Patti & Stephanie fell below the yellow line in The Biggest Loser Season 9 Episode 2, and Patti decided to go home so that her daughter could stay.
This is student/teacher week. One person will be the teacher, while the other is the student. The student is the only one who will represent the team on the scale. The students will not be allowed to train with the trainers. Instead, the teachers will train and must pass on what they’ve learned. Since they don’t have teammates, John and Stephanie will be together. To win their first temptation, all they have to do is eat more than anybody else. Each piece of candy has 5 calories. The person who eats the most will be able to decide who are the teachers and who are the students. Sherry and Michael are the only ones to eat in round 1. Michael decides to hand the power to Sherry, who wins after only having eaten 10 calories.
Black Team: Andrea is the teacher; Darrell is the student
Brown/Purple Team: Stephanie is the teacher; John is the student
Grey Team: Sam is the teacher; Koli is the student
Red Team: Melissa is the teacher; Lance is the student
Orange Team: Cheryl is the teacher; Daris is the student
Green Team: Migdalia is the teacher; Miggy is the student
White Team: Michael is the teacher; Maria is the student
Pink Team: Sherry is the teacher; Ashley is the student
Migdalia is angry about the choice that was made, though she denies it after Bob pushes her multiple times. With Bob not making a dent, Jillian takes on Migdalia next. Jillian’s worried that if she screams like a crazy person, Migdalia will walk out. Well, when has that stopped her before? Bob tells her to just be mean. So Jillian lays into her about her 9 year old daughter and refusal to show emotion. Jillian keeps pushing and tries to get Migdalia to answer questions about why she’s there. She just answers with vagueness. Then she says she’s done. If Jillian doesn’t smack this girl, I hope her mama does. Jillian begs and pleads but is unable to get past the wall. Migdalia wants to go home. Go then. There are plenty of people who would willingly take your spot. After this, Jillian approaches Miggy instead. Perhaps she could talk some sense into her daughter.
From there, Jillian sends in the good cop. Bob wants to know what the hell happened. Migdalia is there to learn to eat healthy and exercise. She doesn’t need anybody to tell her she’s got problems. Oh boy. Bob tells her he cares about her, and she agrees not to quit. Then Miggy chimes in with excuses. They won’t change the way they are. That’s a problem. Their attitudes haven’t helped them in their weight loss goals previously. Healthy eating and exercise are all well and good, but it’ll be so easy to quit those if you can’t work on the personal issues behind the weight gain.
Curtis Stone pays them another visit. His lesson is about portion sizes. He reveals restaurant dishes with thousands of calories. Then he prepares a 4 ounce chicken dish that contains only 300 calories per serving.
Miggy seems to be getting somewhere with Migdalia. Slowly. Miggy suggests that Migdalia needs to learn to express herself, rather than getting angry and fighting. Maybe she does need help. Maybe she is willing to get help.
The teacher from each team will unwind 1000 feet of ribbon through a playground. Students will then draw for which ribbon they will have to untangle. The first team to unravel the ribbon and return it back wins immunity. Additionally, they will be able to choose one team to switch student and teacher. After the teachers are done, everybody’s hoping they just don’t get the white ribbon. Mike made an extra effort to twist and tie it up and make it as difficult as possible. Remember that whole random drawing thing? Yeah, that was just a joke. Students will be bringing in their own colored ribbon. Blindfolded.
Lance is looking forward to this. As a commercial diver, he’s been in black water plenty. Daryl, however, is not. He starts to struggle right away. 15 minutes in, pink team is still on their first obstacle, with communication that’s just not working in a blindfolded scenario. Mike’s plan, meanwhile, has backfired. After half an hour, the pink team’s still on the first obstacle. Red is looking to win their second immunity in a row, while the grey team makes a dash toward the finish line. Grey team wins in a close race.
Ashley’s having second thoughts about the choices they made earlier. Pink team seems to have stacked the deck against themselves by putting Ashley up against mostly big men. It’s hard to argue that their choices were bad ones, though.
At the weigh-in, the grey team has decided to switch the white team, putting Michael in the hot seat.
And then… election coverage. Coakley has conceded. Well, that should get interesting. Meanwhile, the weigh-in continues off screen, which leaves me with having to pull the numbers from the scoreboard.
Darrell: 3.22%
John: 3.10%
Lance: 3.57%
Daris: 2.90%
Miggy: 3.20%
Michael: 2.08%
Ashley: 3.48%
Jillian says that Melissa threw the weigh-in again this week, like she did last week. Lucky thing the grey team didn’t switch them. Jillian and Bob confront Melissa, who continues to deny it. This evolves into a silly argument where everybody starts screaming.
That puts the white team below the yellow line. The grey team’s switch had no impact (except it may cause some animosity from Michael toward them) since Maria also would have been at the bottom. This early in the game, it’s hard to imagine them voting out a 481 pound person. Maria wants to leave and says that sending Michael home will kill him. Correction: 30 years of bad habits would be the cause here, not a vote on a reality show. Nonetheless, I don’t think he has anything to worry about. John, however, views Michael still being there as an insult. He knows what it’s like to be 500 pounds, too, but at least he’s putting in the effort.
Votes
Cheryl & Daris: Maria
John & Stephanie: Michael
Andrea & Darrell: Maria
Sam & Koli: Maria
Melissa & Lance: Maria
With 4 votes, Maria is not The Biggest Loser. The contestants have, reluctantly, voted to keep Michael here, with a message that he needs to try harder.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 9 Episode 4, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.