The Biggest Loser Couples 2 Episode 9 was a to be continued episode. We left off with Mike weighing in, and he needed to lose 10 pounds to keep everybody immune. If he failed to do so, one person from each team would be voted off, and it would be all his fault (only not really since Sione and Cathy only lost 3 pounds).
Mike: 286 pounds (-11, 3.70%)
With Mike’s 11 pound weight loss, nobody will be going home. So I’ll ask this: they couldn’t have showed us this 30 seconds of footage last week?
Week 10 starts 5 minutes after the weigh in. The teams will be matched against someone from the opposite team. If they beat their opponent, they get a point. The first team to three points will win the weigh in. The person who can sit against a wall the longest will win the pop challenge. Kristin is sitting out for medical reasons. Sione and Helen will sit out for the black team. Ron is out in about 20 seconds. Cathy is gone pretty soon after. Aubrey drops at 2 minutes, leaving just Mandi representing the winless blue team. Filipe is out at 2:25. Mike drops right after. Laura drops at 3 minutes, which leaves Mandi against Tara. Mandi drops, and Tara wins. With that painful victory, Tara will be able to structure the match ups for this week’s face off.
The matches are:
Mike (102 lbs, 26% lost) against Cathy (47 lbs, 16% lost)
Sione (89 lbs, 24% lost) against Mandi (68 lbs, 26% lost)
Filipe (89 lbs, 24% lost) against Kristin (90 lbs, 25% lost)
Helen (64 lbs, 25% lost) against Ron (87 lbs, 20% lost)
Laura (59 lbs, 21% lost) against Aubrey (46 lbs, 18% lost)
Mike should be able to crush Cathy, although she did have a pretty poor showing last week that should allow her to bounce up. Based on his numbers last week, Sione should have Mandi beat. Filipe and Kristin’s a toss up that should prove interesting. Helen is likely to beat Ron. Laura against Aubrey could go either way. Definitely was not expecting Tara to either have faith in her partner or sit herself out, but with her 5.21% weight loss last week, Tara’s likely to have a poor week. If she’s smart, she’ll have a bad week on purpose so she can dominate the scale next week.
Jillian doesn’t want her team to be complacent because the underdog always has his day.
Filipe’s frustrated with Jillian. Yeah, yeah, still. Now he’s mad that she worked out with everybody but him.
The challenge is a relay race that starts off in the pool. The first person will take 24 six pound medicine balls across the pool. The next player will take them to the first stopping point and run them up the stairs. The third person will go under a series of obstacles with them. The fourth team member will take them down the basketball court to do 24 squats every trip down the court. Everyone on the winning team will get 24 hours of luxury. Kristin is sitting out again due to medical concerns. Laura and Mike sit out for the black team.
Ron and Filipe are doing the swimming. Or rather, Filipe’s swimming while Ron’s walking. Black team gets about a 3 lap lead. Sione and Cathy will be running up the stairs. Sione’s taking the stairs two at a time, while Cathy’s going at a slow but steady pace. Tara and Mandi are going under the obstacles. Mandi’s starting to catch up. Helen and Aubrey are on the final leg with the squats (they have to do two balls at a time and 24 squats each of the 12 times). Based on this match up, it appears blue may actually have a shot at winning something, but it’s not to be. Black wins.
Black team’s now preparing themselves for 24 hours of luxury. While it will be relaxing, that kind of environment is not exactly conducive to weight loss. As for the blue team, they’re all still working out, rather than having a big screen TV, taking a bubble bath, or getting a massage. It doesn’t end there, though. The meal is obviously a big derailing waiting to happen. Unsurprisingly, their calories climb and climb and climb. Total for the 6 in one meal: 12,952 calories. So far. Then they head to the bar. They continue drinking, and Helen proceeds to smoke. Then Sione eats some more, as if his meal weren’t enough to begin with. New total after the bar: 15,563 calories (2600 each). Blue team: 1,612 calories. After this display, black team deserves to lose.
Jillian’s been tipped off that her team won luxury, which she knows is not a good prize to win there. Helen swore everybody to secrecy, but Jillian’s no fool. What’s the point? The second they leave, they immediately lose control. To make matters worse, half of them don’t even trust her because they were previously with Bob. Filipe is not even sure any more whether he wants to work out. Now it’s his turn to scream and shout and pound things and then leave the room. Yeah, that temper tantrum ought to patch things up. Can this whiny guy go home already? He and Sione go pout to Bob because their wicked stepmom Jillian was a meanie. Bob’s going to let them have their way and train with him.
While Jillian partially thought Bob should have sent Filipe and Sione back to deal with their issues rather than running away from them, she’s largely relieved that she doesn’t have to deal with this nonsense any more.
Jillian doesn’t think her team deserves to win the weigh in, and she’s right.
Because there was no elimination last week, Laura still has an extra vote, and she will be able to vote regardless of who loses.
Tara: 200 pounds (no change… the start of a train wreck)
Mike: 278 pounds (-8, 2.80%)
Cathy: 242 pounds (-4, 1.63%)
Black team leads 1-0
Aubrey: 200 pounds (-3, 1.48%)
Laura: 227 pounds (+1, 0.44%)
Tied 1-1
Filipe: 274 pounds (-1, 0.36%)
Kristin: 263 pounds (-7, 2.59%)
Blue team leads 2-1
Filipe’s question: why did I let my trainer affect my week? Are you freaking kidding me? His trainer made him go out and eat a few thousand calories, at a time when he wasn’t working out enough? Take some responsibility for your own actions, dude.
Helen: 189 pounds (-4, 2.07%)
Ron: 337 pounds (-6, 1.75%)
Tied 2-2
Sione: 277 pounds (-6, 2.12%)
Mandi: 197 (+2, 1.02%)
Black team wins the weigh in. Not the result I expected, or was hoping for. Black team should have lost for going back to their old ways at the flick of a switch.
As The Biggest Loser for her team, Kristin has immunity. Laura will have the extra vote, which could come into play in the event of a tie.
Ron says that it’s Mandi’s turn to go home, and the people who have been with him since the beginning (Cathy and Kristin) agree. Aubrey, however, is ready to go home. She won’t vote for her sister, and she’d rather go home instead.
Votes
Laura: Cathy
Ron: Mandi
Kristin: Mandi
Cathy: Mandi
Aubrey: Cathy
Mandi: Ron
That goes against the plan to let the black team decide who to leave (from anyone, regardless of whether they received any votes or not, a lame rule). Mandi knows she can do it at home, whereas she believes her sister Aubrey can’t, so she wants her to stay there. With 3 votes, Mandi has been eliminated. She’s brought her new energetic lifestyle home to share with her family and is now down 84 pounds from her starting weight of 263 pounds.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser 7 Episode 11, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.
Filipe is a baby. He deserved every pound he gained.
I can’t believe Filipe. When they were at the 24 hours of luxury, he was gloating that he could win in his sleep. Reference the fact that the 24 hour relaxation was at the end of the week. So, if he was so confident then, it clearly wasn’t Jillian’s fault that he didn’t lose weight.
Here’s to all the people like Filipe who can’t accept responsibility and always try to blame others when they fail – DON’T GO ON NATIONAL TELEVISION!! When you lie, we all see it, and then your game is up.
And that’s why I had to vote for. . .Filipe.
I love the recaps on this site (dingorue) – they are thorough, succinct, and witty. It was disheartening to see the black team fall so dramatically off their weightloss regime. It shows that self-restraint may not exist when there is everyday temptations. Hopefully their example will serve as a guidepost for all the dieters who look to The Biggest Loser for inspiration, because it would be very sad if, instead, it allows a “What’s the use anyway?” attitude on the part of viewers.
The blue team is so stupid. First they send Dane home (their top competitor) and now they send Mandi home (their next top competitor). This is all because Kristin, Kathy and Ron want to stay together. News to you 3. All of you together, cannot beat one of the black team members except maybe Laura. I have been a blue team member fan but you have killed yourself. Ron has always been your weakest link. I know he has a bad knee but he doesn’t really try. The swimming pool for example. I’m afraid its too late for you now. Even when they separate the teams again and put you all as individuals; the black will stick together and vote you off. Aubrey is your only hope and you will vote her off next. Stupidity
Right on target, Zoe Zoala, about how great this site is (thank you dingoRue!) as well as on your other comments. The level of whining on TBL… sheesh! (Am I whining by complaining about the whining?) I try to put myself in the contestants’ place, and if I were calorie-deprived and working out 7-8 hours/day a long way from home & loved ones, maybe all my emotional instability would come out too. But my gawd, Mandi & Aubrey are constantly blubbering about something; Laura is a lazy whiny butt; and even though Ron comes across as Mr. Kind, Strong & Compassionate, he’s really doing that I’m-a-victim-of-my-knee-feel-sorry-for-me schtick–and I think you’re totally right Gigi he doesn’t appear to be trying nearly as much as he could even w/the knee. And now the biggest baby of all–Filipe! What happened to the good attitude he had at the beginning? And then there’s Bob’s appalling enabling of the big babies–and I adore Bob, but he’s being so short-sighted in trying to win their approval rather than kicking their butts back to Jillian & telling ’em to grow up.
Thanks for the comments and for reading.
Thanks for the affirmation, Lizzie. And you do a very nice job, Shane. Now: I can’t help but wonder if Jillian was deliberately avoiding Filipe that day of training to make him realize that he needs to be the “captain of his fate” and not overly depend upon others to kick him in the behind when he needs motivation. If I were given the opportunity to train with either Bob or Jillian, I would prefer Jillian (even though she would terrify me) because, especially in the last year, she has seemed to show more interest in individuals rather than in solely team competition. (But, again, the editing may be done that way just to make the ‘main characters’ of the show more polarized for audience allegiance.) I prefer to be autonomous at my workouts, though, with only having someone there to answer my questions.
Every season needs a fall-guy, and Filipe has done a great job of making himself the dopey fall-guy. How can he claim he is being persecuted by Jillian? If he can’t deal with the changes thrown at him at the Ranch (switching trainers, etc) how can he deal with changes at home? to continue or maintain weight loss? And for Bob to say he’s never seen such game playing? Come on! He’s the biggest propeller of game playing. The contestants should all be thankful that they are there, and do their best to lose weight and stay, regardless of the final ‘prize money’. The biggest prize is learning and losing and keeping it off! You can’t put a monetary value on living longer. When this is over, and Filipe is back home, I’d like to see just how long he keeps his weight off before he starts gaining again. And HE WILL gain again, because he doesn’t seem to have learned how to be responsible for his own actions. He is still blaming others for his short-comings. Sorry, but he’s such a baby.
Oh, and Lizzie, you are right about Bob. I was so disappointed that he did not send Sione and Filipe back to Jillian. He’s a baaaad daddy, letting the children play him against mommy. It was such a basic pit-mommy-against-daddy ploy and he fell into the trap! Bob, if you are reading these comments, SHAME ON YOU! You had an opportunity to teach those cousins a strong lesson, but instead, you decided to stay in their good graces. What happens in the real world when they haven’t learned how to deal? You did them a great disservice.