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marigold:

THE BIGGEST LOSER MARCH SCHEDULE

Episode: 710

03-10-2009 8:00PM

A 24 HOUR FITNESS RELAY RACE BRINGS WINNING TEAM 24 HOURS OF LUXURY -- This week brings a pop challenge that will add an interesting twist to the weigh-in, and later, the contestants head to 24 Hour Fitness for a relay race competition. The winning team gets 24 hours of luxury, including spa treatments, but some contestants have trouble resisting temptation during their 24-hour getaway. Also, one contestant has a big blow up with their trainer, and all of the contestants get some welcome and surprising news from host Alison Sweeney after elimination.


THE BIGGEST LOSER

Episode: 711

03-17-2009 8:00PM

CONTESTANTS GO HOME FOR A WEEK AND COMPLETE HALF-MARATHONS -- All of the contestants head home for a week, where they are faced with the challenge of continuing to make healthy food choices and getting their workouts done in their home environments. After they arrive home, each player gets a DVD with host Allison Sweeney revealing their “at home challenge” – to run a half marathon – 13.1 miles! A cookie temptation adds an interesting twist to the competition, and the players find out the results of their hard work once they return to the ranch. Later, another contestant is sent packing.


THE BIGGEST LOSER

Episode: 712

03-24-2009 8:00PM

NASCAR DRIVER CLINT BOWYER GUEST STARS – In part one of this week’s two-part challenge, contestants divide the amount of weight they’ve lost so far among their opponents, with many ganging up on the player they feel is the strongest competitor. For part two of the challenge, the players head to the racetrack where they’ll meet NASCAR driver Clint Bowyer. Then each contestant will pull a two-ton car – plus the weight added on from part one of the challenge -- for almost a quarter of a mile! Also, the competition goes to singles this week and contestants are given their original colored shirts to wear for the rest of the competition. And later, one contestant breaks “Biggest Loser” records at a weigh in that finds several players hitting big milestones.

THE BIGGEST LOSER

Episode: 713

03-31-2009 8:00PM

PAST SEASON WINNERS ALI VINCENT AND MICHELLE AGUILAR GUEST STAR -- The contestants get a blast from the past this week with visits from season five winner Ali Vincent and season six winner Michelle Aguilar, both filling in as host while Alison Sweeney is on maternity leave. The contestants are also surprised by the arrival of some old friends, whose return promises to shake up the competition. And while one player is sidelined by medical issues, the rest compete in a balance and endurance challenge that finds each contestant standing on a platform, suspended six feet over a pool. One by one, the lines supporting the platform are removed, making it harder to stand, until only the winner is left standing. Later, Bob has last chance workouts at the beach before the weigh in, which is followed by a surprising elimination.

marigold:

Alison Sweeney’s Blog:

Giving it their all and more

March 04, 09:43 AM

Okay, I've been accosted by three co-workers already this morning. - "did Mike lose it? Are they safe??!!" I've been threatened and guilt-tripped, wow - what a cliffhanger!!

Wasn't the challenge at the Food Bank amazing? Everyone was busting their butts out there... Helen hustled bagging those groceries, the black team was really working as a team. While the blue team wanted it, they just didn't have that same cohesiveness. And Jillian made a really good point to Laura after, so much of this is mental.

And when Mike gave his reward to Aubrey? Wow. I was so moved when they told me. It was just such an amazing gesture. Obviously the groceries will make such a difference in Aubrey's family's life. What a wonderful thing to do.

P.S. I'm on facebook now! come check it out, I downloaded it onto my bberry, so I'm gonna try to figure it out and update it from set and stuff.


mud

February 27, 01:07 PM

Wow. How intense was that challenge? I mean seriously! 24 hours. That bike looked so cool – but man, all night long was not easy. And I could totally understand Mandi wanting to take a break, especially as they knew they were falling behind. Even without Ron struggling to participate, it had to be hard squaring off against a team with Sione, Fileipe, Mike AND Tara. But still, how great was Sione – saying he wouldn’t quit, that he wanted to finish what he started no matter what. And Aubrey totally jumping on board with him. I think that was a defining moment in the season. Deciding to keep going, no matter what.

The up-downs were so brutal. And I don’t just mean the mud. And you couldn’t have asked for a stronger motivation. Bob and Jillian are both such incredible trainers, and they both have such a strong connection with their teams, it’s no wonder they didn’t want to risk losing that bond. It was so emotional to see them say goodbye – Bob talking to them outside the gym, was heartbreaking.

And of course, saying goodbye to Dane was tough. Obviously, in a week where they had to say goodbye to their trainer, it seemed as if ron, cathy and Kristin stayed united.

RealityFreakWill:
The Biggest Loser: Couples Episode Recap: "Week 10"

Just two weeks ago, the teams were divided into Black and Blue, but it's already time for another twist-eroo. But first, we need to see the results of Mike's weigh-in. He has to lose more than nine pounds, or else one member from each team goes home. Can he do it?

He sure can! Mike loses 11 pounds, guaranteeing all the players one more week on the ranch. But it's not all fun and games. Only minutes after learning that they'd be safe another week, the contestants are summoned to the courtyard to meet Alison who announces that Week 10 starts now. "Forget the yellow line, this week is one-on-one," she says. So what exactly does that mean? A pop challenge determines who gets to choose who faces off against whom in the weigh-in. Win your face-off and your team gets a point; first team to three wins. The pop challenge is simple enough: Each person does a wall-sit and whoever lasts the longest wins. Kristin from Blue sits out due to unexplained medical reasons, so Black elects Sione and Helen to not participate to even up the numbers. Within the first 25 seconds, Ron is out. Then Cathy and Aubrey falter, leaving Mandi as the sole Blue competitor. Filipe and Mike soon drop with Laura shortly behind. Mandi eventually gives out and Tara from Black is victorious yet again. She immediately accepts the pen and paper and works out the match-ups.

Tara decides to pit Mike against Cathy, the youngest player versus a grandma, with a 31-year age difference. Next she pairs Sione with Mandi, the strongest from each team. She puts Filipe up against Kristin, who doesn't look happy, but he surely is. He tells her, "You're going down, you big blueberry." I thought these cheesy stare-downs were funny. Tara also matches Helen against Ron, a guaranteed point for Black in most people's minds. Lastly, she pairs Laura and Aubrey, leaving herself out of the equation.

In the gym, Filipe begins his workout in a great mood, joking around as he taunts Kristin. Has anyone noticed that while he's losing pounds, he's gaining some hair on his head? Anyway, he starts to get irritated as the time passes and Jillian seems to ignore him. He starts to feel alone without Bob, especially when the workout ends and Jillian leaves having not trained him. Filipe is mad, and we later see what happens when he reaches his boiling point.

This week's challenge is a complicated relay race. For the Black team, Filipe leads off against Ron from Blue. Although Black takes an early lead, he doesn't destroy Ron in the pool as much as I thought he would. Sione takes over the next leg for Black and Cathy starts up the stairs for Blue. Next up, the military-style leg, which looked nauseating. Both Tara and Mandi (with an interesting hairstyle choice) kick butt through this. The last section is for Helen, who has a head start, and Aubrey. Although Aubrey puts up a good fight, Black still pulls out the win, remaining undefeated in challenges. They win 24 hours of luxury.

The limo pulls up and whisks away the Black team. But their reward turns out to be a disadvantage when the players overindulge with food and alcohol. At the end of their night, they rack up a whopping 15,563 calories, which they made look easy. The next day it's back to reality and when Jillian questions her team, she learns that there was drinking, smoking and a lot of fatty food. She starts to yell, saying, "Why am I going to care if you don't care?" It's like their mommy is grounding them. But Jillian's attitude only prompts Filipe to blow up. He becomes extremely upset and tells his trainer that she didn't even work with him in the last workout. "I stood on that treadmill, wondering, 'When am I going to get my turn?', and I didn't." Filipe then walks outside with his cousin Sione, and tells Bob that Jillian is a beeyotch, and that they won't be working out with her anymore. You know Bob was giddy inside, since ultimately he's also competing with Jillian for bragging rights as to who's the better trainer.

So after the last-chance workout, it's time for the one-on-one weigh-in. Tara is up first since she's not matched up against anyone. She loses a whopping zero pounds — yep, zero. I guess those two shots of tequila weren't so worth it after all. Here's how everyone else measured up:

Mike loses 8 pounds, 2.80 percent.
Cathy loses 4 pounds, 1.63 percent.
1 point for Black.

Aubrey loses 3 pounds, 1.48 percent.
Laura gains 1 pound, +.44 percent.
1 point for Blue.

Kristin loses 7 pounds, 2.59 percent.
Filipe loses 1 pound, .36 percent
1 point for Blue.

Helen loses 4 pounds, 2.07 percent.
Ron loses 6 pounds, 1.75 percent.
1 point for Black.

So it all comes down to Sione and Mandi. Sione weighs in first and loses 6 pounds, 2.12 percent. Can Mandi secure her team a victory? Nope. She actually gains 2 pounds, +1.03 percent, and nobody is quite sure how. Black wins again, and I really feel for the Blue team.

During deliberation, it's obvious that Mandi is the target. Kristin is safe, as she had the highest percentage of weight loss, and she, her mom and Ron have developed an alliance. They feel that Aubrey should stay since she spent the first 30 days at home. Aubrey, acting selfless, cannot stand to see her sister go and volunteers herself. Because Laura from Black has a vote from winning it last week, she can tie things up, leaving the ultimate decision to Black, who would probably respect Aubrey's wish to go home.

But it doesn't go down that way. Instead of Mandi voting for Cathy to create a tie, she votes for Ron, sending herself home. In the end, she didn't want her sister Aubrey to make the sacrifice for her, so Mandi stepped up to the plate and is going to go home. She's done a great job so far on The Biggest Loser, going from 263 pounds to 197 pounds, and hopes to return to the finale in a size-2 dress. Do you think she can do it?

http://www.tvguide.com/Episode-Recaps/biggest-loser/Biggest-Loser-Couples-1003900.aspx

marigold:
Alison Sweeney's Blog:

BL7 Gone Wild

March 10, 11:28 PM First, lets talk about those ‘wall sits’. They are HARD. I mean, seriously hard. I’ve had Jillian stand on my legs as she took forever to count down before I could stop. And believe me, it’s brutal. And… Tara won. 4 minutes?! That is really impressive. No wonder Tara’s legs wouldn’t hold her up after. She needed to sit on the stairs to figure out what to do. And she spent forever making that decision, I’m not sure if it was because it tough working out all the numbers, or if it was because she needed to rest.

Obviously tonight’s theme was ‘FACE OFF’! And the face-offs set up at the Pop Challenge made everything about this week so intense...

Everyone really got into the match ups. Filipe is a good guy. From day one, his enthusiasm and outgoing personality made everyone like him right off the bat, but it’s his sincerity of heart that seals the deal. He won everyone over right from the beginning. And it was clearly his passion that led to a separate face-off between him and Jillian.

24Hour Fitness was the host of another challenge. This relay race was amazing. Mandi made quick work of the obstacles, she ate up a lot of the lead on Tara. It was so awesome watching the girls going so hard core all the way to the end. The blue team was faced with more frustration, while the black team earned quite a victory prize. That spa looked – let’s be honest – fabulous!! The pedicures, the massages – pretty sweet. But wow, ‘acting careless’ was an understatement, right??!! They definitely took the luxury to another level – and it was tough seeing them regret it and be unhappy on the scale.

Jillian has her ways – they couldn’t really have expected to keep the evening a secret from her?! The black team was ‘crusin’ for a bruisin’ ans my dad would say. That confrontation was tough, but definitely an awakening.

And the heartbreaker for the blue team was that if it had been a regular week, not one-on-one, the blue team would have won. As a whole, they beat the black team’s percentage. But the black team managed to stay whole for another week. And Mandi ended up doing an unbelievably courageous and selfless thing. She made sure Aubrey would be on campus for at least another week. She sacrificed herself for her sister. And the emotions were truly at a peak in that elimination room. Everyone was affected by the gesture. And I was so happy to see how great she looks, how gorgeous her kids are – isn’t her son cute?

Tonight, before I got home to watch the show I got a ton of replies on http://twitter.com/Ali_Sweeney about tonight's ep. Everyone was commenting on what a crazy good, intense ep it was and they were right! Feel free to jump into the conversation! I'd love to hear from you!

http://blog.nbc.com/alison/the_biggest_loser/

marigold:

 :hearts: Coleen Skeabeck Biggest Loser Recap S.7 ep.10

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