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A Double Helping of The Biggest LoserPosted by Trish Milburn Apr 18 2012, 12:01 am Since I was traveling last week and didn’t get to see the episode in time to do the recap for last Wednesday, let’s start off with a recap of the April 10 episode. It was the second half of the Makeover Week/Go to the White House episode. First Lady Michelle Obama greeted each of the contestants and their families, told them how much she enjoys the show and how inspiring the contestants are to viewers. She also told them about her Let’s Move program, designed to help combat childhood obesity. It’s a scary statistic that 1 in 3 children are either overweight or obese and at risk of developing diabetes at some point in their lives. The contestants also got to work out with Mrs. Obama, who is a big advocate for fitness in our daily lives. She told the contestants about President Obama’s Active Life Award which challenges people to commit to a healthful lifestyle for at least six weeks. And she issued the challenge to the contestants to see who can get the most people to sign up under their names by the finale. Whoever does gets a $30,000 gym donated to their town. You can find out more about this program at www.nbc.com/PALA. Chris suffered another personal crisis when she called home and Roy told her that he was lonely and wanted her to come home. To dull the pain of what I assume was guilt, she binge ate a ton of stuff she shouldn’t have. So it wasn’t a surprise that she gained two pounds at the weigh-in and was sent home. Despite her gain, I wasn’t sure that she would be voted off since the other person below the yellow line was Kim and she’s seen as a bigger threat. But in the elimination room, Buddy said that he felt like Kim was a sister and he couldn’t vote against her. This led to a touching moment with Kim, in which she said that she had felt isolated during the game and didn’t realize that people actually did care about her. She said she’d always held people at a distance so they wouldn’t hurt her. In the transformation moment for Chris, she shared that she has gone from 240 pounds to 156. She’s living a more active lifestyle with Roy, encouraging her children to lose weight, and plans to take a cross-country bike trip with Roy. And now on to this week’s episode… Wow, it was Mutiny on The Biggest Loser! The contestants got wind of the fact the eliminated contestants were going to earn a chance to get back on the show, and they all threatened to quit because they didn’t think it was fair. While I personally don’t like this particular aspect of the game, they all signed the contract with that language in it. In the end, only Mark and Buddy quit, citing the fact that they had to go with their hearts and what they felt was right. That left Kim, Conda and Jeremy left to fight it out for the two guaranteed spots in the finale. One would be automatically eliminated when they fell below the red line. This week’s excuse was “I lack motivation,” and to help with that Alison announced that this week’s biggest loser would win a brand new Ford Escape SUV. The trio was shown “look back” videos to see how far they’d come in their four months on the ranch and were all obviously touched. Conda said, “It’s embarrassing. I can’t believe I acted that way.” She does seem to have changed quite a bit since Day 1. At the weigh-in, there were a couple of jaw-dropping moments. Here were are, two weeks from the finale, in week 16, and the everyone pulled double digits. Conda and Jeremy both lost 10 and Kim lost an amazing 15 pounds (9.26%). How they did this in a week, this late in the game, I have no idea. I had a moment of worry for Kim because that seemed like such a huge loss for the smallest person in the game. She’s now down to 147 pounds. And by being the biggest loser for the week, she won the SUV. I was really sad to see Jeremy eliminated, but the tease at the end of the show gives me hope that he might still have the chance to get that third spot in the finale by competing against all those eliminated players and winning. I’m really going to be rooting for him if that’s the case. What did you think of these two episodes? Do you hope Jeremy earns that final spot in the finale? Or is there an eliminated player you’d like to see get that spot? The Biggest LoserPosted by Trish Milburn Apr 11 2012, 12:01 am in The Biggest Loser, Trish Milburn I attended the Barbara Vey Readers Luncheon yesterday, and I didn’t make it back to my hotel in time to watch The Biggest Loser. So, please watch for the recap in addition to next week’s recap because I won’t be able to watch this week’s episode until after I return home from the Romantic Times [...] The Biggest Loser: Two for OnePosted by Trish Milburn Apr 4 2012, 12:01 am in inspiration, The Biggest Loser, Trish Milburn, weight loss First off, let me apologize for not doing the recap last week. I got home too late and exhausted from a trip to watch and write the recap. I’d planned to post the recap on Saturday. It’s a testament to how immersed I’ve been in book revisions that I thought I actually had posted it [...] Don’t Eat ThatPosted by Trish Milburn Mar 29 2012, 12:01 am By Jody Wallace When Trish asked me several weeks ago if I wanted to come to the Healthy Writer blog and do a guest post, I said I would but warned her it would be short. Basically, my advice if you want to lose weight is, “Don’t eat that.” Okay, it’s more complicated than those [...] The Biggest Loser recapPosted by Trish Milburn Mar 28 2012, 12:01 am in The Biggest Loser, Trish Milburn Was traveling yesterday and got home late, so no time to watch last night’s The Biggest Loser. Watch for the recap on Saturday.
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The first book I ever wrote was a romance. I just didn’t know it yet. That book, Land of the Misty Gems, was a class project way back in the sixth grade. We wrote the text, illustrated them with colored pencils, even bound them with twine and pasted a fabric cover on our creations. I still have that book. It was the beginning of my writing career, even if until the early 1990s that writing consisted mainly of research papers and essay test questions and then newspaper articles.
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