Extreme Weight Loss

- Season 5

(2015)

In the season premiere, it's an inspiring story of not one, but two amazing transformations on the hit show. Chris and Heidi Powell return as the transformation specialists and trainers for EWL, plus NBA greats Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Byron Scott and James Worthy.

Josh/399 pounds (29 years old, from Omaha, NE), is a gay firefighter living in a small town. After losing his father (who was also a firefighter) in a tragic accident, he's decided to change his life. Kelli/331 pounds (26 years old, from Kansas City, MO), is a former college basketball player who went into depression after hoops ended, now, she wants to reclaim her life and find the man of her dreams.

In the current season of the hit series, "Extreme Weight Loss", there will be three special companion piece editions, "Love Can't Weight", in which hosts and trainers Chris Powell and Heidi Powell help three obese couples get in shape, both physically and emotionally, for each of their weddings. The couples spend their first three months together at boot camp, and then they are unexpectedly separated for the next three months, not able to see each other until their wedding day!

Shane and Marissa (Plant City, FL), who met in 2007 and have not been apart for more than five days. They got engaged nine months prior to being on the show, but both hate their weight gain and have decided to put their marriage on hold. They want to lose their excess weight so that they can get married and actually wrap their arms around each other for their first dance.

Born with a winning spirit, Rachel began dancing at three years old. As Rachel grew older, her spirit was hampered by mixed feelings towards love, sex and religion, so she turned to food for emotional support and became obese.

Tiffany (aka "Pearls") as a teenager suffered from eating disorders and had issues with food as she made her way into adulthood. Now a single mother of a teenager with autism, Pearls is an autism activist with an overloaded schedule that has led to bad food choices, resulting in her obesity.