Reality TV

The Biggest Loser Season 7 – January 20, 2009

Week 3 of The Biggest Loser…Are you for REAL?  I can’t believe what happens…man I really love Reality TV!

It starts out rough without Jerry there, and everyone wishing that Joelle was below the yellow line last week.  Everyone is connecting, while Joelle has become an outcast.

The contestants face another temptation…whoever eats the most calories gets to go home and train with their partner, and their trainer.  Each contestant is alone in a room for 5 minutes with thousands of calories of food…to make it more interesting Alison tells the players at the Ranch that their teammate at home has been faced with the same challenge.  There was only one contestant at The Ranch, Mandi, that ate one slice of pizza in a time of weakness, because she wanted to go home to see her kids.  Next they show the tapes from home, and what their partners did…  There were two at-home contestants that ate any food…Sione, Filipe’s partner ate 2 slices of pizza (outweighing Mandi’s one)…then Carla comes up on the screen, her plate filled with food (cupcakes, pizza, donuts)…I almost died, she ate over 2,000 calories, and won the temptation…Bob & Joelle were leaving The Ranch for Detroit.  The first thing that came to my mind was thinking of Bob having to deal with Joelle alone after The Biggest Loser Bob blow up last week.

Bob seemed not so excited for Detroit, but I think he was looking forward to filling Carla in on Joelle’s half-hearted efforts at The Ranch.  Bob makes it to Detroit, and gets Joelle & Carla in the gym…hard to be productive when both of the women were fighting.  Carla wanted Joelle to understand that it wasn’t all about her, it’s about the both of them…Joelle had words to say back, but nothing of meaning…you can tell that Joelle’s heart is still not in this.  After all the fighting, I think some progress was made…Bob recaps with the ladies at dinner.

Back at The Ranch, Dr. H meets with some of the players to review their medical status, and medication regimen.  Blaine who is only 28 years old was on at least 8 different medications for diabetes, high cholesterol…Ron was taking double the medication of Blaine, and was spending $20,000 (yes, twenty thousand dollars) a year on medication.  To put it it perspective, if Ron managed to live to be 66 years old, he would have spent a quarter of a million dollars on medication…if it wasn’t for the biggest loser.  Now both these players, Ron & Blaine have eliminated almost all of their medications from their daily regimens. Heart care for these guys no longer requires a dependence on pills…it is just healthy exercise, and heart healthy eating.

Now it’s challenge time…whoever can jump for the longest over a swinging beam wins immunity…Kristin & Tara lasted for over two hours at the challenge, but in the end Tara won immunity again.

Bob is back at the gym for last chance workouts…you better believe he was ready to kick some butt after his time with Carla & Joelle.  Bob wanted to make sure the rest of his team got the attention they needed…Bob really put a lot of effort into helping Mike this workout, and it paid off at weigh-in.

It was time to weigh in…Blaine, Ron, & Mike still turning out big numbers…Daniel weighs in, and is excited to see a 15 lbs loss on the scale.  In the end, Joelle & Damien were below the yellow line…I thought it was a no brainer on who was going to get eliminated.  The first 4 votes were to eliminate Joelle, then the tables turn…4 people vote to eliminate Damien…a tie.  In the event of a tie, the person with the lowest percentage of weight loss gets eliminated, unfortunately that was Damien. The player that kept Joelle, thought about who needed the experience more and who would be more successful at home.