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 between the two women who’d just had words the night before over Adrian going home. There is a wee part of me that wonders if the show runners set this up for drama’s sake.
After Bob left, Chris complained to her black team that she felt betrayed by Bob not choosing her after she asked him after last week’s weigh-in for additional help. I think Jeremy had it right when he said that anyone left behind could have felt that way but they didn’t. None of them deserves special, extra help more than any of the others.
I didn’t have a good feeling about the black team’s chances at the weigh-in when I saw their low energy level in the gym. The red team had just come off a week without Dolvett, so they knew what to do and had a good team workout leader in Kim. The black team didn’t seem to have that.
Back in Michigan with Conda, we finally found out what happened in Conda’s past that set her on the path to being so defensive. While she was in high school, her parents split up what seemed like a happy family due to her father’s drug problems. Her mother told Dolvett that she believes Conda still hasn’t forgiven her father for that. Conda admitted that it’s the reason she and her brother, Jeremy, are so close, because they depended on each other during that difficult time. Even though she still rubs me the wrong way at times, I do see her beginning to change a little bit. Hopefully by the time the season is over, she will have dealt with more of her issues and set herself on a path to being a happier, healthier person.
At the ranch, the challenge had the teams digging their way through sand under logs in order to be able to get all their teammates plus a heavy dummy under the series of logs to the finish line. At stake were letters from home and a 1-pound advantage for their player at the weigh-in. The red team won, giving Conda that advantage.
The last-chance workouts had Conda working out with a high school girls basketball team and Daphne climbing the 103 floors of stairs in the Willis Tower (the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere) in under an hour. Yeah, I’m pretty sure I can’t do that. I loathe stairs.
At the weigh-in, the red team won Conda another 1-pound advantage, making it an overall 2-pound advantage, by losing the higher percentage of weight. That was the dedication in the gym working for them. Mark lost 10, Kim and Roy both lost 9, and Buddy lost 7. The lowest loss was Kimmy’s with 4. On the black team, the highest loss of the on-ranch team was Chism’s 7. Lowest was Megan, also with a 4. My favorite moment though came when Cassandra hit her weekly goal of a 6-pound loss to make her total loss 50 pounds since coming to the ranch. She was so excited. I just like her a lot.
For the portion of the weigh-in that counted, Daphne weighed first and lost 12 pounds. To beat her, Conda needed to lose more than 10 pounds. She came very close with a 10, at which point she started crying. As Daphne said, she was glad to win but it wasn’t good to see Conda cry.
I had another head-scratching moment at the final vote. Despite the fact that Kimmy only lost 4 pounds and Roy lost 9 and in the long run can probably help the team the most, Roy was sent home. Those voting for him questioned his dedication and his mental place at this point in the game. I know he missed some portions of the workouts, but he still managed to pull a bigger number. Oh well, I’m not seeing everything that happens, so I don’t know the whole story. And I have nothing against Kimmy. She seems like a nice person. I just found the choice interesting. It seems that attitude matters more to the red team than loss numbers.
What did you think of this week’s episode? Would you have kept Roy and voted someone else off? Do you think you could have climbed those 103 floors of stairs?
Posted by Trish Milburn Feb 14 2012, 12:01 am in eating healthy, exercise, Trish Milburn, weight loss
It’s Valentine’s Day, so I hope you all have a lovely holiday. Today I’m going to be hitting my local grocery store to buy the things I need to fix a special Valentine’s meal for the hubby. Today is the 20th anniversary of when he proposed. Picture me as a senior in college running around [...]
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 7 2012, 12:01 am in exercise, food diary, health tips, portion control, Trish Milburn, weight loss
My husband and I were talking at dinner the other night about how long it takes investments to increase in value and how quickly a market downturn can take all that increase away in a blink of an eye. Well, weight loss and gain behaves in the exact opposite way, as I can attest to. [...]
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 31 2012, 12:01 am in goals, Trish Milburn, weight loss, Writing
That sigh of relief you may have heard yesterday was me the moment I sent two books off to my editor. January was crazy with deadlines for me. I wrote two complete young adult books and revised them, and I revised my Harlequin Nocturne book that hopefully will be out next year. I had very [...]
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 24 2012, 12:01 am in eating healthy, exercise, goals, Trish Milburn, weight loss, Writing
Some of you might have noticed that I flat out forgot to do my regular post here last Tuesday. That’s just one of the side effects of my crazy January full of pressing deadlines. The other — I’ve done abysmally on eating and exercise this month. I’ve made some good food choices and gotten a [...]
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 [...]
