Jeremy Bradley- Alison Sweeney, host of The Biggest Loser is joining us on the line right now. Hi, Alison. How are you?

Alison Sweeney- I'm fantastic, thank you. How are you?

JB- I'm good, thanks. I know we're supposed to be talking about the show, but you have a new addition to your family so I just have to know about that.

AS- Everything is going great. Megan is going to be six months old in a couple days. She's doing great.

JB- Every parent always thinks their kid is the best. You're saying she's only six…

AS- But my kids are the best though! (laughing)

JB- There's gotta be something at six months that she's doing better than all the other neighbourhood babies. What does she do?

AS- (laughing) You know, it's the little milestones you look forward to. She's so happy. She's got big smiles for everybody. She's just starting to eat regular food. It's one step at a time. She doesn't have her driver's license or anything!

JB- (laughing) But that's going to come quicker than you think.

AS- Oh my god, I know. I can't believe my son is four years old. That definitely comes quick.

JB- It certainly does change your life. And, on your show The Biggest Loser you're changing lives all the time.

AS- Yeah. Part of The Biggest Loser is… it's so amazing. It's about how people's lives are changed forever and how we're just watching them every day get healthy and eat different(ly). It's really inspiring.

JB- Is it something… here I am, a guy, so I don't totally understand the whole thing about child birth, but in a way you can relate to what these people are going through once you try to lose weight then.

AS- Oh, of course. I've gone through it myself. You know, I'm going through it right now, still trying to lose weight after having a baby. It's tough. It's definitely a struggle. It's something you have to concentrate on and give your time and your energy to. It's an ongoing struggle, it's an ongoing battle and nobody understands that better than our contestants.

JB- Something we see on the show is that it's not one thing… there's no surefire way to lose weight. It's not like you've got to just start watching what you eat. It's everything. You've got to start working out. You've got to change your lifestyle, really.

AS- It's about a lifestyle change. And, the thing about that is though, at this point, hopefully, you'd want to believe that most people know what that means -- working out, eating right -- but we know there's no magic pill that can solve your problem for you. You've got to want it. You've got to figure out what the problem is. Why are you overeating? What is it that brought you to that place? That's one of those things about this next season is you'll see we really address those issues and get at the root of the problem.

JB- Everybody that comes on the show believes they can lose the weight, but sometimes they hit those roadblocks when they start out because maybe they weren't working out before and now they are.

AS- Yeah. Well, your body does crazy things. I will say that on campus you see that a lot. The dreaded week 2 we always say. There are plateaus where people lose so much weight in that first week and their body has that moment of kind of "what's going on here?"

JB- We talked with Helen (Phillips) after winning (last season), and there's also some really dramatic things that happen on day 1. Jerry, last season, (collapsing in the gym).

AS- Oh, yeah. This next season you'll see stuff that happens. It's pretty dramatic. But, it's true. It's scary to see how important it is to move your body to get yourself moving around because when you don't you can really do damage to yourself.

JB- A lot of people think sometimes the trainers are a little too harsh on contestants at camp. What do you think about it?

AS- I think the trainers are tough because they need to be. People come to our campus to make the change and change isn't easy for anybody. Change doesn't happen easily. It's hard. And one of the things people face when they come to campus is they don't want to face the facts like why they're not trying hard and why they're not committing to it. Why couldn't you do it at home by yourself? When you come to terms with the fact that you need that kind of help, people don't want to need that help… and when they come to terms with that, (our trainers) Bob and Jillian have to get through to them.