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The Biggest Loser, Oops

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 each team but didn’t tell them why. Kim and Kimmy from the red team and Joe and Emily from the black team volunteered and were faced with poker chips and having to bet how much their teams would lose this week. At stake, a five-pound advantage if they met their goal and a five-pound advantage for the opposing team if they didn’t.

* Kim and Kimmy bet the red team would lose 3.8% or 94 pounds! Seriously, in week 2. Joe and Emily folded the hand, putting all the pressure on the read team.

* Dr. Huizenga was back and talking to Joe and Mike this time. Both have pre-diabetes, and Joe has severe sleep apnea. They’re on the same road as their dad, who died at 51 of colon cancer, an obesity-related disease.

* Mike revealed that at age 12, he went on the road with his dad and gained 50 pounds in a summer. More shocking, he smoked two packs of cigarettes a day at age 12!

* Rachel Beller, the show’s nutritionist, took the contestants to the grocery store to show them how to shop for fresh foods and healthy alternatives to things they like. She said diet his half the battle.

* Bob was annoyed that Dolvett was using some of his exercises with the red team. I didn’t think it was necessary for Bob to get his knickers in such a twist.

* At the challenge, the teams pulled in giant puzzle pieces by pushing a wheel in a circle. The first team to assemble and raise their puzzle won 6 months of The Biggest Loser meal plan. It came down to a one-second difference, but the black team won.

* We got an aqua team update when Beller visited Adrian and Daphne in Chicago. She showed them some healthful eating tips to help them during their month at home.

* At the weigh-in, no one got double digits. The closest was Buddy with 9. The lowest was Kim with 3. The red team only lost 52 pounds, nowhere near the needed 94. Oops. That gave the victory to the black team. The biggest loser on the black team was Chris (aka Mrs. Santa), so she gave the immunity to her husband, Roy (aka Santa).

* Despite losing 7 pounds, Mike was voted out after a contentious vote-out session (LOL, I almost wrote Tribal Council — oops, wrong show) because his teammates didn’t think he put in a full effort. What’s sad is that a lot of his issues only came out after they’d voted him out. He has abandonment issues, including his brother hanging out with the black team more than him, and a nicotine addiction. Even Conda, his most vocal critic, told him she understood him more after he revealed those things. I liked seeing the support his team ended up giving him as he was leaving. Buddy even challenged him to give up the nicotine, and Mike said he’d be nicotine free by the finale.

* Mike has now lost 56 pounds, is eating more healthfully, and exercising with his daughter. He acknowledged that to fix his body, he has to fix his way of thinking.

What did you think of this week’s episode? Any favorites emerging for you yet?

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6 Responses to “The Biggest Loser, Oops”

Michelle Butler says:

January 11, 2012 at 9:54 am

Thanks for this recap. I missed this because of a date.

Did Kim and Kimmy realize how much they were betting? Some folks just don’t get percentages/math that well. Why weren’t they under consideration for being voted off?

Were there any good, healthy eating tips? Or, was it all what we already know?

I’m not a good enough person to want to be warm and fuzzy with the folks who had just voted me off.

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- Trish Milburn says:
  
  January 11, 2012 at 12:05 pm
  
  There really wasn’t all that much discussion about voting Kim and Kimmy off, not on camera anyway. I think Mike had rubbed enough people the wrong way that the votes just tended to go that way.
  
  Beller just mentioned that the produce section has lots of volume for low calories. She talked about healthier sushi options, which I tuned out of since I have no intention of eating sushi. I think this was actually in the Biggest Loser e-mail I get, the one previewing this episode, but it reiterated the tip to shop on the outside edges of the store (fresh items), not in the middle aisles where the processed stuff is.
  
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Michelle Butler says:

January 11, 2012 at 10:09 am

p.s. – I wonder if the producers are trying to foster conflict between Bob and Dolvett.

Ratings info on the show:

Over at NBC, two-hours of The Biggest Loser scored a modest 4.3/ 7 from 8-10 p.m., with only three-tenths of an overnight rating point separating the four half-hours as follows:

The Biggest Loser (NBC)
8:00 p.m.: 4.2/ 6 (#3)
8:30 p.m.: 4.2/ 6 (#2)
9:00 p.m.: 4.4/ 7 (#2)
9:30 p.m.: 4.5/ 7 (#2)

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- Trish Milburn says:
  
  January 11, 2012 at 12:06 pm
  
  Manufactured conflict would be annoying. Bob and Jillian did fine without being at each other like that.
  
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Diane Gaston says:

January 11, 2012 at 12:47 pm

I liked Bob a couple of times this week when they showed him being caring and concerned about various members.

I thought it was sad that Mike was booted off in such a critical way, but I’m glad he got enough to lose the 54 lbs. What a story he had to tell!!!

I did think pushing the Jenny O Turkey was contrived, but I do like ground turkey.

I found, over all, that this episode did not hold my attention very well.

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Anthony Candon says:

March 18, 2012 at 4:31 am

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