Category: biggest loser 17

Every year since 2004, The Biggest Loser has occupied NBC’s Tuesday night time slot in the fall, typically for 2 hours to help fill NBC’s empty schedule. Hope you weren’t expecting that to happen again this year.

The Biggest Loser is absent from NBC’s fall schedule for the upcoming season. The network that brought you Deal or No Deal 4 times a week will be giving us The Voice twice a week twice a year, until we’re sick of it (too late), to be followed by new comedies Go On and The New Normal, with Parenthood finishing out the night.

A start date for the next Biggest Loser has been scheduled yet, but it is currently slated for midseason.

Two weeks ago, Jeremy gave us this lecture about how it was unfair and wrong for eliminated contestants to be granted a second chance. So imagine my surprise to see him competing for a second chance in The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 17 after he had been eliminated because he plain and simple lost. With that chance, he managed to become the last person to make his way into the final three.

Jeremy joins his sister Conda Britt and pink team member Kim Neilson. If the commercials are to be believed, we’ve rooted for them all season, and now we get to see who the winner is. My only interest is that Jeremy and Conda lose, so I guess I’m stuck rooting for Kim by default. I’m more interested in the at home prize because it’s hard to support any of the quitters that made it to the end. Should have just let them walk out the door and bring in 5 new people.

In years past, they have managed to try to convince us that a 3 hour finale was necessary. Tonight, we’re flying right through it in an hour so we can watch some singing show not named American Idol and then an ill-fated fashion show.

Having walked off the show, Mark, Buddy, and one quitter I forgot about (Joe, who left in week 3) will not be eligible for either prize, as they will not be weighing in tonight. Chris, who deliberately sabotaged her game so she could go home after threatening to quit 128 times, is there, however, as she at least left within the natural course of the game’s rules.

Chism: 258 pounds (-103, 28.53%)
Nancy: 161 pounds (-56, 25.81%)
Cassandra: 147 pounds (-92, 38.49%)
Ben: 257 pounds (-139, 35.10%)
Daphne: 183 pounds (-88, 32.47%)
Adrian: 262 pounds (-108, 29.19%)
Emily: 162 pounds (-102, 38.64%)
Megan: 183 pounds (-76, 29.34%)
Kimmy: 148 pounds (-71, 32.42%)
Gail: 235 pounds (-87, 27.02%)
Lauren: 157 pounds (-89, 36.18%)
Roy: 218 pounds (-88, 28.76%)
Chris: 163 pounds (-77, 32.08%)
Mike: 198 pounds (-160, 44.69%)

After his performance last week, Mike, who they kicked out in week 2 because they said he was lazy, earned a lot of fans, who were hoping he could prevent the final three from sucking. He did not earn that spot, but he did one better for himself, as he put himself up there as the odds on favorite for the other prize, which was a lot easier than trying to take down front runner Kim. With 160 pounds lost, Mike is this season’s at home winner of $100,000. Reading my comments from that week, I see I hoped that Conda would shut the hell up with Mike’s elimination. Well, that didn’t happen.

One thing we do know is Conda won’t win, which is the last thing I think anybody wants to see. Even she’s probably rooting for her brother. Now it’s just a question of whether Jeremy has done enough to overcome Kim’s lead.

Before we get to the final results, the winner of the PALA challenge is Kim. She has won a gym for her community.

Conda: 179 pounds (-115, 39.12%)
Jeremy: 190 pounds (-199, 51.16%)
Kim: 134 pounds (-118, 46.83%)

Kim looks as good as any finalist ever has, but she just does not have enough weight to lose. The Biggest Loser Season 13 winner is Jeremy Britt. And the nation joins me in a collective groan.

The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 16 was the most eventual in recent memory. In what could very well have been clever gameplay by brother and sister, the entire house threatened to quit. When the dust cleared, Buddy and Mark were gone. Too bad everybody didn’t make good on their promise to leave. Of the final three, Jeremy was the next one to be eliminated.

Tonight, all of the eliminated contestants return with a second chance, including Mark’s son Chism, Buddy’s brother Ben, and even one of the would be quitters, Jeremy. I guess the second chance is fair now. Even Chris, as much a quitter as anyone, is back, but at least she left within the confines of the rules of the game, merely sabotaging herself rather than walking out. At least Mark and Buddy have been severed from the show. According to Conda, the second chance for Jeremy is fair. But it is not fair for any of the other 13 to have that same chance to fail and return like he did. Do these people even think before they speak, or do they just deliberately spout nonsense?

The top 8 on the scales will proceed to the next stage.

Jeremy: 239 pounds (-150, 38.60%)
Chris: 166 pounds (-74, 30.83%)
Megan: 189 pounds (-70, 27.03%)
Kimmy: 154 pounds (-65, 29.68%)
Emily: 175 pounds (-89, 33.71%)
Cassandra: 158 pounds (-81, 33.89%)
Chism: 265 pounds (-96, 26.59%)
Daphne: 204 pounds (-67, 24.72%) – Jeremy is safe

From this point, each time someone weighs in, one person will be out, and one will be safe.

Roy: 227 pounds (-79, 25.82%) – Daphne is out, Cassandra is safe
Adrian: 291 pounds (-79, 21.35%) – Adrian is out, Emily is safe
Nancy: 168 pounds (-49, 22.58%) – Nancy is out, Chris is safe
Gail: 249 pounds (-73, 22.67%) – Gail is out, Kimmy is safe
Lauren: 172 pounds (-74, 30.08%) – Roy is out, Lauren is safe
Mike: 244 pounds (-114, 31.84%) – Chism is out, Mike is safe
Ben: 297 pounds (-99, 25.00%) – Ben is out, Megan is safe

As the people who have been on campus the longest, the final two plus Jeremy should have the advantage here. But there are some nice numbers from the other side with potential. Emily and Cassandra find themselves just ahead of Conda, while Mike (eliminated in week 2) did well at home and still has a good amount of weight left to lose.

For the sake of comparison, here’s how the final two stack up:

Conda: 194 pounds (-101, 33.67%)
Kim: 147 pounds (-105, 41.67%)

Kim’s clearly the frontrunner here, particularly if Jeremy does not return, but the question is just how much more weight she can lose. Prior to her most recent 15 pound weight loss, she was already a size 6.

Jeremy is mad. He doesn’t want to participate in this challenge. Well don’t then. Go ahead and quit. Otherwise, stop whining. We saw enough of that last week. You lost fair and square, dude, just like these other 13 people who were not lucky enough to be part of your alliance of not so much effort but numbers, and you’re lucky you are even getting another shot.

So when we come back from the commercial break, right on cue, Jeremy is whining some more.

Chris has not been medically cleared to compete, and she has been eliminated. That leaves 7 people to compete for the last finalist spot.

On day 1, they ran a 40 yard dash to get into the house. Now they will run a 100 yard dash, and the top 5 will advance. Cassandra, Lauren, Megan, Mike, and Jeremy proceed, with Kimmy and Emily being eliminated.

The second step is a puzzle in which they must match the different foods with the number of calories they contain. The first 3 finishers move on to the final round. Jeremy’s first guess is incorrect. Mike’s first guess is right. Jeremy’s second guess is incorrect. And again and again. He’s close but can’t seem to figure out the top foods. After several attempts, Jeremy advances. Lauren’s first guess is wrong. Her second guess is right. Cassandra and Megan have been eliminated.

The first two parts were a bit lame, but now we get a real test. They will stand on a post and hold a ticket to the finals above their heads. Last person standing wins. Jeremy won’t shut the hell up in an effort to annoy everybody. It’s working. After 2 hours, they are limited to just one hand, and they cannot switch any more. 20 minutes later, they have to stand on one foot. Somebody’s going to fall soon enough. If it comes to balance, I have to go with the girl. But Lauren drops at 2 hours and 35 minutes after she gets nauseous. By the 3 hour mark, those watching the challenge are covered in blankets. After 3 hours and 10 minutes, Mike’s other leg drops, and Jeremy is back.

That’s what you call anticlimactic. Jeremy and Conda in the finals? I guess that means there’s no option but to root for Kim. Too bad her spot was tainted by what happened last week because otherwise I’d be fully onboard with my support. Conda won’t win, but Jeremy might be able to pull it off.

If we’re looking at 50% as the benchmark here, Jeremy just needs to drop to 195, while Kim needs to hit 126.

Stay tuned to dinguRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 18, where we will find out who The Biggest Loser Season 13 winner is, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

With Chris having given up in The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 15, she was the clear choice to be sent home.

We start off with everybody packing. They want to quit because they heard that, like every season, the past contestants are being brought back, and one of them has a chance to return to the show.

Quitting? In the final 5? Because you don’t like a twist that everybody saw coming? Good. Let them go. Bunch of ungrateful babies. Give someone who wants to be there the chance to win a quarter of a million dollars. It’s hard enough finding someone to root for this season since the cast that remains has been so unappealing, in some cases downright hateful, and now we get this. The irony is that this is the season of no excuses. It’s not fair sure sounds like an excuse if I ever heard one.

The attorney for the show comes to sit down with the contestants. He explains that the series rules specifically stated that the eliminated contestants would come back, participate in a challenge, and have a shot to come back. So not only is this something we always see, but it is spelled out in black and white in the contract they signed but apparently did not read.

They are given some time to think about their decison. Who will stay, and who will go? Mark and Buddy are gone. Good riddance. Quitters. Too bad you can’t take the other three with you. Hopefully they are excluded from the finale and all future events.

This week’s excuse: I lack motivation. How’s a 2013 Ford Escape for motivation? At the end of the week, the person with the highest percentage of weight loss will win a new car. As a penalty, whoever falls below the red line will automatically be eliminated, while those above the red line will get a spot in the finale.

Bob has a challenge for Conda. He wants to go for a ride. She’ll need to pull him.

In Kim’s favor is the fact that there is no vote tonight, so the brother and sister can’t gang up on her. The problem is she has the least weight to lose, by a huge margin.

Conda: 195 pounds (-10, 4.88%)
Kim: 147 pounds (-15, 9.26%)
Jeremy: 239 pounds (-10, 4.02%)

Seeing these numbers, I’d be curious how long this “week” was. In any event, with her massive weight loss that is her best performance of the season, even better than week 1, Kim is The Biggest Loser for the night and wins a new SUV. She will be joined in the finale by Conda. As the smallest loser of the week, Jeremy has fallen below the red line, and he has been eliminated. Conda thinks it should be Jeremy in the finals and not her. You’ll get no argument on that point from me.

Now the remaining contestants return. I assume Jeremy will get a second shot as well. It is fair now? Further, is it fair for Buddy’s brother or Mark’s son to get a second shot that it seems their partners do not think they deserve?

Stay tuned to dinguRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 17, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

Pretty much nothing happened in The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 14. Tonight, something will happen. Probably. Welcome to your new abridged 50/50 split The Biggest Loser.

We start off with a meet and greet with a woman who lives in a large white house. Michelle Obama talks about her initiative to fight childhood obesity, Let’s Move. Then she changes into her workout clothes and gets grilled by the trainers. I assume the Secret Service is also working out in the background, while wearing suits and dark glasses.

Before they go, the contestants receive a challenge. They are to get people to sign up for a healthy lifestyle program under their names at NBC.com. Whoever is the most popular will win the reward of a gym being built in their community.

Chris calls Roy, who tells her to come home. Selfish. Not that I get the sense she’s entirely opposed to it, and to be fair, she posed the question whether he wants her to come home or not. Her preferred method of dealing with this: find thousands of calories and eat, eat, eat. A burger, a couple sandwiches, a king size chocolate bar, a jar of peanutbutter… the parade comes to an end eventually I think. A little bit of cheating is understandable, but this is just a case of not caring.

Bob tells her she needs to make a decision. Either she continues to work on herself here, or she goes back and returns to being miserable Chris.

Heading into the weigh in, there are two people who were impacted by the challenge. Conda has a 1 pound disadvantage; Buddy has a 1 pound advantage.

Buddy: 260 pounds (-9, -1, 3.72%)
Kim: 162 pounds (-2, 1.22%)
Jeremy: 249 pounds (-11, 4.23%)
Conda: 205 pounds (-5, +1, 1.90%)
Mark: 196 pounds (-4, 2.00%)
Chris: 172 pounds (+2, 1.18%)

Following her binge eating, Chris gains weight and falls below the yellow line. Bob hopes she at least learned a lesson from this mistake. She is joined in the danger zone by Kim, the biggest threat at one time but seemingly closing in on her end goal.

Votes
Conda: Chris
Buddy: Chris

With 2 votes, Chris is not The Biggest Loser, as they choose to send her home like she wanted. From her starting weight of 240 pounds, Chris is down to 156 pounds today.

Stay tuned to dinguRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 15, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

When mother and daughter fell below the yellow line in The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 12, Kimmy bowed out of the competition.

This week’s excuse: exercise is boring.

Their challenge is to load 150 boxes of food each on trucks. The first person to do that will have 30,749 pounds of food donated to their local food bank, 1 pound of food for every pound of weight ever lost on The Biggest Loser. They will also get a 1 pound advantage. Buddy will sit out due to medical restrictions. The challenge is ultimately a promotion for Newman’s Own, which I don’t think of when I think health food, though apparently they do have some healthier choices than the alternatives, but at any rate it sounds like a worthwhile company, as all of their after tax profits go to charity. This would seem to be Mark’s game to lose. Kim gets off to a strong start, but Mark finally passes her at the 122 box mark. Mark ends up winning. Then everybody else sits down. Unusual. To encourage them to finish, there is an added incentive: if they all finish, everybody’s hometown will receive a truck full of food.

Bob doesn’t get this week’s excuse because he doesn’t find exercise boring at all. Anyway, he plans to take them off the ranch. Dolvett has the same idea, taking his team to do a Zumba workout, which is apparently translated as bad dancing. As for Bob’s team, they are heading for a bike ride. He’s not sure how much fun it will be… but he promises it won’t be boring. Conda’s constant bitching is a testament to that. Megan never stops, flying off ahead of the pack.

They get to meet Jared, the guy who’s been replaced by the tagline $5 footlong.

Jeremy’s parents got divorced because of his father’s addictive personality. His lesson for the day: he has an addictive personality, too.

Megan had been following Bob’s directions. Loosely. So Bob makes her record herself on a diary cam. With that, she tells us she’s following his instructions exactly this week.

In their cooking challenge, they will have to come up with a recipe and find all the ingredients at the supermarket within 7 minutes. Then they will have 20 minutes to make their dishes. They will be judged on taste, creativity, and nutritional. The winner will receive $1,000 for every pound lost. Conda crosses the line with 3 minutes to spare, making a recipe that’s one of her favorites to cook. As for her brother, his cart is still completely empty. The rest of the contestants cut their shopping down to the wire, and Jeremy narrowly finishes with what as far as I can tell is peanutbutter and jelly. He goes a little more advanced: french toast. Without eggs.

Vinny, Antone, and Becky from season 12 (the final four, minus the winner) will be their judges.

Jeremy has cooked bread with bananas, jelly, and cream cheese. He has failed at his sole mission in this challenge: not embarrassing himself. Megan has learned to cook fresh fish while on the ranch, and she’s taking advantage of that new skill in this challenge. Conda made her favorite stew. Chris came up with her recipe quickly, but she took something of a risk by selecting chicken. Unable to complete her chicken, she’s done. Too much risk of illness for anybody to eat it. Mark and Buddy also go with chicken dishes that they are able to complete, but each of them make bad choices, feta cheese and regular mayonaise. Kim has never cooked the teriyaki filet she prepared, but she figured she would go for it anyway.

First place goes to Kim, who hates cooking. Then everybody mocks Jeremy. Antone tells Chris he didn’t care for her excuses, which makes her angry. His attempt to explain himself falls flat… and then Chris falls apart.

Kim: 164 pounds (-7, 4.09%) – $7,000 richer
Mark: 200 pounds (no change, -1, 0.50%)
Buddy: 269 pounds (-6, 2.18%)
Conda: 210 pounds (-7, 3.23%)
Jeremy: 260 pounds (-6, 2.26%)
Chris: 170 pounds (-4, 2.30%)
Megan: 191 pounds (-4, 2.05%)

In spite of being Bob’s focus this week, Megan falls below the yellow line again, a narrow 1 pound escape for Buddy, Jeremy, and Chris. She is joined by Mark, who lost no weight.

Votes
Jeremy: Megan
Conda: Megan
Chris: Megan

With 3 votes, Megan is not The Biggest Loser. From her starting weight of 259 pounds, she has lost 70 pounds and is now down to 189 pounds. She is now able to race her horse again, for the first time in 3 years, and she has also gotten engaged to someone who himself started a weight loss journey and lost 80 pounds.

Stay tuned to dinguRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 14, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

With the pink team on the chopping block in The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 11, Emily wound up being eliminated.

They’re going on vacation to Hawaii in an effort to test the excuse “I can’t lose weight on vacation.”

They start off with some sunbathing, talking about hot guys, and planning to get some cocktails. At least Mark says his head’s still in the game.

Dolvett’s biggest concern is Kim, whose partner went home last week and who is the most likely target this week. While the others eat, she hops on the treadmill and starts her workout.

Floating out from the ocean is Bethany Hamilton, a professional surfer who got her arm bit off by a shark. Within a month of her shark bite, she was back on her board, determined to find a way to surf again, eventually getting good enough to turn pro. For today, she’s going to teach them how to surf.

The challenge is Q&A of Hawaiian foods. With my Tivo acting up, I guess I’m stuck just jumping right to the results. How long does it take this thing to refind channels anyway? And then restart. In a tie breaker question about the number of calories in 24 chocolate covered macadamia nuts, Chris’ guess of 1260 is closer to the correct answer of 1320 than Kim’s answer of 518. As the winner, she gets a 1 pound advantage.

So apparently the answer to my previous question is 43 minutes. And still not working. Damnit.

Reward at their next challenge is immunity. They will have to gather leis and put them on their opponents’ tikis. Once they have 10 leis (or the death lei) on their tiki, they are out. Buddy sits out for medical reasons. Mark will target Chris, Megan, and Kimmy, as they all target Kim. Strangely enough, Chris is the biggest target. Kimmy offers Mark a death lei, but he doesn’t want it. When she gets to the top of the hill, she eliminates Kim, a surprise to Mark seeing as Kim was already almost eliminated. Chris is the next one out. Megan is the next one to be eliminated. The last one in their group, Kimmy, follows suit. Perhaps they should have put their efforts into targeting those who remain rather than Kim. Jeremy asks his sister if she wants to win. What’s she gonna say? No? Jeremy and Conda sit out the challenge for a while so Mark will run up and down the hill to help them a bit. Once both Jeremy and Conda are close, Jeremy eliminates Mark, then Conda eliminates Jeremy to win immunity. Lame.

They’re sticking around Hawaii for their weigh in, surrounded by ships in Pearl Harbor.

Conda: 217 pounds (-4, 1.81%, immune)
Chris: 174 pounds (-3, -1, 2.26%)
Mark: 200 pounds (-4, 1.96%)
Jeremy: 266 pounds (-7, 2.56%)
Megan: 195 pounds (-3, 1.52%)
Buddy: 275 pounds (-6, 2.14%)
Kimmy: 161 pounds (-2, 1.23%)
Kim: 171 pounds (-5, 2.84%)

Mother and daughter Kimmy and Megan find themselves below the yellow line. Kimmy asks them to let her go home so Megan can stay. Kim suggests they repeat their same line of thought as last week and get rid of the threat, removing their emotions. Regardless, neither is a particularly big threat.

Votes
Mark: Kimmy
Jeremy: Kimmy
Buddy: Kimmy

With 3 votes, Kimmy is not The Biggest Loser. Since starting the show, Kimmy has lost 65 pounds.

Stay tuned to dinguRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 13, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

Too many people got word of their all female final four plan in The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 10, and Cassandra was voted out.

They are now on their own as we head into singles, and the yellow line will be introduced this week.

Kim realizes that running her mouth at the elimination and for that matter the rest of the week has probably landed her in hot water. She says she’s comfortable that 1 pound Megan and 1 pound Chris will sink themselves.

At the challenge, they are tied to a ring in the center of a rink, and they’ll have to pull themselves toward a bell. There are nine prizes, and they can either keep the one they receive or take somebody else’s. Buddy must sit out for medical reasons, a stress fracture in his tibia. He automatically gets ninth place. They realize that this cannot be an individual challenge in spite of the whole nature of this week’s theory of depending on yourself. Jeremy and Conda team up, which allows Jeremy to take first place. Mark and Megan are battling, and he decides to help her take second. Then Mark takes third. Conda places fourth. Chris comes in fifth. With the two women in pink finally having the numbers, Kim gets sixth. Kimmy surprises herself and beats Emily.

Buddy receives a hat. Emily gets a phone for a day. Kimmy receives an autographed photo of Alison Sweeney. Kim gets a deluxe box of chocolates. Chris receives a 1 pound advantage, the first really good prize. Conda gets a dollar, which she trades for the 1 pound advantage. Mark receives an extra vote at elimination, as long as he remains above the yellow line. Megan gets a goldfish, which she trades to Conda for the 1 pound advantage. Jeremy can go shopping with a celebrity and a friend, which he trades to his sister for the goldfish, the worst first place prize ever.

Jeremy told Conda to pick one of the girls to go on a shopping spree with her. She chooses Kim. Not quite the direction I thought she was going with that. They go meet Jessica Simpson because she’s in the show that airs after this, which explains this evening’s 90 minute show.

Kimmy: 163 pounds (-4, 2.40%)
Conda: 221 pounds (-7, 3.07%)
Jeremy: 273 pounds (-9, 3.19%)
Megan: 198 pounds (-6, -1, 3.43%)
Buddy: 281 pounds (-8, 2.77%)
Kim: 176 pounds (-6, 3.30%)
Chris: 177 pounds (-7, 3.80%)
Mark: 204 pounds (-9, 4.23%)
Emily: 190 pounds (-5, 2.56%)

One member of the pink team managed to get by, but the other did not. Emily is below the yellow line with Kimmy.

Votes
Kim: Kimmy
Megan: Emily
Chris: Emily
Jeremy: Emily
Conda: Kimmy
Mark (2 votes): Emily

With 5 votes, Emily is not The Biggest Loser. From her starting weight of 264 pounds, Emily is down 90 pounds to 174. She asks Olivia for her help becoming an opera singer.

Stay tuned to dinguRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 12, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.