My Biggest Loser Blog

I forgot that the contestants were not there when Allison told the aqua team about their opportunity to come back to the Biggest Loser Ranch.

 

From what we have been seeing of them it looks like this brother and sister team really wants to be back on the ranch.

 

Daphne 37 years old-starting weight 271-26=245

Adrian  34 years old  370-34=336

 

They lost a total of 60 pounds on their own at home!

 

I think that for basically doing this on their own without even getting to step within the walls of the Biggest Loser Ranch that they did a really good job J

 

Now I hear Conda and Kim making comments, and yes some others did too but for the most part it was them.

 

Kim was upset because the aqua team was celebrating their return to the ranch. I am sure that if her team had been in their place that they would have been celebrating getting to actually be on the Biggest Loser Ranch just the same. After being there for 5 weeks I think she has forgotten just how excited they all were to be there that first day. So she begrudges the aqua team their moments of celebration?

 

That’s a bit sad really. They had their time to cheer and be happy about being there.

I know that The Biggest Loser is a tv show and as such they like to portray certain things (like drama) to up their ratings. And I know that they pick and choose what we see so some of it may seem awful but we have to remember that there are parts that we don’t see.

 

BUT, I have to say that the things being said and done WERE said and done or they wouldn’t be on film to show us. As such I must say that from what I have seen of Conda and Kim that I don’t think they are anyone that I would want to be friends with. I have enough drama in my life just struggling to get through. I certainly don’t need anyone that likes the drama and conflict the way that those two seem to.

 

I may be wrong. If you personally know them and they aren’t like that then by all means PLEASE comment and let us know. But, I must say that I put out there that same request when we had to endure the whole Vickie season and No One Took Me Up On It. I know that she posted over and over about not being like that but yet again when Vickie was on the Biggest Loser it was the same deal- they can’t film it if you don’t say it or do it.

 

Of the 3 challenges and 4 weigh-ins the black and the red teams are pretty much running neck and neck.

Red team has won 2 challenges and 2 weigh-ins. So that puts them ahead in the challenges by 1 win and a tie on the weigh-ins.

 

I will say that even though I like Dolvett I love Bob and feel a certain loyalty to him. I also like the way that the black team has treated Daphne much better than how the red team has treated Adrian. It’s not all of the red team but a bad apple or two can certainly spoil the bushel.

 

So, for me I am rooting for the black team. BUT, there are certain red team members that I like and so I am conflicted.

 

I certainly like Buddy as he is from Michigan- Like us! J

 

Now Kim said about that she doesn’t know of Olympic athletes that work out 14 hours a day at the intensity that they do and only lose 34 pounds in a month.

 

One month is approximately 30 days (give or take). To lose 34 pounds is losing more than 1 pound a day. Now she is not taking into consideration the fact that Adrain and

Daphne never got onto the Biggest Loser Ranch. They have very little idea how the other contestants have been training. SURE, Bob and Dolvett each took a day to go work with them but that is 2 days out of 30 and how much of that actually soaked in when you think about how surprised they were and how excited. Looking back after the trainers had left how much of it did they remember?

 

I think that they did a really good job and would like to say that I am proud of them

 

Ok, I understand that Adrian is the new guy but his sister is the new girl on the black team and I don’t see the black team treating her the way that Adrian is being treated.

 

Maybe the red team doesn’t believe him when he said that he was working out 14 hours a day. Maybe he was just exaggerating, hoping that the team would see how much he wants to be there or maybe he is just trying too hard to fit in.

 

But to me there seem to be a couple people that are just trying to push him right out the door.

 

Who else can see how Conda and Kim are being? I feel that Conda is being the worst of the two. She certainly has some issues.

 

Think about how she was with calling Cassandra a cheater, rolling her eyes at Dolvett and how she has been treating Adrian.

 

I think that Nancy, Buddy and Mark had a pretty good attitude about the aqua team being back.

 

I understand that Chris is upset about Chism and Jeremy writing her name down to go home. BUT, she needs to realize that they felt that she wanted to go home.

 

I find it interesting that the women all voted for Gail and that the guys voted for Chris.

 

Maybe Chris was more open with the women and they know she REALLY wants to stay.

 

Maybe it all comes down to how men and women process things differently?

 

Hmmm…. Interesting. What do YOU think?

 

 WOW! Chris did an awesome job on Fran with 4minutes and    seconds

Cassandra 7 minutes 46 seconds

Chism 7 minutes and 6 seconds

Emily 5 minutes and 29 seconds

Daphne 5 minutes and 14 seconds

 

You know, for all the doubting that the red team was doing about how well Adrian would do I think he did an amazing job on the monkey bars. He did better than most of the other red team members and he most certainly did better than I would JLOL

 

Buddy said that he was impressed with how well Adrian performed on the monkey bars but Conda, the drama and conflict queen, said that she is not impressed “This was one of the easier workouts that we’ve had”

 

I certainly feel for Adrian and his wife for losing their baby like they did. Losing a child is one of the hardest things a parent could ever go through.

 

I am also sure that watching this section of Biggest Loser was probably not easy for former contestant Denise Hill as she worries about her new baby grandson who was born January 17th at 1:36 (Exactly a half an hour before my Uncle died) he  weighed 1 lb 5oz. He was due May 11, he was 4 months early.

 

I would think that hearing about the loss that Adrian and his wife had would certainly bring up some worries as Denise and her family pray that their little one will be ok.

 

So far he has been doing really well and she says that he is a fighter. We are praying for him to do well, be healthy and to be able to go home soon. Please send prayers to her family at this time.

 

Josh was born 2 months premature and he did really well. I am sure that they have made great advances since then.

 

Now Conda is stirring the trouble pot again. She is saying how Adrian called her on being disrespectful and said that because he is a gentleman that he hasn’t called her on it yet.

 

How true! How true!

 

Adrian has caused tension between Conda and the rest of the team?

NO- CONDA is the one that has caused tension for everyone on the Biggest Loser this season

 

And Kim is calling Adrian an idiot? Is it any wonder that there is tension this week? And I am sure that all of that tension is going to show up on the scales come weigh-in time.

 

Now, how many of you think that Chris’s whole speech was trying to get the guys to not put her name down again?

 

I think that Chism had a good point about how ‘if she really wanted to get to know us she would have done it before she knew we wrote her name down on the paper’

 

Then again, you can see Chris’s point too. She had a weak moment and she sees now how it could come back and bite her in the butt if she doesn’t do some damage control.

 

Everything kind of came to a head at the dinner table. I am glad that Nancy and Mark spoke up about the petty crap going on. Although I am not sure how much was directed at Conda and Kim and how much at Adrain.

 

I also saw how everyone left Adrian alone at the table except for Buddy. Now I don’t know how much of that was support for Adrian and how much was because he may have not been done eating-or shock that everyone all of a sudden walked awayJ I am glad that someone stayed sitting there though so that Adrian wasn’t left all alone.

 

It would be so hard to go home thinking that these people were saddened to see them go home and looking forward to being part of the group and then have your dream come true to only have it turn into a nightmare.

 

Cudos to Adrian for getting Dolvett to realize that there was a problem without talking behind everyone’s back (unlike a couple other contestants I could mention)

 

Dolvett does have a point about Adrian not forcing himself to be part of the group that it will take time.

 

 

Now for the weigh-in results:

 

Black Team

Daphne 245-1-244

Megan 238-9=229

Chism  320-2=318

Emily 235-5=230

Chris 215-4=211

Cassandra 206-6=200

Jeremy 347-9=338

 

Total 27 pounds  1.72%

 

Red Team

Nancy 200-4=196

Adrian 336-2=334

Kim 220-5=215

Roy 272-4=268

Mark 255-4-251

Buddy 353-8=345

Conda 265-2=263

 

Red team lost the weigh-in

I am surprised that the red team sent Nancy home. I was really hoping that they would send Conda home. I can see why Adrian said that he was surprised that Nancy was being sent home. All he did was make a statement of fact and boy did the gruesome twosome jump on him.

It would seem to me that if you have someone that causes friction that she would be the one that you would send home when you got a chance. But then again when they had a chance to send so named by many Biggest Loser viewers ‘icky Vickie’ home they didn’t do it.

Is this because ‘they can’t see the forest for the trees’ like Josh says? Or is it that there are things going on that we don’t see that determine the contestants voting so differently than what we think that they should?

Well, time to stop for tonight. I have something else that I am hoping to post tonight if I have time and time is short as the library will be closing soon.

Hope you enjoyed my thoughts, and rants Jlol, on this weeks Biggest Loser

Take care. I’ll be back next week.