Reality TV

The Biggest Loser Season 7 – January 6, 2009

The Biggest Loser is back in 2009 with some of the biggest, oldest, and even youngest players ever to come to The Ranch.

The younger player, Mike, weighing in at 387 lbs. came on the biggest loser with his father Ron.  Ron has battled with being overweight his entire life, even after undergoing weight loss surgery.

The biggest male player, Daniel, is only 19 years old, and weighs a astonishing 454 lbs, and he is only 5′8″.  The largest female player, Carla, comes in weighing 379 lbs…Bob and Jillian are shocked…knowing that in previously years that Nora’s weight, was the weight of some of their larger male contestants.  Bob and Jillian really have their work cut out for them.

Jerry, and his wife Estella, at age 63, are the older players ever to come on to the biggest loser, and the reality of dying from obesity really hits the other players as Jerry goes down in his first workout.  Jerry is taken in an ambulance after just working out with resistance bands for a few minutes…he literally collapsed as an off-set worker noticed that he was not well and comes on-set to assist him.

The show had to go on, Bob and Jillian picked their first teams and then after that, their chosen contestants picked two more players and so on until all the teams were formed.

The first half of the episode was off to a bumpy start, but before you knew it the contestants were met with their first challenge…to cross a bridge (with their partner) and climb over a huge sand mound, and then race back to the other side, some players had a lot of difficulty…after 3 rounds it was a close race between the Yellow Team (Mandy & Aubrey) and the Black Team (Blaine & Dane), but the Black Team took the lead and won by a foot…literally.  The Black Team won immunity in the first weigh in…they had no idea how much that was worth then.

After the challenge, all 22 players were back at The Ranch, and working it hard in their first workout, and their ‘last chance workout’ for the first week.  Jillian can’t help but remind player to stay hydrated…it really is key to keeping your metabolism revving.

Finally we are at the weight-in, and…

I have just finished putting in 75 minutes on my treadmill…  I personally love watching The Biggest Loser, but I can’t do it sitting on my ass, so I take my quality TV time, and multi-task by working out…and this time I managed to burn 487 calories…not bad.

This is were Alison Sweeney (biggest loser host) has a surprise…”no one is getting eliminated this week”…everyone was so excited, but those of us that know the show…knows there is a catch.  So, no one is getting eliminated, but 9 players will be getting sent home…on the first show, I was totally shocked.

So Blaine & Dane had immunity, and after each team weighed in, it was the last team to weight in (Mike & Ron) that lost the largest percentage of weight, a total of 54 lbs lost in the first week.  Ever other team needed to decide one player from their team that would be going home.  Here’s the deal…which ever players still are on The Ranch after 30 days…these are the players that can be reunited with their partners.  So the contestants being sent home are still going to have to continue the challenge from home…