Posted by Trish Milburn Feb 22 2012, 12:01 am in The Biggest Loser, Trish Milburn
This week’s excuse being tackled on The Biggest Loser was “I lack self-control.” I think at one time or another we’ve all struggled with that very thing. Often it’s what leads us into the overweight category to begin with.
So with that excuse at the center of things, of course there was a temptation challenge filled with everyone’s favorite foods. The winner (the person who consumed the most calories) would get to reshape the teams any way they wanted to while staying anonymous. Let me just say that I don’t like these temptation challenges because they encourage contestants to do the very thing that has made them all ill — eat too much.
Five people ended up eating, but Daphne consumed the most calories at 1,890. That’s a lot of peanut butter cups, people. But the only thing she did with her win was switch Jeremy and Conda, putting Conda on her black team and sending Jeremy to the red team. That left a lot of people, including me, scratching their heads. It wasn’t a strategic move but rather a personal one. But even that didn’t make a lot of sense to me. It sent one of the only two guys the black team had to a team full of guys (aka the people more likely to have big losses) and left the red team with only Chism and the rest women.
As you might expect, drama ensued as four of the five eaters admitted it. But Daphne lied to everyone, saying it wasn’t her. Oh yeah, that’s going to end well.
The next challenge was a big puzzle, and the prize was two-week stays at the Biggest Loser resort for every member of the winning team. The red team, led by Mark, won big.
The one quote I wrote down from this week, from Dolvett: “Sometimes the best way to take care of the people you love is to take care of yourself.” This came out while he was talking to Kimmi, who is a nurse, mom and all-around caregiver like so many women are.
Okay, the weigh-in. This is where I wanted to yell at the TV, asking the members of the black team if they’ve ever watched an episode of Survivor. You throw a challenge and it will come back to bite you in the butt, big-time. But that’s what they did. They willingly allowed themselves to have small losses or even gains in order to lose the weigh-in and send Daphne home.
I have mixed feelings about how things went down this week. Throwing a weigh-in defeats the entire purpose of being on the show. It’s supposed to be about health and fitness, not petty games and personal attacks. A lot of people are forgetting that this season. I understand people were upset about the change, but what did they expect? It wasn’t like they made any secret of the fact that Daphne would be sent packing at the first opportunity. Don’t expect to back someone into a corner and them not fight back. While it wasn’t a wise decision on Daphne’s part to do what she did, I can understand why she would act out in her position.
At the weigh-in, the black team’s numbers were dismal. The most anyone lost was 5 pounds (Chris and Chism), and Conda gained a pound. So I was all ready for Daphne to lose a big number and be safe from elimination. But she gained 2 pounds. Even with all her extra work this week, all those peanut butter cups came back to haunt her.
The red team, by contrast, had a good week. Five pounds was their lowest loss (Kimmi), and Jeremy (11) and Buddy (12) were both in double digits. Kim (7) went under 200 pounds. Their team’s percentage of weight loss was 3.39% versus the black team’s awful 0.75%.
I hate when challenges/weigh-ins are thrown, and I hate when the people doing the throwing can’t admit it and instead lie about it. How is that lying any different than Daphne’s lie about what she’d done? I am continually baffled by how great everyone thinks Conda is. Granted, I know she has problems and I truly want her to get healthy, for her sake and her little girl’s, but good grief the girl doesn’t know when to zip it. At the elimination, she didn’t seem to be able to resist getting in a few more digs on Daphne. It will be interesting to see if she continues all the drama and who will be her next target now that both members of the aqua team are gone.
What did you think of last night’s episode?
Posted by Trish Milburn Feb 15 2012, 12:01 am in The Biggest Loser, Trish Milburn, weight loss
This week’s twist on The Biggest Loser was that each trainer was to pick one person to go home from his team and to go with him/her. That person’s weight would be the only one to count for the team for the week. Bob chose Daphne and Dolvett chose Conda, setting up a head-to-head challenge [...]
Posted by Trish Milburn Feb 8 2012, 12:01 am in The Biggest Loser, Trish Milburn
This week’s excuse being tackled on The Biggest Loser (or as I am jokingly calling it The Biggest Whiner) was “I can’t lost weight on my own.” Those of you who regularly read posts here at The Healthy Writer know this isn’t true but is an oft-used excuse. Let me just start off with this [...]
Posted by Trish Milburn Feb 1 2012, 12:07 am in The Biggest Loser, Trish Milburn
I couldn’t decide whether to call last night’s episode of The Biggest Loser “The Drama” or “The Whining.” It begin the moment the aqua team came back and lost more than 50 combined pounds to make it onto the ranch. So many contestants were whining about it. No surprise, Conda was the front of the [...]
Posted by Trish Milburn Jan 25 2012, 12:01 am in The Biggest Loser, Trish Milburn
In a season where The Biggest Loser is making an attempt to tackle all the excuses people make to not take care of themselves, this week’s was the “I don’t have a gym membership” one. The aim of the episode was to show that you don’t have to have a gym membership to lose weight. [...]
Posted by Trish Milburn Jan 18 2012, 12:05 am in The Biggest Loser, Trish Milburn, weight loss
This week’s episode of The Biggest Loser tackled the excuse of “I don’t have time to eat healthy.” So of course they had a food temptation. Contestants were faced with a Chinese buffet. (Interesting tidbit: There are more than 41,000 Chinese restaurants in the U.S., more than McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Burger King combined.) Whomever at [...]
Posted by Trish Milburn Jan 11 2012, 12:01 am in eating healthy, The Biggest Loser, Trish Milburn, weight loss
I’m doing bullet points this week because I’m in crazy deadline mode this month, and my hair is on fire. * Alison told players that whoever has highest percentage of weight loss this week on the winning team gets to give immunity to someone on the losing team. * Alison asked for two volunteers from [...]
Posted by Trish Milburn Jan 4 2012, 12:01 am in The Biggest Loser, Trish Milburn
No Excuses. That’s the theme of the new season of The Biggest Loser, which started last night. And I think it’s a great one for all of us to adopt for this new year. Stop making excuses why you can’t work out. Stop making excuses why you can’t eat healthily. Stop making excuses why you [...]
Posted by Trish Milburn Dec 15 2011, 12:01 am in The Biggest Loser, Trish Milburn, weight loss
On Tuesday night, The Biggest Loser held its live finale for the season, a final battle that came down to Ramon, Antone and John. But first we checked in with the other contestants to see what their final loss numbers were and who would be competing for the at-home prize. This time around, they did [...]
Posted by Trish Milburn Dec 7 2011, 12:01 am in The Biggest Loser, Trish Milburn
Most of us can’t even fathom running a marathon, let alone people who were morbidly obese mere months ago. But that’s exactly what the contestants on The Biggest Loser did in last night’s episode. But before they got to that, we saw the the final four (Vinny, Antone, Becky and John) at home with their [...]
