Show: Jockey’s
Network: Animal Planet
Episode Title: Starting Gate / One Good Horese
Original Air Date: Friday, February 6, 2009

Episode Synopsis: Rivalries between two great jockeys are played out in this premier episode

Jockeys, and the world of horse racing in general, have an interesting history. Some are born into the profession, while others enter into it on their own. Here are some interesting facts about jockeys as well as the world in which they live and compete.
Meet up with 18 year old Joe Talamo who thinks that he’s the best thing ever and that his youth will carry him far. BUt then …read more

On the October 20th episode of Little People, Big World, the Roloffs get eco-conscious by installing a geothermal heat pump system and then later at 8:30 pm kids camp out.  Little People, Big World airs every Monday on TLC @ 8/7c.  Watch a scene from the remainder of the episode when the boys go camping.
Little People, Big World – Boys Go Hiking (Sneak Peek)Uploaded by tlc360i

TLC has announced that the fourth season of Little People, Big World, the docu-reality series that follows the lives of dwarf couple Matt and Amy Roloff and their four children, will premiere on Monday, October 13 at 8 PM ET/PT.
Little People, Big World’s fourth season will premiere with a one-hour special in which Matt travels to Iraq to help a family with three dwarf children in desperate need of medical attention.
Following Matt’s Iraq trip, the fourth season will continue with 20 additional episodes about the entire Roloff family.
Watch the Roloff family on the Oprah show in March 2008.

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Photographer: Ty Downing

Those of you who were big fans of TLC’s I Can Make You Thin, with Paul McKenna might be interested to know that Discovery Health is hosting a casting for its show, Fit to Live.
Discovery Health is now casting people of all sizes, who need to get back in shape, for an intense four-week training program, “Fit to Live,” that will be documented on camera.
You must be 18 or older to participate in this Casting Call. By clicking on the link, you are verifying that you are at least 18 years old.

I Can Make You Thin’s, Paul McKennahas made a life and career out of changing people’s lives. He has been recognized as one of the world’s premier self-help gurus. In the, Your Prefect Body episode, which had gotten made fun of by Best Week Ever, Paul teaches guests two techniques that helps people to improve their self esteem.
The first thing that Paul has guests do is image themselves in someone else’s body and looking at themselves through that person’s eyes and how much admiration and respect that the person has for you. He also has guests think about a time …read more

Paul McKenna from TLC’s self-help and weight loss series, I Can Make You Thin was on The Ellen DeGenres show about a month back and he spoke about the show and what he hoped to accomplish. Check out these two videos as well as Ellen commenting on how he helped her to quit smoking.

His technique is so good and its really basic psychology and behavioral change techniques.

The soup bowl experiment from TLC’s I Can Make You Thin is a very interesting one. The premise is that if your bowl doesn’t appear to get empty then you’ll keep eating. If you see food in front of you then you’ll keep eating it.
The producers of the show invite two women to test to see if the never ending soup bowl premise does actually work. They have one women eating from the “normal” soup bowl, which once it starts getting empty she stops eating. The other women with the never ending bowl continues to eating until she has had …read more

OK, so apparently, Paul McKenna  is more of a genius than I ever expected him to be. I’ve been doing some research on his books as well as his theories and he seems to have some what of a cult following out there. There a hundreds of blogswith people who are currently reading his book  and going through his weight loss regimen.
The first episode of I Can Make You Thin  is called Secrets of Naturally Thin People. I really don’t think that this is anything new, as there have been other docs out their with their own secrets of thin …read more

I Can Make You Thin premiered on TLCon March 16th. The premise of the show is that weight loss guru Paul McKenna can and will use his anti-diet approaches to help individuals lose weight. The series uses Paul’s “4 Golden Rules ” which are just simple techniques that viewers can use to control the relationship that their mind has with food.
It seems to be a very unique series and I will definitely be watching to see how normal everyday people will use his tips to lose weight. I am a little skeptical though. When I watched the premier episode it …read more

On this episode of Real Life Mysteries on TLC they focused on a Dateline NBC episode that surrounded adoption fraud. They investigate “would be” parents that pay for babies but never receive them.
Amy Cumby defrauded numerous husbands and boyfriends as well as families looking to adopt babies. The families end up confronting this woman took more than just their money. She stole their dream of adopting a child.
TIPS: Get a licensed agency or experienced adoption specialist involved.