Sitting at home and watching from the comfort of my own couch, I often feel bullish about what I could do in Fiji given the opportunity. I think I’d be solid in challenges and make a few key allies, and ride that wave until I couldn’t anymore. However, I’m not factoring in the lack of sleep from lying on the ground, or the incredible food deprivation that comes with saying “yes” to host Jeff Probst. In fact, recent $1 million winner Savannah Louie just described what she did to prepare for Season 49, and I don’t think I could have done it.
I mean it when I say that. Louie opened up about her prep work for the CBS reality series before it hit the 2025 TV schedule recently, and she took it very seriously. She said she “did keep in mind a few things” and started her prep “about three months” before heading out to the island in Fiji. She’d do “one big fast” every week during that three-month window in order to prep for the game.
