With the on campus team winning immunity on The Biggest Loser Season 11 Episode 2, so nobody ended up going home.
First thing’s first. We get to meet the new trainers. There, was that so hard?
The female trainer is Cara Castranova. She has been boxing since she was 5 and starting competing at age 20, becoming ranked #2 (aren’t there only 2 people in the ring?). Her parents died at a relatively young age, which she attributes to making her stronger.
Brett Hoebel is the other new trainer. He views personal training as a science, and thinks that his pre-med training helps him in that respect. Having been overweight as a teen, he knows where these contestants are coming from.
Justin & Rulon blame certain people for last week’s loss, like Q, who has lost 17 pounds off his 400+ pound frame during the past 2 weeks. Oh, and they were also disappointed in Austin. Any other enemies you feel like making at this early stage?
Following the oh so secret challenge of last week, it’s looking like this time they will be able to get to compete against each other directly. Except they still won’t see each other. Team unknown pulls up in black vehicles with tinted windows, then they get on the opposite side of a divider. That said, one player from each group will meet with the other face to face, along with Curtis Stone. Those two winners will be able to compete for a 2 pound advantage. The pop challenge involves an egg and a frying pan. They’ll have to balance the egg as long as they can on the upside down frying pan.
This challenge lasts about 3 seconds on one side. The unknowns toss their eggs at the other side, leaving Deni as the winner for their team. Not being immune, the other team has to actually care. Courtney drops. Then Arthur. Jen and Don follow. Hannah will not be getting her date with Curtis Stone. Irene is out next. Jay and Don drop. Marci wins the challenge for team aqua.
Now it’s the unknowns turn to meet with Doc H. Q has 248 pounds of excess fat, and his internal age is 51, almost double his actual age of 27. Rulon is 40% fat, while Justin is 43% fat. Justin’s inner age is 59, an additional 20 years. Not having learned from the 8 people in his family that have had bypass surgery, Ken has degenerative blood disease and high blood pressure. His son Austin, meanwhile, has more excess hydrated fat and higher blood pressure than his dad. His inner age is 44, more than double his actual age of 20. Sarah has the highest body fat of anybody on the show, 58%. She has used her car accident as her excuse for why she didn’t move her body. Moses has a 49% risk of having a stroke in the next 5 years, and a 90% risk of being a full fledged diabetic. His uncles on his mom’s side all died in their 40s and 50s. They estimate he will die on April 23, 2025.
Jillian says that Dan and Don are not engaged, and she’s wondering how much they have really learned. Dan holds in his pain of losing his child, not wanting to discuss it with anyone else.
As the challenge winners, Deni and Marci get to meet Curtis Stone. Their challenge will be to tell him how many calories are in the food they prepare. They cook squash salad, kinwa, and halibut for the appetizer and the entree. There is 0 salt in this meal. After eating, they get to cook some dessert, poached pears with a bunch of flavoring such as cinnamon, vanilla, and orange juice. There is not any added sugar.
Marci offers to start, saying there were 480 calories. All Deni has to do now is go above or below, and she says 440. The actual calorie count was 572, giving the aqua team the 2 pound advantage.
The challenge is to haul water and dump it into someone else’s barrel. Once their barrel is full, they’re out. The drums, when filled with water, weigh over 100 pounds, and they will strap them around their waists. The winning team gets the only vote at this week’s elimination. Teammateless Irene will be competing by herself, with nothing to even the odds. Irene and Courtney target the blue team. Purple team follows suit, eliminating the blue team before they even have a chance to get up the hill. They have all made an arrangement to keep Irene in the game, so she wins the challenge.
This leads to a discussion of how Dan’s ready to go home, and he’s already thinking of a plan B. Would be nice to get through plan A first. He even offers to quit the game if he’s above the yellow line so he can let somebody else stay. Jillian could have taught him how to count calories in 5 minutes. She’d like the opportunity to do more than that. He says that, as a captain of a police department, he supervises life and death situations. What about his own?
The unknowns weighed in moments ago, and we get a very quick blur of that weigh in.
Ken: 344 pounds (-13, 3.64%)
Rulon: 415 pounds (-10, 2.35%)
Justin: 316 pounds (-10, 3.07%)
Kaylee: 209 pounds (-5, 2.34%)
Deni: 224 pounds (-9, 3.86%)
Sarah: 235 pounds (-8, 3.29%)
Larialmy: 275 pounds (-8, 2.83%)
Austin: 347 pounds (-15, 4.14%)
Q: 401 pounds (-19, 4.52%)
Moses: 376 pounds (-11, 2.84%)
For all their talk of how the other teams need to step it up, Justin & Rulon placed last.
Irene will decide who stays and who goes, unless she falls below the yellow line, in which case she will be eliminated. The Aqua team has a 2 pound advantage.
Courtney: 292 pounds (-6, 2.01%)
Marci: 211 pounds (-7, 3.21%)
Aqua Total: 503 pounds (-13, -2, 2.91%)
Irene: 224 pounds (-8, 3.45%)
Jen: 242 pounds (-8, 3.20%)
Jay: 350 pounds (-14, 3.85%)
Green Total: 592 pounds (-22, 3.58%)
Arthur: 459 pounds (-4, 0.86%)
Jesse: 269 pounds (-9, 3.24%)
Blue Total: 728 pounds (-13, 1.75%)
Olivia: 233 pounds (-6, 2.51%)
Hannah: 220 pounds (-6, 2.65%)
Purple Total: 453 pounds (-12, 2.58%)
Don: 289 pounds (+9, 3.21%)
Dan: 272 pounds (+9, 3.42%)
Black Total: 561 pounds (+18, 3.31%)
With Arthur sick and only able to get into the gym twice, I thought for sure the blue team was going to be below the yellow line. Then Dan & Don threw the weigh in. If you don’t want to be there, go ahead and leave. Shouldn’t have taken a spot someone else wanted. If nothing else, at least that’s the theory they are now utilizing, sacrificing one of their own so Jesse can stay. Bob and Jillian are offended and disappointed. Adding insult to insult, Dan & Don play dumb, as if this weight gain were accidental. If you’re going to gain weight, aim for a couple pounds. 9 pounds each is a little blatantly obvious.
Vote
Irene: Dan
With 1 vote, Dan is not The Biggest Loser. He considers his daughter to be more important than world class trainers. That’s why you make an effort on the ranch so that you can learn the tool you need to get and stay healthy. He is now down to 215 pounds from his starting weight of 287.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 11 Episode 4, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.