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The Biggest Loser Season 7
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From people.com
The campus hosted a bunch of special guests this week, and not just Super Bowl-bound quarterback Kurt Warner or Take Home Chef’s Curtis Stone. Contestants were also eager to welcome back their at-home partners to the campus. After couple cooking lessons and a football challenge, it came down to a heartbreaking weigh-in where the contestants had to choose between the Orange and the Brown Team. After an impassioned plea from father Ron to keep at least his son Mike on the show, and after Tara and Filipe angrily railed at David about his seeming lack of desire to be on the Ranch, Team Orange was sent home.
Here’s how it happened:
In the first of two Super Bowl-themed challenges, contestants had to guess Price Is Right-style the amount of calories in popular tailgate party foods without going over. The three finalists in the challenge would then learn how to make a healthier version of a popular snack from Stone. Then from those three, a final calorie-guessing winner sent Stone to their partner at home with a two-lb. advantage at their next weigh-in. Daniel won, which sent Stone off to Raleigh, N.C.
In two off-campus segments, Stone took David to the produce aisle of a supermarket to help him identify things behind the flavors he loved so much when eating out. Then, Stone showed him how to mix spices together, rub them on a piece of chicken and grill it. Meanwhile, Blaine surprised his wife Jenny for the birth of their fifth child, a boy. After seeing him, Blaine said, “It really hits home why I’m doing what I’m doing now.”
In the football challenge, Arizona Cardinals’ quarterback Warner came out to encourage the contestants to keep running and play for immunity in a tactical game of place-the-most-footballs-in-your-opponents-bins. An elated Helen won and said, “I am starting to find self-esteem again and it feels really good.” Back on campus, Jillian confronted Daniel with her assessment that he wasn’t pushing himself hard enough. She asked him what was going on in his head and in a devastating admission, he said, “I never thought it would be possible to not be fat.”
The at-home partners returned to campus and Kristin described it as “a moment of pure joy.” Among the notable results were Tara’s 12-lb. loss and Filipe’s 13-lb. drop. Joelle finally got over her mental hurdle and cleared double digits with a 10-lb. loss. But falling below the yellow line were Ron and Mike and Daniel and David. A teary Mike poignantly said, “Who deserves to be here isn’t going to work in this situation. Dan and I are both so young and so overweight, it’s probably the worst possible scenario for this week.”
Although Daniel told the room he wanted to stay, David oddly said that it was just as possible to lose weight at home, later triggering Tara to lash out at him for failing to see the importance of the Ranch. It was Filipe, however, whose Team Blue cast the final deciding vote against Team Orange and sent David Lee, 23, and Daniel Wright, 19, back home.
marigold:
An interesting article an interview with Daniel:
Biggest Loser’s Biggest Contestant: 100-lbs. Lighter — And Still Losing!
After an emotional night saw the departure of Daniel Wright, the heaviest contestant in Biggest Loser history, the 19-year-old student, of Willow Spring, N.C., spoke with PEOPLE about how he’s doing at home. Wright lost 60 lbs. off his 454-lb. frame in four weeks during his run on the show and now has lost 41 more, bringing him down to 353 lbs. Wright also revealed his diet and exercise plan, talked about the support of his family and why he isn’t ready to shop for clothes.
What were the first changes you noticed in your body after so much weight?
I definitely have more mobility and energy … Before going to the Ranch, I could barely walk around with my friends for more than 15 to 30 minutes at the max. My joints would hurt, my lower back would be in pain, I would have to go sit down somewhere on a bench. The best thing is to be able to stand all day without sitting down or being able to keep up with my friends and family.
What has been the reaction of your family and friends?
I’ve always had the family support right there ready to accept me once I was willing to step up. My mom and stepdad always play a lot of tennis and I can keep up with them now, and my sister is a cheerleader and she’s really active and now she comes to the gym with me. They have always been pretty active and now I’m just joining them!
Have you gone out and bought new clothes?
I am avoiding shopping for new clothes because I still have all my old clothes from before gaining weight, so I’m just kind of stepping backwards with the style, a decade, so I’ll be rocking the double polo soon! … Most of the new stuff that I am buying are exercise clothes, so it’s cool to see the fit change in those, but I am avoiding buying the good or street clothes until I’m done.
What has your typical day been like now fitness wise?
I run from 8-9 [in the morning]. After that, I will do either circuit training with weights or some type of cardio machine in the gym like an elliptical machine or a treadmill, and then I will usually take a break, come home, fix my second meal, relax a little bit, then go back to the gym for another two hours and do more cardio or work with a trainer. Then, I rest again and more cardio at night. It’s been great.
What did Jillian teach you in terms of why you were eating?
Rather than facing those fears that come up in life, I would retreat and eat, and I would eat foods that were pretty comforting and usually pretty fattening and high in calories. I realized … it’s not wrong to be afraid. Even though it hurts, the hurt or the pain that come from whatever situation I’m afraid of will be far less than the hurt of going home, eating ice cream and gaining another 100 pounds. Looking back, I wasn’t sure what I was afraid of, people laughing at me or whatever, but so what? Now I’m on national television with my shirt off and I don’t care any more!
What was a typical lunch like before the show? What’s it like now?
I would do something normal, like have a sandwich and chips, but once everybody left, I would eat whatever was left on the table, or I would also grab three or four snacks out of the cupboard … So, my lunch would look pretty normal but what I was eating behind the scenes was making my lunch pretty big. Now, for lunch, I will have 4 ounces of grilled chicken, some broccoli, and a sugar-free Jell-O pudding cup. Or today I had 4 ounces of New York strip steak with the fat cut off and mixed vegetables. It was really satisfying and I focused on cooking it right and I love it.
Link: http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/01/28/biggest-losers-biggest-contestant-100-lbs-lighter-and-still-losing/
marigold:
:hearts: Alison Sweeney's Blog:
tailgate!!!
Curtis Stone was our celebrity chef to start off this week. Tara and Kristin had been asking me when they were going to get cooking lessons! Having seen the show, they look forward to some of the surprises we set up, though it’s never quite how they expect it. In honor of the Super Bowl, the whole cooking challenge was centered around Tailgating snacks… buffalo wings, 7 layer dip and chili. Curtis took on the seemingly monumental task of remaking these dishes into healthy options… and they were delicious. I snuck a few extra Rosemary Chicken Skewers home for my family. Ben and I split them at dinner.
Helen, Tara and Mandi were all loving the idea of sending Curtis home to their teammates – for more than just the nutritional education purposes. Helen loved imagining Shannon’s reaction to a hot Australian chef showing up on her doorstep! And, Curtis couldn’t have been sweeter. He was so interested in everyone’s stories, and really enthusiastic about helping everyone make a positive change. He even brought a few gifts – he gave me a cutting board from his own line of cookware. I was so psyched!
Link: http://blog.nbc.com/alison/the_biggest_loser/
marigold:
:hearts: love this girl
Coleen Skeabeck - Biggest Loser Recap Season 7 Episode 4
marigold:
Awwww she is so darn cute Coleen <3
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