Biggest Loser Couch Potato

Last night I finally had the chance to watch the last couple of episodes of the Biggest Loser Couples that I missed while on vacation. It was an exhausting process watching TV for over three hours but a lot sure happened.

I was having fun watching all of the old people that have been kicked out weigh in again, it looks like they all have lost weight. I was most surprised at the old guy, Lynn, that left the first week saying that he was not really able to do it, but now at home he was able to lose over 50 pounds. Neil also lost 50+ pounds but I have to wonder how the relationship between him and Amanda is, every time the camera panned over to her she would look down. I remember that Amanda was working really hard and Neil was always whining about how hard the workouts were so I can imagine that eating and workouts for a couple like this that are not very aligned may be tough in the house. Even bald Paul lost a lot of weight after struggling the last couple of weeks on the ranch.

In the end Mark and Ali came back as the Biggest Losers from home. Mark seems to have had a recovery to his knee and Betty Sues daughter Ali has really lost a lot of weight since being sent home. I have to wonder how much weight these two have left to lose but in the last two weeks Ali was able to lose another 12 pounds on the ranch so she is still doing well.

The Black team is really dejected now and you can really see it with Ali back, all the members are grumpy and I think tired but Ali is excited to be back and it shows. Maybe Jillian is pushing them too hard? The first weigh in that I saw was pretty dramatic with f-bombs by Jillian everywhere becasue of her defence of Brittany. The look on Allisons face when she started quizzing Brittany was great. I thought she was going to get in a great girl fight with Jillian but I would not like her chances.

One of the things that Jillian said may be shocking but is true, people like Brittany can not win the Biggest Loser. The math just does not support it. If you have a 400 pound guy get down to 200 pounds then he will lose half his bodyweight but a 250 pound girl would need to get down to 125 pounds to do the same. Realistically we all have a certain amount of muscle and bone and water that we just need to live and I am not sure a women can lose as much. Men just seem to get a lot fatter then women or at least the show seems to be casting them this way.

Black team loses and Maggie goes home, too bad, Maggie has really been working hard but all of the really have been for weeks now and it really shows. Maggie looks great!

In the second half of this last episode you can really see that the men are strong, that the women are tired and I was having trouble watching the sadness as the team just seems to know that they will be picked off one by one. On most reality shows the teams are not terribly strong after the merge but on Biggest Loser the teams really do develop a kinship and the Blue team especially after getting those crazy tattoos .

Jillian decided to raise Brittany’s sodium intake a bit and my wife was screaming at the TV telling her not to but Jillian really does probably know a lot better then we did on the couch. Poor Brittany works so hard and can never seem to lose the weight that she deserves to for working so hard. In the end Brittany lost only two pounds and accepted that this was her week to get kicked off the show.

We have been cheering for Brittany since the beginning. She is really beautiful and when we was her teamed up with Bernie we were hoping that they would hook up, weeks later though we found out that Bernie already had a girlfriend but my wife and I still really liked watching he lose the weight.

Oh and lastly I noticed a new product placement, for one a day vitamins. It seems like Bob Harper is a much better person at starting a product placement conversation then Jillian, He just kind of noticed the one a day vitamins but then he went on a long winded spiel about how good they are for you. I will suppress my comment on those vitamins for now.

And now I only have another few days until another episode, a real Biggest Loser Couch Potato marathon for me over just a few days.

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