As the final season (or so we assume) for Jillian Michaels, The Biggest Loser season 11 promises to be an interesting one.
Opera singer Olivia hopes to no longer be the fat lady singing. Moses, age 46, is worried that his family history is that people pass away around his age. Dan and Don are twin brothers. They are cops who won’t be chasing any fleeing suspects. Rulon was an Olympic gold medalist 10 years ago. At the time, he was close to 300 pounds but pretty solid. Now he’s just round. Courtney has already lost over 100 pounds but is still is just at the start of her journey.
Ken has 9 family members who have had bariatric surgery, which nonetheless has not served as reason enough to lose weight. Sarah lost another pregnancy two months ago due to her weight. Arthur is as big around as he is tall, still over 500 pounds with a BMI of about 75 in spite of 139 pounds of weight loss in the past year and a half. Don’s son refuses to see him, in fear of losing him anyway.
We start off with the first weigh in.
Ken: 377 pounds
Austin: 396 pounds
Brown Total: 773 Pounds
Courtney: 323 pounds
Marci: 238 pounds
Aqua Total (what’d you run out of colors?): 565 pounds
Ana: 255 pounds
Irene: 255 pounds
Orange Total: 510 pounds
Larialmy: 301 pounds
Q: 437 pounds
Red Total: 738 pounds
Sarah: 261 pounds
Deni: 256 pounds
Pink Total: 517 pounds
Arthur: 507 pounds
Jesse: 293 pounds
Blue Total: 800 pounds
Jennifer: 278 pounds
Jay: 400 pounds
Green Total: 678 pounds
Olivia: 261 pounds
Hannah: 248 pounds
Purple Total: 509 pounds
Kaylee: 233 pounds
Moses: 440 pounds
Grey Total: 673 pounds
Dan: 287 pounds
Don: 309 pounds
Black Total: 596 pounds
Justin: 365 pounds
Rulon: 474 pounds
Yellow Total: 839 pounds
They will not be working out tonight. Instead, they will compete in their first challenge. The challenge will determine who their trainers will be. But if they thought they were choosing between Bob and Jillian, they’d be wrong. They will choose either Bob and Jillian or two newbies.
The choice is clear. As experienced as these new trainers may be at training people, they have no clue what it’s like to be on the ranch, whereas Bob and Jillian have been doing this for 10 seasons (9 for Jillian), plus the time they spent in Australia training contestants there. So to make the contestants actually consider the alternative, an offer is put forward. Choose the new trainers, and you are immune for 4 weeks.
Each team has a manual treadmill. As a team, they have to run a 5k. The order in which they finish will determine the order in which they choose their trainers. 6 teams get Bob & Jillian, and the remaining 5 get the new trainers, who they still haven’t seen yet.
Yellow team reaches 1 kilometer. Grey team is behind them, followed by aqua. Yellow retains the lead through 2k, and their size does not appear to be slowing them down. Grey and aqua remain behind them. Yellow is the first to 3k, with grey and aqua still in second and third. Yellow is the first to hit 4 as well. Yellow team ends up winning the challenge in 40 minutes, which will guarantee them at least 1 week of immunity. Grey team places second. Aqua takes third. Green places fourth. Brown team finishes fifth, making them the last team guaranteed to have a choice. Purple team finishes sixth, so they are the last team guaranteed to have the choice of Bob & Jillian. Pink, red, orange, blue, and black round out the standings.
Bob & Jillian: Courtney & Marci, Jennifer & Jay, Olivia & Hannah, Ana & Irene, Arthur & Jesse, Dan & Don
Unknowns + 4 weeks immunity: Justin & Rulon, Kaylee & Moses, Ken & Austin, Sarah & Deni, Larialmy & Q
With 5 of 8 teams choosing the unknowns, that leaves orange, blue, and black teams with Bob & Jillian.
Bob asks the question. Where is everyone? Oh, by the way…
Both Bob and Jillian seem to think passing up immunity was a mistake. There’s a simple reality here. Depending on how/whether they opt to shake things up, 4 of the 12 people there are going home over the next 4 weeks, which could further be a disadvantage for whoever does survive.
Jillian starts off the workout saying she’s not going to yell. That’ll last.
Bob thinks Courtney’s a machine who could go all the way.
Now it’s time to end the mystery, sort of, as we head to the unknown trainers’ camp at Biggest Loser Fitness Resort at Fitness Ridge in Malibu. One of the new trainers has a pre-med and science background, which he considers beneficial because training is a science. The female trainer is a boxer, who won the Golden Gloves twice. As to what their names are, well, that’ll have to wait.
Arthur collapses, complaining about not being able to move his leg yada yada. He’ll get no sympathy from Bob & Jillian. He needs something for his leg? No problem. Here’s a treadmill.
The contestants at camp unknown weighed in first. Rulon & Justin lost 59 pounds. Moses lost 41 pounds, a new one week record. How do those on the ranch stack up?
Courtney: 308 pounds (-15, 4.64%)
Marci: 224 pounds (-14, 5.88%)
Aqua Total: 532 pounds (-29, 5.17%)
Arthur: 476 pounds (-31, 6.11%)
Jesse: 286 pounds (-7, 2.39%)
Blue Total: 762 pounds (-38, 4.75%)
Jennifer: 258 pounds (-20, 7.19%)
Jay: 374 pounds (-26, 6.50%)
Green Total: 632 pounds (-46, 6.78%)
Olivia: 245 pounds (-16, 6.13%)
Hannah: 232 pounds (-16, 6.45%)
Purple Total: 477 pounds (-32, 6.29%)
Ana: 246 pounds (-9, 3.53%)
Irene: 242 pounds (-13, 5.10%)
Orange Total: 488 pounds (-22, 4.31%)
Don: 288 pounds (-21, 6.80%)
Dan: 268 pounds (-19, 6.62%)
Black Total: 556 pounds (-40, 6.71%)
That puts Ana & Irene below the yellow line, and the rest of the teams have 1 hour to decide which of them to send home. Ana wants her daughter to stay, but Irene thinks her mom has greater health needs for being there.
Votes
Courtney & Marci: Ana
Jennifer & Jay: Ana
Olivia & Hannah: Irene
Arthur & Jesse: Ana
With 3 votes, Ana is not The Biggest Loser. From her starting weight of 255 pounds, Ana has dropped to 205 pounds.
Perhaps next week we’ll see the new trainers for more than 2 minutes.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 11 Episode 2, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.