Category: biggest loser 17

Not letting a second opportunity pass, the house voted to get rid of Tracey in The Biggest Loser Season 8 Episode 8.

Two people will be going home this week. Harsh for this late in the game. There will be a yellow line. There will also be a red line. The person with the lowest percentage of weight loss will fall below the red line and will be eliminated. No vote, no strategy. Then, the two people below the yellow line will face off in a vote.

The winner of the pop challenge will win a 1 pound advantage. Each person has a board with 50 tennis balls attached. First person to put all those balls in the bucket wins. Amanda and Liz will sit out. Everyone else can hop to it (it’s punny). Allen’s in the lead, with Rebecca, Daniel, and Rudy behind him. Allen is the first to the halfway mark. Allen retains his lead throughout and wins the challenge.

There are two sides: older people and younger people. The red line would make it 4-3 in favor of whichever side is not below that line.

Jillian’s concerned that Shay needs to be here but is worried she won’t do well. She needs to work harder and stay above that yellow line then. We’re in week 9. Time for sympathy is over.

Jillian eventually throws Danny out of the gym. He’s overtrained and struggling throughout the workout. Then she has to scream at Shay, tired of the drama.

Allen suspects Liz would be kept around no matter what because she’s not a threat. The others, however, expect the younger group to vote the same way they’ve been voting along: save their friends, regardless of logic.

With Rebecca, Jillian wants her to get out of her world of black and white, where she either knows she can win and does it… or she just quits. Because that’s just what she does. She realizes that she can play the blame game, but it’s ultimately just her stopping herself.

Bob vetoes Jillian’s decision. He doesn’t want Danny benched for the rest of the day.

The contestants get to go to the greatest show on Earth. What are they doing at a circus for a challenge? To succeed as performers, they have to jump through a lot of hoops. Their job is to jump through their opponents’ hoops. For each time someone goes through someone else’s hoop, that other person gets a point. When someone hits 100, they’re out. Allen is afraid. He remembers the baseball challenge not too fondly. The prize is immunity. Rudy and Shay agree to work together. Liz is the early target of choice. A strange choice to take out first, but Amanda, Rebecca, Shay, and Daniel obviously don’t want her to have immunity. The older people finally come up with a strategy to target someone, their choice being Amanda. Liz is the first person eliminated. The next target is Allen. Amanda is the next person eliminated, and her replacement target is Daniel. Daniel is the next one eliminated, and Rebecca is the next target. Allen is eliminated. Rebecca is out next. Rudy has decided to bail on his deal with Shay, who worked against him the entire challenge. Much whining ensues. Shay is the next person eliminated. The challenge outcome is a foregone conclusion. Since Danny had been the target and nobody targeted Rudy, Rudy’s won the challenge before it’s over.

The younger people have come up with a strategy to sneak gym equipment into their room, in an effort to trick the others into thinking they’re slacking off.

Keeping with the circus theme, Bob has a trapeze workout prepared for them. When they’re done with that, Jillian’s waiting for them in the gym, and she plans to give them a second last chance.

Rudy: 324 pounds (-8, 2.41%, immune)

Shay: 376 pounds (-17, 4.33%)

With this weight loss and finally a number showing some real effort, Shay has lost 100 pounds the fastest for any woman in The Biggest Loser history, 9 weeks as compared to the previous record of 12 weeks.

Amanda: 202 pounds (-5, 2.42%)

Rebecca: 209 pounds (-9, 4.57%)

Danny: 316 pounds (-17, 5.11%)

Danny has also joined the 100 pound club.

Allen: 243 pounds (-10, -1, 4.35%)

Liz: 206 pounds (-12, 5.50%)

Daniel: 256 pounds (-5, 1.92%)

Daniel has fallen below the red line, and he will leave the ranch immediately.

The challenges this week proved to be huge. Rudy was saved by his immunity, and Allen was saved by his 1 pound advantage. Amanda and Shay have fallen below the yellow line, and either scenario will result in the decimation of the younger clique. These two are pretty evenly matched as far as their weight loss thus far, and in both cases they are not particularly big threats. Could certainly go either way. This begs the question: is it really possible to lose 17 pounds and still be voted off? Shay again plays the card that she deserves to be there the most. When does that card expire exactly?

Votes
Rebecca: Shay
Allen: Shay
Danny: Amanda
Liz: Amanda
Rudy: Shay

With 3 votes, Shay is not the biggest loser. However, she leaves on a positive note, with her largest weight loss of the season and signs that she may have the tools to succeed when she gets home.

Daniel is down from his two season ago starting weight of 454 pounds to 239 pounds today. He meets up with his partner from last year, David, who tells him that weight loss is not a priority. Not right now anyway. If not now, when? Over 400 pounds at his age, his life could well be half over.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser 8 Episode 10, which airs Tuesday at 8:30/7:30c on NBC.

Keeping the team as weak as possible, the black team voted out Abby in The Biggest Loser Season 8 Episode 7.

The contestants are preparing to make a trip to Washington, DC. Typically, trips off the ranch are not good news, no matter how good it may sound at first. Game aside, though, they will be going to Congress and the White House.

First thing’s first. They’re now all individuals.

In a few hours, Bob and Jillian will be giving a public workout at the Washington Monument. The pop challenge is for the contestants to get as many people as possible to participate. The reward is a huge advantage in the challenge, plus Subway for dinner. Amanda targets a group of people who recognize her from last year’s finale. Allen goes to the fire station. Liz lost cute 30 years ago, so her focus is guilt. Daniel utilizes his recognizability as well… turning Amanda’s supporters into his instead. In the end, it came down to 1 vote, with the battle between Liz and Allen. Liz wins reward.

Bob takes control of the group workout. Jillian, meanwhile, takes the opportunity to go pick on total strangers.

Their next stop is to go to Congress to share their stories. It’s not just a reality show. It’s a movement. Dan suggests better health education, as compared to his requirements of 1 semester of PE and 1 credit of health. Jillian says that people have no concept of what they’re putting in their mouths any more, which is spot on.

The city is filled with some of the most iconic landmarks. They will be visiting four of them because there are four stages to the challenge. Last person standing wins immunity. As her reward from the first challenge, Liz can skip one phase. A 1 mile run through Constitution Gardens is first. The top six finishers will continue. Rebecca, Allen, and Amanda are off to the lead. Battling Rudy for fourth, Daniel is noticing that things have changed since day 1 where he won in 12 minutes. Shay’s walking but knows she’ll finish. Liz is trying to keep ahead of Danny so that she doesn’t blow not having used that pass. Tracey, who is emotional remembering how she collapsed the first day, is keeping up a slow but steady jog. Rebecca finishes first, followed by Daniel edging out Allen. Amanda is fourth, then Rudy and lastly Liz to complete the top six.

The second stage of the competition takes place at Watergate. Each player has 17,954 pennies, the exact number of pounds lost to date on The Biggest Loser. Just as long as they don’t have to count them. The object is to fill the container to the line. Four people will advance. One of those will be Liz, who will use her advantage to avoid the exhaustion of this stairmaster challenge. Rudy’s strategy: big hands. You know what they say about people with big hands. They can pick up a lot of pennies. Allen and Daniel are behind him, while the girls bring up the rear. Rudy finishes first. Daniel places second. Amanda’s out of it. Allen and Rebecca battle down to the wire. Rebecca edges out Allen.

The US Capitol is the scene of a balancing act. They will be standing on their platforms on a narrow ledge while holding a pilates ball over their heads. Last two standing will advance. This time, it’s the men who are struggling early. Daniel is the first to fall. Liz follows.

Rudy and Rebecca will compete in the final part of this challenge, which takes place at the White House. The first person to take 206 steps wins (there have been 206 contestants on The Biggest Loser so far). Rebecca’s got a lead of about 3 when they hit 50. This lead keeps growing. She’s up by 11 when she hits 100. This lead eventually climbs to 30. When all’s said and done, Rebecca finishes first with a lead of 15 to win immunity.

The following day, they all head into the White House, where they will be cooking a meal with the chef, using vegetables planted in the President’s garden. Then they head into the White House kitchen. It’s like an episode of Cory in the House.

Jillian wants Tracey to stop playing games because this show isn’t a game (only it is). She’s gonna need more than gameplay to keep going, particulary when the show is over.

Amanda, who was whining much of last week, is Bob’s focus this week. She trusts Bob, and this time she doesn’t get off the treadmill crying.

Since they’re down to individuals, staying above the yellow line rests on each person’s own shoulders.

Rebecca: 219 pounds (-4, 1.79%, immune)

Shay: 393 pounds (-9, 2.24%)

Tracey: 194 pounds (-3, 1.52%)

Daniel: 261 pounds (-11, 4.04%)

Allen: 253 pounds (-9, 3.44%)

Danny: 333 pounds (-12, 3.48%)

Rudy: 332 pounds (-9, 2.64%)

Liz: 218 pounds (-3, 1.36%)

Amanda: 207 pounds (-7, 3.27%)

Liz and Tracey have fallen below the yellow line. The writing is on the wall here. Tracey’s the obvious target. Petty grudges aside, it’s the best game move. Not that some of these people will put their grudges aside. Such as the highly emotional pink team. Tracey really wants to be there. Liz probably does, too, but she doesn’t vocalize that.

Votes
Amanda: Tracey
Shay: Liz
Danny: Tracey
Daniel: Tracey
Rebecca: Tracey

With 4 votes, Tracey is not The Biggest Loser. She played the game too hard too fast and ultimately wasn’t able to back that up on the scale. From her starting weight of 238, Tracey is now down 85 pounds. She plans to run a marathon in December.

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

Following their week at home and Daniel’s 1 pound gain, the black team fell below the yellow line in The Biggest Loser Season 8 Episode 6, and they chose to vote out Dina.

Amanda says that the vote came down to her and her three good friends: Daniel, Shay, and Abby.

This week, each person will be going head to head against someone from the opposite team. If they beat that person, they get a point. The team with the most points wins. Welcome to face off week. Whoever wins the pop challenge gets to choose who goes against whom.

The task is to bob under the bar and touch their disc, then go back and touch the other side. First one to 500 wins. Only one person can compete at a time. They can switch at any time, but each person is only allowed one turn. Tracey and Abby start off first, both in their first challenge. Abby starts off with a slight lead before dropping out at 20. Tracey will be doing 100 no matter what. She and Shay tag out at the same time with black team ahead by 4. Allen and Danny are up next, and Allen manages to gain the lead for the blue team. Allen’s up by 15 by the time Amanda tags in for black. Allen tags out at 250, having improved his team’s standing from down 4 to up 16. Liz stumbles and gives up half that lead before tagging in Rudy after about 50. Amanda tags out, having brought the lead down to 2. Rudy tags out at 391, up by 2. That leaves Daniel and Rebecca to finish out the game. Daniel takes the lead 417-416. About 20 later, Rebecca’s back in the lead. In the end, the blue team wins by 5.

That gives the blue team (which not surprisingly includes Tracey) control.

Rebecca (16.9% lost) vs. Amanda (12.8% lost)
Tracey (15.1% lost) vs. Abby (17.4% lost)
Allen (16.9% lost) vs. Danny (17.0% lost)
Rudy (19.7% lost) vs. Shay (13.7% lost)
Liz (14.6% lost) vs. Daniel (11.2% lost)

If the season’s numbers hold, the blue team will win. The three black team members who have the lowest percentages of weight loss but voted out Dina have the opportunity to prove their worth. Granted, considering Daniel gained a pound last week, he should put up a huge number this week.

Bob tosses his team in the pool to do a workout there. Yeah, it ain’t gonna be fun. Sink or swim.

Jillian, meanwhile, is in the gym with her team. Amanda’s on the treadmill. Sorta. She can’t do this. She can’t. She can’t. She can’t. Time to walk out of the gym.

The contestants arrive on a baseball field, where they are greeted with pictures of themselves from when they first came to the ranch. Derek Jeter is really proud to be part of this challenge. Via satellite. On the field are 2535 balls, one for every hit he’s had in his first 13 seasons. They will grab as many as they can and throw them at their opponents’ pictures. When they’re hit by 316 balls (his batting average), they’re out. Reward is a meal cooked by Curtis Stone, plus a 2 pound advantage at the weigh-in. Abby is sitting out, so Tracey will join her. Allen is immediately targeted by every member of the black team. Blue team is splitting their balls between Amanda and Daniel. Allen is obviously the first one eliminated. Next target will be Rebecca. Amanda is the first person eliminated for the black team. Rebecca is the next one out, bringing blue team down to 2. Daniel is the next one out, putting them at 2 each. By this point, though, the black team is up by about 100 baseballs. Rudy is the next one eliminated. It’s pretty well hopeless for Liz. Black team wins the challenge by a massive margin, their first challenge win.

Abby’s managed to find people she loves again, a tough thing to do since she lost everything not so long ago. She’s also proving to herself that she can lose weight, having the second highest percentage of weight loss so far this season despite being on the sidelines for medical reasons throughout much of it.

Now we go back to Amanda. Hopefully the whining has passed. Jillian tells her she didn’t walk out on her. She walked out on herself. Jillian’s lesson to her is that she has to redefine her fear of failure.

Bob brings in a step about 3 feet high for Allen to jump on. Don’t think. Just do. He manages to land the jump.

Shay’s lesson for the day is that it’s not her fault.

The black team has decided to give both of the two pounds from their advantage to Amanda. She requested that advantage out of fear she will not do well. She had a lot of emotional days this week. Yeah, I noticed.

Amanda: 214 pounds (-4, -2, 2.75%)
Rebecca: 223 pounds (-9, 3.88%)
Blue team leads 1-0

Abby: 201 pounds (-3, 1.47%)
Tracey: 197 pounds (-5, 2.48%)
Blue team leads 2-0

Danny: 345 pounds (-12, 3.36%)
Allen: 262 pounds (-8, 2.96%)
Blue team leads 2-1

Daniel: 272 pounds (-5, 1.81%)
Liz: 221 pounds (-7, 3.07%)
Blue team wins the weigh-in

Daniel’s performance receives immediate responses of “What?” from both Bob and Jillian, who knows something’s not quite right.

Shay: 402 pounds (-9, 2.19%)
Rudy: 341 pounds (-14, 3.94%)

With that weight loss, Rudy has lost over 100 pounds the fastest in Biggest Loser history. That new record of 7 weeks tops the old record, set by Dane last season in 8 weeks. Dane is there to watch his record get broken, as he’s preparing for a triathlon with 12 former contestants.

As the Biggest Loser from his team, Danny is safe, which is the worst news for the black team, since they can’t make the (stupid) decision of getting rid of him. Abby says she’s learned what she went there to learn, and she offers to sacrifice herself.

Votes
Abby: Amanda
Shay: Abby
Amanda: Abby
Danny: Daniel
Daniel: Abby

Well, that was not a smart decision for the team either. However, they felt it necessary to honor her wishes. Abby is down from her starting weight of 247 pounds to 167 pounds today. She hopes to turn her story into a positive message for others.

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

The teams split into blue and black in The Biggest Loser Season 8 Episode 5, and after the blue team fell below the yellow line, the plan was to take revenge and vote out Tracey. However, realizing that Mo was the weakest link, they made the best decision for the team and voted him out instead.

The black team is not happy to see Tracey still in the game either. They were completely looking forward to seeing the blue team make the decision that would harm them on the scale.

Tracey has finally been granted clearance to get into the gym.

Allison is waiting for them at night. Each team has four keys buried in the sand, which they must dig up to open their box. They’re going to have to wait to find out what they’re playing for, but she tells them it will determine who stays on campus and who goes home. Tracey and Abby are sitting out, and Amanda sits out for the black team to avoid having to dig in sand. After 10 minutes, they haven’t found anything. Shortly thereafter, a few people start to strike something. So apparently this won’t be like the challenge in The Amazing Race that took like 8 hours. Allison tells them to remember what they’re playing for. If only they knew. At 20 minutes, everybody has found what they’re looking for, but nobody’s managed to uncover it. Danny is the first person to dig his key up, which will allow him to go help his teammate Daniel. Allen is the next person, putting the blue team on the board, so he will go to help Rudy, who is also close. They take the lead 2-1 for blue. Around the half hour mark, Daniel ties it 2-2. The two blue team members who have finished go to help Liz and take the lead 3-2. 40 minutes have elapsed, and blue team’s got their final key to win the challenge.

So what is the prize? Yeah, it’s obvious. By going home, they mean plane tickets home. They’re celebrating, but this is a punishment. No trainers and having the temptations of home puts them at a disadvantage. Allison gives them the option of not going home and to instead give the tickets away to the black team. Their decision is to send the black team home.

The emotional reunion is tempered by the fact that they now realize they’re on their own and must make some smart choices, which is something most of them have not done in a long time, if ever. Danny has the advantage of having done this at home on his own previously. Abby has an added disadvantage that she’s limited to where she can go, which means she must find a gym with a pool about 30 minutes away, but that’s okay because it is a priority. Danny’s wife goes to the gym with him. Dina has to drag her son off to the gym. Amanda’s struggling to figure out what the heck she’s doing. Shay feels as if she’s being stared at, which is probably true.

Everybody goes out to a restaurant. Their families obviously haven’t changed any (and each person from the looks of it has an enabler or two or a dozen), but there’s time to worry about that later. Danny resists the temptation, however. He will be cooking out back on the grill, and he’s seeing that his family is already learning and willing to change. Dina and Shay see that nothing’s changed. Their families are (over)eating the same things they were before.

Inspired by the challenge from last year, the blue team has asked Bob to bring them down to the food bank to volunteer. They will be filling backpacks to help feed kids.

Jillian hasn’t had anyone to beat up all week, so she’s looking forward to kicking the crap out of some people. From his visit home, Danny says that something’s changed, and he feels like the kryptonite has been removed. Jillian’s getting tired of Daniel’s low numbers relative to the others, and she wants to see if she can get him to live up to his potential. He has realized that his mom tried to get him to lose weight because she cared.

In theory, the weigh-in should be a win for the blue team. Their loss last week combined with staying on campus this week should make this easy.

Allen: 270 pounds (-8, 2.88%)
Rebecca: 232 pounds (-5, 2.11%)
Tracey: 202 pounds (-4, 1.94%)
Liz: 228 pounds (-4, 1.72%)
Rudy: 355 pounds (-14, 3.79%)
Blue Total: -35 pounds, 2.65%

Not the most impressive numbers from the blue team, but Rudy’s big number should provide enough of a cushion.

Amanda: 218 pounds (-6, 2.68%)
Shay: 411 pounds (-5, 1.20%)
Abby: 204 pounds (-4, 1.92%)
Dina: 218 pounds (-5, 2.24%)
Danny: 357 pounds (-15, 4.03%)
Daniel: 277 pounds (+1, 0.36%)
Black Total: -34 pounds, 1.98%

Danny did better than anybody despite the visit home, but it was not enough to overcome the other numbers. Aside from Daniel, most people on the black team are pleased, however, as they managed to lose a fair amount at home. The harsh reality is that Shay is weighing the team down, but I think we’ve all gotten the hint about how much more she deserves to be there than the others. The question is whether they can break away from that mentality when she’s still over 400 pounds. Having gained weight, Daniel is another potential target, but that would be a short-sighted decision because next week he should be able to knock it out of the park. Then again, it may just come down to the three women who weigh the least, and Abby should be safe because she’s proved to be strong.

Votes
Daniel: Dina
Dina: Daniel
Abby: Dina
Danny: Daniel
Amanda: Dina
Shay: Dina

With 4 votes, Dina is not The Biggest Loser. I’d have gone with Amanda before Dina, but her elimination is not entirely surprising. She is now down from her starting weight of 253 pounds to 188 pounds today. She’s finally managed to overcome that step she couldn’t jump on while she was on the ranch. She has also recently completed her first half marathon (hopefully without the assistance of a producer).

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

With the growing popularity (and profitability) of The Biggest Loser, NBC has decided to do a new show called Losing It with Jillian to go along with it. Jillian Michaels will host the show, and she will be joined by Curtis Stone, the chef who occasionally appears on Loser.

Jillian will be living with a different family each week and whip them into shape physically and mentally, hoping to prove that it’s not necessary to be on the ranch to lose weight, an excuse that I often hear from people about why they couldn’t do what the people on TBL do.

Although she will be on a new series, Jillian has no plans to leave The Biggest Loser (again).

In an emotional elimination, Julio was voted out in The Biggest Loser Season 8 Episode 4.

Allison greets the contestants with a bunch of silver platters first thing. It’s blue vs. black. One person will get to pick the teams. The power lies in a simple spin of the wheel. There are 36 spaces on the wheel, one of which contains the power. If you land on the other 35 spaces, you could get any number of things from cash to a 1000 calorie piece of cake. We’ve heard for weeks how this is not about gameplay. Let’s see how true that statement holds. Only Abby declines. For everybody else, it appears that playing the game is now acceptable.

Rudy spins first and gets a piece of cake. Rebecca gets a 280 calorie chocolate donut. Allen lands on a 100 calorie cupcake. Danny gets a much bigger 780 calorie cupcake. Tracey gets the golden ticket? How the…? Okay, now I know somebody’s going to blame her for something here, but they all had their chance as well. Granted, this is spooky. Most people are preparing to dodge out of the way of the lightning.

Back in the house, everybody is preparing for the worst, and here come the waterworks.

Blue Team (Bob): Tracey, Mo, Allen, Liz, Rudy, Rebecca
Black Team (Jillian): Daniel, Shay, Abby, Danny, Amanda, Dina

That leaves only two teams still intact, purple and orange. The others have all been split up, although it looks like it will be a reasonably fair fight, unless an issue of physical strength comes up.

Once that’s over, there’s plenty of time for more whining, but at the end of the day, these people wouldn’t have been happy no matter how the teams were chosen. Jillian intends to just beat her people so that they get over the drama.

Upset over losing Danny, Liz has one focus: get rid of Tracey before she herself is sent home. She’s going to kill herself if she has to. Then she collapses. As she’s recovering, she says that her head’s on straight, which means following her agenda.

Dina’s afraid of jumping on that stool. She doesn’t want Jillian to get mad that she’s wasting time. So… she walks out of the gym. With Rudy’s encouragement, she returns to the gym, where she reluctantly keeps trying.

Sometimes you have to carry your teammates; sometimes they have to carry you. Each team will race up the hill and through some mud to the finish line. The catch: they will be carrying one teammate on a platform. They are allowed to switch out throughout the race. Videos from home are the reward. Tracey and Abby will sit out. Dina agrees to be on the platform for the black team, while Rebecca is on it for the blue team. The blue team’s strategy is to take the early lead because the path can only fit one team. This strategy works. Going through the mud on the second mud pit, Amanda loses her shoe, so she hops on the platform for the black team. Regardless of what else may have happened in the challenge, the end result is unsurprising. The blue team, which had the lead the whole time, retains it to easily win the challenge. Rebecca has opted to give her video to Dina, but she declines, wanting to get on the step on her own.

Liz gets her buddy Danny to see his own video, pretending she wants him to come watch hers with her. He finds out that he’s already an inspiration, and his family is following in his footsteps and also losing weight.

Jillian’s goal at the last chance workout is to get her black team to realize they’re teamed with each other now, not with their prior teammates. Her other goal: get Dina on the platform. Not today.

Bob’s team goes off to 24 Hour Fitness for a change of pace, as he’s hoping to get his team to forget blue vs. black.

It’s time for the weigh-in.

Tracey: 206 pounds (-7, 3.29%)
Mo: 312 pounds (-6, 1.89%)
Allen: 278 pounds (-7, 2.46%)
Rudy: 369 pounds (-8, 2.12%)
Rebecca: 237 pounds (-7, 2.87%)
Liz: 232 pounds (-8, 3.33%)
Blue Total: -43 pounds, 2.56%

Abby: 208 pounds (-5, 2.35%)
Dina: 223 pounds (-6, 2.62%)
Amanda: 224 pounds (-6, 2.61%)
Danny: 372 pounds (-10, 2.62%)
Daniel: 276 pounds (-11, 3.83%)
Shay: 416 pounds (-16, 3.70%)
Black Total: -54 pounds, 3.05%

The blue team has fallen below the yellow line. Liz has the highest percentage of weight loss on her team, which makes her immune. It seems a foregone conclusion what’s going to happen from here. However, getting rid of Tracey would not be a smart move because she’s putting up good numbers, but logic doesn’t seem to be the method being used by some of them. Realizing he’s playing a game he never intended to play, Mo is the voice of reason. He’s putting up the lowest numbers, so the logical move here is to get rid of him. The excessively bitter Rebecca isn’t happy with this theory. Liz is thinking about going along with the vote, though, since she thinks Tracey trusts her.

Votes
Liz: Mo
Rudy: Mo
Tracey: Mo
Rebecca: Mo

With 4 votes, Coach Mo is not The Biggest Loser. So pretty much I’m going to have to listen to more of this for another week. Mo is down to 76 pounds from a starting weight of 355. He hopes to put some other people on the right path and their own journey.

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

In a week full of gameplay, Tracey made plenty of enemies in The Biggest Loser 8 Episode 3, including Jillian, despite making what ultimately may have been game saving moves. In the end, Antoine & Sean were voted out.

Shay’s still playing the role of the victim. Her target now: Tracey.

Bob wants the contestants to consider that everybody needs to be there, not just certain people or one person any more than another. Sean at 405 pounds sure had a long ways to go.

Jillian wants to know why Julio’s there. He claims he doesn’t know. There’s no reason he ended up at 407 pounds. He eventually acknowledges the one thing he’s been great at is food.

Tracey goes to see Dr. H to see if he will clear her to exercise. Her enzyme levels have almost doubled from last week. She’s been shut down. Not only no exercise in the gym. None at all, not even walking around the ranch or going in the pool.

When the contestants walk into the kitchen, Allison’s there waiting for them, with padlocked cupboards. It’s all locked up and will stay that way all week long. For the next 7 days, they will have to order out every single meal.

The week will kick off with a pop challenge. They will be shown three food choices for dinner. The team that makes the healthiest choice will win a kitchen stocked with healty foods for one year.

Dinner A: 1/4 roasted chicken breast (without skin), 1/2 cup low fat creamed spinach, 2.75 oz sweet potatoes, 1/2 cup nonfat peach frozen yogurt, 2 cups unsweetened iced tea

Dinner B: 1/2 rotisserie chicken (with skin), 1/2 cup creamed spinach, 1/2 cup vanilla frozen yogurt, 1/2 cup blueberries, 2 cups green tea

Dinner C: 1/4 barbecue chicken (with skin), 1 cup peas and carrots, 1 cup mango slices, 1 cup skim milk

Dinner B was selected by nobody, which narrows it down to A and C. The healthiest meal is dinner A. Brown, pink, and orange are correct. Mango slices turned out to be one of the pitfalls on dinner C.

So how many calories were there in dinner A? The closest without going over will win. Brown team gueses 547, pink guesses 385, and orange guesses 475. The correct answer is 445, so Rebecca and Amanda win.

When they order out, everybody realizes how difficult it is. Not only are they not sure what’s going into the food or how it’s prepared, but they can’t even be sure the person on the other end has a clue and will be able to follow instructions like no cheese.

Bob and Jillian decide to take them out to dinner, and not at Subway. They take them to a Mexican restaurant. First thing to do is to skip the bread. The next thing to do is just stick with the water. Maybe club soda or unsweetened iced tea. Oh, and don’t leave your house without your calorie counter.

At the challenge, they’re gonna be playing for immunity. Each person will grab hold of a handlebar. Their job is straightforward: hang on as long as they can. The platform will continue getting steeper until it’s completely vertical. Abby and Tracey will sit out. Liz is the first one to hit the water. Danny follows her, and brown is out. Amanda is out. Rudy is next. Rebecca follows him, eliminating the pink team. Dina is the next one to fall, taking out the blue team. Mo is out, eliminating purple. Shay falls after 10 minutes. Julio falls, eliminating the black team. That leaves Allen up against Daniel. Allen drops, and Daniel wins immunity for himself and Shay.

Jillian’s getting tired of Rudy’s excuses. He either needs to drop dead or make it happen. She doesn’t have to be nice. She’s not Bob.

Coach Mo realizes he’s got all the weight of the purple team on himself because Tracey is unable to workout. He keeps pushing and pushing. Then he hurts his back. He’s definitely thought about going home. Bob suggests waiting until the scale and seeing if it’s working for him. No need to wait that long. He’s back in the gym and on the bike.

At the weigh-in, they discuss how tough this week’s been since they’ve had to eat out every meal.

Daniel: 287 pounds (no change)
Shay: 432 pounds (-5, 1.14%)
Orange Total: 719 pounds (-5 pounds, 0.69%, immune)

Allison says that’s not a bad strategy. Daniel denies any strategy was involved.

Allen: 285 pounds (-7, 2.40%)
Abby: 213 pounds (-3, 1.39%)
Green Total: 498 pounds (-10, 1.97%)

Rudy: 377 pounds (-11, 2.84%)
Dina: 229 pounds (-5, 2.14%)
Blue Total: 606 pounds (-16, 2.57%)

Liz: 240 pounds (-3, 1.24%)
Danny: 382 pounds (-8, 2.05%)
Brown Total: 622 pounds (-11, 1.74%)

Tracey: 213 pounds (-4, 1.84%)
Mo: 318 pounds (-8, 2.45%)
Purple Total: 531 pounds (-12, 2.21%)

Tracey and Mo are both pleasantly surprised to be safe. The other contestants at least fake as if they’re congratulating them this week. Then Shay complains because she doesn’t want healthy teams going home, whatever that means.

Julio: 364 pounds (-4, 1.09%)

Jillian doesn’t have a reason why that just happened. It should have been higher, even with the take out food.

Amanda: 230 pounds (-5, 2.13%)
Rebecca: 244 pounds (-4, 1.61%)
Pink Total: 474 pounds (-9, 1.86%)

That puts Julio and the brown team below the yellow line. All three of them will just leave it up to the house to decide rather than campaigning against each other. However, Liz and Danny say they’re not sure they can do it at home, whereas Julio’s ready to do it if that’s what he has to do. Purple team’s split because Tracey’s close to Liz and Mo’s close to Julio. Pink and orange teams are worried that Liz will send them home.

Votes
Shay & Daniel: Julio
Dina & Rudy: Liz & Danny
Allen & Abby: Julio
Tracey & Mo: Julio

With three votes, Julio is not The Biggest Loser. He’s down from his starting weight of 407 to 299 pounds today. He still loves food but is just changing how he does things.

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

Because they met Allison’s challenge of losing over 150 pounds, nobody was sent home in The Biggest Loser 8 Episode 2.

Allison’s waiting for them the next day before they head into the gym. She talks about choices. This is “Would you rather?” week. Would they rather have their trainers or an advantage at the weigh-in? They will be there training whoever wants to be trained, but they will not train whoever would rather have an advantage. Only one team will be granted the 2 pound advantage. If nobody’s interested, the stakes will go up. 2 pounds really isn’t worth it, but to Mo’s surprise, Tracey takes the offer for the purple team.

When they get inside, it’s time to face the firing squad. Bob and Jillian are upset, so their work with her for the week will be limited to a lecture about not making such hasty decisions.

Dr. H has ordered an MRI for Abby because of her problem with shin splints. She will be allowed to go in the pool, but that’s it. He is unable to predict how long this will last.

When Allison started talking about choices earlier, my mind immediately went to temptation. Would they rather control their diet or control the game? At the weigh-in, only one person from each team will represent them. The winner of the temptation will be able to choose. What’s under the trays? It’s… a cupcake. Okay, what’s the real temptation? That cupcake contains 100 calories. All they have to do to win is eat more cupcakes than anybody else.

Liz doesn’t want that kind of control this early. Sean wants to take these cupcakes and rub them all over his body, which is probably more than I needed to know. Around the 6 minute mark, Antoine takes the first bite. Tracey’s still thinking about Bob and Jillian from earlier, but that doesn’t last.

Two people ended up eating. Antoine ate 2 cupcakes. Tracey ate 4 to win the challenge. For 400 calories, a pretty good prize.

Bob is just hoping that nobody did anything stupid. He asks who in the world would have done this. That would be Tracey. Again. Jillian’s ready to inflict bodily harm. As big a deal as they make of this, 400 calories really isn’t much, especially for the power received or as compared with prior temptations that we’ve seen run into the thousands. Perhaps the bigger issue here, though, is that she already jumped on the last offer very quickly.

Control is up for grabs again. The winner will get immunity. Each team will have to get 500 pounds to the top of the ramp. They can choose to lift the closer 5 pound buckets 2 at a time, or they can opt for the 25 pounders. Tracey and Abby will be sitting out, so their partners (and Julio) will need to get to 250 pounds.

10 pounds: Purple, Green, Pink, Blue
25 pounds: Brown, Black, Red, Orange

The disadvantage to the 25 pound weights is that they’re a lot further than the set of 5s, but it also means a lot more climbing up that ramp. Green and pink are leading the pack at the halfway point, an indication that the closer choice was the better one. After 15 minutes, green’s got a pretty sizeable lead as pink slows behind him. This is Allen’s challenge to lose. Pink has some chance, but everybody else has no prayer. Allen retains his lead the whole way to win immunity for himself and Abby. Pink finishes second. Everybody else keeps going and finishes the challenge, all ganging up on the final player’s spot to help Mo finish.

This week, it’s Dina’s turn to get screamed at. She quits while running. Jillian hates quitters. After much drama, Dina returns to the treadmill.

Daniel asks Tracey for some mercy. He would rather get on the scale than Shay. Amanda is afraid of pulling another low number. Tracey would like some cooperation out of them: don’t vote for her if she falls below the yellow line. They are unwilling to commit. Don’t be surprised if she is unwilling to work with you then.

At the weigh-in, Jillian’s still lecturing. This time, she wants to convince Mo that he can’t support his partner’s decisions.

Allen: 292 pounds (-4, 1.35%)
Abby: 216 pounds (-5, 2.26%)
Green Total: 508 pounds (-9, 1.74%, immune)

Julio: 368 pounds (-7, 1.87%)

Liz: 243 pounds (-4, 1.62%)
Danny: 390 pounds (-4, 1.01%)
Brown Total: 633 pounds (-8, 1.25%)

Liz’s weight will count for the brown team, which is surprisingly the decision that benefits them most.

Rudy: 388 pounds (-12, 3.00%)
Dina: 234 pounds (-3, 1.27%)
Blue Total: 622 pounds (-15, 2.36%)

Rudy’s weight will count, which will guarantee the blue team’s safety.

Amanda: 235 pounds (-5, 2.08%)
Rebecca: 248 pounds (-7, 2.75%)
Pink Total: 483 pounds (-12, 2.42%)

Against their wishes, Tracey chooses Amanda to weigh-in, which they whine about. Next time somebody wants to make a deal, make the deal, or don’t and get over it. Don’t refuse, demand your side only, and pout.

Antoine: 330 pounds (-11, 3.22%)
Sean: 405 pounds (-6, 1.46%)
Red Total: 735 pounds (-17, 2.26%)

Sean’s numbers will count for the red team.

Daniel: 287 pounds (-6, 2.05%)
Shay: 437 pounds (-6, 1.35%)
Orange Total: 724 pounds (-12, 1.63%)

Going against Daniel’s expectations, Shay’s numbers will count. Tracey’s just making enemies left and right here. She’s gonna have trouble surviving much longer at this pace. With that, Rebecca continues her earlier tantrum.

Tracey: 217 pounds (-11, -2, 5.70%)
Mo: 326 pounds (-1, 0.31%)
Purple Total: 543 pounds (-12, 2.16%)

For all the bashing Tracey took this week, she made a genius choice. If somebody else took control of this game (and somebody else would have eventually) and picked Mo, they’d be below the yellow line. Beyond that, for all the talk about how 2 pounds wouldn’t matter, since only 1 person’s weight counted, it ended up making a big difference, as both of those who fell below the yellow line could have been saved by it. The bad news for Tracey is that her life there is bound to be short-lived because she’s got some serious fence mending to do. She receives no applause for knocking it out the park this week without a trainer. Nobody’s even willing to fake it.

The red and orange teams have fallen below the yellow line, and one of them will be eliminated. Since she’s still the heaviest woman ever, Shay is likely to get the sympathy votes. It’s too early for voting out a threat just yet. Granted, Sean’s over 400 pounds himself and as such both needs to be there and is a big threat, although I think he’s more likely to stick to it.

Votes
Julio: Antoine & Sean
Abby & Allen: Antoine & Sean
Amanda & Rebecca: Antoine & Sean
Tracey & Mo: Antoine & Sean

Sean has lost 120 pounds from his starting weight of 444 pounds. He and his wife are expecting another child any day now, which they plan to name Jillian.

Antoine has dropped 105 pounds from his starting weight of 367 pounds. Since leaving, he’s hooked up with Alexandra, who was kicked off the ranch week 1.

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