From a media release:

X-WEIGHTED TIPS THE SCALES IN FAVOUR OF FAMILIES

• Gemini-award-winning series begins production on a fourth season with a focus on families getting fit

Thirteen families have begun their battle against the bulge in Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver as the fourth season of the hit Slice documentary series X-Weighted gets underway.

Production began in December on X-Weighted: Families and cameras roll through to early May, capturing the toil and temptations as family members work together — and sometimes against each other — on their weight-loss journey.

Continue reading In production: X-Weighted season 4 →

From Kate Taylor of the Globe and Mail:

• Diet shows that are hard to swallow
  “X-Weighted (Slice; 8 p.m.) is the veteran here, wrapping up its third season tonight with an episode devoted to Tammy, a former model and athlete turned home-daycare provider and mother of two who started to put on weight after she was sidelined by a bad car accident. In six months time, she wants to have lost 50 pounds and run a half-marathon. … It’s this kind of thing that makes newcomer Stuck (W, 9:30) stick out. The show has taken a refreshingly different approach – no competitions, no dramatic weigh-ins, just a group of seven women who feel stuck in their lives and who get together to enjoy supportive friendship and encourage each other to work out, try new sports and maybe eat better too.” Read more.

Episode 4 – Ultimate Body

CHRIS’ story (Toronto)

Airdate: Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 8 pm ET

Repeats:

• Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 11 pm ET
• Saturday, May 31st, 2008 11 am ET
• Sunday, June 1st, 2008 7 pm ET
• Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 9 am ET

Chris was an active, athletic guy until the high-pressure office job hit. Thus began his rapid decline into a sedentary life of take out meals and an expanding waistline. Now his body is “revolting” – in more ways than one. He has overcome cancer but still relies heavily on over-the-counter medications to make it through the day. Chris knows that while his body is failing him, he is failing his wife and daughter.

From me at Blogcritics, based on the TV, eh? Blogtalkradio interview:

• X-Weighted Participant Sheds Self-Doubt Along With Pounds
  “‘My weight loss journey had a lot of emotional weight attached to it as well as the physical weight,’ she explained when I confirmed the tear quotient to her – she hadn’t yet seen the completed episode. ‘I knew that if I didn’t address the emotional issues, the weight loss was something that wouldn’t last. If I didn’t change the fundamental reasons that I got fat in the first place, then I felt like I was setting myself up for failure. So I tried to take the journey from the inside out.'” Read more.