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RealityFreakWill:
Alison's blog:

Ron shaved!!!

First of all, I LOVE Tim Gunn. Isn’t he just so awesome?? I loved watching him help everyone shop, Mike not liking pink (lol) and Helen being so affected by all the pretty dresses she can wear now – and seriously? She looked phenomenal. I loved the look on her husband’s face. Tara looked so incredible too – uh yeah, cover of OK magazine!!!! LOVED IT!!

That challenge was so intense. From my angle, there was no way Tara was coming back to beat Filipe. I mean, he had it in the bag! And the way she came back from behind to win again was just incredible. I didn’t know who to root for! I love Tara’s competitive personality (get to know me, lol) but I wanted a victory for Filipe too!!! It was so close, so intense! I was freaking out! And I was so impressed to see Mike and Kristin both overcoming their fear of heights to get through it. It was intimidating being way up there!
I can’t believe it’s Thursday – one more day of vacation for me, and then I am back to work at Days on Monday. But I’m a total workaholic, Ari even teased me as we were getting ready to leave before the hiatus – she asked if I was going to go out and get another job for the break. Lol.
Being with Ben and Megan has been so great. I was making dinner the other night and I heard her cry out from the other room. But as I was grabbing a towel to dry my hands, she stopped crying… I went in to see what happened, and Ben had given her her pacifier, he was saying “its okay, Megan, I’m here. I’m here megan” in this adorable high-pitched voice. It was so cute.
Oops. Megan is awake. Gotta go!

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

RealityFreakWill:
Biggest Loser’s Laura Talks Fractured Hip & New Boyfriend



When a fractured hip contributed to her elimination from The Biggest Loser, former plus-size model Laura Denoux’s exit brought trainer Jillian to tears. But Laura, 24, is happy now, leaving makeover week with a new hairdo, new-found confidence, a new career and a new boyfriend. Back in Miami, Fla., Laura spoke to PEOPLE.com — between rehabilitating her injuries and exercising to maintain her weight loss — to talk about emotional eating, her life now and her killer spicy shrimp recipe! – Rebecca Gross

How is your hip feeling and what are your workouts routines like?
I’m much better. My workouts mainly consist of going to physical therapy and cardio, which is limited to spinning on the bike or doing sit-down cardio because I can’t put any pressure or weight on my hips. My hip is still fractured. … So mainly, it’s just upper body weights, the bike and swimming, but I prefer being in a gym and listening to my music.

How did you enjoy the makeover and did you get any great advice from Tim Gunn?
It was amazing! I’m still a redhead and I love it. They didn’t show this, but I was crying a lot when they were doing my hair because I’ve been a blonde my whole life, but I love my hair and I’m used to it now. It was great to feel made over with new clothes, especially after being in sweats all day with T-shirts and sports bras. Tim Gunn let us know we were hiding behind big, baggy black clothes all the time. He wanted us to feel comfortable wearing color now that we have new bodies.

With Jillian’s help, were you able to work through the emotional issues and get to the bottom of why you gained weight?
Yes, one thing was my father passing away from cancer when I was 15. I was filling that emptiness with food. My parents were divorced since I was 5 and being on my own as an only child, I was always looking for food as a comfort. I always related food with my emotional self and now I’m learning that I can’t use food as an emotional crutch anymore.

What are you up to these days?
I’m sitting in my office at my new job. I’m doing something very exciting that I’m extremely passionate about. Since being on Biggest Loser: Couples and changing my lifestyle to diet and exercise, I’m now the Heart Walk Director for the American Heart Association in Miami.

How else has your social life changed since you’ve lost weight?
I have started to date somebody and so far everything is looking pretty good. I’m just a happier person and I think that everybody is seeing that. I go out and have fun. I like to shop. Before I would make excuses not to go out. I’m more comfortable and have more confidence and I know who I am now, whereas before I wasn’t so sure.

What is the biggest lesson you learned about food and diet?
Before the show, my diet consisted of eating out a lot and you never know what the restaurants are putting in the food, if they’re using oil or butter or salt or sauces. Now I’ve learned to cook my own food and I’ve really been able to cut down on my calorie intake by not eating out as much. Something that I like to eat that I made up at the Ranch is this spicy shrimp dish. Shrimp is extremely low in calories. I just use Cholula hot sauce, Mrs. Dash Southwest Chipotle, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter spray, and it’s [like] something you’d get at a restaurant!

http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/04/17/biggest-losers-laura-talks-fractured-hip-new-boyfriend/#more-11422

RealityFreakWill:
Biggest Loser: Couples Episode Recap: "Week 16"

t's the sixteenth week on The Biggest Loser campus, and the claws are coming out. Tara lost her partner, leaving the Brown team as the only pair intact, and Tara's scared and upset that Jillian advocated for Laura to be voted out. The two talk it over, and after Jillian yells at her not to be so selfish and realize it wasn't right to keep her there with an injury, the two move on. On the other side, Kristin is also terrified that there are only three weigh-ins left and that the moment she declares how badly she wants to win, it will get yanked away.

The contestants were treated to a fitness and food trivia game this week with Rosemary Ellis, the editor-in-chief of Good Housekeeping, as the host. The questions are somewhat tricky. (Who knew that ground chicken wasn't a great option since it includes the skin?) The last question asks how many calories a fried fish sandwich with tartar sauce contains, and Mike is only 5 calories off from the correct answer of 640. I'm always amazed at how well they all learn calorie counts. Kristin is pretty bummed when Mike wins the three-day trip for two to New York City and even asks him, "Are you even old enough to go to New York by yourself?" Someone's a little bitter.

Next up is the challenge where the contestants' future literally hangs in the balance. Are there ever any challenges that aren't metaphors for the BL contestants? Each person hangs in a cage suspended 45 feet above the ground, and each one holds the rope that keeps them in the air. Once they let go, the cage falls and they're eliminated. Everyone freaks out about the height, and Mike and Ron are the first two to drop. Everyone starts bickering to cause each other to lose focus, but it doesn't really work for anyone. I love that Helen called Tara out for her diss that sounded more like something a 10-year-old would say. After an hour, only Tara and Helen are left. Helen tries to bargain with the powerhouse but to no avail. She lets go of the rope and Tara wins... again. Yawn. She gets a choice between $10,000 and a one-pound advantage to be decided at the weigh-in. Which would you choose?

Bob watches the video journal he had instructed his team to make so that he'd get a sense of their eating habits. Surpisingly, he's upset that they're not eating enough. Even their dinner is one serving split between the three of them. We all know that on the ranch, when you eat too little it ends up backfiring.

During the last-chance workout, emotions were running wild. Bob pushes Kristin to her limits and gets her to run at 10.0 for 30 seconds. Pretty impressive I think. Jillian forces Mike to evaluate his anger and resentment towards his father, and he's finally able to ask him why he allowed his sons to get as obese as he did. Mike tells Ron that he's been so frustrated but never expressed it His dad tells him that it's okay to be mad, but that he couldn't drill it into his family while he wasn't on track himself. But now that Mike and Ron are on their way, they can return home and show Mike's overweight brother Max how to get there too.

At the weigh-in, Tara reveals her decision from winning the challenge, and takes a risk by going for the $10,000. As she steps on the scale — with Jilllian scared to look — she learns she lost five pounds and 2.75 percent body fat, which is a great number considering she passed on the one-pound advantage. Next up is Ron, who loses four pounds, 1.32 percent, and is under 300 pounds for the first time since his early teens. Helen weighs in and only loses one pound, .62 percent. She's not so thrilled. Mike, yet again, has a great week and loses eight pounds — he's down 153 in total — and 3.29 percent. Filipe is up next and only loses three pounds and 1.21 percent. The shocking number of the night is Kristin, who actually gains a pound, +.41 percent, despite her intense workouts this week. Both she and Bob are stunned and confused.

With Kristin and Helen below the yellow line, Jillian calls it the worst-case scenario, as these are two players who do not deserve to go home. Helen pleads with her fellow competitors that she is not ready to go. Kristin is flat out angry that she worked so hard and this is how her body reacted. She speaks to Ron alone in hopes to guarantee both his vote and Mike's. Ron tells her that he's keeping his word to never write her name down and will talk to Mike about doing the same. But, of course, that's not what happens. Ron and Mike shadily discuss how they plan to vote, and since Kristin is Mike's biggest threat in the house, he votes for her causing a tie. That means the person with the lowest percentage is out — Kristin's going home. She sees past Ron's claim that he didn't know Mike would vote for her and calls him out for taking the easy route to victory. I guess I'd be upset too, but then again it's a game and everyone is going to do what they can to win the $250,000.

Kristin goes home, but she's ecstatic that she's gone from 360 pounds to 244 in just 16 weeks. She tells the world in her exit interview that she's going to walk back into her house and restart life as a brand-new person. Upon her return she's welcomed by her husband, mother, Biggest Loser partner Cathy and the rest of her family. Like she said earlier in the episode, it may have taken 16 weeks, but she's realized that she deserves this new, healthier version of herself. 

Do you think the Brown team did the right thing or stabbed Kristin in the back?

http://www.tvguide.com/Episode-Recaps/biggest-loser/Biggest-Loser-Couples-1005312.aspx

Texan:
thanks for the recap.  I missed the show.  I really need to set the dvr!!!  I knew when Kristin fell below the line that Ron would vote her out.  I am still shocked that they kept him all this time as he has expressed he is only worried about his son.  Not even himself.  I hope he falls below next week.

RealityFreakWill:
Inside the Cage of Health with Kristin Steede of The Biggest Loser Couples

As The Biggest Loser Couples narrows the field in another healthy season of weight-loss transformations, the competition is still as competitive as ever. This week saw the editor of Good Housekeeping magazine arrive to give The Biggest Loser players a multiple choice quiz on counting calories in which Kristin and Mike went head-to-head in a tie before Mike won a trip to New York for his food and calorie prowess. Next on The Biggest Loser challenge docket was a cage suspension test where each had to hold their weight where challenge champ Tara came out the winner for a fifth time to land a $10,000 prize for her efforts.

After a "last chance workout," The Biggest Loser competitors stepped on the scales for the final weigh-in where 3-pound loser Felipe appeared to be the next Biggest Loser to leave the ranch before an over-confident Kristin shocked herself by gaining 1-pound for the week. Although Kristin made a last ditch plea to Mike to keep her in the game, at The Biggest Loser deliberation table it was Kristin who was sent packing from the ranch.

The next morning we hopped on our weekly Biggest Loser conference call to chat with Kristin Steede and walk back in Biggest Loser time to find out how she gained weight, whether she knew Ron and Mike were going to vote her out, how she's changed both her workout and eating routines, and what's in store for the future now that Kristin has undergone a healthy transformation on The Biggest Loser Couples.

THE DEADBOLT: How did you manage to gain weight before the last weigh-in?

[Biggest Loser Couples NBC] KRISTIN STEEDE: It came to me the day after the ranch. You know, there’s a certain time of the month for a woman where her weight tends to fluctuate and I didn’t recognize what was happening at the time until after I had left. I think it’s just hormonally in combination with the stress and everything else, because diet and exercise-wise I couldn’t have had a better week. I was running farther and faster than I have ever run in my entire life. So, I mean, it really didn’t make any sense to me at the time but I kind of realized afterwards what was going on.

THE DEADBOLT: Oh, [so] it was a "female" thing going on.

KRISTIN: [laughs] Yes, exactly. And you know, it also expressed [other factors] because I was very emotional that week. And I think the emotions came from not only falling below the yellow line the week before, but it all made sense after I left. I was like, ‘That’s why,’ and everything kind of came together.

THE DEADBOLT: So I guess I can’t call you blueberry anymore.

KRISTIN: [laughs] You big blueberry. I think that’s one of the funniest things. Some of my friends actually joke around and will say that once in a while. I think that’s such a great clip, because Filipe and I are such good friends.

THE DEADBOLT: Now that you’re home, how much do you work out with your mother?

KRISTIN: You know, I do not work out with my mother all that much. We try to get together whenever we can, but I have a philosophy: ‘Do it for yourself, by yourself.’ My mom and I had tried so many diets and exercise programs together in the past and the moment my mom didn’t feel like going it was easy for me not to go, and vice versa. So now the way that I structure my exercise routine is like - I’ll let her know where I’m going and what I’m doing and when I’m doing it, and if she wants to join me - I would love for her to do it, but I don’t wait for her. I don’t depend on her. And now, actually, when we work out together it’s a treat and an enjoyable thing to do. But we are on two different schedules, two different work schedules, so we’re always on the go.

THE DEADBOLT: Did you have any indication that Ron and Mike were going to pull that voting routine?

[Biggest Loser Couples NBC] KRISTIN: You know, I wasn’t quite sure. I mean, obviously the week before Ron and Mike had both voted to keep me in the house and eliminate Laura, so there was a chance. Knowing that it was a game atmosphere, knowing we were so close to the end, I knew that it was a possibility. And as far as I’m concerned, in the game of The Biggest Loser you are in control of your fate. You can’t fall below the yellow line otherwise your fate is in someone else’s hand and I knew that from the beginning. So, because of my body and what had happened I had given them that opportunity. So I really don’t feel like it’s fair to blame them for elimination, because I fell below the yellow line and they did it and that’s how the game works.

THE DEADBOLT: In terms of the game, what was your favorite aspect of the gameplay?

KRISTIN: It was so terrible, like the whole gameplay aspect of it, because TV will never do justice to the relationships you form with people on the ranch. You know, you wake up every morning and you have breakfast with those people and you change your lives with all of the contestants. So there’s really nothing about the gameplay that's [there]. Like even Tara, Tara is an amazing person and an amazing competitor, I have so much respect and admiration for her. I mean, no matter what, it’s a hard game to play. And for me personally, and who I am, there wasn’t really a part of that that I enjoyed.

THE DEADBOLT: Before you got involved with the show, what was your biggest weakness, junk-food-wise?

KRISTIN: Oh, boy! I would say anything chocolate related. Anything, you know? I really had a craving for sweets and I’ve actually come to the realization now that I kind of call myself a food addict. You know, when I was heavy and before I went on the show I would get a craving, or an idea of something that I wanted, and it would basically be in my head until I acted it on that craving, much like an addict would. So it was really powerful to recognize that and actually admit that to myself and then learn and work on dealing with it.

THE DEADBOLT: Does that still affect you or can you eat a bit of chocolate and be okay?

[Biggest Loser Couples NBC] KRISTIN: You know, I still do. I think it’s something I’ll battle with all of the time. But now I really do look at food differently. I really believe that if I want to have a cookie, I need to eat that cookie, enjoy that cookie and not feel guilty about that and maybe just compensate for it, because losing weight is all about calories consumed versus calories burned. Now am I burning more calories than I’m eating?

So if I’m maintaining my weight, I’ll eat that cookie and enjoy it, and I understand I’ll have to have it in moderation. But then maybe I have to run a little longer or walk on the treadmill. I think in the past I would associate some guilt with food, because I was heavy and I believed, ‘Oh, I shouldn’t do that or I shouldn’t eat that.’ I just want to live normally. I understand I’ll eat things that aren’t the healthiest and I can have them occasionally as long as I eat them in moderation and compensate for it.

THE DEADBOLT: At the end of the show I was surprised to see you speaking to 200 people. How did that come about?

KRISTIN: I’ve obviously been home for two months now and it was something that a lot of people have been coming up to me to talk, that had wanted to hear about my story and hear about my experience. And just being from a small community, and the show’s 'Where Are They Now?’ segment, which I think is a fabulous part of the show, it’s all about what people want to do. You know, some people want to run marathons and some people want, like, Mandy with her children. I’m really looking forward to the opportunity to potentially speak to people and help people with what I’ve experienced and learned on The Biggest Loser, which is kind of how that whole segment kind of came about.

http://www.thedeadbolt.com/news/105651/biggest_loser_couples_kristin_interview.php

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