My Biggest Loser Blog

Did you see Biggest Loser Tuesday night? I was glued to the tv- laughing, yelling, wishing a certain 2 people would just ‘Go HOME!’ and crying my eyes out when Abbey…. Well, let’s start at the begining. From the get go when the black team came in from having to send Dina home and Liz made her comment about how it was fake tears and that she hoped that the black team would have to send someone else home this week so that she could see them cry real tears- I was PISSED! I don’t know about you, but I have not really liked Liz since she had the opportunity to send crazy Tracey home and didn’t. All of her talk about getting revenge and sending Tracey home the first chance that she got was just a bunch of talk. Since then it seems like her and Tracey are best buddies. It also seems that Liz is showing a side of her I just don’t like. She has been making comments that make her sound like a very bad sport. I really liked Liz when she first came on the Biggest Loser ranch but in the last few weeks my opinion of her has gone downhill. And Tracey? Well, my opinion of her has been bad since she first set foot on the ranch. When she was on the bus and was running the race for the first challange we liked her. When she collapsed we were very worried about her. Even while she was in the hospital she seemed nice. But since the moment she came to the ranch she has just went NUTS! Ok, tonight’s challenge: When Amanda was taking her turn she was really moving along and I think it is the best she has done on any of the challenges so far. It didn’t look like she had slowed down so I am still wondering why she quit when she did? I have to say that I have a feeling that if Amanda had stayed in it just 5 more minutes that the black team probably would have won. At the rate that she was racking up the points I firmly believe that it would have made a difference Everyone on the black team did pretty well but it seemed that Amanda was the one that really seemed to be racking up the points the fastest.For her size, Shay was really moving. She did much better than I had thought that she would. I am seeing big improvements in Shay in the time that she has been on the Biggest Loser ranch and I must say that she is winning the hearts of many. I feel so bad for her. Having a child myself, I cannot imagine treating my child the way that Shay’s mother treated her. I know that there are many people out there addicted to drugs and that this kind of thing happens far too often but I could never treat a child like that. Shay is so starved for the love that her mother should have given her. She is a wonderful person and for her mother to have not seen that and appreciated it is just such a tragedy. Shay we love you and we can see the bond that has developed between you and Abbey. There is your ‘mother’. Maybe that is why you both ended up on the Biggest Loser ranch- in order to find each other. Abbey has so much love to give and you deserve the love that she has to offer. We hope that you two will continue your friendship long after this season of Biggest Loser is done. Now Dan did a wonderful job- don’t get me wrong. He wanted to win it and he really put his all into it. Dan closed the gap in the points between the teams. For the black team to lose by a mere 3 points was heartbreaking for them. Dan, I am glad that you have realized that your mother’s ‘harping’ on you about your eating was done not to be mean but out of love. I think that this was a big breakthrough for you. A friend of mine had a mother who was obese. Now my friend has a daughter that is overweight and she tends to harp on her about her eating choices. Now since I knew her mom I understand why she does this. She is terribly afraid that her daughter is on the same path. Considering her age, her weight and her eating habits I tend to agree but I also think that sitting her daughter down and explaining why she feels the way that she does might be a better solution. Her daughter never met the grandmother because she died of cancer before Amanda (the grand daughter) was born. Because of this I think that Amanda probably is in much the same situation that Dan was before he realized that his mother was doing this out of love. Anyway, I am trying to be glad for the blue team but it is difficult because of how Tracey and Liz have been. I liked them both when this season of Biggest Loser started but now I find myself comparing them to Vicky and Heba and I just cannot stand the way that they have been behaving. I realize that with any game show that there will be gameplay involved but with Biggest Loser I think that the real reason for being there should be to lose weight and get healthy. The potential prize money should take a backseat. I can understand that as the finale gets closer that gameplay will start to factor in but I think that this season it started WAY TOO SOON with Tracey Now for the challenge, I think that the black team played it smart by combining their efforts against each of the biggest threats first and then working their way on down the line. It sure did pay off too. Ok, now for the weigh-in, does anyone else think that it was a big mistake to waste thier 2 pound advantage on Amanda? Have you noticed that Amanda seems to be the slimmest person on black team and yet she always seems to be taking the easy way out of a lot of the challenges? And who piped up about being the one to get the 2 pound advantage? Amanda. I have to wonder, since she lost the weigh-in even WITH the 2 pound advantage, what would have happened if someone else would have gotten it instead? Would the blue team have been the one to be ‘crying real tears’ as Liz put it? Have you noticed that Danny has gotten immunity in the weigh-in the last 2 weeks? He is worried that because of the friendship of the other black team members that they will send him home the first chance they get. Yet he is the one pulling the highest weight loss numbers. Now on to Abbey. This kind hearted woman has lost so much in her life. I hated to see her go home and yet I had to agree with her that her journey was more about being able to open herself up to love people again. To go through the kind of loss that she did would make it so hard for anyone to want to take a chance of loving people and losing them. I know as we have lost so many family members and friend’s of our family and it is so very hard each and every time. I find it harder and harder to open my heart to people because it hurts so much to lose them What Abbey did for her team was an act of unselfish love. To see that in the face of the blue teams greedy gamery just indeared the black team to my heart even more. It seems that the blue teams’ Tracey and Liz could take a few lessons from the kindness that we have seen shown by the black team members. Not all of the blue team members are the way that Tracey and Liz are but for now I find myself rooting for the black team every time due to Tracey and Liz. Once they are sent home maybe I can again feel joy for the other blue team members when they win a challenge but for now I cannot stand those 2 Vicky/Heba wannabees and will be glad to see them go home. Everyone else seems to be more about being at the Biggest Loser ranch to lose weight and learn about healthy food choices but all I see from them is gameplay. I think that Neil started the whole gameplay thing with his water weight gain a few seasons ago and now it seems that more and more players are there for gameplay. I am tired of the gameplay. Give me contestants like Abbey, Shay, Dan, Danny, Sean, Antoinne, etc. Contestants like them make the world a better place with their kindheartedness. The blue team did help out with the food bank and I liked that. I just cannot stand the way that Tracey and Liz have been acting and the comments that they have made. Anway,we would love to hear comments from you and to know how you feel about Tracey and Liz as well as how you feel about Abbey’s sacrifice for her teammates. BTW, I will be posting more soon. Wondering who the other 12 Biggest Loser alumni are that ran the triathlon? I’ll be telling you. Wondering about Jillian’s new weight loss show and if she is leaving Biggest Loser? I will be poating about that as well. Take care ~Michelle & Josh