My Biggest Loser Blog

Well, Mellisa FINALLY went home and we didn’t even get a chance to really enjoy it because we right away had to worry about who was going to lose the challenge and would be sent home AND because of the Olympics being on we wait to an eternity to see who was going to win- Darrell or Cheryl?
Though I must say that there was a whole LOT of screaming and cheering going on here. I imagine that it was the same all over the US (and beyond?). We have seen that people all over Biggest Loser land have not liked Melissa, have not believed her lies and have been wishing that she would go home.
Melissa follows in the path of other former Biggest Loser villians (though she seemed to put people off more with her lies than anything else). Like Vicky and Tracy before her Mellisa has brought together people from all walks of life in the common goal (wish, hope, dream?) that she be sent home asap :0)
It is such a powerful moment when someone that you cannot stand gets sent home. You cheer, you scream, jump up and down & you feel SO happy. No matter what may be going on in your life at that time- In that moment life is GOOD!
If only we could bottle that emotion to use during rough times, huh? :0)
Anyway, we had to wait far too long but biggest Loser was back tonight and we finally found out who won the challenge between Darrell and Cheryl.
You could see the agony in Darrell’s face and Cheryl seemed so focused like she is ready to do this all night if need be.
It was hard to tell which one was going to win. It came down between Cheryl’s torch being cockeyed and looking like it was going to slip any time or Darrell’s bad knees giving out.
We like both of these contestants so we were hard pressed deciding who to root for but being that Darrell is a fellow Michigander we were rooting for him to win. Besides, Cheryl has lost quite a bit of weight and she doesn’t really have that far to go. At this point we figure that she could do this on her own at home.
Just after Alli timed them at 9 minutes Darrell’s torch fell.
We were sad to see that Darrell’s knees were his ‘achilles heel’ so to speak. Sorry to see him go home but for as bad as his knees are, and how much trouble he was having, he sure gave it all he had.
You may have lost the challenge Darrell but you are a winner in our book. You did what you had to to change your life to lose the weight and you kept fighting to be there at the Biggest Loser ranch right to the end. You did it all without the backstabbing and lies that some other contestants think that they need to engage in to stay on the ranch. It would be nice if all the Biggest Loser contestants would be like that. But, then there would be no drama and I know that there are some of you that LOVE the drama ;0)
Ok, speaking of drama….
What in the name of all that is Holy has happened to Michael? We used to love Michael but tonight we saw a whole ‘nother side of him and I must say that it is one that we don’t like.
It all seemed to have started off with the challenge during which only Michael and Andrea volunteered for. It seems that whenever there is a challenge that gives one person immense power that they change and turn into a control hungry monster.
During the challenge itself Michael took it all in stride whenever he had to eat something and Andrea was sure ahead of the game there. She kept finding more and more matches so that Michael was having to eat all kinds of ‘goodies’
It is funny how the Biggest Loser contestants always seem to find that when they have to eat the things that they so enjoyed, the things that got them where they were when they got to the ranch, that they no longer enjoy them like they did.
Anyway, it seemed like Andrea was winning since she did not have to eat anywhere near the calories that Michael did. And then it happened…
Michael found both sides to the golden ticket and he got the POWER!
Michael got the power to choose teams.
Believe me, I understand wanting to win and finally being able to do something for yourself instead of always putting others ahead of your wants and needs.
BUT, there comes a point and time where you can go too far and I believe that Michael went screeching past that line tonight
He doesn’t want to be malicious? He wants to be fair?
Ashley got it right when she said that she had a bad feeling about how Michael would handle the power and choose the teams
Splitting up teams, pitting mother & son as well as cousins against each other; so completely stacking the deck against the other team…well it just isn’t right.
He talked with Andrea and knew she wanted Bob for her trainer and so he put her on Jillian’s
He totally stacked the deck and boy was Jillian upset
Michael also made some comments that just solidified my feelings for him now. I cannot remember exactly what they are at this time but with his actions and words tonight Michael is no longer (at least at this time) on my list of people that I would like to see win Biggest Loser Season 9.
Okay, since I couldn’t remember what exactly he said I am now watching it again to see if I can catch it.

Here are some of them….

‘I didn’t make the game Jillian so don’t make me the bad guy”
“Would it be better if I chose the teams to be fair and I get sent home. Would that be fair Jillian?” -it was more HOW he said this than what he said
“You don’t put up a good weight then you are going, you are no use to me” He said that to Miggy HIS so called BEST FRIEND!

Up till now I haven’t thought too much about Sam. Nothing against him. I liked him but he wasn’t one of my absolute favorites. He sort of blended into the background- if you know what I mean. He was quiet and maybe a bit shy.
But, with these changes I am seeing a new side of Sam and I really LIKE him now. Funny how Michael was one of my favorites and now in a twist of fate he is on my SH** list and Sam has jumped onto my one of my favorites
I like how Ashley said that the blue team might have more weight and more muscle but the black team has more heart
You Go ASHLEY! :0)

As this show played out I found that I started disliking more of the blue team because of their attitude and things that they said.
You know, for how much ‘stronger’ the blue team is the black team was staying with them pretty good through the whole challenge. I was really hoping that they would get their team banner up before blue team. I was sad when they didn’t but then I realized that winning the weigh-in is more important.
Then, during the weigh-in, I was thinking that through and realized thatlosing the weigh-in may have actually been the best way to go right now. They could have sent Cheryl home- I love her but she is closest to her goal
Then they would have gotten O’neal. But then again, with his bad knees maybe that wouldn’t have been best
What do you think?
And Sam? How great that through his own pain he tries to comfort and boost the morale of his teammates? You Go SAM! What a guy! You have grown so much since you have been there

O’ Neal lost 9 pounds 2.77%
Micheal lost 15 pounds (109 in 7 weeks) .85%
Sunshine lost 7 pounds
Lance lost 5 pounds
Miggy lost 4 pounds
Darris lost 7 pounds
Koli lost 10 pounds
Total lost 48 pounds 2.7%

Black team needs to lose more than 39 pounds
Andrea lost 5 pounds .34%
Cheryl lost 4 pounds .28%
Sherry lost 6 pounds
Sam lost 8 pounds
Stephanie lost 8 pounds
Ashley lost 10 pounds You Go ASHLEY!!!
Total lost 41 pounds! OOOOHOOOO!!!!

The only positive thing that I can say about Michael this week is that he didn’t write down Miggy’s name. So maybe he has some loyalty after all.
I was sad to see Miggy go home. She has changed so much since she came on Biggest Loser. But boy is she looking GOOD! She looks so much more relaxed and happy- she even looks younger.
It was nice seeing Nicole again- looking good Nicole! :0)
WOW! Darrell, you are looking great!
He has lost 120 pounds and is able to wear the jacket he wore when he met his wife 27 years ago.

2-9-10
The players went to the Olympic Training Center where they found out that they were no longer teams but they were now competing as individuals
While at the Olympic Training Center the players had a pop challenge. They had to slide, side to side, on a slide board. The first one to 500 points wins. Now I have been on a slide boar and it isn’t as easy as some people might think. Those who master it can make it look very easy
There were to be 3 winners of this challenge and no one would know what the prizes were until we knew who the winners were.
Melissa was in the lead with Sam right behind her which meant that there was a while lot of screaming going on here for Sam to win. There was no way that we wanted Melissa to win no matter what the prize was and especially if it might be immunity.
Right at a most inopportune time for Mellisa, but makes me wonder if karma had a hand in it, Mellias fell and Sam gobbled up her lead and won YEHHHH!!!!!! :0)
Sam won the Gold, Mellisa won Silver and Sunshine won the Bronze
At the Garden of the Gods the players found out about their next challenge.
The players had to run after BB guns, then when they get ahold of them, they had to shoot marked targets that had other players’ names on them. Then when a player’s target was hit five times, they were eliminated. Bit before the game started, Ali told the winners from the pop challenge what their advantage was. Sunshine got to choose one target to automatically hit, Melissa got to choose two targets, & then Sam got to choose three targets
So we found out that Sunshine and Melissa each used their free target shot on Sam and the he used oneof his free target shots on Sunshine and the other two on Melissa. Ali then tells the players that they are playing for immunity this week and the fun starts.
Players are getting picked off by fellow teammates one by one.In the end the challenge comes down between Darrell and O’Neal and it’s O’Neal who wins the immunity.
Being a Michigander I was rooting for Darrell to win this but I didn’t mind over much that O’Neal won it- though it would have been nice to have a fellow Michigander win immunity :0)
Now it is time for the weigh-in. Everyone is shocked when the scale shows that Melissa has gained a pound-putting her below the red line. Lance got tears in his eyes because he knew that this meant that Mellisa would automatically be going home.
Meanwhile here there was a whole bunch of cheering and screaming going on.
We have been wanting Mellisa to go home for some time now and have seen many others all over the net wanting the same thing. Seems Mellisa wasn’t fooling as many people as she thought that she was.
Then instead of having the weekly elimination they had the two players that fell below the yellow line have to participate in a challenge. Darrell and Cheryl each have to balance a lit torch stem on their head and the player who manages to balance their torch the longest gets to stay on the ranch. But, they make us wait to find out who wins the challenge.
We had to wait until after the Olympics to find out who would win the challenge and who ended up having to go home.

We Are BACK!
WOW! I cannot believe it. After weeks of being unable to access My Boggest Loser Blog, despite being able to access nearly all other areas of our website, we are finally able to access My Biggest Loser Blog to try to catch up on what has been going on
Let’s see….
2-2-10
When we last posted Migdalia had just left the Biggest Loser ranch
Her mother, Miggy, was understandably upset to see her daighter go home. That night Miggy started to have terrible abdominal pain and had to be rushed to the hospital. She underwent emergency surgery
In the meantime the blue and yellow teams, that had been sent home at the begining of Biggest Loser season 9, arrived back at the ranch.
Cherita and Victoria were the first to step on the scale to see which team has the most weight lost in order to win the chance of staying on the Biggest Loser ranch
The mother and daughter (blue team) had lost 9.92% which mean that Sunshine and O’Neil would need to lose 65 pounds in order to be the winning team that gets to stay on the ranch
They lost 76 pounds.
We were sad to see the blue team go home. We liked both teams and it was sad to have to see either team have to go home after 2 such short stays on the ranch. Even though they had lost enough weight that you know that they CAN do this at home it was still sad that we won’t get the chance to get to know them better.
While the others were working out, Bob took Melissa aside and had a talk with her. He told her that even though she had made many enemies on the ranch that she had won his respect when she had lost 11 pounds last week.
I love Bob and Jillian and I know that Bob is smart so I have to wonder if it was just the peacekeeper in him that made him say that? Sometimes it seems that Bob and Jillian do their own version of good cop/bad cop or should I say good trainer/bad trainer? :0)lol
This weeks challenge was hitting their blocking pads back and forth 1,000 times.
Right away it seemed like Michael hit on the right rhythym and he was adding up hits at an amazing rate.
Go Micheal!
It came down between Michael and Sam and Michael won by just seconds. Michael surprised everyone-himself included I think- and he won immunity
Unfortunately Sherry came in last and the pink team ended up with a 2 pound disadvantage
That night Miggy came back to the ranch. She told everyone that she had her appendiz removed as well as a mass and a cyst. She seemed to be a different person making me wonder if she has been in pain for some time now and that is why she always seemed so cranky. She now is a whole new, happier person :0)
At the weigh-in we all expected John to have some good numbers. Sadly he didn’t. He fell below the dreaded yellow line and was automatically eliminated.
You know, there are some contestants you like right off and others grow on you. John was one of those that grew on us and by the time he left we really liked him and hated to see him go