Category: biggest loser 17

Stephanie was sent packing in The Biggest Loser Season 9 Episode 11, but we ended the show with on extra person since both Victoria and Melissa returned.

Melissa doesn’t get why the rest of the house is not playing the game still. Here we are in week 12, and they’re talking about some steel sharpening steel nonsense.

With the simple push of a button, somebody could win immunity. Each person gets a card, which gets them access to the scale any time they want. Each card tells them how much weight they have to lose. The first person to lose more than 2% of their body weight this week wins immunity. They only get one shot, and nobody gets to try once somebody else gets immunity. Last week, 7 out of 12 people did not reach 2% by the weigh in, and 3 of the other 5 made it by a pound. When they hit that button, everybody will know because they’ll hear the sound of a siren that sounds like a tornado warning. Furthermore, if they hit the mark successfully, they will have those extra days added to the following week.

Melissa’s wheels are spinning as usual. Bob warns her that if she plays the game, it can bite her in the ass, so she needs to tread carefully.

Dr. H says it’s perfectly safe for them to lose 2% of their weight in terms of fat. However, if they lose muscle, water, etc., it may potentially be dangerous.

Sunshine has decided that she’d rather hit below 200 pounds than weighing in early.

The evening of day 2, somebody hits that button. Way too early. It’s Victoria. She has to lose 6 pounds, but she has not yet hit that mark.

To win the challenge, they will need to carry 100 1-pound weights from the bottom of the swimming pool. Reward is a two week trip for two to The Biggest Loser Resort at Fitness Ridge. The penalty for coming in last is a one pound disadvantage at the weigh in. When they’re done getting all their weights, they’re free to help a friend, or not. There are colored weights everywhere.

Sunshine takes the early lead, and Sam is right behind her. People start getting kicked in the head pretty quickly as everybody goes down for weights in the same spot at the same time. Sunshine hits 50 first. Sam is right behind her at 50 as well. Victoria is 48. The rest of the field is out of it with Michael and O’Neal competing for last at this point, although it’s pretty clear that once Sunshine finishes, she’ll boost her father to safety. Sunshine’s still got that lead at 90, as Sam retains his gap of a few steps. At 98, Sam finally passes her by a second, but she retakes the lead on the final leg to win the challenge. Her immediate goal is to save her father, who’s been running in last place throughout the challenge. Koli says he’s fine, and he sends Sam to help O’Neal as well. Victoria finishes third, an impressive showing for someone who just got to campus. Once O’Neal’s safe, they have another option to pursue: they can screw over Melissa, who’s been running third to last. That’s exactly what happens. She’s amused they’re helping one of the biggest players in the house. However, this shows that she may be playing the game, but she’s not necessarily playing it smart. All these people who have alliances are the ones who aren’t guaranteed to be dead in the water the first time they go under the line.

Sam and Koli wait until everybody goes to sleep to get in a good workout. They plan to hit that buzzer in the morning. There’s no question that Melissa will be pressing that button. She’s awake at 3:00 on the fourth day working out. That morning, Andrea wakes up to the sounds of a siren. It’s Sam. He has 6 pounds to lose. Not only has he made it, but he’s actually lost 10 pounds, or 3.82%.

Jillian wants Sunshine to be an independent woman, rather than living her life under her father. That encourages her to go to O’Neal and tell him she feels proud of herself for the first time and can do it on her own.

Koli: 276 pounds (-5, 1.78%)
Daris: 233 pounds (-4, 1.69%)
Michael: 372 pounds (-9, 2.36%) – over 150 pounds lost
Ashley: 264 pounds (-7, 2.58%)
Sunshine: 195 pounds (-7, 3.47%, immune)
O’Neal: 283 pounds (-8, 2.75%) – over 100 pounds lost
Victoria: 272 pounds (-11, 3.89%)
Andrea: 225 pounds (-2, 0.88%) – complaining it’s all for nothing
Melissa: 175 pounds (-3, +1, 1.12%)

That puts Melissa and Andrea below the yellow line. No point in even bothering with the formality of a vote. Neither can win, but this vote is personal. Andrea claims she realized this week that she deserves to be in the final four, although that begs the question what all that talk about the week being a waste of time was about. Melissa’s argument is that she’s the safer choice. In terms of potential weight loss, she’s certainly the lesser threat, even if her results of weight loss percentage throughout the season thus far are about the same as Andrea’s.

Votes
Koli: Melissa
O’Neal: Melissa
Daris: Melissa
Michael: Melissa
Victoria: Melissa

With 5 votes, Melissa is not The Biggest Loser. She says that her marriage with Lance has now been saved. 6 weeks later, they run a half marathon for her 40th birthday, apparently without a ride from a producer.

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Lance was voted off in The Biggest Loser Season 9 Episode 10, apparently because the team considered him a threat.

So far, 4 people have lost over 100 pounds. Now the teams are being split up, and they are going to singles.

Allison guarantees that the next Biggest Loser is in the gym. She just can’t guarantee that it’ll be one of them. They’re back. All of the eliminated contestants have returned, and someone will get a second shot. Their weight loss is not the determining factor, although they will be weighing in. Nor will it be a competition. Instead, it will be a simple vote. Who are the remaining contestants willing to allow to come back? They can vote for anyone other than their former teammate.

John is comfortable that he’s got some friends remaining in the house. Vicky, who was eliminated week 1, assumes she’s dead in the water. Melissa assumes she also has no chance in hell, so her pitch will be that she’s not a threat. Cherita wants her daughter Victoria to be granted a third chance to come into the house, since she has been booted both prior times after losing a competition. Migdalia is the only one who has not returned since she is at home taking care of her kids.

Darrell: 309 pounds (-104, 25.18%)
Sherry: 156 pounds (-62, 28.44%)
Miggy: 191 pounds (-49, 20.42%)
Victoria: 285 pounds (-73, 20.39%)
Melissa: 182 pounds (-51, 21.89%)
Lance: 274 pounds (-91, 24.93%)
Cheryl: 176 pounds (-51, 22.47%)
John: 399 pounds (-85, 17.56%)
Patti: 197 pounds (-46, 18.93%)
Maria: 224 pounds (-57, 20.28%)
James: 413 pounds (-72, 14.85%)
Cherita: 230 pounds (-47, 16.97%)

Now that they have all weighed in and are stacked up on the scoreboard, it’s time to vote.

Votes
Ashley: John
O’Neal: Victoria
Daris: Darrell
Stephanie: James
Sam: John
Koli: John
Sunshine: Victoria
Andrea: Victoria
Michael: Victoria

With 4 votes, Victoria will be returning to the show. The contestants voting for her hope to give her the shot they feel she didn’t have before. She could prove to be a wild card since she has no alliances. She’s done a pretty good job on her own, and she’ll end up being a bigger threat than some of the others.

It’s not over yet, though. There’s another way back in the game. They will get one more chance to compete in a challenge to earn a spot on campus. They grab their sweatshirts and head outside. This is an up down challenge. The first player to 1000 steps earns a spot. Miggy takes the lead with Melissa right behind her. James is in pain the whole way. Melissa is the first to 100. She’s also the first to 250. Both of them are recalling week 4 when Miggy and her daughter were being bitches. Sherry is in third place about 10 behind Melissa. Around 300 steps, her shoe comes untied, so she kicks it off. Lance is in fourth but far enough out of it that he’s probably not a threat. Around the 3/4 mark, Melissa leads 780-774-763-755 with the remaining order unchanged. Around the 24 minute mark, Miggy runs out of breath. When she hits 900, Melissa has somehow manged to get a massive lead. Sherry’s dropped more than 100 behind, and Lance is also quite a ways behind. Melissa wins the challenge, beating her husband by 76 steps.

Melissa’s not a particularly big threat, but that said, none of the other contestants want her there either.

To protect them and give them some time to get settled, both Melissa and Victoria have immunity this week.

Ashley is starting to grow skeptical of her ally Stephanie. Koli, too, is suspicious. Perhaps Stephanie threw that weigh in when she lost 2 pounds. That was the week in which Ashley’s mom was sent home.

Bob wants O’Neal to conquer the stairs, which have been a thorn in his side for 15 or 20 years.

During the last chance workout, a crying Stephanie walks out of the gym. She says she’s afraid she will go home but not on her own terms. I’m not sure what that means. Jillian warns her that she’s alienating herself from the rest of the house.

Ashley decides to confront Stephanie. She can’t trust her. The accusation that she threw that weigh in is far fetched, and she denies it. After they talk, it seems that Andrea and Ashley are back on Stephanie’s side.

Victoria: 283 pounds (-2, 0.70%, immune)
Melissa: 178 pounds (-4, 2.20%, immune)

O’Neal: 291 pounds (-4, 1.36%) – and he conquers the stairs
Ashley: 271 pounds (-5, 1.81%) – over 100 pounds lost
Michael: 381 pounds (-8, 2.06%)
Koli: 281 pounds (-6, 2.09%)
Andrea: 227 pounds (-5, 2.16%)
Daris: 237 pounds (-7, 2.87%)
Sam: 262 pounds (-2, 0.76%)
Sunshine: 202 pounds (-6, 2.88%)
Stephanie: 198 pounds (-1, 0.50%)

Stephanie and Sam have fallen below the yellow line. Neither a particularly big threat, but both have good relationships within the house, so it seems. Sam promises to keep people working if he sticks around. Stephanie says her problem was stress.

Votes
Koli: Stephanie
Melissa: Sam
Sunshine: Stephanie
Andrea: Stephanie
Daris: Stephanie
Ashley: Stephanie

So much for Stephanie’s friends having patched things up with her. With 5 votes, Stephanie is not The Biggest Loser. In time for her 30th birthday, she is now down from a size 20 to a size 12 and has lost 96 pounds.

Closing out the show, Wayne will be weighing in. He’s a fan of the show who has dropped the weight on his own. A little more than two years ago, he weighed 674 pounds. Today, he weighs in 256 pounds, a decrease of 418 pounds.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 9 Episode 12, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

The last remaining mom was eliminated in The Biggest Loser Season 9 Episode 9 when Sherry went home.

All of the remaining contestants are going home for a week. They’re all quite happy about this, but it’s usually bad news.

They don’t even have time to get settled in before being greeted by a huge box in the middle of their living room. Could be a thousand cupcakes. Could be Jillian. It’s an exercise bike, a massive mess of packing peanuts, and a mystery box. Yeah, that box would contain cupcakes, along with a DVD. They will be repeating the first challenge by riding 26.2 miles (this time without a partner). Reward is $10,000. So what’s up with the cupcakes? Each one contains 100 calories. For every one they eat, they can add 5 minutes to someone else’s time. O’Neal will not participate for medical reasons, but he hates that bike anyway, seeing as it sent him home the first time.

Some of them are honest about having sweet teeth, but I hate it when these contestants pretend they’re revolted by foods they used to love. Healthy eating is about balance. Cold turkey for life ain’t gonna cut it. Ashley has decided not to eat any cupcakes. Melissa is pushing Lance to give some minutes to Sam. Sam & Koli will not be eating. Michael and Andrea also target Sam. Now Melissa suggests that Lance target Daris. Sunshine opts to not eat. Stephanie as well. Lance ends up eating 17 cupcakes with his wife sitting there egging him on the whole time. Andrea ate 9. Michael ate 6.

Lance & Melissa, living out in the country an hour from the gym, have to make it work without. They find ways to exercise at home, such as the exercise machines they bought two years ago and used as clothes hangers.

O’Neal’s a firm believer of pushing himself, even if it means an injury. He insists he’s fine, and he’s the dad, so that’s it.

Ashley’s reunited with her mom and looking for payback against the blue team.

Sam wants to get rid of all that unhealthy and high calorie food, going shopping for something he actually is allowed to eat.

Ashley goes out to lunch, where she’s forced to salivate over what her family is eating, but she changes her order so that it’s good for her.

Andrea goes to the bowling alley. Good luck finding something to eat there.

Daris has hooked up with his friend Randi, heading out on his first date. He’s also confident to make a fool out of himself singing karaoke without any liquid encouragement.

Daris doesn’t like bikes much. Stephanie just doesn’t want to finish last. Their family members all get cell phones, which they will use to get minutely updates how the race is progressing. It’s not long before Sam & Koli take the lead. Sunshine’s about a mile behind Sam after 10 miles. Lance is running about even with her. Sam’s the first to reach 13.1. It goes without saying that this is Sam’s to win, as everybody expected during the temptation. Lance, however, has managed to overtake Koli, who proved to be a bigger threat than perhaps people expected. Sam completes the race in 1 hour and 17 minutes. That ain’t gonna come close to holding. I’d expect him around 2 hours. In 1:18:40, Koli places second. 21 seconds later, Lance finishes. Sunshine takes 4th place at 1:23:29. Daris finishes at 1:25:35. Andrea finishes at 1:36:35. Stephanie finishes at 1:37:05. Ashley finishes at 1:40:48. Michael considers it a win to just finish, and he completes the challenge in 1:41:30.

Allison tells them it ain’t over yet. A lot of cupcakes were eaten. Stephanie had 7 cupcakes added to her time, dropping her into last place. Sam had 10 cupcakes added, dropping him to 8th place. Andrea had 5 cupcakes added, which puts her in 7th. Sunshine received 6 cupcakes, which drops her to 6th. Daris received 4 cupcakes, putting him in 5th. Lance, Ashley, and Michael had no cupcakes added. Koli, likewise, did not have any cupcakes added, so he is the winner.

Daris says he had a few days that he didn’t feel like he got in what he should have. O’Neal agrees there were a lot of distractions. Lance also didn’t bother exercising sometimes due to guilt about not spending enough time with his family. As for Michael, his mind was on his grandmother, who’s not progressing, but at least he’s dealing with stress by exercising rather than eating.

O’Neal: 295 pounds (-7, 2.32%)
Sunshine: 208 pounds (-8, 3.70%)
Lance: 274 pounds (-8, 2.84%)
Michael: 389 pounds (-8, 2.02%)
Koli: 287 pounds (-10, 3.37%)
Daris: 244 pounds (-4, 1.61%)
Blue Total: -45 pounds, 2.58%

Andrea: 232 pounds (-6, 2.52%)
Stephanie: 199 pounds (-9, 4.33%)
Ashley: 276 pounds (-10, 3.50%)
Sam: 264 pounds (-14, 5.04%)
Black Total: -39 pounds, 3.86%

While it would be easy to point some fingers, blue team just got owned, so it’s hard to really blame anybody. Sunshine has the highest percentage of weight loss on her team and is safe.

Votes
Koli: Lance
Michael: Lance
Lance: Michael
O’Neal: Lance
Daris: Lance

As sensible decisions go, that was not one. With 4 votes, Lance is not The Biggest Loser. When he arrives home, he’s able to do stuff with his son, like climbing that mountain he’s been looking at for years.

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Following black team’s loss in The Biggest Loser Season 9 Episode 8, the younger group stuck together and voted out Cheryl.

With Cheryl’s departure, Daris is now momless for the remainder of his stay on campus.

For the pop challenge, they will answer trivia questions based on a Biggest Loser book. Reward is a visit to a hotel in Westlake Village with a “world class meal” (that probably means a lot of calories) and spa treatments. As a punishment, the losing team will have to clean the kitchen… and the gym.

How much fiber does 1 cup of brown rice have compared to 1 cup of white rice?
3.5 times. Ashley is incorrect. Daris is correct to take the lead 1-0 for blue.

Which is a source of omega-3 fatty acids?
Salmon. Andrea answers blueberries incorrectly. Koli is correct to take the lead 2-0.

What fruit contains the highest amount of ellagic acid?
Strawberries. Lance incorrectly answers pomegrantes. Sam answers correctly to make it 2-1.

Which grain promotes blood pressure control?
The answer is none of the above (brown rice, whole wheat pasta, and flax seed). O’Neal answers flax seed incorrectly. Sherry is correct to tie them at 2-2. Oat fiber is unique in its effect in promoting blood pressure control.

How many calories does a 1 ounce serving of avocado have?
50 calories. Michael is correct. Blue team wins the challenge.

The guys head out to get a spa treatment, while the girls get stuck at home cleaning.

The following day, the blue team returns in their limo, and now the work begins. They realize they’ve missed some workout time.

Ashley says she’s getting frustrated. She’s more focused on her mom than herself.

Michael got a message from his mom that his grandmother’s health is not good, so he will be heading home for a while.

For the challenge, Curtis Stone, the guy from The Celebrity Apprentice, is there. They need to cook an appetizer, an entree, and a dessert, using only 12 ingredients. Once a team chooses an ingredient, it’s off the board. The food will need to be nutritious, and it will need to taste good. They will have 30 minutes to complete the challenge. The winning team gets a 5 pound advantage at the weigh-in, which could potentially be huge. With Michael at home, blue team will have to do without their best cook.

Black team chooses the shrimp, which quickly removes what the blue team had intended to make for their appetizer. In turn, blue team chooses tomatoes, thereby eliminating black team’s ability to make shrimp seviche. Black team picks salmon; blue team chooses pork loin. Then from there they just rush through a ton of random ingredients. Blue team is cooking salad, pork tenderloin, and raspberries with chocolate drizzle. Black team is cooking salmon, wild rice, and pear/goat cheese/strawberries (where else you gonna get that combo?). Curtis is giving Daris hints/warnings about pork. On the other team, Sherry said she was worried about the rice, and Curtis seems to think she had good reason. That takes the longest to cook out of all the rices.

Curtis likes the black team’s light appetizer. He’s also complimentary of the blue team’s appetizer, although they are wrong about their calories (135, not 25). With the high calories from the blue team, black team takes the 1-0 lead. Black team has left the skin on their salmon, where there may be a lot of fat. Their total calories for the entree is 557, a lot higher than the 250 they were aiming for. Curtis is having trouble swallowing the blue team’s pork, but he overall likes their dish and the 297 calories. It’s tied 1-1 and now down to dessert. Blue team’s dessert is 92 calories. As Curtis has shown us before, just because it has chocolate doesn’t have to mean it’s heavy. Black team’s dessert is only 60 calories, and they’ve won the challenge. Interesting considering black team’s massive entree puts their total meal at a higher calorie count.

Michael returns to campus with not good news. His grandmother’s not able to breathe on her own any more. But one of the last things she said to him was to kick some ass.

Heading into the weigh-in, black team has sizeable 5 pound advantage. That’s 0.42% before anyone gets on the scale.

Andrea: 238 pounds (-5, 2.06%)
Sam: 278 pounds (-8, 2.80%)
Ashley: 286 pounds (-7, 2.39%)
Sherry: 163 pounds (-3, 1.81%)
Stephanie: 208 pounds (-2, 0.95%)
Black Total: -25, -5, 2.50%

Lance: 282 pounds (-8, 2.76%)
Daris: 248 pounds (-10, 3.88%)
Koli: 297 pounds (-9, 2.94%) – second person to lose over 100 pounds
O’Neal: 302 pounds (-9, 2.89%)
Sunshine: 216 pounds (-9, 4.00%)
Michael: 397 pounds (-11, 2.70%)
Blue Total: -56, 3.11%

Despite the advantage essentially giving them an extra person, the black team is heading to the elimination room. With the highest percentage of weight loss on his team, Sam is safe. As the last remaining mom on campus, Sherry’s the clear target, although her daughter will obviously vote to keep her around. Stephanie begs to be kept around, despite her poor performance on the scale, or perhaps because of it.

Votes
Ashley: Andrea
Andrea: Sherry
Sam: Sherry
Sherry: Andrea
Stephanie: Sherry

With 3 votes, Sherry is not The Biggest Loser. From her starting weight of 218 pounds, Sherry is now down to 138. She doesn’t have enough to lose that she’s likely to win the at home prize, but she’s sure going to make a strong contender.

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After the split to blue and black in The Biggest Loser Season 9 Episode 7, Miggy was voted out.

O’Neal is now a member of the blue team, which lost last week in the most shocking elimination ever (that really wasn’t all that shocking). He’s being reunited with his daughter Sunshine.

Ali warns them that one day they will have to go home again and handle distractions. Darn. With that in mind, this is work week. They will have an 8 hour shift and will commute. They’ll have to squeeze in working out when they can because the gym won’t be open 24 hours either. Their job for the week will be to work alongside the volunteers at Feeding America.

To kick things off and not have to worry about it later, they will have to pull a semi, each of which weighs 33,000 pounds. Along the way, they will have to load puzzle pieces and then complete a puzzle at the end. Reward is groceries for a year. O’Neal is the puzzle picker upper for blue with everybody else pulling the truck, but despite the fact that he’s just going along for the run and they’re pulling a truck, he can’t keep up, no doubt raising concern among the rest of the team. Over on the slow to start black team, Sherry is the puzzle piece person. It goes without saying that black’s running behind on this challenge, but O’Neal’s giving them a fighting chance. At the third station of three, O’Neal’s pulled it together to allow the blue team to have the lead as they head into the puzzle. Spelling out the puzzle phrase first, blue team wins the challenge, leading to lots of screaming.

Bob’s shameless promotional tip of the week is The Biggest Loser Protein Powder. Hmm, I like this 2GO Pak idea of individually wrapped protein packets.

When they arrive at the LA Regional Food Bank, they have their choice of jobs. O’Neal and Andrea get desk jobs and call to thank people for their support. Sam, Koli, Ashley, Lance, and Sunshine opt for distribution, which will allow them to sweat while they work. Cheryl and Sherry do inventory together because they get along like sisters. Daris and Michael also join in on the inventory, finding out they’ve got a boring task.

While they’re at lunch, they get a visit from a guy whose dad died at 33 because he was overweight. Not having learned from that experience, he has now hit the size of these contestants, but he comes to talk to them and see if he can get some tips how to change, since he has just hit age 33 himself.

Having started the day off with a workout, they return home at 6:00, at which time they promptly head into the gym because it’s closing in less than an hour. I guess the lesson here is supposed to be that gyms at home are not open all day long. Not even 24 Hour Fitness? Granted, it forces the contestants into a schedule. The need for 8 hours of sleep a day is hard to fulfill if you’re working out at midnight and then waking up early in the morning.

On day 2, they head to a distribution site to distribute fresh vegetables in the rain. From there, the cycle continues. Fast forward to lunch day 3. Sam forgot his lunch. Perhaps he can buy from the vending machine. Perhaps not. Insisting there’s nothing healthy there, it appears his plan is to skip lunch. Surely that’s not more healthy than eating some junk food. Stephanie thinks she saw a Subway on the way there. How convenient.

Cheryl and Sherry get to talking. They’re both in fear that they’re at the top of the order to be cut if the black team loses.

For the first time since returning to campus, O’Neal does not have immunity. He’s there for his daughter, though, and he’d rather go home instead of her, should it come to that.

O’Neal: 311 pounds (-5, 1.58%)
Sunshine: 225 pounds (-7, 3.02%)
Michael: 408 pounds (-9, 2.16%)
Koli: 306 pounds (-10, 3.16%)
Daris: 258 pounds (-9, 3.37%)
Lance: 290 pounds (-10, 3.33%)
Blue Total: -50 pounds, 2.71%

Andrea: 243 pounds (-7, 2.80%)
Ashley: 293 pounds (-8, 2.66%)
Cheryl: 182 pounds (-5, 2.67%)
Sherry: 166 pounds (-5, 2.92%)
Stephanie: 210 pounds (-3, 1.41%)
Sam: 286 pounds (-4, 1.38%)
Black Total: -32 pounds, 2.27%

After a competitive start, the last two members of the black team fall flat, putting them below the yellow line. As the person with the most weight loss on her team, Sherry is safe. Andrea’s theory is that they should base it on how far everyone is away from their goal weight. Lame. But what it does is highlight Sam. He says he’s 50 pounds away from his goal weight. I don’t know. 235 pounds sounds like a lot still. At the end of the day, though, if he thinks that’s all he has left to lose, his usefulness to the team is at an end.

Votes
Sam: Cheryl
Stephanie: Cheryl
Cheryl: Stephanie
Sherry: Sam
Ashley: Cheryl

With three votes, Cheryl is not The Biggest Loser. From her starting weight of 227, she is now down to 164 pounds today. She now plans to live forever.

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

Melissa fell below the red line and was sent packing in The Biggest Loser Season 9 Episode 6. Then the two people who fell below the yellow line, Darrell and Cheryl, were put head to head in an elimination challenge. The results of that were delayed three weeks until after the Olympics. Yeah, it was all quite lame.

In just under 10 minutes, Darrell is the first to budge, and he is not The Biggest Loser.

The temptation brings them chocolate chip cookies. The winner of the temptation gets to choose the teams of blue vs. black. They will also be able to pick one person to have immunity. So who would actually like control of the game? Michael and Andrea. Nobody else is interested in playing. Putzes. These two contestants will compete in a game of memory, picking two cards at a time and trying to find a match. Their goal is to find golden tickets. If they match, their opponent eats whatever they match. If they don’t match, they have to eat. Each cookie has 100 calories. Andrea is the first person to not match. She pretends like the cookie does not taste good. Michael mismatches next. Then Andrea. Then Michael. Then Andrea. Then Michael again. With Michael’s miss, Andrea is able to score the first match, a name brandless 80 calorie chocolate and peanutbutter treat. Her next pick is a miss. Followed by a Michael miss. Andrea manages to take advantage with a 360 calorie blueberry muffin match. Then she matches the 340 calorie giant pretzel. Then the 480 calorie fruit pie, which brings Micheal up to 1760 calories so far. Finally, Andrea locates a golden ticket card, but her next pick is not a match. Michael finally has a match with a 420 calorie peanutbutter and jelly sandwich. His next pick is a miss. Andrea scores a 90 calorie “crispy treat” match. This is followed by a 160 calorie glazed donut, bringing Michael to 2310 calories. Michael finally uncovers the second golden ticket, and then he finds the match. In her quest to a loss, Andrea ended up eating 1320 calories.

13 people remain. That will make for two teams of six and one person with immunity, who will join the losing team after this week.

Black Team (Jillian)
Sam
Cheryl
Andrea
Stephanie
Sherry
Ashley

Blue Team (Bob)
Koli
Daris
Lance
Miggy
Sunshine
Michael

The cousins are not happy. The mother and son are not happy. Andrea gets put with the trainer she does not want to be with. Lance, however, does not get put on Jillian’s team, which is good since he decided earlier in the season he hated her and/or her guts. Ashley and Sherry are on the same team, although it’s the underdog team. O’Neal is granted immunity, but it may end up meaning he’s not with his daughter and may get stuck on what is perceived as a weaker team.

Jillian walks into the gym swearing. She calls it the most unfair, impossible scenario ever. While she has a valid point, he’s well within his rights, not to mention smart, for trying to stack the deck.

Stephanie is already playing in an attempt to stay on the stronger side of the weaker team. She would like an alliance with Ashley and Sam.

Jillian breaks out some Larabars, which I discovered through the show’s promotional efforts last season. They’re actually quite good.

At the challenge, each team will lift their team-colored banner from the roof. The winning team will get letters from home. O’Neal bets on the blue team. Koli calls it four guys against Sam, who says it’s just about technique. The blue team has the lead the whole time and retains it to win the challenge.

Now it’s time for a visit to Dr. H, and typically at this point it is not a scare visit. Ashley has dropped down to 49 years, an 8 year improvement. Having stopped smoking, drinking, and overeating, Sam’s dropped to 46, a 5 year improvement, and has also improved to a 24% risk from a 51% risk.

After a last chance workout, they head to the weigh-in.

O’Neal: 316 pounds (-9, 2.77%, immune)

Michael: 417 pounds (-15, 3.47%) – 109 pounds in 7 weeks
Sunshine: 232 pounds (-7, 2.93%)
Lance: 300 pounds (-5, 1.64%)
Miggy: 195 pounds (-4, 2.01%)
Daris: 267 pounds (-7, 2.55%)
Koli: 316 pounds (-10, 3.07%)
Blue Total: -48 pounds, 2.70%

Andrea: 250 pounds (-5, 1.96%)
Cheryl: 187 pounds (-4, 2.09%)
Sherry: 171 pounds (-6, 3.39%)
Sam: 290 pounds (-8, 2.68%)
Stephanie: 213 pounds (-8, 3.62%)
Ashley: 301 pounds (-10, 3.22%)
Black Total: -41 pounds, 2.82%

Despite the horribly unfair worst situation in the history of the world scenario, black team has pulled out a win. Certainly surprising results, but hardly as unexpected as they would have liked us to believe. With the highest percentage of weight loss on his team, Michael is safe. O’Neal will be joining the blue team after the vote.

Votes
Lance: Miggy
Daris: Miggy
Miggy: Lance
Michael: Lance
Sunshine: Miggy
Koli: Miggy

With 4 votes, Miggy is not The Biggest Loser, but at least she managed to somewhat redeem herself in the wake of her daughter’s departure. She is down from her starting weight of 240 pounds to 179 pounds today. She says she has learned through meditation to better release her stress, and she’s changed her energy from negative to positive.

Darrell, who was eliminated at the top of the show, has dropped from 413 pounds to 293 pounds today. His wife is also getting into better shape alongside him. He can now fit into the jacket he wore when he first met his wife 27 years ago.

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

John fell below the yellow line and was eliminated in The Biggest Loser Season 9 Episode 5.

They go to the Olympic Training Center, where they’re informed that they will be competing as individuals. Oh, and two players will be eliminated at the end of the week. The person with the lowest percentage will be eliminated automatically, and two more will go below the yellow line.

Everything there is healthy and has a purpose. The food for each sport is designed with the specific requirements of that sport in mind, not just calories in and calories out.

They’re not just meeting with Olympic athletes… they’re going to be working out with them. Jeret “Speedy” Peterson eventually asks Bob if these guys need a break. No, no break for them.

Koli is struggling, a fact not lost on Bob. He doesn’t think he deserves to be there, whereas John should be there instead.

The pop challenge is to slide back and forth on a slide board 500 times. The first three finishers will get advantages in the main challenge, although Ali will not be revealing any more just yet. Darrell, Miggy, and O’Neal sit out due to medical reasons. Daris is the first person to fall, but he will not be the last. Melissa is the first one to 100. Sam is behind her. Daris, Lance, and Sunshine are battling for third. Melissa is the first to reach 250, with Sam about 7 behind her. As they go toward 500, it’s a tie between Melissa and Sam. Melissa stumbles at 490, allowing Sam to win the challenge. Sunshine is up by 5 over Lance in the battle for the bronze, and she ends up taking third place by 3.

From the pop challenge, we head right into the main challenge at the Garden of the Gods. The challenge is based on the biathlon. They will run around the field, and every time around, they will be able to take a shot. Once their target is hit 5 times, they’re out. Sunshine will receive the opportunity to hit one target right away, Melissa will be able to hit two targets, and Sam will hit three targets. Sunshine assigns her point to Sam. Melissa, likewise, assigns both of her points to Sam. Sam opts to return the favor, giving one to Sunshine and two to Melissa. Ironically, they’ve all three screwed each other over. So much for an advantage. With that out of the way, the prize for the challenge is announced: immunity.

Sam’s the first to shoot and hit Lance. Daris also hits Lance. Lance targets Andrea. Everybody else aims for Lance, and he is out quickly. Ashley strikes Miggy. Sherry hits Koli. Melissa’s the next target on the chopping block, and she is the next one out. Miggy is next, followed by Daris. Andrea has taken the final shot against three people in a row. Realizing he’s about to be eliminated, Michael asks Stephanie to let him get one more shot. Nope, she eliminates him. Andrea is the next one out, and then Sunshine and Koli. Then O’Neal finishes off Sam. Darrell eliminates Stephanie. Cheryl eliminates Sherry, then Ashley eliminates Cheryl. Darrell has a choice between O’Neal and Ashley. He chooses to eliminate Ashley. In the end, Darrell and O’Neal line up their final shots at the same time. O’Neal wins immunity.

During the last chance workout, Bob has a moment with O’Neal that he lives for. He has him stand on a bosu ball and do squats.

Tonight they will weigh in as individuals.

O’Neal: 325 pounds (-8, 2.40%, immune)

Michael: 432 pounds (-11, 2.48%)

Stephanie: 221 pounds (-4, 1.78%)

Sunshine: 239 pounds (-6, 2.45%)

Koli: 326 pounds (-9, 2.69%)

Andrea: 255 pounds (-7, 2.67%)

Darrell: 338 pounds (-5, 1.46%)

Sam: 298 pounds (-12, 3.87%)

Sherry: 177 pounds (-3, 1.67%)

Ashley: 311 pounds (-6, 1.89%)

Daris: 274 pounds (-9, 3.18%)

Cheryl: 191 pounds (-3, 1.55%)

Miggy: 199 pounds (-7, 3.40%)

Lance: 305 pounds (-9, 2.87%)

Melissa: 199 pounds (+1, 0.51%)

Hard to chalk that one up to gameplay. Having gained a pound, Melissa has fallen below the red line and is eliminated. In parting, she asks for the others not to send Lance home before he hits 250.

That leaves Darrell and Cheryl below the yellow line. Since this is Olympics week, there is no vote. Instead, they will go head to head in an elimination challenge. They will each balance a torch stem on their heads. First one out goes home.

To be continued…

The Olympics will run on each of the next three Tuesday nights, which means we have to wait until March to find out how this challenge turns out. Really, NBC?

Melissa has dropped from her starting weight of 233 pounds to 175 pounds today. She says Lance is still out there, which I take to mean he’ll last at least a few more weeks.

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

Miggy and Migdalia had a competition to see who could be the nastiest in The Biggest Loser Season 9 Episode 4. In the end, Migdalia was narrowly voted out.

When she goes to her room, Miggy’s an emotional wreck. At 2:51AM, we hear someone from production say they’ve called 911. Miggy is suffering from acute abdominal pain.

It’s been a month. What that means is that the first two teams eliminated are back. Having placed last in the first competition, the yellow and blue teams were booted in a cruel twist, but they have a second chance based on what they’ve done while they were at home.

They’re not heading right to the scale. Instead, Bob and Jillian will get their hands on them first for a last chance workout. This is what they need because their home workouts were nothing compared to this.

The team that has the highest percentage of weight loss will return to the house, get immunity, and have the only vote this week.

Cherita: 253 pounds (-24, 8.67%)
Victoria: 319 pounds (-39, 10.89%)
Blue Total: 572 pounds (-63, 9.92%)

Sunshine: 250 pounds (-25, 9.09%)
O’Neal: 338 pounds (-51, 13.11%)
Yellow Total: 588 pounds (-76, 11.45%)

O’Neal’s huge number is 6 pounds better than the campus average. With that, the yellow team is returning to campus. The blue team will be heading back home again.

During a workout, Melissa breaks down crying, but despite saying she can’t do these leg presses Bob is making her do, she does them anyway. He tells her he’s impressed because he didn’t think she was playing the game last week since she lost so much weight even though she was immune. Granted, Jillian still thought she was playing.

Daris is not hitting his burn. Why not? Is he willing to continue being just the fat funny guy?

The challenge is to hit a tackling dummy 1000 times. The winner will get immunity; the last place finisher will get a 2 pound penalty. Each team must pick one person to represent them in the challenge. Michael, Stephanie, and John are on their own. The other teams select Lance, Sherry, Andrea, Sunshine, Sam, and Daris. Michael has figured out a way to not move his feet much at all. Andrea hopes her softball background will help. Lance and Sam are in the early lead. As they head toward the halfway mark, Michael’s creeping up on them. Sherry is leading the battle for last at this point. Eventually, Michael finally overtakes the lead around 900, and he wins immunity. Sam and Lance come close. Sherry ends up finishing last to get the penalty.

Miggy returns, having had an appendectomy. Since she has had surgery, she is only allowed to walk. So she walks and walks and walks: 13 miles the day after surgery. When she goes to see the doctor, she’s allowed to get back to business, but will have to be careful. He has bad news, though. They poured salt water into her, probably 8-9 additional pounds. Her odds of surviving the week may have just gone down to slim to none.

John has switched from the pool to the gym and is now working out with everybody else.

At the last chance workout, Ashley’s just taking it easy, whether she has the disadvantage or not. After Jillian beats her up, she reveals that her problem is that she lost her father, who treated her badly because of her weight. Rather than dealing with her emotions, she’s ballooned up to 374 pounds (and she also drinks and smokes)

O’Neal intends to be a game player. He’ll do whatever it takes to get to the end.

Sunshine: 245 pounds (-5, 2.00%)
O’Neal: 333 pounds (-5, 1.48%)
Yellow Total: 578 pounds (-10, 1.70%, immune)

Michael: 443 pounds (-13, 2.85%, immune)

Ashley: 317 pounds (-9, 2.76%)
Sherry: 180 pounds (-6, 3.23%)
Pink Total: 497 pounds (-15, +2, 2.54%)

Melissa: 198 pounds (-5, 2.46%)
Lance: 314 pounds (-4, 1.26%)
Red Total: 512 pounds (-9, 1.73%)

Cheryl: 194 pounds (-3, 1.52%)
Daris: 283 pounds (-12, 4.07%)
Orange Total: 477 pounds (-15, 3.05%)

Stephanie: 225 pounds (-5, 2.17%)

Sam: 310 pounds (-10, 3.13%)
Koli: 335 pounds (-6, 1.76%)
Grey Total: 645 pounds (-16, 2.42%)

Andrea: 262 pounds (-5, 1.87%)
Darrell: 343 pounds (-8, 2.28%)
Black Total: 605 pounds (-13, 2.10%)

Miggy: 206 pounds (-5, 2.37%)

John: 421 pounds (-6, 1.41%)

As the only member of the brown team, John has been eliminated, so there is no need for the yellow team to deliberate. From his starting weight of 484 pounds, he’s now down to 380. He wasn’t too crazy about the gym when he got home, but he has since discovered jiu jitsu.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 9 Episode 6, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.