, although the result was not very impressive, and it took her a long time to achieve it. When Mostovenko came to the project, she weighed 130 kilograms, and nine months later the scales showed a double-digit number - 94. But this was enough for the woman - she was very pleased with the new weight.

Igor understood that such a figure would not fit into any goal, and he wanted to become slim and fit again

Evgenia's death, which occurred in January of this year, came as a shock to many and, naturally, raised many questions. Her daughter tried to satisfy the interest and curiosity of the viewers of the project. If you believe Alexandra’s words, then on the day when her mother was taken to the hospital, they talked on the phone, laughed, everything was fine... Mostovenko approved the list of guests, because the next morning was her birthday. “Literally 20-25 minutes later, her boss asked to pick up her mother from work because her blood pressure had increased. But the ambulance was ahead of me. I saw how my mother was taken out on a gurney unconscious. The doctors said that as soon as they left work, she immediately fell into a coma and everything that was in her stomach went into respiratory tract. She was in critical condition- cerebral hemorrhage and pulmonary edema. The next morning, my mother came to her senses, but the doctors decided to keep her in a medically induced coma - she could not breathe on her own. In the following days she looked good, although she lost a lot of weight. And on the morning of January 26, I went into the intensive care unit and saw that my mother’s face and neck were red and blue. An hour and a half later they called me and told me that my mother had died - they couldn’t restart the heart.”

The woman's death certificate states that she had cerebrovascular disease, a hemorrhagic stroke.

Didn't have time to adopt a child

Evgenia Mostovenko has long wanted to become a mother for the second time, but her excess weight did not allow her. But the woman found a way out - last year she and her young husband prepared documents for adoption. The couple even found one child whom they wanted to take into the family. Evgenia began to find out what was needed for adoption, but did not have time to complete this matter.

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“He really wanted to live”

At the end of 2015, Igor Pashinsky, a participant in the fifth season of the “Weighted and Happy” project, who really wanted to get back into good shape, passed away. Igor once served in the airborne troops, then worked in the police. When the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, I went to the liquidation site and worked in a 30-kilometer zone. Problems began after returning from there - I started getting sick, gained excess weight, and then type 2 diabetes.

Igor decided to try himself on the project because he understood that such weight, given his health, could cause disability, and he said that he wanted to be the same as before: strong and fit, so that people would look at him with respect and not with pity. When Pashinsky came to the project, he weighed as much as 193 kilograms and lost 37 kilograms in 13 weeks! But the man did not stop there - during the month and a half he spent at home, he lost another 14 kilograms and settled on the number 142. He simply did not have time to lose even more weight...

Project manager Natalya Shcherbina assured that Igor, as himself heavy participant they took care of them and freed them from training and stress at the slightest indisposition. If, for example, Igor turned pale, swayed or was breathing heavily, they immediately asked him to sit and rest. A man diagnosed with arterial hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and obesity practically did not participate in competitions.

Igor’s wife Galina Pashinskaya remembers that after the project her husband returned home happy and joyful, he really wanted to live. Igor came with the hope that he would lose more weight... “He stopped being afraid of people and hiding from them, he wanted to be in plain sight. He was really happy - many noticed this. He told me: “I’m doing all this for you.” And his words inspired me. We were everywhere together. These one and a half months after the project we were happy, as, probably, in the first days of our married life.”

Pashinskaya remembers the fateful November day of 2015 like it was yesterday: “Igor was at training in the morning, in the evening we went to the river to swim. He felt fine. And in the morning he felt bad. I had a headache. He tells me: “I probably won’t accompany you, I’ll lie down.” At 11 he called and said that he felt bad. Igor has never said this before! He was admitted to the hospital with ulcer bleeding. This was the initial diagnosis. But then, as it turned out, he was having a massive heart attack. The autopsy showed that the diagnosis was initially made incorrectly and the treatment was prescribed incorrectly. He was given IV drips to stop ulcer bleeding, and a lot of them, but this could not be done... More negligence. A person's heart stops, and there is no one anywhere. Nobody! There is no attending physician! It’s very hard to remember..."

Galina does not hide the fact that she asked the doctors directly about the project - they say, did it bring harm. And the answer was “No.” “On the contrary, if Igor had not gone to the project and lost weight, he would not have lived this time...”

Ilya’s weight loss was tremendous! The man learned to give up harmful foods, but, alas, this did not save him

"I'm not going to stop"

The bronze medalist of the third season of reality, Ilya Yakovlev, was lucky - he not only lost weight and took a worthy place, but also met his love on the project - Natalya Moskalenko. After the show, their relationship only strengthened, and in 2014 they got married. Ilya was very happy - he talked about how long life together they are planning and dreaming of children... “For my chosen one, it is now more important to maintain her full health, because we still want to have a child in the near future. Therefore, I repeatedly told her that such crazy loads are not needed now. Losing 2-3 kilograms a month to get back to normal shape will be enough for both her and me. “I’m not going to stop,” said Yakovlev, rejoicing at how great his life was going.

Three years ago, The Biggest Loser contestant Damian Gurganious died at the age of just 38.

Ilya came to the project weighing 147 kilograms, lost 48 kilograms and showed a result of 99 kg on the scales at the final post-show. In 2014, Ilya was proud of the fact that he completely gave up flour, the things he used to love very much - pasta, dumplings, dumplings, pancakes. The project changed Yakovlev’s consciousness, so these dishes began to appear on his plate literally once a month. “Looking at how much I ate before and how much now, while being normally full, I can hardly imagine that I could now eat as much as I ate before the project,” Yakovlev boasted. But, unfortunately, proper nutrition did not protect Ilya from death. In May 2015, a 32-year-old man suffered a stroke, after which he died...