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Biggest Loser 200th Episode Airs Tonight

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

 

Hi All,

Just wanted to let you know that night is the Biggest Loser’s 200th episode!

 

 

WOW!

 

Tonight’s episode should be a good one. It should be exciting for sure.

 

If you don’t like spoiler’s then you might not want to read this post.

 

A few days ago I posted a Biggest Loser season 13 spoiler but I said that I wanted to research it more. I have been researching it and I have found out some info that leads me to believe that what I posted may very well happen.

 

Tonight there will be a temptation. The one that wins gets to re-assemble the teams.

 

Hmmm…..

 

Can you say “Conda is going home”?

 

I cannot look into a crystal ball and say for certain but everything that I am finding is reinforing my opinion that Conda will be going home tonight.    

 

If I am wrong-SORRY L

 

But I really don’t think so. Or is it just wishful thinking? Hmmm.

 

I think that black team is tired of Conda’s drama and that Daphne and the rest of the black team will do their best to get her out of the Biggest Loser house. With the chance to gain control over the teams, and to send Conda home,  at stake I can see black team doing this.

 

Now, I wonder? Who do they send over to the red team in exchange for Conda?

 

Chris? She hasn’t lost huge numbers and since her husband Roy just went home last week she will probably want to go home now. You know that who-ever they send over will probably go home next time the red team loses as the person would not be part of their ‘clique’

 

Maybe they will send Jeremy? I have heard some talk of this and I am not sure which way to think on this. Jeremey being such a big guy does pull some big weight loss numbers. Yet, being Conda’s brother I can’t imagine him being in on sending Conda home. If black team pulls a fast one and sends him over to the red team and then sends home his sister Conda? Well, I think that they might be making quite an enemy there. As well as giving the red team someone that pulls good numbers.

 

Could black team getting revenge on Conda end up in them hurting themselves?

 

Then you look at how Conda with all of her drama stresses everyone out. I believe that the stress is behind (in part) the low numbers that we have been seeing on the scale in season 13. I mean, yes we don’t have the huge people that we have in recents seasons passed so the contestants original weight must be taken into consideration.

 

But stress? Stress is the reason for so many health issues. Stress is the reason so many people eat. When we are stressed we eat comfort foods to make us feel better. Then we gain weight and feel bad so we eat more comfort food.

 

Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense if you are stressed about gaining weight or being overweight (fat, obese- which-ever applies to that person’s situation) that you would eat more and gain more weight. It is a vicious circle when you think about it.

 

Yet food tastes so good. Especially chocolate,mmm…. Ok,Ok, Ok, I got off track there for a second. Sorry J

 

Finding other ways to de-stress, relax, feel good are better options but for many when we hurt we want to feel better now. We do not think about the consequences, We simply reach for what Bob calls “our drug of choice-food” We eat. We feel better, Even if it is only a temporary fix cuz hey, we can eat again to help us to feel better again,right?

 

Ok, enough of my rant about that J  

 

I hope that you will tune in to see Biggest Loser tonight. I cannot wait!!! I am counting down the minutes and seconds, milliseconds- ok I am NOT that much of a Biggest Loser fanatic. Well, not yet…. JLOL

 

If I am right then we could very well see Conda go home tonight and I think that the rest of Biggest Loser season 13 should have less drama and be easier to watch.

 

Unless red team is out for revenge for black team sending Conda home?

UGH! JLOL

 

See you all again soon with my post about tonight’s Biggest Loser and what happens. I expect I will be sitting on the edge of my seat, biting my nails, yelling at the tv, jumping up and down…..

 

Hey, could just WATCHING Biggest Loser be good exercise? J

 

How about you? What do you do while you watch Biggest Loser? Do you yell at the tv? Cry, Laugh? Eat?

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Biggest Loser season 13 week 6

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Well, the Biggest Loser was interesting again wasn’t it? Even if it did have more of the drama than most of us like. I think that that will settle down once Conda goes home.

I want to apologize for this being so late but we have had a lot going on and I kept forgetting my flash drive with my post on it at home UGH!
Anyway, Here is what happened on Biggest Loser and my thoughts on it:

Casandra is very upset about her grandmother, Nancy, going home. Though she did say that her grandmother was ok with it whenever it happened.

It seems that Adrian is damned if does and damned if he doesn’t. When Cassandra was crying about her gma getting sent home.

Adrian said “ Cassandra, I’m really sad to see your grandmother go. You guys are right next door to us. I often heard her giggling all the way from the room in the hallway. In the small time that I gitto spend with her I always told her she’s sweeter than pie”

Did you catch the look on Cassandra’s face when Adrian said that?

Adrian continued “Just so you know, I didn’t vote for her to leave”
Oh boy, there goes Conda giving looks. Now Jeremy and Cassandra.

“So, just be careful who you share and open up to because you know what? You really can get hurt in this house. I experience it everyday. I really do” Adrian ended with a catch in his voice.

I could feel his pain emanating from his voice. It is so sad because I cannot see that he has done anything to deserve the treatment that he has received.

Emily got a funny look on her face when Adrian finished. Then it went to a video clip where Emily said “I’m definetly feeling kind of embarrased for Adrian for the way he’s acting. I don’t know if he’s doing this on purpose or if he’s doing this to, you know, make things interesting? It’s embarassing. I wanna kinda hide”

Then Kim said “I’m sure she knows who her friends are here”

Adrian replied “I didn’t say who her friends weren’t. I was just saying as far as I’m thinking”

I don’t know what the heck Kimmy is talking about saying that Adrian said “The Nancy I know bla, bla, bla”

What Adrian said was “In the small time that I got to spend with her I always told her she’s sweeter than pie”

And Kimmy has a problem with that???

I thought that it was a very nice thing to say and that it was sweet of Adrian to try to comfort someone that he didn’t know well, that is on the other team, in her time of sadness.

And for that everyone jumps on him? Shame on you red team. Are you so full of yourself that you can’t see kindness for what it is? You know, what goes around comes around and I am sure that when you least expect it, when you want nothing more than to feel included and part of the team that Karma will come up and bite each and every one of you on the a** for the way that you have behaved the last 2 weeks.

I am not related to you but I got to say that I am deeply ashamed of your behavior and I would think that your family and friends are too. I only hope that while watching this you realize your behavior was wrong and that are ashamed of yourself. That you try to right the wrong you have done. Though I cannot see how you ever could as you cheated this man out of his well deserved chance to be the Biggest Loser.

Then Kimmy continued “He doesn’t really have a relationship with Nancy what-so-ever. He’s like a dog with a bone! He wouldn’t let go.

As everyone went to leave the room Mark asked Adrian “Are we going to have this conversation?
Adrian replied “If we have a conversation I’m going to do it as a group not as a one on one. “

Now everyone got upset with Adrian for that but I think that Adrian realizes that he can’t trust anyone and is worried that any one on one conversation could be used against him. The person could say that he said a bunch of things that he didn’t and use it as a chance to turn everyone against him even more.

If these people would put their-self in his shoes for a little bit they would realize how unfairly they are treating him and that he is just trying to protect himself.

Mark says about how Adrian has to once again make it clear that he didn’t vote for Nancy and that he is getting the team upset. So he decided he needed to talk with Adrian to straighten things out.

Everyone starts to argue and Chism pipes up with “Can we have some respect for Cassandra please? Her grandmother just left- GAWD!”

Ok, that’s fine. I can respect Chism for sticking up for Cassandra but it seems to me to be directed towards Adrian. What about having some respect for Adrian and how he feels about how he is being treated?

Then there is a video clip of Chism saying “Adrian STOP TALKING! This isn’t your moment. This isn’t the Adrian Show”

Mark says that something does not add up for a guy that size to only lose 2 pounds”

Adrian just said about how Mark saw how hard he was working out and he told Mark that he is stressed about how he is being treated. We all know that stress can negatively affect weight loss.
Adrian also says how would him throwing the weigh-in help him when he’s already on a team where the people don’t like him? He says that he may not have a master’s degree but he DOES have common sense.

Buddy says about how he sees both sides and how the people might think that he threw the game since they don’t know him. That is true

Adrian and Daphne were walking and talking. Adrian said “I’ve GOT to get immunity”

He went on to say how he even thought that he and Conda were cool. To this Daphne said “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Conda is such a (this was bleeped but sounded like she said ‘F’ing) con artist”

I am not sure but that is what I thought that she said and I listened to it numerous times. What do you all think she said?

Conda says that she will send Adrian home if he doesn’t get Biggest Loser because he causes drama and chaos and she doesn’t need that, that they don’t need that on the ranch.

So I say to that- then go home! You are the one that has been causing all the stress and chaos right from the first week on the ranch.

You have been nasty to Mike, Cassandra, Dolvett, Adrian and are spreading your bad attitude and nastiness through the Biggest Loser ranch like a disease.

The Challenge:

The trainers are suspended above the pool filled with cold water. The challenge is that the contestants have to hang on to a rope holding a weight weighing 220? Pounds which is the average weight loss per team at this time?

When someone loses their grip, and they let go, then they are out. The team that lets go first will have the weight hit and knock their trainer into the cold water.

What is their incentive? The team that loses will lose their trainer for the week. They won’t be allowed on the Biggest Loser ranch, no emails, no texts. They do however have their trainer for the last chance workout.

In case you are wondering….

Here is the order of who let go of the rope first on the Red team:
Kimmy
Mark
Kim
Conda
Buddy

Adrian and Roy were the last ones holding on to the rope for the red team

No one on the Black team let go of the rope until AFTER every single person on the red team had let go. Yooohoooo!!! You Go Black Team!

The red team does not know that while Dolvett might not be able to train them this week he IS watching them and monitering their progress.
Dolvett asked Kim to take over with their training. Being a former athlete she did so and seemed to do a pretty good job. She showed us a side of her that we had yet to see. She has leadership qualities and seemed to care about how well ‘her’ team would do under her training. I like this side of Kim much better than the one that listens to Conda and says mean things to others.

It seemed that all Conda could do is to complain, complain, complain
Dolvett was not happy about this and he even said “So What! Who cares Conda what Adrian is doing. Worry about Conda”

He even made a list of all the complaints that Conda had while he was barred from the Biggest Loser ranch. When he returned he confronted Conda with this list and as he listed the complaints off you kept hearing complaints about Adrian.

Now I am not saying that Adrian is a saint. To some he came across as a bit loud and a know it all and Dolvett even said that Adrian’s biggest problem is that he doesn’t listen.

That may be true but I think that Adrian is on the defensive because every time he opens his mouth the red team jumps on him and tells him to shut up But, I saw nothing in Adrian that warranted the treated that he has been getting first from Conda, then Kim, then Mark, Kimmy, etc.

And if you watched the video that I posted about ‘Ganging up on Adrian’ you will know that it ended up not just being the red team that was against Adrian but some members of the black team as well. Although I don’t think that they actually treated Adrian bad, they just talked badly about him behind his back – which is bad enough.

But, in thinking it over, I do wonder how much of that was ‘I need to fit in so I don’t get on Conda & Kim’s bad side and put a target on MY back.

Here are the weight loss number’s for the Biggest Loser contestants at the weigh-in this week:

Red team
Conda 263 -8= 265
Kim 215-6=209
Roy 268-7=261
Kimmy 193-5=188
Mark 251-7=244
Buddy 345-9=336
Adrian 334-9=325

Despite how Kim has treated Adrian he still praised up her training them while Dolvett couldn’t.

As Adrian went up to get weighed Kim said that Adrian had the possibility of getting to be the Biggest Loser and getting immunity this week and that she didn’t want immunity to go to Adrian, for sure! And she rolled her eyes and made a face.

To me, this makes her look even worse than usual because here Adrian is praising her up even after the way that she and Conda have treated him and there she is rolling her eyes and saying this.

Ok, Black team needs to lose more than 48 pounds or they will have to send someone home this week. That averages out to 7 pounds a person. Can they do it?

Black team:

Daphne 244-8=236
Cassandra 200-5=195
Chris 211-5=206
Megan 229-6=223
Emily 230-7=223
Jeremy 338-12=326
Chism 318-13=305

Chism lost 13 pounds bring home the win for the black team.

Black team lost 56 pounds with 3.16 % weight loss. So the black team won and the red team has to send someone home.

Red team lost a total of 51 pounds with 2.73% weight loss

Adrian had a pretty good weight loss number so MAYBE he will be safe this week which would give us another week to get to know him and another week for the red team to open their eyes and see how Conda is poisoning their entire team with all of her negativity and drama.

Oh Gawd! Of all the people on the red team why in the world did Conda get immunity???
Why couldn’t it have been Adrian or Roy?

Here Buddy talked about how Adrian is a big guy and his weight loss numbers could help their team. So, I thought that maybe at least Buddy wouldn’t put Adrian’s name down and that maybe Adrian might have a chance, And maybe he WOULD have if Buddy wouldn’t have put down Adrian’s name. Then it would have been a tie and would have been up to Kimmy but then again I think that she would have put Adrian’s name down too

At least Roy looked at who had the least health issues and could do the best at home. He put down Mark’s name
Kim put down Adrian’s name.

Adrian said that he wasn’t even given a chance and that is true. I feel sorry for the way that he was treated and the fact that he never got a chance. And who loses out? Ultimately we all do as I think that Adrian seemed like a really nice guy and if allowed to stay at the Biggest Loser ranch he may have helped to change the show more towards the positive instead of all the negativity that Conda and Kim spread like a plague.

Some people have mentioned that Bob doesn’t seem to be himself this season. Personally I think that this season has got to be hard on him. He and Jillian had a camaraderie that worked. They were competitive but not mean and it was a more subtle competitiveness that concentrated more on the contestants losing the weight and getting healthy.

This season I think that Bob is missing his good friend (Jillian), there is a competitiveness there with Dolvett that may have Bob concerned about the security of his job and the cattiness showed by certain contestants has got to be stressful and draining. I know that Conda and Kim (especially Conda though) get on my last nerve as I deal with stressful situations in my own family- my uncle’s illness and death along with drama and chaos by his oldest daughter stirring up trouble in the family and yes, even my own issues as I deal with feeling anger towards her for how she has treated me for years and things that she has done.

Conda says about that when she tried to help him that he wouldn’t listen. Adrian has a point about how he thought that they were over the rough time at the beginning but that Conda was talking about him behind his back. So, after how she did that and how she has treated him why should he listen to her?

Mark voted for Adrian.
Buddy voted for Adrian

So Adrian is going home.

You know, I am so disgusted with the red team. I know that things have not been smooth since Adrian and Daphne came to the ranch but it has not been all Adrian’s fault. I was really hoping that Conda would go home and that we would have the opportunity to get to know Adrian better, He seems like a nice guy and I think that no one on the red team really ever gave him a chance,

From what Adrian had said at the elimination I guess that Roy (Santa Claus) did but he seems to be the only one on the red team

You know, I have always been a person that roots for the underdog and I find myself wishing that Adrian will walk away from the finale with the at home prize. Better yet? If Daphne manages to stay on and win for being the Biggest Loser so that aqua team wins both prizes. I think that would be Karma biting these people in the butt big time! ?LOL
BTW, here is a little bit about Adrian that you might not know:
His name is Adrian Dortch, he has been a background vocalist for artists like Seal and David Foster, Ben Shuh. He is a father of nine children with a 10th on the way

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Biggest Loser Season 13 Tempers Are Soaring

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Hey All,
Well, I was just going to include this in my post about what happened week 6 but there is far too much being said about the contestants in this season’s Biggest Loser. So, I am dedicating a whole post just to what everyone is saying. Believe me, people are upset and tempers are soaring both on the Biggest Loser and among the viewers.

The comments are flying all over the web and here is just a sampling. I have gone through well over 250 pages from all over the web and worked hard to condense it down to this.

One common thread that I am seeing time and time again is that no one can stand Conda and her mean, childish behavior.

If you are unhappy with all of the drama then below you will find a petition to sign and here are the
Executive producers
Ben Silverman, Dave Broome, JD Roth, Todd A. Nelson, Todd Lubin and Alex Katz
Contact them at http://www.nbc.com/contact/general

Maybe I should have called this post ‘Go Home Conda & Kim!’

I am going to post part of Lisa’s comment first because I think that it is something that some of us should keep in mind when watching the Biggest Loser and see things like Chris’s breakdown about wanting to go home. It no way excuses some of the bad behavior that we have seen but it can helps us to be a little more understanding about some of what we see each week.

Lisa said “I know if I was on the show everyone would be telling me to get off the show because I’d be crying all the time, missing my son, dealing with everyone else’s personalities, as well as the massive stress of having to workout like crazy every day, and concentrating on showing that big number at the end of the week. It would be very difficult all the way around, especially this season where you’d be torn wanting your team to win, but also wanting your family member to win on the other team. Kudos to everyone who actually does this show, because it would be so hard”

There are some people who are extremely upset about Conda’s behavior and are doing something about it.
They have started a petition to get Conda either removed from the remaining episodes or boycotted from the finale.
You can sign their petition HERE if you would like to do so http://www.change.org/petitions/nbc-universal-inc-remove-conda-britt-from-this-season-of-the-biggest-loser

***UPDATE*** This petition is closed so I created a new one at a different site where they don’t have the time limitations that they must have at change.org.
If you want to make a positive difference in the direction of the Biggest Loser tv show then you should sign our petition to keep Conda from gaining monetarily for her dreadful behavior, stop future contestants from behaving like her but to also include more of the feel good moments that we have not been seeing lately.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/remove-conda-britt-from-the-biggest-loser/

You can also find a link at the side. Please tell everyone you know about our petitions and help us to make some positive changes in The Biggest Loser and how our meat is processed. Thank you ?

Anyway, the comments I have been reading include such things as:

Comments about Conda & Kim…

“Conda is a spoiled brat”

“Conda is poisonous to the good energy, and she is not dealing with her personal issues at all, but is attacking others to avoid it”

“Someone needs to sit down with Conda and fill her in on the fact that it is about losing weight not being the biggest bitch.”

“Conda just poisons everyone on the team and half the time it seems she is just making things up.”

“Conda should be kicked off the show, or made so busy exercising every minute of the day by herself so that she would be too tired to spit poison at anyone. She should be called Anaconda, because she’s just a big fat snake waiting to see who she could attack.”

“Conda lies, manipulates and is not being true to herself or her team mates. She is what I term a “pot stir – er” (sp?) She always does it so that at some point the spot light is on her and then everyone has to feel sorry for her. C’mon!!!!”

“Conda’s a sore loser and has something bad to say about everyone. Now she’s starting to rub off on Kim. I actually liked Kim until she jumped on Conda’s ‘_itch train.’ I think if Conda was gone, the Red team would be stronger”

“Conda seems to be a young catty b*tch who cares more about gossiping than bettering her own life or allowing the other contestants to have the peace to better theirs. I’m SOOOOOO glad that she is not on Bob’s team!!! You know what they say, misery loves company and I think her negative energy is toxic for the entire house”

“Conda sit and rolled her eyes and snickered and made rude comment because adrian only lost 2 pounds?????? How many pounds did she lose? Oh I believe it was TWO! Pretty sad when she has been there alot longer then he has and she lost the same amount. If she was minding her own and not busy trashing with Kim ( the other loser) she might have gotten more out of her workout”

“Conda is so nasty I’m amazed she hasn’t come closer to being voted off. And I was appalled at how unsupportive the contestants were to the aqua team. It was just sad, childish, horrible behavior all around”

“That Conda is so immature and malicious in her attitude toward others and it makes her appear so ugly.”

“I cannot believe that Conda’s name was not anywhere on the ballots for she was one of the fewest percentage of weight that week. Is everyone on the red team so scared of her? Or do they enjoy the drama????”

Regina said “Conda is a nightmare. Her attitude is crappy. She’s always stirring up conflict with someone: Dolvett; Cassandra; and now, an obvious person to go after because he’s new, Adrian. Kim is no better as she’s Conda’s wingman so to speak. Kim should know better. At least with Conda you can blame it on her being immature. With Kim, well, she’s coming off as just a horrible person. They both are just unbearable and completely unlikeable in this last episode. I was really hoping the team would vote Conda off just to get rid of how toxic she makes everything. The black team seems to be more together”

“I think that Conda and Kim have shown themselves for what they really are. Really saw it in Conda at the first weigh-in with her comment about Mike, but, it goes on from there. I think they are just so afraid that they are going to lose to someone, who was able to do this at home. Grow up.”

“Conda has not learned what she needs, to say we are all in this together, So people don’t Hate conda, Or kim, just tell them we are all in this together”

“It’s just wrong how the red team did Adrian, in the beginning I was rooting for them, I’m now going for the black team …. Conda and Kim with her funny looking self should be ashamed of themselves .”

“The mean-spiritedness is coming from one person (Conda) who continually stirs negative feelings about others she doesn’t like. Seriously, I think when she is voted off, you will see a different ranch.”

“The way the Red team welcomed (or didn’t) Adrian back was so out of whack ~ just plain mean and spiteful. What kind of attitude is that between “team” mates?? Mostly Conda and Kim ~ and I must say they seem to have quite the attitudes and keeps stirring things in the house. I think they’d be wise to spend a little more time on their weight loss and food management than telling people when they should talk and when they shouldn’t. They didn’t give Adrian an ounce of courtesy”

“I am not liking the way the other players are treating the aqua team. Tells the guys to shut up over and over was ridiciulous. He has the right to his feelings and to express himself the same as everyone else that is there. The women are being hateful this season, not supportive. I REALLY can’t stand Conda’s attitude”

“ Conda is the biggest drama queen and I can’t stand her. I work with people like that and they are very difficult to be around. Kim does not help at all.”

“last night’s episode was brutal. Watching all the negativity got me so worked up my blood was boiling. The way the contestants were treating the aqua team and talking behind their backs was appalling. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten that angry or upset watching a show”

“Conda is a disease and Kim are diseases! They are plaguing the show with spiteful negativity.”

“Conda has a lot of growing up to do, and she needs an attitude adjustment”
“There has been way too much time devoted to Conda and her negativity.”

“That Conda, she’s not pleasant. Maybe that’s just the editing, I don’t know, but she comes off as a know-it-all (and far too young to know-it-all).”

“Conda comes across as a young immature “Wanna-Be” – someone who used to be a “Queen-Bee” at school perhaps and got that way by putting other people down.”

“CONDA is toxic and she is proud of it! It’s pretty obvious she has problems with men in general and she thinks it’s ok in that crazy messed up head of hers!”

“Conda, not Nancy should have been the one sent home last night.”

“I am SO glad that someone else pointed out the “subtle” racism that I saw on last night’s episode. I don’t think it was just Kim, either. I saw it from a couple of other contestants, and I’m wondering if they’d make the same comments if Adrian and Daphne weren’t black”

“Conda is a bully…plain & simple. I work in a school system of 30,000+ and Conda fits the classic profile of a bully.”

“Conda has learned nothing, that’s pretty clear! Being toxic one minute and then crying like she gives a rip! Whatever, she can’t get off the show soon enough to say the least!”

“ I watched the weigh in with the hopes that Conda would be eliminated. Sadly she remains, along with Kim, the two worst influences on that ranch.”

“Conda is very petty and immature. She thinks we still exist in High School. She has been on everyone’s case….and it hasn’t even been warranted! As far as Kim, I used to like her. I saw a competitive side that I liked. Not anymore….she has turned petty”

“wishing that Conda would go home so that we would not have to suffer through her eye rolling and her total lack of respect for those trying to help her.”

“I just think that the last episode was awful the way those two girls treated the new guy.”

“Conda is very immature and Kim, really she should know better and be a bit more accepting, however it does not seem to be in her nature

“The whining and drama is much more this year- the sooner condra is elimated the better! Even her brother has this attitude issue, neither losing what they should”

“I did not like last night’s episode because Conda and Kim didn’t give Adrian a chance to become a part of their team. He and his sister earned their way back into the house and they should be given the same chance as all of the other contestants in the house. They have been treated as outcasts for no reason.”

“I am sick and tired of Conda and her crap. Her ugliness, negativity and immature drama just get under my skin”

“As for Dolvett’s team, why won’t they vote Conda off. Nancy lost more weight than fake tears, all talk, no results Conda. And Kim is awfully racist while trying to act like she isn’t”

“ I really have a problem with two girls on the red team, Kim and Conda. Seriously they need to grow up”

“The two girls are acting as if all the world revolves around them…and so childish…I mean Conda even made jokes about kicking Adrian…really. I really believe that attitude is something deep inside of them that needs to be cleaned out…majorly”

“I agree with most of the comments on Facebook. There are a couple of VERY nasty women on the Red Team”

“Conda and Kim have crossed the line when it comes to the treatment of the Aqua team. Adrian has been extremely gracious especially after being told to be quiet – who do they think they are to tell anyone to be quiet?”

“The only problem I had last night is the way conda was last night with the aqua team…I don’t care how miserable you are you don’t go after someone the way she did… I don’t care about drama but I do care about mean ignorant people like conda, doing what ever she can to get her own way”

“Conda should have been voted off.”

“The way Conda & Kim treated Adrian was so uncomfortable to watch”

“I feel like Conda is always offended by something and acts on that offense with such an attitude that it’s difficult to root for her, despite the fact that she obviously needs the help of TBL and is a single mom.”
***I hate the idea that someone so filled with hate and pettiness might be passing this nastiness on to a child?

“I think that conda and Kim should be forced to leave and they can try to work their way back to the show and see if they can do it.!!!”

“Conda is like poisonous venom. She should have been the one who went home not Nancy just on the merits of her bad attitude. She needs to take a chill pill and grow-up! I mean really sit down and look back on all the crap she’s flingin’ and change her attitude. She’s the one causing all the problems.”

“Just have to say, I really think Conda needs to go home as well as Kim”

“I like that the aqua team joined the ranch, but not a fan of all the drama that happened when they got there. It seems like Conda won’t be happy until she doesn’t have anybody left to sass. I generally don’t wish anyone to leave the ranch and think they all deserve a spot, but she needs to go. What a horrible attitude.”

“Personally, I think of Conda were gone from the show, things would get better”

“I hope that when the Red team especially Conda sees themselves on TV they realize that all of their negative, vile, energy could have been spent losing weight rather than worrying about a new team member.”

“Conda and Kim, pettiness is NOT a cute color on either of you. When Conda said that she hoped the challenge for the day would be “drowning your new teammate in the ocean…” Really? That is JUST DISGUSTING. Conda is clearly an extremely miserable person who needs to put others down. Perhaps the focus really needs to be on changing her inside and then the outside. Just terrible!”

”Conda should be kicked off just for her poor character.”

“To treat a couple who just got the opportunity to come back to the ranch the way they did with hostility and resentment without giving them a chance was disgraceful(especially the women, Conda & Kim).”

“How the red team treated the guy from the aqua team is depressing. He was excited to be there, to make it back, and they just shot him down. From the looks of how he breezed through the workouts he DID work out a lot at home. Why can’t they appreciate a hard worker?”

“This is not the first time TBL has brought back players who were eliminated in the very first show – before they even get to the ranch. It has happened several times. And if the players actually do qualify to be on the ranch at that point, they have always received immunity for the first week to avoid the newbies getting eliminated just because they’re newbies. I don’t know why Conda and Kim are so hostile to the whole idea. Haven’t they ever watched the show? Or they’re just nasty.”

“I also can’t stand the way the red team acts….. The 2 girls get on my last nerve and I want to punch them through the TV…”

Janelle said “I cannot stand Conda this season! I am the same age as her and I am APPALLED at how disrespectful she is to Dolvet and the other contestants in the house. She acts like she’s still in 8th grade. I feel awful every time I see her manipulate the others and bring around so much negativity. The day she goes home will be a great day for Biggest Loser S. 13!”

“its so painful to see that Conda still has not gained anything from being on the show.. all she does is badmouth and backstab others and sheds some crocodile tears in the elimination room”

“Conda is a bully. She had issues with Mike, she had issues with Dolvett, she called Cassandra a cheater because Conda was a poor sport and a sore loser. Now she has an issue with Adrian whose only real fault was working his butt off to get back on the ranch. And her #’s hasn’t been showing that she has earned the cockiness she’s been displaying during the show”

“Conda is a big bully and so is Kim. There doesn’t need to be bullies on the Biggest Loser because bullies tend to put stress on other players and those players tend to not to so good.”

“Conda needs to go!!!!! she does nothing but complain and whine about everyone who is on there. The big “J” is upon her too. Her and the other girl on the red team (can’t think of her name) but they are always, always complaining about someone”
“Conda needs to go. She is stressing everyone out and thats why the numbers were all off. Everyone knows that stress is not good for weight loss and she is the center of it!!!”

““I hope Conda doesn’t win”

“Conda is so toxic to herself and everyone around her. It is like watching middle school bully, gathering strength in numbers because she isn’t strong enough on her own.”

“I can’t even count how many times I heard younger girl on the Red team say “she hates, so and so” and “he has to go”. I know TV can help make villians out of people but they can’t make you say “hate” all the time. Go black team!!!”

“I was SO hoping that the Red Team would man up and vote Conda or Kim out, and instead they voted out Nancy, the person who was TRYING to keep the peace and get people to focus on what they are there for.”

“I was so disappointed in the red team specifically; Conda,Kim and also Mark. Adrian earned his spot on the team. You , red team, need to inspire yourselves, your team mates; and also America”

Lindsay says “Someone needs to stand up to Conda and set her straight – she’s a bully!! She acts like a child and brings down the whole good vibe of the show. I hate watching her and the way she acts, and then expects everyone to treat her like a princess. She was horrible to Adrian and it made me so mad that nobody else would stand up to her. She hated him right from the start, talking like he was being so arrogant – he freaking EARNED a spot back on the ranch!! Wouldn’t you be freaking out too?! And then to start making things up about what he said with working out 14 hours a day – let’s grow up a little and graduate from middle school attitudes! No grown adult should act the way she does”

“The way the Aqua team was treated is terrible. Why Conda is still on the show is beyond me”

“Like everyone else, I’m hating Conda and her nasty attitude. I hope things will get better this season”

“Conda needs to go home, then Kim, and then Mark. All of you act like little children”

“I don’t dislike Conda as much as some but I do believe she has some issues she needs to figure out before she can lose any significant amount of weight. Her self-esteem is so low, she tries to make others seem bad so she looks better”

“all the stress just sabotages them all. .heck no one had a great week. . .helloooooo”

“Conda and Kim are downright mean and hateful. The refused to give Adrian a chance. He did better than they did in their workout and Conda diminishes him by saying it was an easier workout. She couldn’t get herself across those monkey bars”

“I don’t know how Conda has not yet been physically harmed by another contestant. I firmly believe she should have been kicked off of the show for the way she treated Dolvett”

“Conda for me. She has been very negative, not only to Adrian, but to many other people on the show. She sits there saying that they don’t need the drama Adrian is bringing to the ranch, when she’s the one who is manipulative and hateful. She has soured her team members against each other. Doesn’t anyone see this?”

Conda, Kim and Mark are especially unpleasant. I find myself hoping they will get voted off so I can enjoy the show again. If they have all the knowledge that enables them to criticize others so much; then GO HOME and lose weight! I hope everyone on the show has success, but I’m very tired of hearing the stupid, hateful, immature comments that make up most of the show these days. If you don’t have anything nice to say: SHUT UP!

Comments –Aqua team:

I think the way the Aqua team was “welcomed” was horrible!!!

Best of luck Adrian. You were absolutely right in your analysis of your team. I was shocked at their cut-throat, nasty attitude toward you. You’re an inspiration to me. I admire your courage and attitude and the way you are helping the young people around you. In my mind you are already the Biggest Loser. I wish you and your family well.

I truly felt so bad for Adrian last night. On a whole, the red team was just terrible to him

I was happy for Daphne and Adriene and I felt like they were attacked (especially the red team) the second they came back. Who did everyone think they were talking to them that way, just because they were there longer?

The aqua team worked their hardest and got their spots back. I don’t think much of any of them showed any maturity at all. Total disrespectful to blatantly tell a grown man to listen more talk less.

i just think the couple that returned last night got a bad rap.

that the Aqua team was blind-sided. He has such a great positive attitude and people are throwing it back at them

I was extremely disappointed with the reception that Adrian and Daphne received upon returning to the ranch. The other contestants had such a sense of entitlement when they forget that their being on the ranch is the result of someone giving them a second chance at life

I felt soo bad for the aqua team this week.

I was shocked to see the red group telling Adrien to shut up and listen, in this day and age in the world that was so low class and disgusting,

I feel terrible that the Aqua team is being treated so horribly. Don’t tell Adrian to “Shut up”. He is entitled to his own thoughts and opinions. Here’s a thought — why don’t one of you befriend him and help him. And those of you who are complaining because Aqua lost 1 and 2 lbs. Most of you didn’t do a whole lot better. Do you see that all the negativity hurt everyone on the scales?

I also don’t like seeing the institutional racism directed toward the aqua team, especially Adrian. No one seems to realize what it means to tell a black man or woman to be quiet. I suggest you read Edward Bonilla-Silva’s Racism Without Racists.

***Note*** I have not read this book but would like to after reading this. I DO know that it is impolite to tell any adult be they black, white, red or purple to be quiet the way that Conda and Kim have Adrian.

They worked hard to get back onto the show, and I believe they deserve it
I thought I’ve seen other seasons, where players return, and they are welcomed. I was shocked when they were nearly shunned

i agree that Adrian came in a bit too bold, but I would hate to feel so ‘alone’ and ‘attacked’.

The Red Team sending Nancy home today when they always sit her out of the challenges and she lost more weight than a few other people on the Red Team is ridiculous. I’m glad Adrian called them out on it and I hope he continues to

Those 2 dare I say women are so immature and just mean. Adrian, Is kind and didn’t deserve the way they treated him. Of coarse he is excited, he got a second chance. Shame on them

The way the aqua team was treated was one of the worst things I have ever seen.

just imagine how amazing it would be if someone from the Aqua team hung on to win the whole thing? That’s an incredible story line that I’d love to see

I believe the aqua team are sincere and genuine, and I don’t think they were playing the game. Has anyone ever done the diet where you cut out carbs, and then the next week you add them back in?
Either you GAIN weight, or you do like they did, just lose a little. The contestants just didn’t get that

The thing about Adrian is the Red team never did accept him as a team member. It’s a cycle. If the red team would have embraced Adrian when he came in and didn’t have such sour faces whenever he walked into a room, maybe he would not have to get so defensive and not listen when his team did talk to him. The red team got the attitude they deserved from Adrian based on what they gave him.

adrian was just used as a sacrifice this week so the red team didnt have to voite off one of their quote unquote family members. i hope the red team continues to lose all challenges and weigh ins so they can vote eachother out of the game. no one on their team deserves to win. just look at how bob welcomed daphne onto the black team by tellling his team members she had only been there 2 weeks and needed help from the black team . adrian never receieved that from the red team. sad.

Comments about other contestants:

When the show started, I was really rooting for Chism but he even started showing some nastiness this past episode.

I am sickened by the Red Team. I believe that they should be more of a team. Need to knock off the drama and if Red Team knew what was good for them they would get rid of the drama queen, Conda. I feel that she is going to be the death of the red team, if this drama continues. It wasn’t Adrian that created the DRAMA. Good Job Black Team on being a team

I understand that the show is not scripted, it’s a game, people are people, you never truly know who people are and how they will interact with others until their true colors shine (good and bad), and the producers do get to decide what to show and highlight and what to leave out. It does make sense that lots of negativity comes out when food and other distractions are no longer there, as well as being in a bubble (getting irritated with each other, etc…)

I find the red team to be childish and immature. I would be embarrassed if a family member of mine acted the way they act. I even found some other their attitude and behaviors to be racist. The remaining red team members are petty and morally corrupt.

As for Mark, I was rooting for him along with several other people until Week 5. Since then, I don’t care if he manages to make it all the way or not.

This season has become such a disgrace because of the red team. Conda, Kim N., and Mark have absolutely disgusting personalities and morals. Buddy joined there team this week by jumping on the idiot bandwagon. I have never wished complete failure on anyone in the history of this show and I hope all four of them fail miserably for there truly horrible and ugly personalities. And Mark a pastor, hahahahaha. Sounds like somebody trying to save some tax dollars. Conda and Kim are unbearable

I’m with ya. I actually wish all four of them get sent home and then eat until they gain all their weight back. I don’t usually wish bad things on people, but they make it so hard not to.

Regardless of how Chism and Jeremy acted, they better watch out. They don’t want to be put on Santa’s naughty list.

It is obvious from the Ganging Up on Adrian video that some black team members do not like the fact that they came back. AKA Chism, “I wish they never came back” He said they, not Adrian. I have to admit I was disapointed in Chism for that remark. Conda singles out people and then gathers a mob against them. First it was Mike, then Adrian. For all we know, she was the cause behind Laurens elimination. Come on! What did Lauren ever do?

Let’s end with something a little more positive ok? ???

Just want to say that the LOOK Bob gave was “priceless” when your black team let go of their ropes after winning the challenge when they were holding you on the platform above the dunk tank … you know for a split second you thought you were going in …. Hilarious

Ok, so maybe the US Biggest Loser season 13 is not so bad after all-

“You all should see the Australian version this season. Your season 13 has nothing on those contestants. They voted someone out, when if none of them voted, both contestants would have stayed.”

“ As for the black team, I don’t have a favorite but Cassandra has really grown on me and forgive me for not remembering the Aqua girl’s name but she’s cool. And I must say I love Adrian! He’s so honest, motivated, and sweet! I wish he were on Bob’s team as if I had to pick a person I want to win it all, it would be him! It pisses me off the way the red team treats him”

I’m finding the good in the season; there are always people who I like….Mark and Roy I like a lot; Chism is great (what were his parents thinking with that name!?); Kim S. is real low key {I had my first “who’s she?” moment last night (and I watch every minute of the show with my full attention), and I’m feeling Adrian and Daphne (Adrian just needs to pull back). Christine is growing on me

“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it”
~Ann Landers

I found these comments on Bob’s blog, nbc biggest loser, facebook and all over the internet where-ever people were talking about Biggest Loser. It took hours and hours to be able to bring these all to you, to go through and condense them down to these 23 pages. I am giving credit to the sites/people where I got the comments.

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Fat Is TOXIC?

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

Here is something interesting that I just found out: Did you know that there are 10 to 100 times more toxins in your fat than in your blood? I found this out from a doctor. I knew that fat surrounds toxins to protect your body from them but I didn’t realize just how much toxins can be found in the fat in your body. Amazing and kind of scary when you think about it. So, it is a good idea to decrease your body fat and get rid of these excess toxins. Here is a partial list of diseases we are seeing on the rise due to all of the accumulated toxins- diseases like cancer, brain disorders like autism, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, auto-immune dysfunction, nerve disorders and more common ailments like depression, learning disabilities and fatigue. All this adds up to it being a good idea to get rid of as much excess fat as you can and that it might be a good idea to cleanse to remove these excess toxins. I was reading that using an infra-red sauna every day for a month is a great way to get rid of toxins and that taking Chlorella is another good tool for removing toxins. I am thinking of writing an article with more info about this if it interests you. Please let me know. Thanks

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Biggest Loser season 13 week 5

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

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.

 

 

 

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Biggest Loser Season 13 week 3

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Ok, so Joe wanted to go home. I understand that they miss their families. At least Jeremy has his head on straight and tried to talk him out of it

Did you know that there are 41,000 chinese restaraunts in the Us? That’s more than McDonald’s, Wendys and Burger King combined? WOW! I had no clue.

Ok, so here we go with a temptation.

Everything looked so good. I can’t imagine being in the room seeing and smelling that food.

Do you feel that an obese person is like an alcoholic? Do you think that they can never eat high calorie foods again or will fall right back into that whole way of eating? Do you think that they only need worry while losing the weight and then should be able to cheat on occasion without too much concern? Or do you think it was ok to eat to win the temptation?

I was surprised that no one on the red team seemed to be tempted

Good thinking on the black team’s part. A 30 calorie fortune cookie wouldn’t do a lot of damage and yet would have a chance of giving them control over the face-off and the 2 pound advantage

Cassandra seemed really happy about winning and she sure didn’t waste any time in picking out who would face off against whom.

 

Black (weight loss- %) lbs lost vs   Red =who won & their weight loss

Emily   (  14lbs-5.30 %)              and   Roy (19 lbs-6.21%)

Jeremy  (    lbs-5.14 %)               and   Lauren (    lbs-5.28 %)               

Joe          (    lbs- 6.44 %)            and   Nancy (    lbs-4.61 %)= Nancy with just 2 lbs

Chism     (    lbs-5.54  %)            and  Kim ( 16   lbs-6.35 %)         

Mark    ( 17 lbs-5.84 %)              and  Chris    (    lbs- 5.83 %)    

Megan  (    lbs-4.25 %)                and  Buddy    ( 31 lbs-7.69 %)   

Gayle    (    lbs-4.35 %)                and  Kimmy     (    lbs- 5.94 %)     

Cassandra      (    lbs-    %)               

What do you think of Joe leaving like that? He did leave his team in the lurch and make it that much harder for his team to win the weigh-in.

Yes, he misses his family but is his going home now going to cost them extra years that they might have had?

And when you think about how much the aqua team wants to be there and we have had 2 people leave voluntarily already in week 3?

That’s crazy!      

 

How funny: Bob saying “I knew I’d get that old woman to cuss”

 

Well, that’s all I have time for today. I wasn’t sure that I would even post what with my Uncle dying but I decided to at least post some. I will try to finish it on Saturday so that we will be all caught up for next week’s Biggest Loser-K?

In the meantime here is something gross.

Take a look:

 

 

 Click the pic for more info but basically this is processed chicken which is the entire chicken- including the eyeballs which is used in nuggets and processed chicken patties, etc. I am so sick to my stomach over this- EEEEWWWW! YUCK!

Now, from my research it DOES say that they have been doing this sinch the late 1960′s which means that we have probably all ate it and didn’t even know it.

It can be found in things like chicken nuggest, processed chicken patties, hot dogs, bologna, salami, etc.

I also know that we probably all know in that eating these things isn’t healthy anyway but when you are on a low income sometimes they are about the only meat you can afford to eat.

My son and I had just eaten hot dogs days before I read this article and saw this pic. Last night we had hot dogs again- because they are cheap. BUT, I couldn’t eat the same brand I ate the last time we had hot dogs- even though they were on sale for $1 for a package. We ended up getting some that were a manager’s discount for $2 because they were beef. Beef is not processed in this way in the US due to mad cow disease.

I do not know how each individual country processes their meat so if this interests you (or disgusts you) you may want to look into that. I know that we have visitors from all over the world (thank you so much for that :-) we REALLY appreciate it!) and I would LOVE to be able to tell you all how the meat is processed in YOUR country. BUT, with my Uncle dying and time constraints I just cannot do so at this time.

I AM however trying to find time (hopefully this week yet) to see about getting a petition going to change this process. I do not see why they cannot remove the heads and the internals before processing the meat this way so that we are not getting the disgusting parts in there that some of us (Me included) cannot stomach the idea of eating- even if we already HAVE and just didn’t know it.

I know it may sound silly to some of you that I cannot eat the exact same thing that I ate just a week or two ago but the idea that there are ground up eyeballs and guts (including the bowel) in that meat is just something I can’t stomach.

I am hoping that many of you would be willing to sign a petition to get this policy changed. 

I think that having people to clean the chickens before processing would save not having to use unneccessary chemicals that could be causing health issues for many of us and must be costing them money. Use that money to pay people to clean the chickens= healthier meat and more jobs.

They can always use the parts removed for animal feed like they have done for years. The animals won’t know the difference and they eat these parts when they hunt anyway. Also, the price of cat and dog food has risen dramatically in recent years. I wonder how much of this is because of people insisting that the anials get ‘choice’ cuts of meat. My belief is that this has caused the price of not only dog and cat food to rise but our food as well. Only so many animals can be grown in a given year and yet it needs to feed us all. And why shoud WE as humans be forced to eat these parts, if we don’t want to, simply because we cannot afford anything better? 

I know that some of you will disagree with me. That’s ok. You can still come here and enjoy My Biggest Loser Blog. As you can see from past posts I very rarely rant about anything other than the Biggest Loser on here. So if you don’t agree about my views on the meat processin you can skip over it and get to what you really want to read. I most likely will only post if and when I get the petition done and a possible update here and there.

As for Biggest Loser? I cannot wait for tonight’s show. It comes on in just over an hour so I am heading home so I will not miss even a teensy weensy second of it like we did a couple of weeks ago due to there being a bad storm. We missed 20 minutes of it-UGH!!! The HORROR!

I am finally recovering though due to the fact that I was finally able to see what we had missed -ahhhhh! The relief! :-) )

Enjoy Biggest Loser tonight and I will be talking with you soon.

Hug your loved ones as you never know just how much time you have left with them :-)

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Biggest Loser Season 13 week 2

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

Right off the bat Alison asks for volunteers and then she pulls 2 volunteers from each team and takes them into another room. In this room are stacks of poker chips.

Well, it turns out that each team is to bet on how much weight that they believe that their team will lose this week.

Red team bets that their team will lose more than 94 pounds this week which is 3.8%

They lost 3% last week

OMG! Have these women even watched Biggest Loser before? Do they have any idea what week 2 is like?

The average loss for week 2 is only 2%

I cannot believe that red team’s went and bet for their team to lose 94 pounds in week 2 which is the toughest week in Biggest Loser history.

That is 10 ½ pounds per person in week 2. And nearly double the average loss for week 2.

Then during the flag challenge Gayle goes over to work on solving the puzzle and we are told that just before this she said that she is dyslexic and  bad at puzzles. Uh, if she knows this and told others that this is true about her then wouldn’t it have been better if someone else worked on solving it?

Dolvett was not happy when he found out how much weight their team needs to lose to win this week.

He spray painted 94 lbs on the wall to keep that goal in front of them. Uh, didn’t his momma teach him not to spray paint on the walls?

Bob seems very unhappy with Dolvett but how much of that is true and how much is for ratings? I gotta wonder?

BTW, I forgot to mention that Jillian is no longer on The Doctors. I am wondering if this might mean a return to The biggest Loser???

I would love to see this happen and yet I do like Dolvett. Yet, the team of Bob and Jillian is just pure magic. They are friends and yet they like to compete with each other. Nothing mean, just clean fun.

Ok, everyone seems to be working out except one.

What is up with Mike? It seems like all he’s been doing is taking breaks?

I believe that he was the one that was telling that he gained 50 pounds the summer he was 12. Which is when he met his half brother(?) for the first time? And what father lets their 12 year old gain 50 pounds over a summer and smoke like a smokestack?

Just when I was so glad to see Mike go home he finally admits that he has abandonment issues and seems to actually be a nice guy. So then I was see sawing about him going home. Course we hate to really see anyone have to go home ….well, for the most part. I mean there ARE some people that you can’t wait to see go home and when they do you do a HAPPY DANCE!!!!! WHOOHOO!

Ok, here are the weight loss amounts I have so far. I will need to watch what I taped and get the rest of the names and numbers and post them soon.

 

Black team:

 

Gayle -5 pounds

Megan – 4 pounds

Cassandra – 5 pounds

Emily- 4 pounds

Chris – 6 pounds

Joe- 8 pounds

Jeremy -7 pounds

Chism- 8 pounds

 

 

Red team:

 

 

 

Ok, so far there are quite a few Biggest Loser contestants that we like but the one that stands out the most to me right now (as I am running out of time to finish this. It has started to storm out and we need to get home) is Chism. I think that he seems like a really nice kid and he certainly needs to lose the weight.

WHOOOHOO! Chism sure pulled out the win for his team didn’t he? 8 pounds in week 2? WOW!

And, Josh had thought how ironic it would be if the 5 pound advantage was what put the black team ahead. Guess what? It was! The red team must REALLY be kicking themselves and I gotta wonder if the 2 women that bet the 94 pounds will be going home soon. I mean come on, the rest of the team was really unhappy with them. When push comes to shove I really think that this could come back to haunt them.

What do you think?

That’s it for now. Will try to post more soon.

See, I AM trying to do better about posting. It would be so much easier with home internet service but property taxes being paid are much more important.

Take care

~Michelle & Josh

 

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Biggest Loser- Sherry Goes Home

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

We find Daris realizing that his mom, Cheryl, was sent home. He seems upset but puts on a smile for everyone.

Josh brings up about how Daris is not letting his feelings out and talking about what is bothering him which is what helped to get him to the size he was when he came on The Biggest Loser ranch.

My feeling is that he had the chance to say goodbye, he KNEW that his mom going home was a possibility and yet he barely looked at her.

This is a far cry from how close they were when they came on the show.

Actually I am seeing changes in several of the blue team members that I don’t like. I do not understand why some people, when they start to lose a lot of weight, change.

Did they use to be like that before they gained the weight?

Or is it all about losing the weight and starting to look good and that it changes them?

You see, when Daris and Cheryl came on the show they were always talking to each other and hugging. I thought that it was great that they had such a good relationship.

Yet when Daris knew that his mom might be the one to go home he acted like he wasn’t even going to say anything to her, he didn’t go give her a hug goodbye and it seemed that when he did say anything he wouldn’t even look at her and he seemed a bit ‘cool’ towards her

I see the same kind of changes in Koli since the teams went to black and blue. He doesn’t seem to talk with Sam anymore despite the fact that he said that their being on different teams wouldn’t change anything that they would still be cousins.

Sam, on the other hand, is the bigger man as far as I am concerned. He praised up Koli’s weight loss when they had the weigh-in. And he said, in a great reminder to all of the contestants, that “THIS is what it’s all about not black or blue”

Anyway, so the contestants had to do a pop challenge and it was trivia about what they have learned since being on the Biggest Loser ranch.

For each correct answer they get a point and the first team to get three points wins.

The prize? A day (and night) at The Four Seasons.

The loser’s have to clean the kitchen and the gym

Now, we love the black team but we know that when teams get a prize like this and they get to do the whole spa thing that it usually shows up badly on the scale come the weigh-in.

So, even though we know that the black team would have loved to go have the day off and get massages (and that they deserved it) we were hoping that they wouldn’t win this challenge..

Cleaning the kitchen and the gym isn’t the most pleasant of tasks but it would give the black team extra workout time -after all cleaning IS exercise :0)

And the most important thing for us is for the black team to win the weigh-in

As much as I don’t like how Michael has been behaving I admire the fact that he left the ranch to be at her side when he found out her health was bad

We hope that she will be ok

The cooking challenge was interesting. To be able to create 3 courses using only 12 ingrediants?

The prize- a 5 POUND Advantage? OOOOHHHH!!!

We were hoping that the black team would win it. We have been hoping that the blue team would have to send someone home. The blue team has such an advantage already so a 5 pound advantage would help to even things up a bit.
I don’t remember the Biggest Loser ever having given a 5 pound advantage before.

If you haven’t already figured it out- we were happy to see the black team win the cooking challenge and get the 5 pound advantage. The weigh-in should be interesting this week

Josh and I realized that we really like when the blue team has to weigh-in first as it makes it so much easier to know how much weight loss to root for as each team member gets weighed.After all, you want them to lose enough to win but not enough to put them at a disadvantage next week

Well, when all was said and done the blue team won again. The black team had a weight loss of 2.5% while the blue team ended up with a 3.11% weight loss.

Even though the blue team has all those big guys that pull big numbers the black team still gave it a great try. They might not win the weigh-ins for losing weight but they sure do win for having heart and not giving up despite the odds.

So, the black team ended up having to send another team member home. It was sad to see Sherry go home but boy did she look great in the update-didn’t she?

I must say that I don’t like how the blue team has been behaving since they went black verses blue and I know that there are others that feel the same way. But, I guess we won’t be having to worry about that for much longer since the teams will be disolved soon.

Well, until next week.
Later :0)

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Biggest Loser last week and tonight

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Hi All.

I am sorry that I didn’t post last week. I had every intention of doing so until the last few minutes of Biggest Loser.

I really enjoyed the show and from how everything was going we were so SURE that Tracey was going home.

I don’t know about all of you but Josh and I are fed up with her being all about ‘the game’ and how she has stabbed every one in the back.. but that’s ok because it’s just ‘a game’

It seemed like everything was lining up just perfectly and Tracey was going home. We were laughing and so happy because we were so sure that we had seen the last of her so that the rest of the players could get back to being supportive like they were before she kept pushing ’the game, the game’

Liz was talking about how southern women get even, how she was going to be so nice to Tracey and then send her home first chance she got and she wouldn’t even see it coming.

Then Coach MO spoke up and all of that went right down the drain.

WHAT HAPPENED????

Did everyone conveniently forget how Tracey had stabbed them all in the back?

So anyway, all through Biggest Loser last week everything seemed to be on the right track and we were getting so excited and then…..

They sent Coach MO home :0(

So tonight we sat down to watch Biggest Loser not really sure how things would go.

to be honest we still had hope that maybe the blue team would wake up and see Tracey for what she is and that if they had to send someone home it would be her.

All through the challenge we were rooting for the black team. Sorry Bob, we love you, but we just cannot stand Tracey.

It just seems like Vickey all over again

Does anyone else out there see the similarities?

Vickey made that whole season absolute misery

Is Tracey going to do the same this season? Isn’t she already?

Okay, so the blue team sent the black team home for the week thinking that it would give them the advantage.

So at the weigh-in the blue team went first and I must say that for the fact that the blue team was there at the Biggest Loser ranch all week their numbers were not that impressive.

Then the black team got up to get weighed. Even though they had been home all week we had great hopes for the, From what we had seen it looked like they all did pretty good. They seemed to make good choices and exercised.

Then the numbers that they were putting up weren’t very good. We started to worry that the black team would be sending someone home. Then Danny got up there and pulled off a 15 pound weight loss.

FIFTEEN POUNDS!!!

Dan only had to lose 11 pounds and the black team would be safe.

11 pounds….

We were so sure that Dan had it, that he could do this.

Then the horrifying news that Dan had gained a pound

G A I N E D!

OMG!

of all people Dan gained a pound. we couldn’t believe it. then we were worried that Dan would get sent home. He finally had a break through and might be able to finally deal with the emotional issues that got him where he was when he came on the ranch last season.

Don’t get me wrong, we like Dina too but we really would like to see Dan go to the finale.

So how does everyone else feel about Tracey? How do you like how the show has been the last couple of weeks?

Are we the only ones wanting Tracey to go home? I wouldn’t think so.

Go ahead and leave your comments and let us know what you think about Tracey and the Biggest Loser…

Later

~Michelle & Josh

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Biggest Loser Season 8

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Hi All,

First of all I would like to apologize for not having blogged about Biggest Loser in so long. I had every intention of doing wonderful posts about Biggest Loser all summer and I couldn’t wait for the new season to start so I could blog about that.

Well, the best laid plans…. :0(

You see, I had all of these plans but God had other ones for me I guess.

This year has been one of the worst years we have had since my Mom died.

2009 started off badly and it has continued to be that way.

As I mentioned before we found our cousin in a pool of blood dead earlier this year. My friend’s sister died 2 days later. Her mother died shortly after that and then her other sister hung herself last month.

We have lost numerous relatives and family friends this year. I lost my job, gained a new one, have had a lot of health issues and the stress has been unbelievable.

I was hoping that I would make enough money online that I wouldn’t have to work outside the home due to my health issues but that has not been the case. I have taken on some part time jobs that have irritated my health issues but I have been thankful to have what money we have had. Though living on less than $10,000 a year is not easy by a long shot.

Ok, anyway. Enough about all of that. I just wanted you to understand why I haven’t been blogging on here like I had planned. It has been a heck of a year.

But, on to the Biggest Loser…

I CANNOT believe tonight’s show. What is up with Tracey???

I am in shock that she thought that 2 pounds was worth not being trained by Bob and Jillian and I do not believe it was fair of her to take it upon herself to choose that and take away the training from her teammate like that.

Then she got control of the game and almost literally threw everyone under the bus.

THEN when we wanted her to go home so bad that we could practically taste it she puts her team in first place putting 2 other teams in the hot seat.

She lied to people and backstabbed and from the previews for next week she doesn’t seem to ‘get it’

Do we have another ‘Vickey’ on our hands here or what? Hmmmm….

I want to applaud Dan for going to bat for Shay and I REALLY must say that I cried like a baby when Antoine and Sean sacrificed themselves for Shay like that.

I had a feeling that they would but I still was amazed that they actually did it. How humbling that even though they wanted to be there they put Shay, and her health, before their own wants

We saw a lot of emotions on the show tonight which is nothing new for Biggest Loser but it sure did bring out the emotions here. Tracey’s behavior has not won her any fans in this home.

Antoine and Sean should be praised for their sacrifice. You two are AMAZING! It was so wonderful to see the results that you both have had at home. WOW! Over 100 pounds each!!!

Shay? We are so glad that you and Dan will be able to stay on Biggest Loser. I know that you have had a hard life but PLEASE Do NOT Give Up!!! You ARE Worth fighting for. You DESERVE to be happy!!! And last but not least…. You CAN Do This!

Many of us have had hard lives. Josh and I have been through Hell and back. A strong person gets back up and brushes them-self off. For all you have been through You ARE a STRONG Person! Don’t give up now. Wonderful things are just ahead for you if you don’t give up.

 

As always, Biggest Loser has made me laugh, it has made me cry, I have rejoiced in the progress being made and I have been angry by the behavior of one contestant who needs to stop playing the ’game’ and realize why she is there- to lose weight and to deal with the issues that got her there in the first place.

Yes Tracey lost 11 pounds this week- I don’t know how. Even Tracy didn’t know how. That kind of weight loss won’t continue and it won’t last until she deals with the issues that got her obese in the first place and why she behaves the way that she does.

Can’t wait till next week to see what will happen next

I will try to be better about blogging about Biggest Loser each week. Just please understand that if I don’t it is because of all the chaos in my life right now. Earning enough money to pay the bills, buy food and to have heat during the upcoming Michigan winter is top priority right now.

Donations or your purchasing any Biggest Loser items you see listed on this blog would be greatly appreciated and would help to take the pressure off.

Hope you all are well?

How are your weight loss goals coming?

Whatever happens don’t give up trying to lose the weight….

You CAN Do It!!!

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