Category: biggest loser 17

Damien fell below the red line in The Biggest Loser Season 16 Episode 9, leaving just a single person left on his blue team.

Since the blue team is so hopeless, it’s time for a team shuffle. The white team will suffer the most from this, as they have only lost a single person in 9 weeks. Unlike the first time when it was about the people who finished first being able to choose where they wanted to go, this will be left up to random chance. They will pick kettlebells with team colors.

Dolvett: Sonya, Toma, Rob
Jen: Scott, Rondalee, Lori
Jessie: Jordan, JJ, Woody

Only Rob and Rondalee remain on their original teams. Just like that, the white team now seems like the weakest link.

Nobody is particularly happy about the change, but Sonya is particularly broken up about it. She ends up crying during the workout.

Rocco DiSpirito is back for some cooking. The team that cooks the best dish will win a 1 pound advantage. They will be judged on taste, creativity, and healthiness. The red team uses an entire jalapeno pepper in their meal, which is an easy guarantee they will lose. Between the other two teams, based on their ratio of carbs to protein at 1:1, the white team wins.

Jackie: 239 pounds (-4, 1.65%)
Damien: 306 pounds (-8, 2.55%)

After two weeks of winning, Jackie has met her downfall against Damien.

Scott: 268 pounds (-9, 3.25%)
Lori: 245 pounds (-4, 1.61%)
Rondalee: 221 pounds (-3, 1.34%)
White Total: 733 pounds (-16, -1, 2.27%)

Sonya: 200 pounds (-6, 2.91%)
Rob: 366 pounds (-8, 2.14%)
Toma: 246 pounds (-9, 3.53%)
Red Total: 812 pounds (-23, 2.75%)

JJ: 309 pounds (-8, 2.52%)
Jordan: 246 pounds (-2, 0.81%)
Woody: 317 pounds (-15, 4.52%)
Blue Total: 872 pounds (-25, 2.79%)

Woody’s terrible number last week proves to be the blue team’s saving grace. The white team’s reign came to a thud pretty quickly. Rondalee has fallen below the red line.

From her starting weight of 291 pounds, Jackie is down 83 to 208 pounds today.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 16 Episode 11, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on NBC.

Blake has been one of the biggest losers this season, but her as its latest victim in The Biggest Loser Season 16 Episode 8.

Damien shows up to the challenge wearing a sling that he got as a result of boxing with his trainer.

Some more former NFL players, who in this case have not let themselves go, join them. Their job is to launch footballs to two of their teammates (one trainer and one contestant), who will be tied together. Once they make catches, they must return them to the other end of the field. Reward is video chats. Sonya is a lost cause, so the white team is obviously going to lose. Scott and Jordan manage to beat Damien and Lori by a small margin to win the reward for the red team. Rob offers his chat to Lori.

Jackie: 243 pounds (-6, 2.41%)
Blake: 195 pounds (-1, 0.51%)

Blake has another bad week, while Jackie has a much improved week, leading to Jackie being the first person to survive for two weeks in a row at Comeback Canyon.

Rondalee: 224 pounds (-7, 3.03%)
JJ: 317 pounds (-4, 1.25%)
Toma: 255 pounds (-8, 3.04%)
Woody: 332 pounds (-3, 0.90%)
Sonya: 206 pounds (-9, 4.19%)
White Total: 1334 pounds (-31, 2.27%)

Lori: 249 pounds (-6, 2.35%)
Damien: 314 pounds (-3, 0.95%)
Blue Total: 563 pounds (-9, 1.57%)

Scott: 277 pounds (-6, 2.12%)
Jordan: 248 pounds (-5, 1.98%)
Rob: 374 pounds (-13, 3.36%)
Red Total: 899 pounds (-24, 2.60%)

The blue team continues to get decimated as Damien falls below the red line.

From her starting weight of 251 pounds, Blake is down 90 pounds to 161 today. She has been on diets since age 7 but finally realized that she needs to change her lifestyle instead.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 16 Episode 10, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on NBC.

Jackie fell below the red line and was eliminated in The Biggest Loser Season 16 Episode 7.

One player from each team will run on a treadmill. Once they stop running, they will go into the water. As they continue, the speed will increase every 5 minutes. Damien, Rondalee, and Scott will run for their teams. Rondalee’s pretty sure she can hang with the football players, but this time she cannot. Scott ends up beating Damien, and the red team finally wins a challenge.

Now they can assign penalties. One team will have to clean the house and cannot go to the gym until they are finished. The other team will go to Las Vegas for the week. Only on this show is that a punishment. The red team gives the trip to Vegas to the white team to try to knock them off their winning pedestal, while the blue team will clean.

When they arrive, they are immediately greeted by temptation in the form of chocolate covered strawberries and champagne, but they resist. Of course, it doesn’t end there. Their first stop is a buffet. They are pretty good. Then they go to a club. The women are confident, but they are concerned about the guys, who are clearly not entirely opposed to indulging at least a little. In the end, everybody does seem to mostly behave, though it appears there is more interest in partying than exercise.

Now we head to Comeback Canyon for the second chance weigh in.

Jackie: 249 pounds (-3, 1.19%)
Gina: 202 pounds (-2, 0.98%)

Two lackluster numbers, but Jackie’s 3 pound weight loss for the second week in a row is enough to save her.

Rob: 387 pounds (-9, 2.27%)
Jordan: 253 pounds (-6, 2.32%)
Scott: 283 pounds (-5, 1.74%)
Blake: 196 pounds (-3, 1.51%)
Red Total: 1119 pounds (-23, 2.01%)

Rondalee: 231 pounds (-3, 1.28%)
JJ: 321 pounds (-7, 2.13%)
Sonya: 215 pounds (-6, 2.71%)
Toma: 263 pounds (-8, 2.95%)
Woody: 335 pounds (-7, 2.05%)
White Total: 1365 pounds (-31, 2.22%)

Lori: 255 pounds (-5, 1.16%)
Damien: 317 pounds (-9, 2.76%)
Blue Total: 572 pounds (-12, 2.05%)

Once again, the two punished teams outperformed the not punished team, and the one with the worse punishment did the best. As the smallest loser on the losing team, Blake has fallen below the red line.

From her starting weight of 242 pounds, Gina is down 65 pounds to 177 today.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 16 Episode 9, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on NBC.

After falling below the red line in The Biggest Loser Season 16 Episode 6, Gina was eliminated.

Jessie chooses today to tap into his team’s inner athletes. He starts off with Lori, three time gold medalist, and tries to hit her pitches.

The teams have a task this week of holding 15% of their body weight above their heads. If they let go, their trainers will fall into the pool. The first team to fail will lose their trainer for the week, and the next team will only have their trainer for the last chance workout. Sonya and Woody (rather than Rondalee) sit out for the white team. Blake sits out for the red team.

After half an hour, nobody has let go. Scott drops at 34 minutes. Jordan follows. It’s pretty much a lost cause for the red team, the heaviest of the bunch, and Rob is next. White and blue teams are still intact after 50 minutes. JJ is the first person to drop from the white team. Then Toma. And of course Rondalee falls next. This is kind of a silly challenge since one person falling is leading to the downfall of everybody else. Blue team is the only team that will have their trainer for the week.

Gina: 204 pounds (-3, 1.45%)
Matt: 315 pounds (-2, 0.63%)

They both put up pretty bad numbers, but Matt’s big week last week caught up with him, allowing Gina to get by with a 3 pound weight loss.

Rob: 396 pounds (-9, 2.22%)
Jordan: 259 pounds (-7, 2.63%)
Scott: 288 pounds (-7, 2.37%)
Blake: 199 pounds (-5, 2.45%)
Red Total: 1142 pounds (-28, 2.39%)

Lori: 258 pounds (-5, 1.90%)
Jackie: 252 pounds (-2, 0.79%)
Damien: 326 pounds (-5, 1.51%)
Blue Total: 836 pounds (-12, 1.42%)

JJ: 328 pounds (-7, 2.09%)
Toma: 271 pounds (-4, 1.45%)
Woody: 342 pounds (-4, 1.16%)
Rondalee: 234 pounds (-2, 0.85%)
Sonya: 221 pounds (-6, 2.64%)
White Total: 1396 pounds (-23, 1.62%)

Interestingly, the less time teams had with their trainer this week, the better they did. As the smallest loser both on the losing blue team and overall, Jackie has fallen below the red line and been eliminated.

From his starting weight of 386 pounds, Matt is down 114 pounds to 272 today. His girlfriend has been begging him for a few years to go up to a waterfall with her, but he could not (or did not want to) make the trek. When they reach the top, he proposes.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 16 Episode 8, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on NBC.

The return of the red line led to Matt’s elimination in The Biggest Loser Season 16 Episode 5.

Alison greets them with some tailgating food, among the least healthy food there is. This is a temptation. Each person will get 3 minutes alone, and whoever eats the most will get immunity. However, their weight will still count for their team’s total and may help to knock someone below the red line.

Several people refuse to eat anything, but there are those who are more than willing to partake.

Scott ate 270 calories. Woody ate 378 calories. Toma easily beat both of them (and Rob) with over 800 calories. By temptation standards, that’s a pretty tame amount.

Scott grew up in an environment where he felt alone, not having either a father or mother he could rely on. One thing he did learn from his father is that he needs to get healthy, or he will die just like him.

Mike and Matt are both strong competitors, a big change from what we have seen at Comeback Canyon in weeks past. Either of them could easily stick around for a long time to come, though as we saw last week with Matt, one bad week could be the end.

Mike: 315 pounds (-11, 3.37%)
Matt: 317 pounds (-16, 4.80%)

Falling below the red line last week helped Matt here. Mike put up an impressive number, but it was not enough.

JJ: 335 pounds (-7, 2.05%)
Sonya: 227 pounds (-7, 2.99%)
Rondalee: 236 pounds (-6, 2.48%)
Woody: 346 pounds (-8, 2.26%)
Toma: 275 pounds (-7, 2.48%, immune)
White Total: 1419 pounds (-35, 2.41%)

Jackie: 254 pounds (-5, 1.93%)
Lori: 263 pounds (-4, 1.50%)
Gina: 207 pounds (-3, 1.43%)
Damien: 331 pounds (-7, 2.07%)
Blue Total: 1055 pounds (-19, 1.77%)

Scott: 295 pounds (-7, 2.32%)
Jordan: 266 pounds (-6, 2.21%)
Blake: 204 pounds (-5, 2.39%)
Rob: 416 pounds (-11, 2.64%)
Red Total: 1170 pounds (-29, 2.42%)

They try to create drama, as if Rob is going to lose less than 4 pounds, but the end result is obvious. The blue team put up the only numbers below 2%, and Gina has fallen below the red line by a narrow margin.

From his starting weight of 399 pounds, Mike has dropped 120 pounds and weighs 279 today.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 16 Episode 7, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on NBC.

Mike made his team’s decision easy in The Biggest Loser Season 16 Episode 4, volunteering to go home to let the younger ones stick around a while longer.

Though he volunteered to be sent home and his team agreed, Mike is actually this season’s biggest loser so far. He should prove to be stiff competition for Chandra or anyone else who follows.

Matt used to be a model, but then he suffered injuries. After that, doctors told him he could not play sports any more, and he turned to food instead.

They are all about to cross a canyon while suspended 100 feet in the air and will have to pull themselves across. Isn’t there a weight limit on this sort of thing? Woody immediately volunteers to sit out, but he cannot do that because he sat out last time. The winning team will be able to make the weight of one player on another team not count. More good news: there is a red line this week.

Rondalee somehow beats Damien and Scott to take the lead for the white team. Damien feels something pop in his shoulder, but he keeps going anyway. Matt retains the lead for the white team, and Sonya continues that. Out of nowhere, Lori makes it interesting toward the end, but Woody is still able to help keep the white team undefeated in challenges.

The white team has decided to sideline Damien and put the blue team’s fate on the girls this week. A smart choice since he has lost the most weight on his team every week except the first. The other choices they had considered are Blake and Scott. Perhaps that would be better since the red team is a lot more threatening.

The outcome of the Comeback Canyon weigh in seems pretty obvious.

Mike: 326 pounds (-7, 2.10%)
Chandra: 313 pounds (-4, 1.26%)

Mike ends up winning, and Chandra will be going home.

Scott: 302 pounds (-13, 4.13%)
Blake: 209 pounds (-7, 3.24%)
Jordan: 272 pounds (-7, 2.51%)
Rob: 416 pounds (-5, 1.19%)
Red Total: 1199 pounds (-32, 2.60%)

After that, it’s looking like Scott or Blake would have been good choices.

Damien: 338 pounds (-6, 1.74%)
Gina: 210 pounds (-7, 3.23%)
Jackie: 259 pounds (-8, 3.00%)
Lori: 267 pounds (-9, 3.26%)
Blue Total: 1074 pounds (-30, 2.72%)
Blue Total (without Damien): 736 pounds (-24, 3.16%)

And now Damien does not look like such a good choice.

JJ: 342 pounds (-5, 1.44%)
Sonya: 234 pounds (-6, 2.50%)
Woody: 354 pounds (-7, 1.94%)
Rondalee: 242 pounds (-8, 3.20%)
Toma: 282 pounds (-9, 3.09%)
Matt: 333 pounds (-3, 0.89%)
White Total: 1787 pounds (-38, 2.08%)

Having fallen below the red line, Matt is going home. One off week is all it takes when the red line is in place.

The white team’s challenge win did not so much “backfire” because they were on a losing path almost no matter what. Even if they lost the challenge and Matt was sidelined, they still would have lost the weigh in. However, there was a single person at this weigh in who they could have picked that would have turned that loss into a second place. Choosing Scott would have knocked the red team down to 2.07%, eliminating Rob.

Chandra is down to 287 pounds from her staring weight of 341 pounds, a difference of 54.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 16 Episode 6, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on NBC.

Another person who previously talked about going home, Chandra, was the latest person to be voted out in The Biggest Loser Season 16 Episode 3.

If you were enjoying 2 hour episodes of this show… tough. That is now over. We now return to our regularly scheduled squeeze it into the schedule wherever it will fit but not very well programming.

They are welcomed to The Biggest Loser lottery. One person will be going home for the week, and their weight loss will be the only one that counts for their team. They will also bring trainer with them, removing that access from the others. Is that a prize or a punishment?

As the person whose name is called last, Damien will be heading home this week along with Jessie. The silver lining, if there is one, is that Damien lost the most weight on his team for each of the last two weeks, and he seems the most likely to have a strong performance.

An injured Blake can only do low impact workouts. Of course, nutrition is more than half the battle.

Chandra is seeing Emmy able to do more than she is doing. I’m not thinking that’s a good sign, though it’s not guaranteed to be the determining factor either.

Damien’s mom died suddenly two years ago. He says that is a large part of his weight problem. At least they have identified an issue that is serving as a barrier.

First the Comeback Canyon weigh in.

Emmy: 239 pounds (-4, 1.65%)
Chandra: 317 pounds (-7, 2.16%)

After Chandra’s terrible 1 pound weight loss last week, it was pretty easy for her to put up a big number, and Emmy will be going home, though she’s already at a pretty reasonable weight relative to most of these people.

Now to the ranch.

Blake: 216 pounds (-8, 3.57%)
Jordan: 279 pounds (-10, 3.46%)
Scott: 315 pounds (-7, 2.17%)
Mike: 333 pounds (-10, 2.92%)
Rob: 421 pounds (-12, 2.77%)
Red Total: 1564 pounds (-47, 2.92%)

We are only four weeks in, but Mike has already lost enough weight to get off all his diabetes medications.

Rondalee: 250 pounds (-5, 1.96%)
Matt: 336 pounds (-10, 2.89%)
Woody: 361 pounds (-11, 2.96%)
Toma: 291 pounds (-11, 3.64%)
Sonya: 240 pounds (-9, 3.61%)
JJ: 347 pounds (-16, 4.41%)
White Total: 1825 pounds (-62, 3.29%)

Jackie: 267 (-4, 1.48%)
Gina: 217 pounds (-4, 1.81%)
Lori: 276 pounds (-8, 2.82%)
Damien: 344 pounds (-14, 3.91%)
Blue Total: 1104 pounds (-30, 2.65%)

Taking into account everyone’s weight (I’m pretty sure I got all the ladies right, since they sped through them in about 20 seconds since they did not count), the blue team would have lost the weigh in this week. However, Damien put up the second highest number of all, saving them and sending the red team to elimination instead. As The Biggest Loser on the losing team, Blake is safe, demonstrating just how important nutrition is to the equation.

Votes
Blake: Mike
Jordan: Mike
Rob: Jordan
Scott: Mike

Mike volunteered to go home for his team, as he considers them like his children, though Rob could not bring himself to vote that way. With 3 votes Mike is not The Biggest Loser.

From her starting weight of 260 pounds, Emmy is down 50 pounds to 210 today. She’s now running a 5K every month with her whole family.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 16 Episode 5, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on NBC.

Following another slow week, Emmy was voted out in The Biggest Loser Season 16 Episode 2.

The trainers have a surprise for the contestants. They have hung pictures in the gym of them from their glory days, like when they scored four touchdowns in a single game (in high school football).

During the workout, Lori breaks down. She wants to see her family. It’s been two whole weeks.

Alison warns them about a double header. There will be two challenges this week. The first challenge will be a quiz on what they are able to learn about nutrition in 5 minutes. It is a multiple (two) choice quiz. They must answer over or under about various food content. The team with the most points wins a two pound advantage. If they get the answer wrong… their trainer must eat the food. Though Jen does have to eat one heavy meal, the white team easily wins the challenge.

The second double header challenge has double the prize, a four pound advantage. Each team must pedal 24.8 miles with the resistance set to be an uphill climb. Woody sits out for the white team. There are four bikes for each team, leaving one extra person as a sub. Red team is the first team to 5 miles and then 10 miles. White team is falling behind. Blue team takes the lead at the 15 mile mark. Then red drops into third. Around the half hour mark, white team’s strategy of frequently swapping two people starts to pay off, and they take the lead.

White team wins another challenge, giving them a six pound advantage on the scale. Either that, or they can take letters from home. They keep the advantage, and the other teams get letters from home.

Now the Comeback Canyon contestants weigh in.

Andrea: 220 pounds (-4, 1.79%)
Emmy: 243 pounds (-6, 2.41%)

With her highest percentage weight loss to date, Emmy wins the weigh in, and Andrea is not The Biggest Loser.

Then it’s back to the ranch for the main weigh in.

Matt: 346 pounds (-7, 1.98%)
Rondalee: 255 pounds (-3, 1.16%)
Woody: 372 pounds (-4, 1.06%)
JJ: 363 pounds (-3, 0.82%)
Toma: 302 pounds (-6, 1.95%)
Sonya: 249 pounds (-4, 1.58%)
White Total: 1887 pounds (-27, -6, 1.72%)

Rob: 433 pounds (-5, 1.14%)
Blake: 224 pounds (-3, 1.32%)
Jordan: 289 pounds (-4, 1.37%)
Mike: 343 pounds (-9, 2.56%)
Scott: 343 pounds (-9, 3.30%)
Red Total: 1611 pounds (-32, 1.95%)

Damien: 358 pounds (-9, 2.45%)
Lori: 284 pounds (-3, 1.05%)
Jackie: 271 pounds (-2, 0.73%)
Gina: 221 pounds (-1, 0.45%)
Chandra: 324 pounds (-1, 0.31%)
Blue Total: 1458 pounds (-16, 1.09%)

Usually week 2 is the bad one, but this week saw a lot of low numbers instead. The blue team puts up the worst numbers. Is it just me, or is this Jessie guy unnecessarily hard on his team, certain members anyway? As the biggest loser on the losing team, Damien is safe.

Votes
Gina: Chandra
Chandra: Lori
Lori: Jackie
Damien: Chandra

As the player with the lowest percentage of weight loss, with 2 votes, Chandra is not The Biggest Loser. Aside from her low number this week, she has also expressed an interest in going home before. It seems this is Lori’s saving grace.

From her starting weight of 240 pounds, Andrea is down to 180 pounds today. Her husband has also lost 50 pounds.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 16 Episode 4, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on NBC.