The contestants started off this week with a series of temptations. If a team chose to abandon the use of two world-class trainers for one whole week, they get a two pound advantage at the weigh in. With most teams over or around 550 pounds a .36% is pretty dismal and really no one in their right mind would take it, right? Wrong. Tracey took control this week and took the two pounds without discussing with Coach Mo and faced the wrath of Bob and Jillian.
In a follow-up temptation, the contestant who ate the most cupcakes in 10 minutes would have the power to choose which team member would weigh in for each team. Again, Tracey stepped up and snagged the win and the power. A little early for gameplay (in my opinion), but I’m not there; maybe she’ll win from a week three power move, but I doubt it. A verbal beating and a near murder by Jillian followed.
This week’s challenge looked fun. Contestants had to carry either ten pounds from a close distance, or 25 pounds from a further distance up a steep ramp. The first team to reach 500 pounds won. I personally would have chosen the short distance, making more trips, but again I’m not there. The green team won this challenge, barely edging out the pink team and won immunity. Allen is basically diesel. End of story.
With the weigh in around the corner, Bob and Jillian really focused on the girls of the house, because they are the easier targets for elimination. It was all blood, sweat and tears, but by far the most awesome thing of the whole episode was Danny vs. the tire. That workout looks awesome! I wanna do it. Someone out there get me a giant tire. Please.
This week’s weigh in was one for the books. Tracey chose mostly women to be the deciding factor in the weigh-in, except the blue team (I thought that was odd, game play wise). In the end, the orange team and the red team fell below the yellow line. But the real story at this weigh in, was the utter silence from the group when Tracey lost 11 pounds. Gee, think they wanted her gone??
Post weigh in was pretty heart wrenching. Sean and Antoine, the red team, asked to be sent home so that Shay could stay. That was amazing of them to give up on their own chance for another team.
The elimination went as everyone expected and the red team was eliminated. They are both doing great at home and I cannot wait to see them at the finale!
(Side note, that is the second time Daniel‘s team was saved by another team. Week 2 season 7 when Jerry was eliminated.)
See you all next week after another great Biggest Loser Recap!
Best in Health!
-Mike Morelli
September 30th, 2009
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(Page 1 of 1, 2 total comments)melissa
i think tracy is crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted Oct 1st, 2009 1:42 pmwebgoddess
Well, I am not fond ot game players. I really liked Tracey's tenacity in the first week's challenge, and I felt bad for her when she was hospitalized, but WTF happened to her this week? What was up with those insane eyes, she reminded me of Aileen Wuornos...talk about self-sabotage. She not only made the worst possible decisions but she outright stabbed the other contestants in the back. And who in their right mind would give up their trainers for a week for any advantage? She got hospitalized for walking a mile for crying out loud. She needs the training from Bob and Jill to save her life, and she is giving that all up for what? a "chance" to stay another week? she *had* a free week handed to her from the week prior, and she should have used that to take advantage of the trainers. Jill was right to be pissed...seriously Tracey disappointed me so much. I feel really sad for Coach Mo, he was one of my favorites, but here he is disappointing me now too because he wouldn't stand up to Tracey and her poor decision-making. I felt bad for the red team but I am glad Shay got another week on the ranch...she seems to have moved past a lot of her struggle since the first week of Jill beating her up...which is good, all of the contestants have to heal their emotional wounds that caused them to use food as a band-aid in the first place. I like Allen, he rocks. And Abby had such a good attitude in light of her injuries...I was disappointed that Tracey's idiocy stole so much attention away; I'd have loved to seen Bob training Abby in the pool. Danny's workout looked quite brutal; I'm not sure he knew what he was getting into when Jill gave him that choice, but I am proud of him for sticking with it. Overall, this week wasn't that wonderful, because Tracey's selfishness, self-sabotage, and fear drained too much energy and attention away from everyone else's journey, which was quite disappointing. I don't want a repeat of past seasons that dwell on drama instead of on inspiration. I tune in for motivation not for reality-show drama and bickering...there are plenty of shows like survivor for that crap...the studio execs need to realize the reason why people tune in to TBL and stop trying to sensationalize the drama. With better editing this week's episode could have been much more fulfilling. At least Antoine looked absolutely fantastic in his after shots...and I'm pleased he hooked up with the girl from week one...that relationships will blossom I'm sure. But I felt bad for Sean, he is not losing weight very fast at home so his journey seemed to be short-changed. As much as I like Dan, I think Sean deserved to be there more; sure Dan was short-changed last season, but at least he got a good six or eight weeks with the trainers, and Sean only had three weeks. But hopefully Sean sticks to the plan and eventually reaches his goals.
posted Sep 30th, 2009 4:18 pm