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Both Dan and Don gained 9 pounds in The Biggest Loser Season 11 Episode 3. Although this meant the elimination of Dan, they pretended it was all an accident.

Alison warns the ranch teams that one team will be joining the unknowns for a week. It all depends how they can handle temptation, as plates of their favorite foods are presented to them. Each team will have 3 minutes alone to eat as much or as little as they chose. The team that eats the highest amount of calories can choose who spends the week with the unknowns. As two individuals, Irene and Don are paired up as a team. Aqua team talks about will power and how they are not eating anything. Jay and Jennifer also opt to not eat. Hannah & Olivia follow suit. Jesse may not be interested, but Arthur’s going to at least eat something, grabbing a piece of chicken for 150 calories. This is a smart play just in case nobody else eats anything, and it’s a hell of a lot healthier than eating a piece of pizza, one of the least healthy foods on the planet.

That 150 calories is enough to give the blue team the win. They choose to send the green team (Jennifer & Jay) to the unknowns for the week, saying that the strongest team is going over there. This team will not be immune and will be back at the end of the week.

Bob and Jillian confront Don. He insists that he didn’t gain 9 pounds on purpose. Apparently, he thinks she was born yesterday. 2 pounds, okay, maybe. 9 pounds? Go ahead and get angry, but you’re a liar if you deny that gaining over a pound a day on a weight loss show is intentional.

Over at Fitness Ridge, Jay & Jennifer find that there are some advantages. For example, whereas the ranch contestants cook their own meals, the unknowns have their meals prepared for them. All the math is done for them, so all they have to is place the order. This lets them have a worry free meal plan, although it’s probably not the best way to prepare them to fend for themselves. They also have maid service.

Jay & Jennifer rejoin the others for the challenge. It’s green against everybody else. Uncovering the plates, Alison once again reveals their favorite foods. Their job is to guess how many calories are in all the food combined. It is a 4 digit number. To guess, they must hoist a number up the top of the rig, 70 feet in the air. With it being 4 teams against 1, the ranch teams will have to lift 4 times as much weight. The prize is letters from home.

The on campus players get the first digit correct, meaning there are 8,000+ calories in these meals. Green team follows in their footsteps. The four teams are working together quite well, yelling out numbers, all within shouting distance of their opponents. Their not so mystery guess is not correct. The green team is also wrong, which means the campus team, guessing the same thing, is also wrong. Green team gets the second digit right first, with the ranch teams behind them on their next go. 20 minutes in, the green team gets their third number, but the campus teams are right behind them. Whoever grabs the last digit wins. Green is not correct. The on campus players, however, are correct, filling in the blanks with a total of 8754 calories.

D’oh. Tonight’s show is only an hour, with no results or anything of too much use. Apparently, it’s going to take an hour and a half to tell us that the country is more broke than it was this time last year.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 11 Episode 5, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

With the on campus team winning immunity on The Biggest Loser Season 11 Episode 2, so nobody ended up going home.

First thing’s first. We get to meet the new trainers. There, was that so hard?

The female trainer is Cara Castranova. She has been boxing since she was 5 and starting competing at age 20, becoming ranked #2 (aren’t there only 2 people in the ring?). Her parents died at a relatively young age, which she attributes to making her stronger.

Brett Hoebel is the other new trainer. He views personal training as a science, and thinks that his pre-med training helps him in that respect. Having been overweight as a teen, he knows where these contestants are coming from.

Justin & Rulon blame certain people for last week’s loss, like Q, who has lost 17 pounds off his 400+ pound frame during the past 2 weeks. Oh, and they were also disappointed in Austin. Any other enemies you feel like making at this early stage?

Following the oh so secret challenge of last week, it’s looking like this time they will be able to get to compete against each other directly. Except they still won’t see each other. Team unknown pulls up in black vehicles with tinted windows, then they get on the opposite side of a divider. That said, one player from each group will meet with the other face to face, along with Curtis Stone. Those two winners will be able to compete for a 2 pound advantage. The pop challenge involves an egg and a frying pan. They’ll have to balance the egg as long as they can on the upside down frying pan.

This challenge lasts about 3 seconds on one side. The unknowns toss their eggs at the other side, leaving Deni as the winner for their team. Not being immune, the other team has to actually care. Courtney drops. Then Arthur. Jen and Don follow. Hannah will not be getting her date with Curtis Stone. Irene is out next. Jay and Don drop. Marci wins the challenge for team aqua.

Now it’s the unknowns turn to meet with Doc H. Q has 248 pounds of excess fat, and his internal age is 51, almost double his actual age of 27. Rulon is 40% fat, while Justin is 43% fat. Justin’s inner age is 59, an additional 20 years. Not having learned from the 8 people in his family that have had bypass surgery, Ken has degenerative blood disease and high blood pressure. His son Austin, meanwhile, has more excess hydrated fat and higher blood pressure than his dad. His inner age is 44, more than double his actual age of 20. Sarah has the highest body fat of anybody on the show, 58%. She has used her car accident as her excuse for why she didn’t move her body. Moses has a 49% risk of having a stroke in the next 5 years, and a 90% risk of being a full fledged diabetic. His uncles on his mom’s side all died in their 40s and 50s. They estimate he will die on April 23, 2025.

Jillian says that Dan and Don are not engaged, and she’s wondering how much they have really learned. Dan holds in his pain of losing his child, not wanting to discuss it with anyone else.

As the challenge winners, Deni and Marci get to meet Curtis Stone. Their challenge will be to tell him how many calories are in the food they prepare. They cook squash salad, kinwa, and halibut for the appetizer and the entree. There is 0 salt in this meal. After eating, they get to cook some dessert, poached pears with a bunch of flavoring such as cinnamon, vanilla, and orange juice. There is not any added sugar.

Marci offers to start, saying there were 480 calories. All Deni has to do now is go above or below, and she says 440. The actual calorie count was 572, giving the aqua team the 2 pound advantage.

The challenge is to haul water and dump it into someone else’s barrel. Once their barrel is full, they’re out. The drums, when filled with water, weigh over 100 pounds, and they will strap them around their waists. The winning team gets the only vote at this week’s elimination. Teammateless Irene will be competing by herself, with nothing to even the odds. Irene and Courtney target the blue team. Purple team follows suit, eliminating the blue team before they even have a chance to get up the hill. They have all made an arrangement to keep Irene in the game, so she wins the challenge.

This leads to a discussion of how Dan’s ready to go home, and he’s already thinking of a plan B. Would be nice to get through plan A first. He even offers to quit the game if he’s above the yellow line so he can let somebody else stay. Jillian could have taught him how to count calories in 5 minutes. She’d like the opportunity to do more than that. He says that, as a captain of a police department, he supervises life and death situations. What about his own?

The unknowns weighed in moments ago, and we get a very quick blur of that weigh in.

Ken: 344 pounds (-13, 3.64%)
Rulon: 415 pounds (-10, 2.35%)
Justin: 316 pounds (-10, 3.07%)
Kaylee: 209 pounds (-5, 2.34%)
Deni: 224 pounds (-9, 3.86%)
Sarah: 235 pounds (-8, 3.29%)
Larialmy: 275 pounds (-8, 2.83%)
Austin: 347 pounds (-15, 4.14%)
Q: 401 pounds (-19, 4.52%)
Moses: 376 pounds (-11, 2.84%)

For all their talk of how the other teams need to step it up, Justin & Rulon placed last.

Irene will decide who stays and who goes, unless she falls below the yellow line, in which case she will be eliminated. The Aqua team has a 2 pound advantage.

Courtney: 292 pounds (-6, 2.01%)
Marci: 211 pounds (-7, 3.21%)
Aqua Total: 503 pounds (-13, -2, 2.91%)

Irene: 224 pounds (-8, 3.45%)

Jen: 242 pounds (-8, 3.20%)
Jay: 350 pounds (-14, 3.85%)
Green Total: 592 pounds (-22, 3.58%)

Arthur: 459 pounds (-4, 0.86%)
Jesse: 269 pounds (-9, 3.24%)
Blue Total: 728 pounds (-13, 1.75%)

Olivia: 233 pounds (-6, 2.51%)
Hannah: 220 pounds (-6, 2.65%)
Purple Total: 453 pounds (-12, 2.58%)

Don: 289 pounds (+9, 3.21%)
Dan: 272 pounds (+9, 3.42%)
Black Total: 561 pounds (+18, 3.31%)

With Arthur sick and only able to get into the gym twice, I thought for sure the blue team was going to be below the yellow line. Then Dan & Don threw the weigh in. If you don’t want to be there, go ahead and leave. Shouldn’t have taken a spot someone else wanted. If nothing else, at least that’s the theory they are now utilizing, sacrificing one of their own so Jesse can stay. Bob and Jillian are offended and disappointed. Adding insult to insult, Dan & Don play dumb, as if this weight gain were accidental. If you’re going to gain weight, aim for a couple pounds. 9 pounds each is a little blatantly obvious.

Vote
Irene: Dan

With 1 vote, Dan is not The Biggest Loser. He considers his daughter to be more important than world class trainers. That’s why you make an effort on the ranch so that you can learn the tool you need to get and stay healthy. He is now down to 215 pounds from his starting weight of 287.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 11 Episode 4, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

We never did find out who the two new trainers are in The Biggest Loser Season 11 Episode 1, but 10 people gained immunity by picking them, while Ana became the first casualty of the voting room.

Alison walks in, and already they know something bad’s about to happen. She tells them that the other 5 teams lost more than these 6 did. Let the vagueness continue. With that, they are given a challenge: if they lose a higher percentage of weight loss, they will all have immunity. Additionally, the group that wins the weigh-in wins $10,000. Not to be left out, the unknown teams also get to participate in that challenge.

Bob sees Marci as someone who’s carrying around a lot of guilt, for letting her daughter get up to over 400 pounds. While Courtney tries to deflect the bullets from her mom, it’s fair to place at least part of the blame on the parents if a 22 year old has abused herself that much.

Arthur, who it would be fair to call a Twinkie away from a heart attack, is having a great workout, managing to run at 5 miles an hour on the treadmill.

Denise was teased by her father growing up, having been called Dumb Deni because her siblings got better grades. She’ll use that as her motivation.

Jillian blames Jay for making his daughter feel guilty and, therefore, unable to lose weight. She needs him to tell her he’s going to do it, with or without her help. I don’t get it. Just do it. Using your father as an excuse isn’t going to help you any.

The ranch contestants receive a gift from their opponents: two dozen donuts. They take them outside and crush them. Cops Dan & Don would like to see a little more originality. Although grabbing the donuts off the ground is tempting to Arthur, he is able to resist, even though the three second rule dictates he is allowed to partake.

Doc H’s first visit of the season is never good. Courtney’s inner age is 40, 18 years older than her chronological age. Want to know when Dan is going to die? March 29, 2020. The murder weapon: cigarettes, sugar, chocolate, and corn chips. This is a crime the brothers may want to consider solving. Arthur has 370 pounds of excess hydrated fat, even after losing 150 pounds. His inner age is 60, compared to his actual age of 34.

The unknowns send another package, which says “Play me.” It’s all about taunting them.

At the challenge, the ranch contestants have to beat the time set by the unknowns. They will have to get everyone from the beach across the canal using rafts to build a bridge. The unknowns completed the challenge in 38:23 a few hours before. The winning team will receive a 3 pound advantage. Alison allows them some time to strategize. Well, the good thing is they have plenty of strategies. The bad thing is they haven’t picked one. Nobody is emerging as a leader, and they can’t communicate with each other. A few people are standing on shore with their hands on their hips, apparently just waiting for the clock to finish ticking. They’re not even going to be able to make this remotely interesting. They don’t all get halfway across before time expires.

With Jillian sick, Bob’s left to deal with the contestants on his own. He thinks 3 pounds is a lot, although it can be overcome.

I was thinking we were gonna see the unknown trainers this week. Just shadowed out people who we can only see from the back and side. Maybe next week then.

Bob doesn’t like Alison’s use of the phrase that the unknowns destroyed them at the challenge. The problem with his objection is that her term is accurate. They fell apart fairly humiliatingly, not so much because they are the underdogs but more because they could not get their act together and work, well, together.

Rulon continued his losses, with 17 pounds lost this week. Moses lost 12 pounds, for a 2 week total of 53. In total, the 10 of them lost 79 pounds. The 3 pound advantage brings them to 82 pounds, for a total percentage of weight loss of 2.46%, a decent number for week 2, but not insurmountable. In order to beat that, the ranch team needs to lose more than 78 pounds, a little more than 7 pounds each. Arthur’s excited, saying that their goal was 140 pounds.

Irene: 232 pounds (-10, 4.13%)

Don: 280 pounds (-8, 2.78%)
Dan: 263 pounds (-5, 1.87%)
Black Total: 543 pounds (-13, 2.34%)

Olivia: 239 pounds (-6, 2.45%)
Hannah: 226 pounds (-6, 2.59%)
Purple Total: 465 pounds (-12, 2.52%)

Jennifer: 250 pounds (-8, 3.10%)
Jay: 364 pound (-10, 2.67%)
Green Total: 614 pounds (-18, 2.85%)

Courtney: 298 pounds (-10, 3.25%)
Marci: 218 pounds (-6, 2.68%)
Aqua Total: 516 pounds (-16, 3.01%)

Arthur: 463 pounds (-13, 2.73%)
Jesse: 278 pounds (-8, 2.80%)
Blue Total: 741 pounds (-21, 2.76%)

With 90 pounds lost, the on campus players have lost 2.81%, easily enough to beat the unknowns. They beat them by 11 pounds, which is the amount they lost by last week. Everybody is immune, and they’ve got $10k to split between themselves.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 11 Episode 3, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

As the final season (or so we assume) for Jillian Michaels, The Biggest Loser season 11 promises to be an interesting one.

Opera singer Olivia hopes to no longer be the fat lady singing. Moses, age 46, is worried that his family history is that people pass away around his age. Dan and Don are twin brothers. They are cops who won’t be chasing any fleeing suspects. Rulon was an Olympic gold medalist 10 years ago. At the time, he was close to 300 pounds but pretty solid. Now he’s just round. Courtney has already lost over 100 pounds but is still is just at the start of her journey.

Ken has 9 family members who have had bariatric surgery, which nonetheless has not served as reason enough to lose weight. Sarah lost another pregnancy two months ago due to her weight. Arthur is as big around as he is tall, still over 500 pounds with a BMI of about 75 in spite of 139 pounds of weight loss in the past year and a half. Don’s son refuses to see him, in fear of losing him anyway.

We start off with the first weigh in.

Ken: 377 pounds
Austin: 396 pounds
Brown Total: 773 Pounds

Courtney: 323 pounds
Marci: 238 pounds
Aqua Total (what’d you run out of colors?): 565 pounds

Ana: 255 pounds
Irene: 255 pounds
Orange Total: 510 pounds

Larialmy: 301 pounds
Q: 437 pounds
Red Total: 738 pounds

Sarah: 261 pounds
Deni: 256 pounds
Pink Total: 517 pounds

Arthur: 507 pounds
Jesse: 293 pounds
Blue Total: 800 pounds

Jennifer: 278 pounds
Jay: 400 pounds
Green Total: 678 pounds

Olivia: 261 pounds
Hannah: 248 pounds
Purple Total: 509 pounds

Kaylee: 233 pounds
Moses: 440 pounds
Grey Total: 673 pounds

Dan: 287 pounds
Don: 309 pounds
Black Total: 596 pounds

Justin: 365 pounds
Rulon: 474 pounds
Yellow Total: 839 pounds

They will not be working out tonight. Instead, they will compete in their first challenge. The challenge will determine who their trainers will be. But if they thought they were choosing between Bob and Jillian, they’d be wrong. They will choose either Bob and Jillian or two newbies.

The choice is clear. As experienced as these new trainers may be at training people, they have no clue what it’s like to be on the ranch, whereas Bob and Jillian have been doing this for 10 seasons (9 for Jillian), plus the time they spent in Australia training contestants there. So to make the contestants actually consider the alternative, an offer is put forward. Choose the new trainers, and you are immune for 4 weeks.

Each team has a manual treadmill. As a team, they have to run a 5k. The order in which they finish will determine the order in which they choose their trainers. 6 teams get Bob & Jillian, and the remaining 5 get the new trainers, who they still haven’t seen yet.

Yellow team reaches 1 kilometer. Grey team is behind them, followed by aqua. Yellow retains the lead through 2k, and their size does not appear to be slowing them down. Grey and aqua remain behind them. Yellow is the first to 3k, with grey and aqua still in second and third. Yellow is the first to hit 4 as well. Yellow team ends up winning the challenge in 40 minutes, which will guarantee them at least 1 week of immunity. Grey team places second. Aqua takes third. Green places fourth. Brown team finishes fifth, making them the last team guaranteed to have a choice. Purple team finishes sixth, so they are the last team guaranteed to have the choice of Bob & Jillian. Pink, red, orange, blue, and black round out the standings.

Bob & Jillian: Courtney & Marci, Jennifer & Jay, Olivia & Hannah, Ana & Irene, Arthur & Jesse, Dan & Don
Unknowns + 4 weeks immunity: Justin & Rulon, Kaylee & Moses, Ken & Austin, Sarah & Deni, Larialmy & Q

With 5 of 8 teams choosing the unknowns, that leaves orange, blue, and black teams with Bob & Jillian.

Bob asks the question. Where is everyone? Oh, by the way…

Both Bob and Jillian seem to think passing up immunity was a mistake. There’s a simple reality here. Depending on how/whether they opt to shake things up, 4 of the 12 people there are going home over the next 4 weeks, which could further be a disadvantage for whoever does survive.

Jillian starts off the workout saying she’s not going to yell. That’ll last.

Bob thinks Courtney’s a machine who could go all the way.

Now it’s time to end the mystery, sort of, as we head to the unknown trainers’ camp at Biggest Loser Fitness Resort at Fitness Ridge in Malibu. One of the new trainers has a pre-med and science background, which he considers beneficial because training is a science. The female trainer is a boxer, who won the Golden Gloves twice. As to what their names are, well, that’ll have to wait.

Arthur collapses, complaining about not being able to move his leg yada yada. He’ll get no sympathy from Bob & Jillian. He needs something for his leg? No problem. Here’s a treadmill.

The contestants at camp unknown weighed in first. Rulon & Justin lost 59 pounds. Moses lost 41 pounds, a new one week record. How do those on the ranch stack up?

Courtney: 308 pounds (-15, 4.64%)
Marci: 224 pounds (-14, 5.88%)
Aqua Total: 532 pounds (-29, 5.17%)

Arthur: 476 pounds (-31, 6.11%)
Jesse: 286 pounds (-7, 2.39%)
Blue Total: 762 pounds (-38, 4.75%)

Jennifer: 258 pounds (-20, 7.19%)
Jay: 374 pounds (-26, 6.50%)
Green Total: 632 pounds (-46, 6.78%)

Olivia: 245 pounds (-16, 6.13%)
Hannah: 232 pounds (-16, 6.45%)
Purple Total: 477 pounds (-32, 6.29%)

Ana: 246 pounds (-9, 3.53%)
Irene: 242 pounds (-13, 5.10%)
Orange Total: 488 pounds (-22, 4.31%)

Don: 288 pounds (-21, 6.80%)
Dan: 268 pounds (-19, 6.62%)
Black Total: 556 pounds (-40, 6.71%)

That puts Ana & Irene below the yellow line, and the rest of the teams have 1 hour to decide which of them to send home. Ana wants her daughter to stay, but Irene thinks her mom has greater health needs for being there.

Votes
Courtney & Marci: Ana
Jennifer & Jay: Ana
Olivia & Hannah: Irene
Arthur & Jesse: Ana

With 3 votes, Ana is not The Biggest Loser. From her starting weight of 255 pounds, Ana has dropped to 205 pounds.

Perhaps next week we’ll see the new trainers for more than 2 minutes.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 11 Episode 2, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.