One week after his wife went home, Q was eliminated in The Biggest Loser Season 11 Episode 6.
For the challenge, they will be tied to a rope. All they have to do is untie themselves first. Cowboy Justin thinks this is right up his alley. The winning team will receive the only key to the gym. Arthur will sit out for the black team. The red team manages to get free first.
Although the black team contestants are afraid of what’s to come, Bob is not too terribly afraid, since they have trained without a gym before. It’s not like they are always going to have access to a gym when they go home. Jillian, meanwhile, says the teams are like the Care Bears against an NFL team, and she jokes about how the prizes are decided since her team last week only got videos from home. Granted, for whatever strange reason, the players always act like someone died when they get the videos, having been away from their families for multiple numbers of days and/or weeks.
Perhaps worse, the black team has a lot of tension and negative energy. That’s not going to help them out any more than missing the treadmills.
During his workout, Rulon throws a temper tantrum. For someone who seems to have been doing a great job all season, he refuses to listen to his trainer, complaining that she’s stacking the deck against him by expecting more out of him (a former gold medalist who’s easily the strongest person in the house) than others on his team. Additionally, he does not want to take an emotional journey here. If he doesn’t want to address why he’s there, he may as well not bother because he’ll just be right back to that stage again in short order.
Arthur’s making some supper. He wants his team to help him decide between steak and chicken sausage. For them, either of these foods is a great big problem. His only option, they say, is fish. He’d also like to cook it in olive oil, which they warn him would be more calories than the meal itself.
Tonight’s challenge will be to push a 24 ton train 800 feet. Alison says that strength isn’t everything. Yeah it is. Red team’s got this won already. Anyway, along the way they will have to answer six trivia questions. If they are wrong, 15 seconds will be added to their time. The winning team will get to pick one player from the other team whose weight will not count. Deni sits out for the black team. They’re not going to have a lot of time to think about their answers, as they will have to toss the bags off the moving train that’s not slowing down. Black team (minus Arthur, who’s running behind the train and trying to catch up) finishes in 2:05, and they are worried they have missed multiple questions. Red team goes second, and they’re left with a scenario in which two girls throw the bags while six guys push the train, a completely opposite group composition to the other team. Red team crosses the finish line in 1:35, an advantage equivalent to two wrong answers. Black team got four questions wrong. That’s a win or at least a tie for the red team unless they got everything wrong. With one and only one question right, the red team wins.
Whether he wants to or not, Rulon has decided to start to open up to his trainer. Her fear is that, without a competition, he’ll gain his weight back, but he says he’ll compete against himself.
Hoping to boost Arthur’s confidence following the train challenge, Jillian has some fun planned for him. They’re going to revisit day one, pushing the truck around. In contrast to the first time when it took the whole team, he’s now able to do it on his own.
Having won the challenge, the red team will be able to choose one member of the black team to sit out, but first the red team will weigh in.
Jay: 308 pounds (-9, 2.84%)
Jen: 211 pounds (-7, 3.21%)
Moses: 333 pounds (-7, 2.06%)
Kaylee: 187 pounds (-3, 1.58%)
Justin: 277 pounds (-5, 1.77%)
Rulon: 371 pounds (-11, 2.88%) – over 100 pounds lost
Austin: 306 pounds (-10, 3.16%)
Ken: 296 pounds (-11, 3.58%)
Red Total: 2289 pounds (-63, 2.68%)
I’m not sure it necessarily matters who the red team chooses to sit out since there is no particularly obvious choice, but they decide to have Irene’s weight loss not count.
Irene: 198 pounds (-6, 2.94%)
Deni: 196 pounds (-5, 2.49%)
Sarah: 208 pounds (-4, 1.89%)
Olivia: 206 pounds (-2, 0.96%)
Hannah: 194 pounds (-7, 3.48%)
Marci: 181 pounds (-6, 3.21%)
Courtney: 258 pounds (-7, 2.64%)
Jesse: 238 pounds (-8, 3.25%)
Arthur: 415 pounds (-20, 4.60%)
Black Total (excluding Irene): 1896 pounds (-59, 3.02%)
For the first time this season, the person with the most to lose has finally stepped up to the plate, winning the weigh in for his team. Had the red team selected Arthur, they would have won, but I can’t blame them considering his performance thus far.
This week, the red team does not have it quite so easy, not having someone they hate to get rid of. The one person they can’t vote for is their team’s Biggest Loser, Ken. The simplest thing now is to get rid of one of the newbies, Jay or Jen, regardless of them outperforming most of the others on the team. Jay has asked that his daughter be allowed to stay.
Votes
Moses: Jay
Kaylee: Jay
Austin: Jay
Jen: Kaylee
Jay: Rulon
Rulon: Jay
With 4 votes, Jay is not The Biggest Loser. From his starting weight of 400 pounds, Jay is down 111 pounds to 289. His biological age has decreased by 7 years to 64, and his risk of diabetes, stroke, and heart attack are down significantly.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 11 Episode 8, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.