Category: biggest loser 17

Falling below the yellow line up against one member of the alliance, Lisa was eliminated in The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 10.

At the next weigh in, there will be two lines: one yellow, one red.

Frado thanks everybody for keeping him there. Any other season, they would have been smart enough to vote him out.

The three alliance members are pretty well convinced they are unbeatable, and at this point it seems they have good reason for their cockiness.

Olympian Nastia Liukin is there for the challenge and to promote Subway. The winner of today’s pop challenge will win $10,000 from Subway. It includes 5 different exercises, and after each exercise one person will be eliminated. They will do 1 mile on the StreetStrider, half a mile running, 1000m on the rowing machine, jump rope 100 times, and climb 500 feet on Jacobs ladder. The leaders are all pretty close as Frado and Elizabeth bring up the rear on the StreetStrider, and ultimately Elizabeth is the first person to be eliminated. Ada runs away from the others on the run. Frado again finds himself in the bottom two, but he outruns Mark. The boys are confident that they can oturow the lone girl. At the halfway mark, it appears they may be right. For yet another event, Frado is battling for his life, this time against Ada, and again he is successful. None of the boys know how to jump rope, so this will come down to who can trip their way through it first. Frado has met his match and is eliminated. That leaves Patrick and Brendan competing for the prize. Brendan is off to an early lead on the ladder, and that does not fade as he wins the challenge.

Elizabeth tells us it would be a huge mistake to underestimate her. Then I’m making a huge mistake.

Bob doesn’t believe that Brendan is giving 100%, so he’s going to ride him throughout their workout.

Being this close to the finals, they begin to discuss what they will do with their winnings. Brendan would like to get his students outside the inner city. Mark made a promise to his father that he will travel with him. Patrick no longer needs a new car, so his plan is to pay down his debt, which has been growing since he has been unemployed this year. Ada would like to start some sort of foundation to provide positive reenforcement for kids.

When he started, Frado needed 6 shots and 12 medications to try to control his diabetes, which was out of control. He is down to just one drug, and Dr. H has decided that today is the day he can come off that one as well.

At the beginning of the season, they competed in a challenge. Some of them did 500 steps; some of them ran a mile. Today, they will be doing both, weighing exactly what they did back then. After each 100 steps, they will drop the amount of weight they lost in the corresponding week. Then they will run, dropping weight at checkpoints along the way. The winner of the challenge will receive a 1 pound advantage and a $25,000 home gym.

Ada starts off in the lead. Her nearest competitor is Elizabeth, as the boys are dragged down by all the excess weight. She is followed by Brendan. Mark’s in last place, but that 41 pounds of weight he dropped the first week may kick him into gear once he’s dropped it. Ada retains the lead through the next round, and now Brendan has pulled into second. Frado has dropped down to last place. Elizabeth drops down to fifth. Ada continues her dominance of the challenge, in first place the entire time, and she’s off to the run, which history tells us she will also win. Brendan remains in second. Patrick is third, about a minute behind him. It goes without saying that Ada has won the challenge. She is followed by Brendan, Patrick, Mark, Frado, and then Elizabeth.

Bob still wants Brendan to lose that “can’t” word from his vocabulary, and he’s afraid that red line has its eyes set on Elizabeth. Jillian’s still not convinced that Ada’s in the place she needs to be, in spite of the progress she’s made thus far.

Following their last last chance workout, it’s time to start determining the final four. Tonight, half the people will fall below the yellow line, and one of those people will be below the red line. The person with the lowest percentage of weight loss will end up below the red line, and that person will immediately be eliminated.

Ada: 179 pounds (-6, -1, 3.78%)
Elizabeth: 192 pounds (-4, 2.04%)
Mark: 292 pounds (-7, 2.34%)

From this point forward, one person will be safe, and one will not.

Patrick: 279 pounds (-12, 4.12%) – putting Elizabeth below the yellow line
Frado: 248 pounds (-15, 5.70%) – putting Mark below the yellow line
Brendan: 260 pounds (-5, 1.89%) – putting himself below the red line, while hitting the 100 pounds lost mark

In an unexpected turn of events, Brendan has fallen below the red line, and he is eliminated. That leaves Mark and Elizabeth below the red line, and the outcome is obvious. Mark is the biggest threat of the season, having lost both the highest percentage and highest amount of weight. On the other hand, Elizabeth has been carried through the season by people who believe she is weak, with tonight marking her eighth time below the yellow line. Mark’s convinced that the boys will have his back, but Elizabeth knows that trust in this game can be fleeting.

Votes
Ada: Mark
Patrick: Mark

With two votes, Mark is not The Biggest Loser.

Brendan is down 125 pounds to 237 pounds today. He plans to run the Boston Marathon again (so apparently he ran it at some point before then), with the hope of beating his previous time of 4 hours and 58 minutes.

Mark is down from his starting weight of 421 pounds to 248 pounds today, for a total weight loss of 173 pounds. He’s finishing his journey with his cousin, who has lost 100 pounds herself, and with the assistance of Sunshine from season 9.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 12, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on NBC.

Jessica was eliminated in The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 9. The remaining contestants have made it to makeover week.

As part of makeover week, the contestants will appear in People Magazine. They’ll also all get visits from home (and act surprised about it). This should burn through about an hour.

Once that’s over, for tonight’s challenge, they have a choice between the easy way or the not so easy way. The train is worth 1 point; walking the stairs is worth 5 points. First player to 100 wins the challenge. Reward is a new car, a Ford Edge. On their first trip, everybody immediately heads for the stairs. Brendan, Ada, and Patrick start off fighting for first place, already tired after one trip, though. Everybody goes back up the stairs for the second time. Ada and Brendan open up a lead over Patrick on the second leg. Elizabeth is the first person to hit the trolley, obviously, after two attempts at the stairs. Ada and Brendan have been running together, but after a few laps, Ada pulls ahead of Brendan. At the midway point, with 50 points, Ada has a 5 point lead and has been climbing for 40 minutes.

Having lapped most of the others, it seems Ada’s got this one locked. Rather than taking her hard earned victory, she stops at the top of the stairs. Brendan catches her and stops, too. They have decided they want to get the car in the right person’s hands. Boring. The right person is the strongest competitor. Do you stop losing weight at the end because somebody else needs $250k more? They have decided to hand the car to the person who would have been third, Patrick. Everybody else follows, but after 70 points, Elizabeth has decided to not finish.

Unlike the others, Ada did not get a visit from her family this week. Walk away I say. Not worth bothering with people who can’t be bothered with you.

At the last chance workout, Elizabeth hops on the stairmaster to complete the challenge she did not finish the night before.

Patrick: 291 pounds (-10, 3.62%)
Elizabeth: 196 pounds (-5, 2.49%)
Brendan: 265 pounds (-7, 2.57%)
Ada: 185 pounds (-5, 2.63%)
Mark: 299 pounds (-10, 3.24%)
Lisa: 228 pounds (no change)
Frado: 263 pounds (-4, 1.50%)

Frado and Lisa have fallen below the yellow line. Frado’s obviously the bigger threat, though his relationships with the rest of the house are solid. If they’re smart, the others will break up Frado’s alliance. Otherwise, the threesome will continue to control the game.

Votes
Brendan: Lisa
Elizabeth: Lisa
Mark: Lisa

With three votes, Lisa is not The Biggest Loser. She has lost 89 pounds so far. As her first step toward paying it forward, she has decided to help somebody who wanted to be on the show but did not make it.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 11, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on NBC.

With the split into duos in The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 8, Aaron and Jesse were eliminated.

Now, we head to singles.

Bob tells Brendan he’s surprised he voted for Jesse. He thought there wasn’t gonna be any kind of gameplay. What about the person who keeps saying she wants to go home?

Everybody gets surprised with videos from home. No catch. Except that Ada is the only one who does not receive one. They asked several times but never got a call back. Ada’s not too surprised by this lack of support.

Patrick’s wife has been inspired by him, and she has been losing weight along with him. Elizabeth’s mother, too, is on the path toward weight loss. Not to be outdone, Mark’s cousin has lost 65 pounds, which would be a competitive number even on the ranch. Frado’s daughter tells him she’ll run the last 10 miles together if he makes it to the final four.

After hearing about Ada not receiving a video, the other contestants decide to make a video for her themselves.

Elizabeth never had the chance to finish her 500 step challenge. So Jillian will give her that chance today. No time limit. Just a goal of not fainting.

They see a pool. Lisa’s excited. Ada, however, has been haunted by her brother’s death. It’s not a swimming challenge, just a balancing act. One platform will be pulled out from under them, and they will have to balance on one foot. The winner gets a 1 pound advantage.

Frado gets to pick first, and he chooses Jessica, who will have to balance for 5 seconds, which she does. Jessica chooses Brendan, who falls. For her second choice, Jessica chooses Frado, who is eliminated because his left foot touches. Jessica’s third choice is Patrick. Having survived the first round, Patrick picks Elizabeth, who thought she has great balance. She doesn’t, and she gets eliminated. Patrick’s next choice is non-swimmer Ada. That’s the end of round 1, and round 2 will bring 10 second challenges. Ada picks Patrick, who barely made 5 seconds. His concern was warranted, as he falls. Ada’s next choice is is Jessica, who touches the platform behind her with the back of her opposite heel. Ada’s third choice is Mark.

For a big guy, Mark doesn’t seem to have any trouble, and he selects Lisa. A shaky Lisa chooses Mark because she can’t pick her girl, in spite of Mark’s protests about being fair. Mark returns the favor to Lisa. Back to Mark. Then Lisa. Up to 15 seconds. Then 20 seconds. The back and forth continues. Round 5 and 25 seconds. With Mark and Lisa going after each other, one of them’s going to give eventually, and that is Lisa. Now Ada’s back in the competition. She hangs on for about 17 seconds with much struggling, then she finally falls. Mark wins the challenge.

Jillian takes the contestants to Subway for a sandwich competition for a $500 gift card. They will be judged on taste and calories, to be decided by the others. Frado picks Jessica’s sandwich. Jessica and Mark vote for Patrick. Patrick votes for Lisa. Lisa votes for Patrick. Ada votes for Lisa, and so do Elizabeth and Brendan. With her 250 calorie turkey and veggie sandwich (the lowest of the bunch) and 4 votes, Lisa wins the free sandwiches.

When he walks into the last chance workout, Bob calls out Elizabeth’s name. She will be his focus for the workout because he’s tired of her just getting by.

At the weigh in, Alison points out that, after last week’s departure of two men, it’s now 4 men against 4 women. Not that the women are doing any better. They have just stopped dropping like flies as the men take out their biggest threats.

Mark: 309 pounds (-8, -1, 2.84%)
Patrick: 301 pounds (-10, 3.22%)
Frado: 267 pounds (-9, 3.26%) – 100 pounds lost
Brendan: 272 pounds (-8, 2.86%)
Elizabeth: 201 pounds (-4, 1.95%)
Jessica: 227 pounds (-1, 0.44%)
Lisa: 228 pounds (-6, 2.56%) – first time as an individual above the yellow line
Ada: 190 pounds (-8, 4.04%)

Jessica pretty much threw in the towel this week, saying she struggled following Jesse’s departure. She has failed to figure out how to do this on her own so far. Elizabeth joins her below the yellow line, marking her 7th time out of 8 in that position. The boys are going to have to pick a new strategy this week whether they want to or not.

Votes
Brendan: Jessica
Frado: Jessica
Lisa: Jessica

Elizabeth continues to get saved by her relationships, rather than her effort. With 3 votes, Jessica is not The Biggest Loser. From her starting weight of 282 pounds, Jessica is now down to 200 pounds.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 10, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 7 happened last week, which was news to me. In it, Anna was eliminated.

It’s no longer black vs. blue. They are going back to their individual colors, but this is not singles week. This week, they are competing as pairs, to be chosen by one person. At the end of this week, two people will be eliminated.

Mark’s worried he will be paired with a weak partner. Ada hopes to be paired up with one of the guys because the girls this year have been thoroughly lackluster.

Lisa, however, says there are times when she wants to go home, which she knows people are sick of hearing (I am). This is a slap in the face to Adam, who actually did want to stick around. She’s back to 60/40, wanting to be there 60%. She just can’t embrace this experience. If she can’t embrace the experience on the ranch, she’s going to have a hell of a time trying to do so when she goes home.

Everybody meets Alison for dinner. The assumption is that it’s a temptation. She seats everybody in the order of weight loss, a reminder some people may not have wanted to be pointed out. Their task is simple: eat the most calories at dinner. They will select an appetizer, main course, and dessert. While they have some indication based on the description what’s healthy and what’s not, this is all a guessing game.

Appetizers
Mark: 200 calories
Ada: 530 calories
Jesse: 460 calories
Frado: 200 calories
Aaron: 450 calories
Brendan: 1000 calories
Patrick: 200 calories
Lisa: 200 calories
Jessica: 200 calories
Elizabeth: 570 calories

The five people who ordered the tricolore salad (Mark, Frado, Patrick, Lisa, and Jessica) don’t seem to have any interest in tonight’s temptation. Everybody else appears to be in it, most notable being Brendan and his ridiculous 1000 calorie appetizer.

Main course
Frado: 1300 calories
Aaron: 2500 calories
Brendan: 2500 calories
Elizabeth: 1400 calories

So I guess Frado is in it then, sort of. Brendan and Aaron are the real players here, though. Brendan makes an offer to Aaron: stop eating right now, and I’ll give you Jesse if that’s who you want. For some reason, Aaron accepts, falling right into Brendan’s trap, but if he gets his way, it may be the right choice because at least he won’t be blamed.

Dessert
Brendan: 950 calories
Lisa: 1400 calories
Elizabeth: 950 calories

Regardless of whether he finishes, Brendan has already won, so he decides to stop at 3500 calories and not bother with the dessert. With no chance of winning, Lisa chows down on her hefty dessert.

Although he does not have any control and has instead handed all the control away to Brendan, Aaron gets his wish, and Jesse is his partner. Brendan’s best friend Frado is paired with the person with the highest percentage of weight loss for the season, Mark. Having asked to be paired together, Lisa and Elizabeth get their wish. Why would they want that? Brendan is paired with Patrick. That leaves Jessica and Ada as the final team, and the women have been set up to be picked off.

Ada doesn’t like these choices at all. She feels betrayed by somebody she trusted, not understanding why he kept his word to Aaron.

Bob calls Lisa out. She doesn’t want to be there anyway. That said, who is her poor, poor teammate? He feels sorry for Elizabeth, but Elizabeth got what she asked for. His warning for Lisa: give it all, or you’re gone. No more of this 60% nonsense.

Now to Brendan. What’s up with this stacking of the deck of the girls against the guys? His goal was simple: keep himself, Patrick, and Frado safe. Whatever happens to everybody else is not his problem.

The challenge is to make a tower of sugar cubes 5 feet high. They’ve gotta get them there one cube at a time. Reward is a week long trip to The Biggest Loser Resort with three guests. 20 minutes in, Jesse and Aaron are in first place, but their structure is not very stable and collapses. With a similar strategy, Lisa and Elizabeth have also had theirs collapse. They are not alone. After 35 minutes, there’s not much progress from anybody. 55 minutes in, Alison tells them they will get a sugar rush at 1 hour. They are granted two minutes to grab as much sugar as they can, using only their hands. This provides everybody with a good amount of sugar. Jesse and Aaron have no chance, but at least they are having fun with it, appearing as if they have a contact sugar high. Jessica and Ada are running away with this challenge, so long as their stack does not collapse. They are the first to reach 5 feet. Their stack remains, and they win.

One week, Lisa lost a lot of weight, which she credits Bob’s diet that week for. So she decided to cook the meals on this diet for Elizabeth. I didn’t think anything of it, but Bob and Jillian are furious. After that blow up at Elizabeth is over, it’s time for the weigh in.

Mark: 317 pounds (-12, 3.65%) – first player to lose 100 pounds this season
Frado: 276 pounds (-18, 6.12%)
Team Total: 593 pounds (-30, 4.82%)

Aaron: 380 pounds (-4, 1.04%)
Jesse: 280 pounds (-16, 5.41%)
Team Total: 660 pounds (-20, 2.94%)

Lisa: 234 pounds (-8, 3.31%)
Elizabeth: 205 pounds (-8, 3.76%)
Team Total: 439 pounds (-16, 3.52%)

In spite of Bob and Jillian’s complaining, these are some solid numbers for Lisa and Elizabeth (granted, they are to be expected since last week was pretty much just a waste), whether they want to be there or not. Lisa says she does want to be there, but she’s not allowed to say it in front of Bob. Jillian tells her to just go home, and Frado agrees. Shouting match between everybody ensues. Lisa’s argument is that she doesn’t want to be a quitter, but everybody else wants to keep her there because she’s weak.

Patrick: 311 pounds (-19, 5.76%)
Brendan: 280 pounds (-18, 6.04%)
Team Total: 591 pounds (-37, 5.89%)

Jessica: 228 pounds (-12, 5.00%)
Ada: 198 pounds (-6, 2.94%)
Team Total: 426 pounds (-18, 4.05%)

Brendan’s plan worked, and his alliance remains intact. Jesse & Aaron and Lisa & Elizabeth have fallen below the yellow line. The decision now comes down to whether to get rid of the threats or to take out the team that doesn’t seem to have their heads in the game.

Votes
Mark & Frado: Aaron & Jesse
Jessica & Ada: Lisa & Elizabeth
Patrick & Brendan: Aaron & Jesse

With two votes, Aaron & Jesse are not the Biggest Loser. Jesse does not take this personally from anybody… except Patrick.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 9, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

Half of the blue team wanted to get rid of their strongest member in The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 6, and the black team was happy to oblige, voting out Adam following a split vote.

I just found out that there actually was an episode last week. Color me surprised. When I tuned in, there was NBC election coverage, so I immediately tuned out. Before jumping into episode 8, I’m going to go back and take a look at that. I see on my Tivo that there, indeed, was a 1 hour episode of The Biggest Loser buried somewhere underneath last week’s shellacking. Thanks a lot, NBC.

This week, everybody will be staying with the US Marines at Camp Pendelton. Upon arrival, they are picked up by helicopters, which take them to Alison. They put on their packs and start on their march toward the barracks. For all the drama this leads to, nobody gets left behind.

Apparently, I can expect much needless screaming this week. If everybody is yelling at the top of their lungs, I’m not quite sure how anybody ever gets heard.

They wake up early the next morning, before the sun comes up, and as they run outside, they are given rifles. I am not sure who is attacking them. They find out that their food choices are both limited and poor. Although they may be doing a lot of running around frantically, this is probably not the healthiest place for them.

The challenge is to go three miles down the beach, completing any obstacles they come across along the way. Each team member is given a pack with three 10 pound weights, which they can redistribute as they see fit. Reward is phone calls home. Black team’s strategy is to start off taking one weight out of the girls’ backpacks, giving every guy 40 pounds and every girl 20. Blue team has decided they will all carry their own weight. The blue team is in the lead early. Whether they drag Elizabeth or not, the black team’s not going to be able to catch up. This becomes all the more obvious when she collapses. This time she will not need an ambulance to leave, however, as she wants to finish the race. Nonetheless, the outcome is obvious. Blue team wins reward.

Brendan has decided to get his head shaved to blend in with the rest of the bald guys on the base. At least he has also shaved his face as well.

With 15 minutes left in the episode, we learn something. It doesn’t need to take 45 minutes to weigh everybody in. Bob’s worried because he and Jillian only did last chance workout and did not have any involvement in the rest of the week.

Mark: 329 pounds (-7, 2.08%)
Jessica: 240 pounds (-4, 1.64%)
Lisa: 242 pounds (-2, 0.82%)
Jesse: 297 pounds (+1, 0.34%)
Aaron: 384 pounds (-14, 3.52%)
Blue Total: 1492 pounds (-26, 1.71%)

Ada: 204 pounds (-7, 3.32%)
Patrick: 330 pounds (-7, 2.08%)
Brendan: 298 pounds (-4, 1.32%)
Anna: 281 pounds (-2, 0.71%)
Elizabeth: 214 pounds (+1, 0.47%)
Frado: 298 pounds (+4, 1.36%) – apologizing before even hearing a number
Black Total: 1625 pounds (-15, 0.91%)

That 7 minute weigh in, yeah, that felt rushed. With two team members having gained weight, the black team has lost the weigh in by a sizeable margin. As the person with the highest percentage of weight loss on the losing team, Ada is safe. And now we head straight into the votes. Elizabeth may be the weakest link, but she’s got allies to support her regardless.

Votes
Patrick: Anna
Ada: Anna
Anna: Elizabeth
Brendan: Anna

With three votes, Anna is not the Biggest Loser. As a late comer to campus, she never really had a chance because her team failed to accept her as one of them. From her starting weight of 330 pounds, Anna is now down to 250 pounds. She has inspired her coworkers to walk the stairs daily with her.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 8, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

With the contestants newly divided into blue against black in The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 5, Rick was voted out.

This week, it wil be up to the opposing team to decide which one person’s weight will count for the other team.

During the workout, Frado agrees to give Jillian one more effort. Sort of. She tells him to just jump off the treadmill three times, but he doesn’t listen. So then he falls. Her thought after this happens: this would never happen with Bob. Frado seems to have decided to be a rebel because he doesn’t get along with his dad, although he loves him anyway. Time to move on, dude, and stop fooling yourself. No need to punish yourself since your relationship with your parents is unhealthy.

Curtis Stone is joined by Lorena Garcia, whom I have never seen on The Biggest Loser or The Celebrity Apprentice. Aaron, Jessica, Lisa, Elizabeth Patrick, and Anna will be cooking with them. The other six will judge the dishes, without knowing which dish belongs to which team. The winning team wins 10 seconds at the challenge. The chefs are not allowed to touch the food. Aaron has not really been cooking since he last saw Curtis. Elizabeth is uncomfortable with cooking, having found it easier to just buy fast food.

Anna is assigned to make a shrimp ceviche martini, while Aaron will be making grilled shrimp, papaya, and peanut salad. Patrick cooks tuna tacos, and Jessica is cooking some tuna as well, grilled ratatouille. Elizabeth will make yogurt and grilled peaches, while Lisa also cooks yogurt and peaches. They’ll have to make sure they are done before the time limit expires.

Frado thinks there are people on his team who can’t cook, so his strategy is to pick the appetizer he likes the least. After tasting the martini, he says it was disgusting. He and Adam are in charge of judging the appetizers. Frado chooses Anna’s dish, while Adam chooses Aaron’s dish. In each case, they have backed their teammates, bringing us to a 1-1 tie. Frado’s lack of confidence in his team paid off because he thought the ceviche was worse than the salad. Ada picks the ratatouille, and so does Mark. No points for Patrick, allowing the blue team to take the 3-1 lead. Jesse chooses Elizabeth’s ice creamy peach cup, and so does Brendan. That brings us to a 3-3 tie.

With that, the tiebreaker is for the judges to accurately guess how many calories are in the dessert for their team. The black team’s strategy is to argue, which leads to Frado pouting and stepping to the side. He doesn’t care. Ada’s frustrated having to deal with children. Their guess is 185. The blue team guesses 109 for theirs. The winner is the blue team, as they are 9 calories over, whereas the black team is over by 45 calories. They will win 10 seconds, whatever that means. Even though it means he lost, too, Frado is happy to see Brendan lose.

Adam suggests that the obvious choice to weigh in is Elizabeth, who has been at the bottom of the pack pretty consistently. Patrick assumes that will be their choice as well.

Over on the other side, they want to choose Jessica, feeling that will be a pretty fair match against Elizabeth.

The team that wins the challenge has the option to block the other team’s first pick at the weigh in. With the black team having Ada and a bunch of big guys, the blue team really does not have a choice two, so they would probably have to default to Anna if they lose. The challenge will be dragonboat racing, 500 meters out and 500 meters back. Blue team will have a 10 second advantage from the cooking challenge. Jessica and Anna will do the steering, while the rest of the teams paddle. With their 10 second advantage… the blue team gets nowhere pretty quickly. By the time they start going straight, the black team is just about to catch them. Blue team has a slight lead heading into the turn. In the turn, the blue team takes a while to get it right, but the black team does it right, taking the lead. In a race down the final stretch, the blue team regains control to win the challenge by 6 seconds, so the advantage paid off after all. Brendan’s upset by how they celebrate their win.

Although everything will boil down to her this week, Elizabeth doesn’t seem to be giving it her best effort. Perhaps if Jillian can force her to have a breakthrough, she can get more out of her.

As much talk as there is from the trainers about how much they’re all in danger, nobody’s remotely thinking of nominating somebody like Mark, who strategically could throw the weigh in and just put up bigger numbers next week.

Adam has opted to not use his advantage, so it will be 4 pounds next week.

The blue team has chosen Elizabeth as expected. Jessica is chosen for her team, with the black team using the words “first pick” because they think it will be vetoed. The choice is to not block her nomination, however. I’m not sure there’s so much difference between her and Lisa (or even Aaron for that matter) that it really matters either way.

Anna: 283 pounds (-3, 1.05%)
Ada: 211 pounds (-4, 1.86%)
Brendan: 302 pounds (-11, 3.51%)
Patrick: 337 pounds (-9, 2.60%)
Frado: 294 pounds (-14, 4.54%)

Elizabeth: 213 pounds (-5, 2.29%)

Scoring better than the other two girls on her team, Elizabeth has lost a respectable, albeit not overwhelming, amount of weight.

The black team says their second pick was going to be Jesse. What?

Jesse: 296 pounds (-9, 2.95%)
Mark: 336 pounds (-16, 4.54%)
Adam: 322 pounds (-13, 3.88%)
Lisa: 244 pounds (-8, 3.17%)
Aaron: 398 pounds (-9, 2.21%)

Jessica: 244 pounds (-4, 1.61%)

Two people on the blue team lost less than Elizabeth, and Jessica is one of them, leading to the blue team losing the weigh in. If they chose to use the block and the black team voted for Jesse instead (seriously?), they would have won. Not only that, but had this been a team weigh in rather than a one person chosen by the other team weigh in, the blue team would have won by a comfortable margin of 7 pounds. They may have won the weigh in, but they lost the game.

As the biggest loser on his team, Mark is safe from the vote. Jessica doesn’t think she should be going home just because she had a(nother) bad week. Adam might want to consider getting rid of that target on his back, his “advantage” that keeps growing each week.

Votes
Mark: Adam
Adam: Jessica
Lisa: Jessica
Jessica: Adam
Jesse: Adam
Aaron: Jessica

With half of the blue team playing an individual game already, wanting to vote out one of their strongest players, we have a tie. Therefore, the black team will choose who to eliminate, and they can pick anybody other than Mark. Obviously, this comes down to a choice between the two strongest: Jesse and Adam. Jessica says that, if they’re leaning toward sending Adam home instead of her, they should just send her. This pitch should have been made to her own team before they played their hand so badly.

By the black team’s vote, Adam is not The Biggest Loser, a decision which three people on his team will be happy with, although it no doubt weakens their chances. From his starting weight of 402 pounds, Adam is now down to 264 pounds. He hopes to be an inspiration to the community and is working along with to YMCA to achieve that.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 7, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

Yet another woman was sent home in The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 4 with the elimination of Burgandy.

At the conclusion of last week’s show, Corey, Anna, Montina, Sandy, and Shanna returned, with a warning that one of them will be making it on the show after all. The player with the highest percentage of weight loss will make it. The other four will be going back home.

Corey: 354 pounds (-37, 9.46%)
Shanna: 221 pounds (-21, 8.68%)
Montina: 270 pounds (-17, 5.92%)
Sandy: 235 pounds (-25, 9.65%)
Anna: 291 pounds (-39, 11.82%)

With her 11.82% weight loss, Anna is in the competition. Finally a woman who’s here to play?

We take a look at the weight losses so far.

Rick: 15.14%
Mark: 14.25%
Adam: 13.93%
Frado: 13.62%
Ada: 13.18%
Jesse: 13.01%
Brendan: 12.98%
Anna: 11.82%
Patrick: 11.00%
Aaron: 10.47%
Jessica: 9.93%
Lisa: 9.72%
Elizabeth: 8.61%

With those stats out of the way, it’s time to change the game again. We’re going blue vs. black. Welcome to campus, Anna. You are picking the teams. There will be 6 blue team members, 6 black team members, and 1 player on their own (with immunity for the week).

Anna goes to each contestant and asks which trainer they work well with. A lot of people tell her to take immunity for herself. I’d be hard pressed to come up with an argument against that.

Blue Team (Bob): Jessica, Aaron, Lisa, Mark, Jesse, Adam
Black Team (Jillian): Rick, Ada, Frado, Brendan, Elizabeth, Anna
Immune: Patrick

Rick asked to be with Bob, but he doesn’t seem too upset about the decision. Ada’s not happy that Elizabeth is on her team, since she is in last place for the season so far. Wanting to be with Jillian, Anna takes the last black shirt. Not only does she not get immunity, but she has managed to inadvertenly break up the alliance, for the time being anyway, leaving Patrick on his own.

During the first workout, Anna breaks down crying about how she failed. Well, that was an unexpected turn. She feels like a failure because she couldn’t save her son.

The wheels are turning on both teams because the losing team gets Patrick. Who wants him more? Who’s willing to throw the weigh in and get rid of a weaker link than him? Granted, as much as they talk about how great he is, his current position on the leaderboard is #9. Each team has weaker members, but he really hasn’t demonstrated much, although he certainly has the potential given his weight and age.

For their first challenge as blue and black, each team will visit 5 food stations throughout downtown LA. At each one, they will answer a trivia question about the food. They are allowed to ask as many questions as they like. If they get it right, they will receive a green card with directions to the next station. If they get it wrong, they will receive a red card, a penalty card, which will mean a physical challenge. Reward is 40 weeks worth of The Biggest Loser meal plan (a $7,000 value), an expensive prepared meal plan that nonetheless when it’s free should be great to have because of its time saving benefits. Additionally, they will get letters from home.

Which dish has fewer calories? Vegetable mosaic or crab salad?
Crab salad. I’d say the butter is the problem on the other one. Jesse is incorrect, but Elizabeth is right. As they run to the second one, Anna is having trouble catching her breath already.

Which dish has less fat? French fries or cheese balls?
French fries. Even with the fry dipping sauce, the cheese balls have plenty of things in them to create extra calories, such as whole milk. Anna is correct, but Aaron is not, resulting in another penalty card for the black team. The challenges will waste a bit of time, but they’re pretty quick things like 20 forward lunges.

Pick one cookie and one ice cream flavor to make the least amount of calories. Chocolate chip, ginger, oatmeal raisin; cinnamon, coffee toffee, peanut butter, strawberry, vanilla bean.
Ginger and vanilla ice cream. Frado is incorrect. So is Adam.

Which dish exceeds daily sodium by 60%? Pot stickers with soy sauce, buffalo wings, or calamari with tartar sauce.
Pot stickers. The thing that jumps out is soy sauce, a huge red flag. Brendan is incorrect, but Jessica is right.

Within 100 calories, how many calories are in the meat lasagne?
804. Ada says 1850. Mark says 1300 calories. This penalty is a little more intense: 21 flights of stairs.

Blue team’s a few flights behind in what is coming down to a stair climbing challenge. Ada’s the first to reach the top. But where’s Elizabeth? She’ll get there eventually. Black team wins the challenge. Brendan gives his letters to Lisa. Anna, too, offers her letters since she just got there (I’ve seen others before her get all emotional over letters after less than a week, as if that were a long time or something). Ada and Frado follow suit. Aaron, Adam, and Jessica get letters instead.

Black team tells Jillian that blue team plans to throw the weigh in, so it’s the blue team’s fault that the black team plans to do the same. She’s not buying it. They can play if they want, but she doesn’t want them to play dumb. All things being even, I would think the black team would have to throw this in order to lose because the blue team has the deck pretty well stacked against them. Jillian warns her girls about what the guys plan to do. As a team, they decide to not throw it. Let’s see if that actually happens. Anna says she’ll be angry if she gets voted out. She could have had immunity, if she wanted it.

Adam has chosen to not use his advantage, which will be worth 3 pounds next week if he’s still around.

Patrick: 346 pounds (-10, 2.81%, immune)

Jessica: 248 pounds (-6, 2.36%)
Mark: 352 pounds (-9, 2.49%)
Lisa: 252 pounds (-8, 3.08%)
Adam: 335 pounds (-11, 3.18%)
Aaron: 407 pounds (-12, 2.86%)
Jesse: 305 pounds (-16, 4.98%)
Blue Total: 1899 pounds (-62, 3.16%)

Frado says that, if there’s gameplay, it’s all good. Alison replies, “Not for someone.” Anna knows she’s the target if black team loses, although I would think the more logical target would be Elizabeth.

Anna: 286 pounds (-5, 1.72%)
Elizabeth: 218 pounds (-5, 2.24%)
Frado: 308 pounds (-9, 2.84%)
Ada: 215 pounds (-9, 4.02%)
Rick: 287 pounds (-10, 3.37%)
Brendan: 313 pounds (-2, 0.63%)
Black Total: 1627 pounds (-40, 2.40%)

Since they’ve lost anyway, the black team would have been better off throwing the weigh in to make things easier for last week. They didn’t do that, though, or at laest that’s how it seems (with everybody other than Brendan, who ended up looking like an ass). He swears on his goddaughter’s life he played it straight. Famous last reality TV words.

In spite of their win, the blue team’s not smiling (Adam notwithstanding) or for that matter celebrating at all.

With the highest percentage of weight loss on her team, Ada is safe.

Votes
Anna: Elizabeth
Elizabeth: Rick
Rick: Elizabeth
Ada: Rick
Brendan: Rick
Frado: Rick

With 4 votes, Rick is not The Biggest Loser. They just voted out the person who is the biggest loser of the season so far, a move that can’t possibly strengthen the team. From his starting weight of 350, Rick is down 120 pounds to a weight of 230. He’s a huge threat to win the at home prize.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 6, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

Since she had pretty much given up, it was no surprise that Tina was sent home in The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 3.

They walk outside to find Alison… and 400 cupcakes. But wait. There’s more. At the end of this week, two of them will be going home. At this weigh in, there will be two lines: a yellow line right in the middle, plus a red line right at the bottom with no hope of escape.

The temptation today is for a 1 pound advantage. That’s it? No. For every week they keep it, it grows another pound. They will grab a cupcake. Under the cupcakes will either be the prize, or a clue to the prize. Rick, Adam, and Jesse are all playing. Elizabeth joins them. The first clue narrows their choices down to just two shelves, although there are still a lot of cupcakes. Clue number two cuts that by an additional 2/3. The third clue tells them it’s a pink cupcake, which narrows it down to 4 or 5. Clue number 4 brings us down to one with a raspberry, which is a choice of two. Rick may have the clue, but he thinks about it a bit too long, allowing Adam to grab the winning cupcake at random despite being a clue behind. In all, he’s eaten 1350 calories.

To help them learn some healthier options for their desserts, it’s Curtis Stone. They don’t have to avoid all sweets. For that matter, they don’t even have to avoid all cupcakes. Although some of these cupcakes have 700 calories, the one Curtis made only has 100 calories. They use egg whites instead of eggs, honey instead of sugar, wheat flour instead of white flour, and raspberry puree for the frosting.

Adam’s worried that he just put a target on his back, and the theory of the others is that, the longer he holds it, the bigger that target will get. The alliance of three guys is onboard with the plan of getting rid of him, and Ada tells them she is as well.

Strangely, Bob and Jillian don’t flip out and threaten to kill anybody after they find out the results of the temptation. Don’t hate the player; hate the game.

Jillian has this theory. Asthma isn’t really the thing holding Elizabeth back. She has a fear that she’ll end up dying like her father.

Before coming to the ranch, Frado was taking 7 injections a day and 6 or 7 pills twice a day. After being on this routine for just 4 weeks, he is now off all of his medications.

During the workout, Mark hurts his back on the rowing machine, leaving himself barely able to walk.

Adam has decided not to use his advantage this week.

Mark: 361 pounds (-8, 2.17%)
Elizabeth: 229 pounds (-6, 2.62%)
Patrick: 356 pounds (-10, 2.73%)
Lisa: 260 pounds (-7, 2.622%)
Aaron: 419 pounds (-12, 2.78%)
Rick: 297 pounds (-9, 2.94%)
Jesse: 321 pounds (-8, 2.43%)

From this point, every time somebody weighs in, one person is safe, and one person is not.

Burgandy: 213 pounds (-5, 2.29%) – putting Mark below the yellow line
Ada: 224 pounds (-10, 4.27%) – putting Burgandy below the yellow line
Jessica: 254 pounds (-7, 2.68%) – putting Jesse below the yellow line
Brendan: 315 pounds (-11, 3.37%) – putting Elizabeth below the yellow line
Frado: 317 pounds (-20, 5.93%) – putting Lisa below the yellow line
Adam: 346 pounds (-10, 2.81%) – putting Jessica below the yellow line
Sophia: 250 pounds (-2, 0.79%) – putting herself below the red line

With the lowest percentage of weight loss, Sophia has fallen below the red line, and is automatically eliminated from the show.

Of the 7 people who have fallen below the yellow line, 5 of them are women. This is getting old. Ada is again the only woman who is safe.

As the biggest loser for the week, Frado will have the opportunity to save one person.

Mark has received medical clearance following his back injury. He thinks he’ll be able to do the challenge.

Next we get a Subway commercial. I don’t know. I went there and tried to order breakfast the other day. They didn’t have any eggs or egg whites. So why bother being open at 10AM? I’ve lost interest in trying it.

Ada, who placed toward the top of the leaderboard this week, didn’t feel that her performance was good enough. Jillian’s not happy with that concept. Her fear stems from her brother drowning when she was 2 or 3 years old, and her parents blaming her for it. Time to move on and get some new parents.

Before the challenge, Bob invites those who are below the yellow line to his house. He keeps food with a low shelf life in his house, two weeks at most. They will be eating a vegan meal. Sounds wicked boring.

Burgandy is having trouble with her leg. Dr. H tells her no challenge. He doesn’t care about the yellow line, although that’s her very first question.

Frado has decided to take the easy way out, which I can’t say I blame him for. Jessica finished closest to the yellow line, so he will be saving her.

The challenge is to unroll 300 feet of carpet weighing over 900 pounds. The two guys who were in danger… aren’t any more. Mark jumps off to a lead. Jesse’s going for the runner up spot. The girls will have to battle it out for last. Mark finishes first, with Jesse right behind him. Lisa places third. That leaves Elizabeth in danger alongside Burgandy. Two women yet again. I grow wary of these chicks getting beat every week. Before this becomes a sausagefest, the producers may consider reconsidering this twist.

Votes
Frado: Burgandy
Ada: Elizabeth
Rick: Burgandy
Adam: Burgandy
Brendan: Burgandy

With 4 votes, Burgandy is not The Biggest Loser. That means one less player in the game. For now. The five people who were eliminated prior to the season are back.

Sophia is down to 225 pounds from her starting weight of 272 pounds. Now she has more of a reason to cheer. Burgandy is down from her starting weight of 231 pounds to 180 pounds today.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 5, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.