Ten contestants are ready to bear it all in Bermuda's first-ever reality television show.Bermuda's rendition of the "Biggest Loser" is set to air during the news from tonight.Viewers will see the ten contestants being weighed, working out and receiving nutrition and fitness advice.The ten spoke to The Royal Gazette about their weight loss aspirations, how they got involved with the Lindo's 100 Day Challenge and some even stated how much weight they hoped to lose.The contestants include Steve Easton, Shawnette Griffith, Lakisha Brangman, Ann Symonds, William Moniz, Georgette Caines, Sarah Fellows, Daren Woods, Anthony Pitcher and Nelson Arruda.Between them, their weight amounts to 2,503 pounds.Mrs. Fellows, who is also one of the organisers, said Lindo's had supported the healthy eating initiative for the last two years."When we had the meeting and the Diabetes Association was having their Internet initiative, I thought, we could do something on the TV with this."When queried about why she was taking part, she said: "I am obese, I really want to live to see grandchildren and I have just had three children and I have let myself go."I feel that I have become the mother at home with a child in my arm busy with my work - so it is about finding the time for myself."Because you know what I do with Youth News and other initiatives, I feel like a hypocrite because I am promoting healthy eating and healthy living and co-ordinating initiatives like this and when I check myself in the mirror - I have totally let myself go."I am looking forward to getting Sarah back!"She added that she feels like she has been in an incubator for the past half of a decade."I have my daughter who is five and I breast fed her for a year-and-a-half, then fell pregnant again with Daniel, breast fed him for a year and then fell pregnant with the third one AJ and I just feel like it is time."Out of everything, I really big up Lindo's not only for supporting it, but for taking a lead it in. Zach (Moniz) and I talked and it is like putting your money where your mouth is!"Speaking about how a CedarBridge Academy student effected change."A student called Tricray Astwood did a survey of all the private and public schools and I always remember a conversation that I had with Minister Lister when he was in Education," she said."He said it really sparked the Ministry to come together with the Ministry of Health to look at healthy eating in schools. So this is just an evolvement and an evolvement - so it is just brilliant to be apart of it." Ms Brangman, who works part time at Robinson's Marina, found out about the programme through one of the organisers."She asked me if I would be interested, I said, 'yes,' but I didn't know that it would be so public as this," she said.Asked how much she hoped to lose, she replied: "I don't want to be unrealistic and say 100 pounds, maybe like a third of that, but we will see."So if I can lose more, I would be happy."While Government employee, Ms Symonds was acquainted with Mrs. Fellows through work. "She is always at my job to see the Minister and one day she stopped at my desk and said, 'hey Ann, do you want to do the 100 Day Challenge?'To which she responded, "tell me more."Asked whether she knew that the challenge would be in the public eye, she responded: "Now at that part is when I looked at her blank, yeah."But when she called me up that night, she explained it further, and I said, 'yeah'."Ms Caines' daughter, who is the Lindo's spokesperson for healthy eating, got her involved in the challenge."My daughter signed me up for the 100 Day Challenge," she said."So here I am."Asked how she felt about her daughter taking the liberty, she said: "Shocked!"But once you get over being signed up for such a competition as this, the next stage is just to go ahead participate and do the best you can in the challenge and enjoy the process."Regarding how much she had hoped to shed in the coming 100 days, Ms Caines said: "I'm not quite sure if I want to put a number on how much I want to lose, I haven't really thought about the target range yet - I am just going to work as hard as I can."So I won't be surprised in the end how much weight I lose. I am looking forward to all the walking and running, push-ups and sit-ups."It is going to be an interesting adventure for me, especially as being team captain for Lindo's Devonshire, is a double whammy, because I also have to inspire my team too and you can't let your team down."So if you see me out there, say, 'go girl!'"I am in it to win it!"Ms Griffith, who is simultaneously participating in the Bank of Bermuda's Biggest Winner Competition, said she just wants to lose the pounds and return to her former weight."Now I have a nine month old son and I need to be active," she said."It is a lot of work and he is not even walking, so that is what I need to get fit, so that I can keep up with him."When asked if she had any inhibitions surrounding being on television, she responded with: "Actually I am used to being on the stage, so I don't have any inhibition about that, but my biggest inhibition is everybody knowing how much I weigh and seeing me at, I would say, in a vulnerable position."Everybody is going to be watching me, so I can't go into Kentucky (KFC) and order some chicken, because they would say, 'Aren't you on the 100 Day Challenge?'Regarding the loss of poundage, Ms Griffith's aim is to loose 55 to 60 pounds."My ideal weight is 180 - 189, I am not built to be small, but to be toned and firm would do me good."Tennis player Mr. Woods's first response was no to the challenge."Then I thought about it and it is a good idea," he said."It should inspire others, it is a good programme and seeing that over 500 people showed up to the (Live Healthy Bermuda) weigh in - those 500 wanted to be us or definitely want to take the weight off."Mr. Woods said that he hopes to shed between 60 and 75 pounds. "In the competition, I would say 60, but 75 in six months," he explained.Mr. Woods regularly exercises, but said that he was also one of the Island's top swimmers."I stopped swimming in my second year of university," he said."Then I stopped exercising completely, but now, 75 pounds later, I am getting back into it."Mr. Arruda also was a little worried about being in front of the camera."Then after a while, I thought that I could use the opportunity to benefit myself and get in shape and help myself in the long run."A recent visit to his doctor's surgery revealed that Mr. Arruda weighed 243, so he said: "I want to get down to somewhere around the 200 mark."So 40 pounds is a rough goal that I want to achieve."Another male contestant thought the Biggest Loser was something that he would like to participate in when they were producing the commercials. Mr. Easton said: "I have some poundage that I have to get rid of and I'd like to get down to what my supposed ideal weight is."I have some issues, and being that I am a diabetic, body fat is really important for me, because when I am at that weight, I don't have to be on medication and I am not getting younger."On whether he was worried about being in the public eye, he said: "No, I used to be heavier than this and they notice it."When asked how he lost his first lot of weight he said: "Walking and I had an accident that helped me out as well."I was in a motorcycle accident and I was in a lot of pain for about a year and pain erases appetite, so I went down to smaller than this, but I have put some back on - so it's about balancing it out."William Moniz says that it was his son, Zach, that drew him into the Biggest Loser."He asked me to participate because he was one contestant short," Mr. Moniz said."He felt that I could represent the over 60 crowd as well as people with bad backs and other aches and pains. Sometimes we might use our aches and pains as an excuse for not exercising."I am here to show people that you can still do it even with your aches and pains." Asked if he currently worked out, he said: "I work out occasionally at the gym and I cycle on a semi regular basis."So is he ready for the 100 Day Challenge?"Yes," he said."It is a great opportunity for me to get into great shape."When asked what had he been doing to prepare, he answered: "I have been eating as much as I can so I will be as heavy as I can for the first weigh in."Mr. Pitcher explained that since returning to the Island from Canada, he had put on quite a lot of weight.Not nervous about being on television, he said: "I have been back for four or five months and I have put on about 50 or 60 pounds."Asked whether it was mama's cooking that had did it, his wife, Norma Jean, said: "Bermudian cooking!"The 100 Day Challenge can be seen on TV every Monday night on ZBM9 at 6.57 p.m. in between The Young and the Restless and TV9 News.There will be half hour weigh in programmes at the end of each month.The first show on TV9 will be on Monday, January 28 at 8 p.m. Please note that the half hour weigh ins will be broadcast at 8 p.m.